Back in the U.S. of A.

Hi, everyone! I am back in the States!! In Queens for the past 2 days spending time with two of my most favorite people: Shannon and Tony. Still a bit jetlagged and waking up super early. Tonight and tomorrow I'll be in Brooklyn with some more of my fav people and then Texas!

Here are a link for my Copenhagen photos for my nonfacebook friends.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=93747&id=569978631&l=707edef17a

Here's a link to my Western Denmark study tour photos.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=100328&id=569978631&l=ed3b49e0dc

And here's the link to my Germany (Berlin & Dusseldorf) photos.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=100359&id=569978631&l=b77e6a95d6

model

We had to redevelop an old ferry terminal in Copenhagen into a youth hostel. All of the grey in the model, with the exception of the bedding in the corner, is existing. All of the skylights, except for the glass ceiling above the circulation tube, was existing.

Here's a picture of all the incoming interior architecture students at RISD...

Off to Berlin today! Pretty excited about that! Kind of dreading lugging my suitcase around though.

Random Pictures

Exhibition

All done with school!! At least I am for the summer. Our final project was due on my birthday and yesterday, we had our public exhibition with all of our models and work on display. At the exhibition, I was able to talk to the head of the Interior Architecture department at RISD for the first time. He has been a lecturer here in Denmark. He told me my design was elegant…I’m pretty stoked about that. Now it’s just time to site-see and catch up on my sleep. I have so much free time. I’m not sure what to do with it!

At the dinner after the exhibition, all of the RISD kids (about 11 of us) gathered in one space (first time since arriving here) and took some pics. I’m pretty excited to get to work with this group for the next two years. They are all very talented (a bit scary since I’m kind of competing with them) and fun. I’ll have to post the group pics once I get them. For a lot of them, it’s their first time to study in the U.S.

I leave Copenhagen on Sunday for Berlin (yay!) for two days and then Dusseldorf for a day. (My original plans to go to Munich fell through…grr). Then I fly to NYC and then Texas. This trip has been amazing and has gone by so quickly, but I’m kind of ready to head home.

arghhhh

Who's idea was it to go back to school anyways!!?? Oh, mine? What was I thinking!?

(click on the arghhhh title for an article about architecture/stress)

Only two weeks left!

I only have about two weeks left in my program. I can’t believe it! Although I’m a bit homesick, it’s gone by really fast, and I still feel like there is so much I want to do while here. I won’t be doing any of that this week though. We have our final on Wednesday (I haven’t done any of the readings), and our final design project is due on Sunday. I still have 3 weeks’ worth of work left. Arghhhhhh! Sooooo, you know what that means! Only procrastination blogs for the next week (if that). Hopefully by the end of this week, I’ll have some good project pics to post. Fingers crossed!