Friday: castle, M2 Film, creepy cabins

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Friday began with with a trip to a Danish castle

Basically, I have decided that I need to live in a castle soo I'm going to have to work on seducing royalty from now on. The entire thing was beautiful and old and wonderful, but there was something very interesting about it. The current owner, a hot blonde baroness named Caroline who is married to a famous soccer player over ten years younger than her, has made her modern impression on the 17th century castle. You see, while walking through the castle, there are pictures displayed: family portraits, individual faces in beautiful frames... and a few pictures fit for MySpace. I felt too awkward to take any pictures of these, but the contrast was so odd. For example, Caroline recently threw a masquerade party and amongst the antiques on an old wooden shelf, were pictures of her and a few friends holding the camera and taking pictures of themselves in their tiny sequined dresses. Then, you go look at another wall in the same room, and there is a painting probably from the 18th century of a former king of Denmark. So weird!

After the castle, we went back to Odense to explore and grab lunch. I had my first taste of shawarma and found out that the word for "hummus" is Danish is "homos" so obviously I got a kick out of that.

We also took a little walk to the Hans Christian Anderson museum/his old house but didn't go in because we didn't have enough time.

Then the group headed to M2 Films, a major production studio in Denmark, where we were given a tour and were shown a few examples of the advertisements and short films they have created. This place was awesome. It was the coolest office I have ever seen. Then, to make the visit even cooler, we got to hang out at their Friday Bar. In Denmark, it is a tradition in businesses to go out together on Friday afternoons and have a few drinks and hang out. M2 Films actually has a bar inside of their office building. Whaaaat. It was awesome. There was a ping pong table and couches and a little bar and it was so cool. So, we had a few beers and mingled with famous producers and interns and yeah, very, very neat.

When we arrived a while later at our hostel for the night, it was basically out of a horror movie. Don't fret parents, it turned out to be fine and in the morning we realized we were right on the water and in the summer it would be so beautiful. However, we arrived during a rainy windstorm and had to walk down a dark dirt path to our cabins. Which actually were quite nice. And I fell asleep quite easily in my new bed: