Short Study Tour : Day 2

On our second day we started out the day academically, with our visit to a vascular surgeon in Sønderborg. He spoke about his theory of working by love and remembering the human behind the patient.
After our visit with him, we visited the Trapholt Art Museum. Here there was the summer house of Arne Jacobsen, a famous Danish designer who created the egg chair. Jacobsen is most famous for his chair designs.

We ate a buffet lunch at the museum, and I unknowingly tried liver pate for the first time, and believe it or not I actually liked it. Am I a Dane now or what? My host mom says it's not a true Danish holiday meal without liver pate.
Next we went to SønderborgSlot (slot means castle), which was disappointingly not very castle like from the outside. On the inside it was transformed into a whole museum, making it one of  the biggest museums in Denmark. We were lead on a tour through the museum by an old man who was obviously knowledgeable but not the best at keeping everyone's attention, it got a bit boring. There were some cool things though, I saw some old fire fighter paraphernalia and an organ from the 1600s. We actually got to listen to the organ a bit, it's amazing that it still work today.

After the castle we made a quick stop at dybbøls battle fields. The battle of dybbøls was the most devastating battle for Denmark because they lost 40% of their country to Germany, which the regained later.

The hostel we stayed in that night was hilarious, it had animals like goats and bunnies and chinchillas (in pens). AND it had playground things including two big trampolines which we all tried out later that night. We finished out the night with a beer tasting a t a local brewery. We got to try 3 beers: a pilsner, a wheat beer, and a darker beer with lots of malt and a slight licorice flavor (that one was my fav).

The only problem was that they were serving tastings in full glasses, before the meal… and we hadn't eaten in a while so it was starting to hit all of us a little too quickly. but we ate  (and had more beer) and the food made it better. It was a really great time, we are all crossing out fingers for another beer tasting when we go on tour to Germany.