Vienna & Salzburg

The first picture is of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Of course they spelled it wrong, because we all know Stephen should be spelled with a v instead of ph. But it was great to see regardless.

My travel book said it was important to have to have some coffee in a cafe, so picture #2 is of my coffee experience. The book also said I should have white wine and goulash, which were delicious as well.

Picture #3 is overlooking Salzburg from the Fortress (Fortress Hohensalzburg).

In Salzburg we found a little brewery and had some beers and dinner there, as seen in picture #4. The dinner was an asparagus salad, with a big block of goat cheese in the middle.

Austria

I am a little behind on my blog posts now, but I will try and get caught up these next few days. I had a little trouble hitting the ground running when I came back, I have a final oral exam on Friday. I am on a comfortable path to being prepared for this final at this time.

A simple schedule of my trip is below.

• Monday
• Fly into Vienna
• Stay the night in Vienna
• Tuesday
• Take a train to Salzburg
• Stay the night in Salzburg
• Wednesday 
• Take a train to Zell Am See
• Stay the night in Zell Am See
• Thursday
• Take a day trip up to Krimml and hike adjacent to a waterfall.
• Stay the night in Zell Am See
• Friday
• Take a train through Salzburg to Vienna, and fly home to Copenhagen. 

I will have more posts specific to each day with plenty of pictures!

Parents Visit

My parents got in Friday morning from their cruise. They had a great time on their cruise and it sounds like they have plenty of good story's. It's also nice they can give Carrie, Lisa and I advice about Paris and London now.

Here is a wrap up of the visit!

Friday

• Tivoli
• Walk Stroget
• Nyhavn
• Boat Tour
• Our Savior Church (A walk to the top)
• Little Mermaid

Saturday

• Viking Ship Museum
• Rosenborg Castle

Sunday

• DTU Campus visit
• Frederiksborg Castle

I also wanted to make sure they experienced kebab pizza, street vendor hot dogs, pastries, and a durum.

I got to my room at 9:00pm from dropping off my parents at the airport. Now I am just packing, and tomorrow morning I fly out of Copenhagen at 9:20am.

I will write longer posts and put up plenty of pictures when I get back of both my parents visit and Austria.

Relay

Above is a picture of Team Hedgehog. We did the free relay here at DTU. Even though it was a free race we still received the free shirts we are wearing in the photo, and we had free lasagna after the race. We got 7th out of 270 teams, and we're really happy about that. We were also only 28 seconds away from 2nd! If I ran the same time as my all time fastest 5k we would have won! hahaha.. but it's not 5 years ago.

Dead Week

This is a picture of an extremely delicious pizza that I had. It was from a delivery place that gives discounts to students on the DTU campus, and delivers for free. I kept a menu and circled which one it was so I can have it again.

Last week ended up going relatively smooth. The group interview went worse that I expected, the presentation went better than I expected, and the project due on Friday went exactly as I expected. Its hard to complain about that.

This week I am working on an individual paper that is due Friday. It will be the only thing I turn in this semester that isn't done in a group. I also have a meeting tomorrow morning to put together a small report to follow up the presentation last week.

Tomorrow is the big relay! There are a total of 270 teams signed up. This means 810 people will be running, which should be a lot of fun! I just learned there will also be lasagna after the race.

I am enjoying relaxing now that classes are over. I just work a few hours a day on my papers or studying for the oral exam.

My parents will be getting in this Friday. I have a basic idea of what we are doing but I haven't finalized everything, so I will post what we will be doing soon. I miss them a lot so I look forward to spending time with them! 

After my parents leave Sunday evening, I will immediately start packing for leaving to Austria Monday morning. Monday Brett and I will be flying into Vienna and spending the day there. Tuesday we will be taking a train to Salzburg. Wednesday we take a train to Zal Am See. We will be staying at Zal Am See for two days at a hostel right on the waterfront.

Have a great week!

Last Week of Lecture

The weather has been almost perfect! It has rained a couple afternoons since I have gotten back, but other than that the pictures are good examples of what it's like on campus.

This is the last week of lecture for the 13-Week session. Tomorrow morning I have a group interview, and Thursday I will be presenting a group project I have worked on all semester.

I have no idea what the group interview is going to be like. Its for a class that had weekly group assignments, so I am hoping we will just be getting feedback on our work. I haven't received grades or feedback of any kind for my work so far at DTU. Hopefully it will not turn out to be a oral quiz of concepts learned over the semester to see who deserves good grades within our group.

The presentation is for Super-Light structures. The basic concept of super-light structures is to build a structure with a mixture of high strength concrete and low density concrete, as opposed to a single standard strength concrete. Our group chose to design a parking structure. Below is a picture of the column/beam/slab system. You can see the lightweight concrete blocks surrounded by high strength concrete. The reinforcement includes both prestressed and postressed steel.

My largest contribution to the team was the presentation video. Below is one of the videos I made. The final video is a little longer and has some cars, but I can't get it to upload for some reason.