This week was very eventful. Monday and Tuesday however, were not. We mostly just worked on constructing our design, solving issues as we go. Wednesday was special for me because I was assigned to be project manager which was definitely an interesting experience. I basically had full reign of what the whole team did on that specific day. So when we got a surprise shipment of gravel you could imagine my confusion and shock. Luckily I worked it out and thanks to everyone’s hard work it was mostly dealt with on the same day. I found certain strategies of leading were more efficient. For example, giving individuals tasks. So instead of saying ‘x’ many people need to do task ‘a’ you say persons 1,2, and 3 are doing task ‘a’. I also found that if I concentrated the woefully unproductive people on one team the overall production increased. This was because rather than having 5 groups producing at 75% we had 4 produce at 100% and 1 barely produce anything. But the ultimate strategy was putting someone very productive in that last group and that absolutely worked and we produced so much.
Thursday was back to uneventful. Continuing on working on our design construction. We laid gravel on our path and began to lay logs.
Friday was midsommar which I mostly used to rest but Friday night we tried to experience some of the festivities but found that we were too young to go into anything. Instead, Daniel and I took a late night scooter tour of the city where we saw the city from really high. Because we went to Copenhagen the next day I believe this was the single longest day of my life.
The next morning we left for Copenhagen on the bus. We arrived around 1 pm. We ate and checked into our hostel. Then we went out to see the Christiania district. We split there as Daniel, Scott, and myself walked around for a bit longer than the rest of the group. While we were hanging out in a mini-park area a man named Peter came up to us. He gave me the single most surreal experience of my life. He came up to us, said he was going to play us some blues, played rock instead. Told us the story of the real Lynyrd Skynyrd. Then he told us about how wack materialism is and how violence is bad. And just like he came he was gone.
We had dinner at this shipyard. It was a load of food trucks. They were all shipment containers. I had a burrito and a really weird vibe.
That night we hit the town. We went around to a few different places to see what is up where. Eventually, we called it a night and went to bed.
The next morning we woke up and went to the Rosenborg castle after brunch. The castle was nice enough but we decided to just absorb it from the outside. Then we went to the Staten Memorial Museum. It had NOTHING to do with Staten Island. It was an art museum. There were some really interesting pieces, The Fall of the Titans and the Flaying of Marsyas. Then we hit the botanical gardens and after that it was already time to leave Copenhagen. As usual, enjoy the photo dump.
