(2005) Today and the days in between

I spent most of today in the studio working on my knife that's due on Monday. My spare time will most likely be spent in that room during the duration of my stay here. Which is fine, because that's what I came here for. I'm not complaining at all, this is the first time I enjoy 100% being in a studio working on my projects. When I decided I had had enough studio time today, Laura and I (the other Laura in my class) went walking around downtown. We stopped at a McDonald's and our curiosity got the best of us. We just had to try a Pitamac which we had been seeing a lot of. Quite good I must say. All the fixings of a Big Mac but all stuffed into a pita. The states should start something like that. Then we sat and watched some breakdancer dudes show their stuff. I bet they're the same ones we saw 5 years ago when I was here last. They're really good and fun to watch. After class on Thursday my instructor brought us all out for fish and chips at an Irish pub, after walking half way across Copenhagen to get there. His intention was to take us sight seeing and what not on the beautiful day it was, but most of us had our backpacks full of everything including laptops, and walking 2 hours in 80 degree weather with a backpack that weighed 30 pounds was the LAST thing I wanted to do. But the fish was good. Yesterday we had the privelage of going to a glass workshop to watch real men at work. I took a video of what they were doing but I don't believe I'm able to post videos on this site. Shame. The studio belonged to the artist Darryle Hinz and my instructor's son, Erik was helping him make a couple hundred bowls, all identical. They've made between 30 and 40 bowls every day and have been going for the last 6 or 7 days straight. It was intense and extremely hot in that room, well over 100 degrees, and worse than a sauna. The ovens and kilns alone are over 2000 and some degrees Celcius (don't know the conversion to F). I took many pictures of his work and that's what I have posted; it's absolutely amazing. I have to go to bed now. Gotta get up and go to a museum in the morning and spend the rest of the day finishing my knife. Take care!! Ciao for now.