Denmark Day

Yesterday it was Denmark Day, at least for me. After celebrating with the Canadians I had to make up for it by doing Danish stuff. Because I didn't have class yesterday I went to the National Museum. Entry is free, the have Airconditioning and it was quite interesting. Also check the pictures I took there.
First I visited the section on prehistoric Denmark. The things I saw there are pretty much the same everywhere, people living in caves and hunting and later migrating and hunting and farming and then they show their tools...interesting about the Danish side of this was that they of course are always near the water somehow and they used that for their daily life, that added a dimension to what I've seen before. They also had quite some nice exponates, especially about the way people handled death here and how they were buried, they were put on some wooden thing and then stuffed into a sort of specially constructed house, by chemical procedures the bodies did not rot completely so they had the wodden things in the museum with skeletons on and some still had hair :P. Prehistoric Denmark was followed by Denmark in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, that was mostly Church stuff, Interiors, Saints...not very intersting.
Then there was Denmark from 1660 till today and that was the most interesting part. A lot of history, illustrated by all kinds of objects. I really liked it, it was easy to look at, not reading many stressfull signs and still I got a good impression of what happened to Denmark in the past.
I also visited the Intercultural Treasures Section, they had clothes and lots of other things from cultures all around the world. I took pictures of the most tremendous.
After the museum I had Danish pastry in my favourite graveyard for lunch (also very Danish) and then went home to make Kartoffelsalat for the International Dinner tonight (not very Danish).
In the evening the CBS people had arranged Danish folkdancing for us and despite the usual prejudices on folklore activities we had sooooo much fun. First some Danish group danced for us and then they instructed us...because I was dancing myself I don't have pictures, but I think I can get them from somebody else and I have pictures from before and after, so it should be alright. After the dancing we went out to the city centre and after getting lost on the way there I drank some Tuborg Beer (VERY DANISH). Unfortunately it is served in very large glasses, I didn't stay out late but still didn't feel too well this morning.
By now I have recovered and am almost ready for the next adventure: International Dinner at CBS, everybody is supposed to bring food which is special for his or her country. The idea may sound familiar to the AIESECers among you...only difference is: you can't bring drinks. That makes it a bit boring I guess, I remember the Global Village in Tunisia which was not that fun like other global villages due to the same reason. Also, because the summer programme mainly involves non-AIESECers, they don't do this very often so they're not that creative. I expect some Americans to buy Euroburgers at the Mac, most of the Germans will make Kartoffelsalat (so will I) and the rest will make pancakes and claim it's typical. I am very curious...also a new experience for me to stand at the German side of the table.