September 27
Short post today. This morning I went for the first time in a couple of weeks to the morning problem session for Digital Communication — and realized I should have been going to more of these. I actually was able to learn a bit, and Frederick is turning out to be tremendously helpful. I forgot about signing up for a lab so I did it today…from 6 to 9pm. It was actually scheduled for 4 hours, but I got done in 3 hours. The lab was pretty good — helpful but long. Frederick was great in explaining the concepts and going over things. I had to skip the latter half of my Swedish language course to go to the lab, but it’s ok.
Tomorrow I’m taking a trip with my Scandinavian Culture class ‘around the Sound’. We travel north to the Swedish town of Helsingborg, then across the sound to the Danish city of Helsinore, famous for the Kronberg Castle, which Shakespeare used as the setting for the famous Hamlet. Hopefully, nothing will be rotten in the state of Denmark tomorrow (I’m hoping it doesn’t rain anyway). Afterward we travel south down the Danish coast to Copenhagen, where we will probably visit some museums. We end the trip by crossing back over to Sweden via the Øresund Bridge.
That is a shot of the bridge from Lund…which is about 12 miles northeast of it. It’s the longest single bridge carrying both cars and trains. It’s almost 10 miles long and marks the first physical connection between Sweden and Denmark in 7,000 years (when there was an ice bridge). It was built in just 2.5 years too. Impressive!
I’ll post pictures and write about the trip tomorrow. For now, goodnight!
