5.6.10 – Carlsberg

Today was the first last day of classes. I managed to get up to go to my last history class. Not that I was thoroughly excited about this, since as I mentioned before I absolutely love my professor. It did make the end to a very knowledge intensive class though. Being the last class, it was also rather simple. We reviewed some of the things we had learned the day before from our field study, then Carsten wrapped up the class with a very condensed overview from where we began in January to the present, and then he ended with this really cute little speech and closing. Ah! I love Carsten. We also unfortunately had to be briefed about our final, but I am not expected it to be too difficult, so that was okay.

I then spent my last five-hour break between classes continuing to work on my papers – reviewing, editing, adding in length, etc. I still didn’t make much progress on my Danish paper (mainly because I was running out of things to say). Then around 2:30 my marketing group met up or one last look at our paper to make sure that it was ready to print out. In total, the whole report ended up being 42 pages! It is probably the largest project that I have ever worked on.

One of my group mates did freak me out a little bit because right after I had printed the whole thing out, she said, “you spelled my name wrong”. I completed flipped for a moment because I checked everyone’s names like 10 times to make sure that I had them right. Luckily she was just kidding ☺. We all then headed to class together to hand in our report, which was really the only thing we were doing. It was such a relief to get it out of our hands.

After our short class our professor, Leif, was going to take us all out for a goodbye beer. Unfortunately, this conflicted with the entire business programs trip to Carlsberg for the evening. I had decided to go to Carlsberg, so that I could see some of my IBE friends again. I also knew that it would probably be a little bit more fun of a time. I know what you must be thinking, and yes, it is very tasking trying to decide where to go for free alcohol when you have so many options – this is something I must admit I will miss about Denmark. Not only drinking with your professors but also having them provide the alcohol for you!

Once we got to Carlsberg, we had a little tour of the old factory. We were at the factory, which is located right outside the center of Copenhagen, however about 18 months ago production was stopped and moved to their facilities in Western Denmark. As part of our tour we got to see the largest unopened bottle of beer collection in the world – it was ridiculous and of course special placement was given to Carlsberg & Tuborg bottles. The crazy thing about it is that is NOT owned by Carlsberg but rather a personal collection, which is on exhibit there (the gentleman’s wife got too tired of having beer bottles all over her home ☺).

We also got to see the brewpub, the cellars where beer containers would have been kept, and lastly had out tasting at the bar. We were each allowed to get two beers. Interestingly, my friends and I were stilling with our professor who was in control of the extra tasting cards and offered us extras. However since we are all lightweights, we declined. We all had a really good time though simply sitting around and enjoying a key piece of Copenhagen culture.

We ended up leaving Carlsberg around 8:00pm. I was going to make my way home, however some of my friends were making a quick stop in town for some food. Since I had yet to eat and need some sustenance in my stomach. We stopped at a Schwarma place to get falafel – a new favorite of mine. It was so good.

After getting food, I then made my way home. Once I got there, I managed to finish my Danish paper, which was due the following day.