here I am sitting at my beloved couch and having my first cold this year. I hope it will be over soon.
Since the last three weeks I am doing the internship in Rostock. It is really cool. The people at the office are quite nice and they have a lot to do. I am mostly doing the 3D models for current projects. Such as interior elevations or just normal 3D elevations.
Now I have one week left. There also might be a chance that I'll get a job out of it. They have offices in Rostock, Hamburg and Wismar. The last one is across the street a few minutes from my flat. So press your thumbs and I'll keep you posted.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Schwerin was fantastic. It was awesome. James if you read this: Do you remember John who is working at the theater (I met him first at the Avocado wine testing)? He was in the band during the performance playing the awesome sounding piano.
If you guys haven't ever seen this performance, please go watching it. It is worth it.
From the 14th til the 17th February I spent my days in Copenhagen/Denmark with Claudia and some other students from the lighting design course. It was all about the Osram Light on Site event. We arrived at about 12pm and got a tour through the 2004 opened opera house,
champagne and a lot of delicious food. Until the afternoon there were lectures from famous lighting designers from for instance London and Germany. The two lighting designers from the opera house told and showed us all about the lighting concept for this huge house. It was really interesting even if I was so tired.
Before we arrived in Copenhagen we had to get up at 5am again (I'm getting pretty good in it). I got another coffee at Claudia's and we managed to pick up Ren Wei (he was waiting at the wrong car park) and Paulina. Off we went to Fehmarn were we took the ferry to Rodby/Denmark.
As we were on our way we realized that we miscalculated the time we'd need to get to the ferry terminal. I tried to call the shipping agency but unfortunately the number wasn't assigned. Great. Long story short we made it in the last minute.
Being on a ferry again was great. Seeing just water & having this cool feeling when you're walking. I like it. We got some custom-free stuff and there we were in Rodby/Denmark.
It took us another 2,5hours to get to Copenhagen and find the Hotel 27, were the buses will pick us all up.
During the day we found out that there were about 150 people participating the event. Most of them lighting designers, manufacturers or employees from Osram or PLDA itself.
Later the first day we, after some more champagne, were put in three groups. All of us, except for Paulina, were in the last group.
The first group was about 1 hour ahead of us. This fact got us all a free city of Copenhagen before we arrived at the newly built IT university campus/Danish Radio Site. Our purpose there was having a look at the construction site of the new concert hall designed by Jean Nouvel.
After seeing this huge concert hall and the nearly finished rehearsal rooms ( fascinating) we were all put back in buses and driven to an Italian restaurant.
Just imagine for a moment: 150 people in a restaurant. The had reserved the whole restaurant for us as well as a group of actors from Hamburg! who played the waiters for the first couple of hours. They were like, ohh you want another beer? Why don't you share the one with your neighbor he just got a new one?!?! Or, ohh you speak German, can you teach me a bit?!?!?! They were really good.
We were served a full five-course dinner. Delicious!!!! Only this dinner must have cost a fortune. So paying 70Euros for this whole event was quite a good choice.
After dinner we were driven back to the hotel where we got the chance to have a free drink at the Copenhagen Ice Hotel. Another high light of the day. We had so much alcohol during the day. unbelievable.
Again later, we made our way to the hostel and fell into our bed.
The next day we were staying, all day long, at the IT university. We heard lectures about lighting, lighting and energy ...... we had lunch and more champagne. At about 4pm the event was over we were put in buses and brought back to the hotel.
Now I have to think we did afterwards. Mmmh, yeah. We did some walking because we wanted to see the Tivoli. Unfortunately it was closed.
After this we decided to have a look at the ice skating ring in the city center. It was a long freezing way, so we had a look here and then into some shops to get warm again. In the end we stayed in an Irish pub for a couple of hours and afterwards we had a look at the ice skating ring. It was not slippery because we had the great idea of skating on our shoes. So went to another bar. More walking in the freezing night.
We arrived, grabbed some more beers and went again. This time back to the hostel and straight into bed.
Saturday was just tourist, sightseeing day. Again, it was sooooo cold and windy and we all definitely hadn't the proper closes on ourself.
First we marched to the change of the guards at the Amalienburg. Secondly we had a look into the nearby Frederik's church and joined a tour to the roof top terrace. Did you know that I'm really afraid of heights? I was a bit proud of myself.
During the day we had some lunch in the Cap Horn restaurant ( a bit too expensive, Nuno Claudia and Paolo from Portugal thought the exchange course was really good, but they somehow got it wrong so they thought everything is quite cheap, happens), visited the little mermaid, went to Christiana ( a state in the city of Copenhagen) and spent about 3 hours in a cute cafe. All day long we made it to cross the same streets quite too often. It isn't that easy to make a choice of what to see or where to go if you are 8 people. But it was a lot fun anyways.
Sunday was time to see the design museum (really nice) and some more of Copenhagen.
Again we made it in the very last minute on the ferry. This time there were higher waves so everyone felt drunk during the whole ride.
Unfortunately I missed the dinner of Kjelt and Daniel and Uli but I think the next time it is my turn, so have to make up my mind about that.
Even though I don't like to live in Copenhagen, visiting this city is every Krone (currency of Denmark) worth it.
So I know this was a long post, but you made to the end.
There are more pictures to see on flickr and here is a link from Nuno who made really nice pictures from the whole trip as well.
Cheers
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