Ørestad Field Trip and Studio Crit Today

hey all,

So i have been REALLY busy with studio work. Our model looks great! but its been a long week.
Wish me luck on the critique this afternoon.

This morning i have my first Watercolor class...woot

Yesterday my European Urban Design Theories class went to Ørestad which is a borough of Denmark to assess its planning and attractiveness. Very cool stuff. Very cool classes.

Here are some pics from the trip...






ill upload model pics soon.

Hope all goes well, hope all is well,
yo' fry-end Slamma

class canceled again! and other news

well class was'nt really canceled but i thought it was rescheduled for today. so im up and working on some things. one of our group members cant contribute anymore so we are a man down in our project and still have a ton of work to do for friday. ill be sure to upload some pics of the model process.

went out with Annika yesterday to La Glace, which is the most famous cake shop in Denmark, known to make the cake for the Queen every year for her bday...MMMmmm, twas delicious

its going to be a long two weeks.

hope all is well,
Sim

Elsinore and Kronborg Castle....NAAHT

So this morning i tried to catch the bus to Elsinore and Kronborg Castle but missed it by 1 min...i guess the Danes/DIS are very punctual...saw the bus drive right in front of me.

BUT

My Dreams Are Coming True...(humdillilah)

I met some very cool people...for example in my Urban Design studio.
We have our first project which is to build a model...we were assigned the Educatorium at the University in Utrecht designed by OMA, under Rem Koolhaus

My group is really cool and i met my new best man/business partner Sean Campbell...one of the greatest architects ive met.

We went out and started getting professional.

time to do work...

ALL THE BEST

Class Cancelled and Tired

So today was my first Watercolor class (at 8:30 Am). Was running there to make it ontime from the bus...which now I know takes much longer than the train.

CLASS CANCELLED...so here I am doin that blog-ish.

Last night I made dinner at my place with some friends. Oh! and my bike is broken...that was fast huh! Nah i'll get it fixed this weekend, the whole pedal fell off.

Tonight DIS, or as the Danes say 'deez' is throwing a party tonight for all the students...should be fun

Anyway tomorrow I'm headin to the Castle Tour so I'll be uploading more pics soon

København and Red Tape

So I've been in the Computer Lab for the past two hours trying to upload some pictures...No Dice. Sorry guys. Tried talking with the IT people but we know how 'administration' handles things. After class (in 10 min) I'll try again.I promise I'll get them up soon.

This morning I biked to the grocery store and got some things. What a crazy experience! Everything is great here and like I said before...GRAFFITI EVERYWHERE.




I'll edit this after class but I hope all is well in the States...Scott Brown? Really? Oh well. Cheers to politics

This weekend I am going on a castle tour (including the one that inspired Hamlet)

gotta run

MC Samer

Arrivals and First Days/Pics

"Hello Everybody...Recording Live from Somewhere. Lord Have Mercy..."-BlackStar, Definition

So I left the Americas...or as the Danes say "Oo Es Ay" on the 16th (my brother's 24th bday...happy bday big bro) and arrived all jetlegged the 17th. We (The DIS {danish institute for study abroad} Students) gathered at the ITU University in the Denmark. This institution is designed by infamous Danish architekt Henning Larsen, and is catered to the needs of the IT students. One cool feature is that there are ramps into the basement of the building so that one is able to ride their bike into the building and lock it in a garage, which also has lockers and a shower service to clean up in before class.

I got picked up from my roommate's co-worker, Morten, who was a really nice and warm guy. He took me to where I live, a suburb 20 minutes away from downtown Kobenhaven, called Emdrup. We had dinner and made it a quiet night. The next day I took the train for the Opening Ceremony of the program. It was quite nice and accompanied by a Wind Quartet...but at 9Am, after hearing the faculty lecture us on "getting out of the box" I started getting tired. I met up with another UMass student and his friends for lunch in a nice cafe and then had a Survival Danish class. We went to the grocery store to decipher our new foods, and the teacher was very helpful. That night I went back home, observing the graffiti everywhere to meet my new roommate. No Dice. He was still on his Surf Trip, so I went back into the city to meet up with other students who live in Shared Housing near the "campus".

The next day, we had another orientation meeting in the morning (again at 9) and I had lunch with the same kids as the day before. Some decent Shawarma (from one of the many Shawarma shops...my dad would be really happy here). Had another Survival Danish class (and got to eat some Danish or "Wienerbrod"). I met up with this girl from Mt. Holyoke and we had dinner at my place (pad tai from down the road) and went out with the Americans. Crazy kids from all over, mostly from UVA or Washington (i think they had a recruiter). Met my roommate, Troels, who informed me that I already have a bike (YES), and i met his girlfriend. Nice guy, very tall and athletic.

Today, we had a Scavenger Hunt around the city and it was awesome! but cold. Russian weather hit us this morning and we walked around the city for hours learning about our new home. We had a program meeting. I'm in the Architecture + Design Program, with the only other two UMass students in the whole DIS program. Go U, Go UMass!

Just woke up from a nap and decided to start up this so called blog-thing on the interwebs. Going to get some groceries and head to the shanty-town/independent city Christiana (an old army base converted into a hippie commune, with a very interesting vibe). Tomorrow is our first day of classes and I hope to upload some photos to make this blog a wee bit more interesting.

Best,

Samer