Distortion!

Hello there my friends! and welcome back! I didn't write anything yesterday because I went to play indoor soccer and I was exhausted afterwards. I went home, made a sandwich, and fell asleep while talking to Nancy on google hangouts. Wednesday was a pretty normal day, had lunch with my friends, worked most of the day then went to play indoor soccer and the rest of the story, well you already know.

Today was an exciting day! I got to DTU around 10:00 am after sleeping in after the tiring game the day before. Then at 11:00 there was a presentation. The presentation was at the Riso Laboratory. It is a laboratory where they do research in wind energy as well, but its not near campus. They have a system where DTU and Riso are connected and you can be at DTU and connect to Riso using the special box on the screen in the conference room. So while me and 2 friends figured out how to do that the conference was halfway done. So we saw the end of it and then I left. It was on ice shedding on wind turbine blades.

Then I went back to the lab and a couple of minutes later Dimitri, a student from Russia asked me if I was going to the presentation, and I'd be like "What presentation"? So he said something like "It's a presentation of wind turbine CFD", and then I was like "sure, so hows giving the talk" and then he'd be like "Me!" haha, so that was funny. Then I went to the presentation, and it was a great presentation! He talked about multigrid method on a rotating mesh. For those of you tech people from Hopkins, [they used a V cycle multigrid algorithm with weird boundary conditions for the sliding mesh, not the usual u=0 BC as in our Num Methods Project.]

I've done some research advancements! Hopefully I'll have some pretty pictures to post soon! I'm looking forward to getting some really good work done this summer! For now it should be enough to say that "cvs update -dP -C" will update your files from the repository versions and overwrite them if there are any local changes. hahaha I spent a while on this today.

One thing that's awesome in Denmark is public transportation. I got my ticket for unlimited transportation in the zones I need to move around in and it cost about $300 for the ~50 days I'll be here. It's a bit expensive, considering the NYC unlimited pass for $100, but it's a great service! The buses run at least once every 10 minutes most of the time! I've never waited for more than 10 minutes for any bus!

This is how the buses look like!

My bus coming! After waiting like what, 5 minutes!?

At some point today it started raining. Then Everyone was looking at Mads because he was opening the window. He was trying to clean a bird's business which was on the window. The rain didn't work, so he went and did it by himself! A picture documenting this event is shown below, haha.

Mads on the job!

I then left around 5:30 and when I got off the bus stop, it was madness! The Distorion had begun! An electric music party that's around the city and it starts at my neighborhood! As soon as I got off the bus the police qere closing the streets. Then I walk down and halfway to my place I see 3 teenage boys and one of them is yelling at a lady that was riding her bike. I had no idea what he was saying but the cops saw him and called him over and went to the side of a building to tell him something (Achikimangueeee! hahaha). Then I got home and saw the party from my place. I stayed in tonight but I will go and check it out tomorrow after I go to an ATM and have some Danish cash to get a beer. hahaha

It has been hard getting money since my credit card requires a PIN and I don't have it, since its not used in the US. I have already requested one and I will get it soon. In the mean time I get cash from my debit card. I've noticed coke is really expensive! Like $4 for a bottle. The good thing is you get money back when you recycle the bottles you use! So every 4-6 bottles of something you'll get one for free! depending on which drink it is. 

Here are some pictures of the Distortion! The funny thing is as I was writing this blog I heard the Macarena song playing! hahaha So here's a video of the Danish people dancing to the Macarena!

Distortion

More distortion!

Baila tu cuerpo alegria macarena, eeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh macarena ahum!

Well my friends! I hope you enjoyed this post! Make sure to like post comments below! See you soon!

First Day at DTU

Today was my first day at Denmark Technical University! I got there at around 9:00am. I took the 150S bus from a bus stop ~8minutes from home to DTU. I then walked to campus and met with Marianne at the 403 building, the Wind Energy Department.

She took me to my new desk where I met Iva, a PhD student from Croatia. She helped me get setup with the network and introduced me to the the other lab mates as they arrived.

Me at my new desk!

I only slept 3 hours last night so I'm going to bed soon. I'm about to fall back, haha. I then came home and stayed here taking care of online errands. My new desk has a button that allows to raise/lower it accordingly. Thats exciting! haha

There are a lot of bicycles in Denmark! A lot more than cars! Here is a picture of a bike parking while I was walking back home!

Bikes and more bikes!

First Weekend Done! Now it's Time to Work!

So yes, Friday was an epic day, so I slept most of Saturday, and yes, now I have a very messed up schedule! I stayed home most of the day and at 7:30pm I met with Andrea, another PhD student at JHU who lives nearby and has been here for about a month now. We went to a bar to see the Champion's final between Bayern and Dortmund. We met there with another PhD student, Esteban, he also has Mexican heritage and speaks Spanish as well!

We had a couple of beers and saw the game. Great game btw! In the end Bayern won the title, I kinda liked Dortmund because they were the underdog! After the game we stayed at the bar for a while and enjoyed ourselves with fun stories about, school, the US, Baltimore, rum, etc.

Then I went home and stayed up most of the night setting up this blog, face-booking and reading about electric motorcycles. So finally I fell asleep around 6 am and then I slept until like 3:00pm on Sunday. This actually maps to 9:00 am on Eastern Time, so it isnt thaaat bad :) hahaha

Later I went for a run, so here is a picture of the lake right next to my place where I went! It was raining so then I went back home, cooked, had a shower, and now I'm here in my computer again! :)

Where I went for a run today!

I will keep posting a couple of times a week! This first week I'll probably post a lot about the different things I encounter and my first days at DTU! So I'll talk to you soon!

First Days in Denmark

The view from my room!

Hello friends, and welcome to my blog! I will be documenting my life during the time period May23-July22, 2013, in which I will be traveling in Europe!

This is actually my first time in Europe. I'm here as part of an international collaboration between Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Denmark Technical University (DTU). I will be working on Wind Turbine Modeling for Computational Fluid Dynamics, which is what I've been doing for the last three years now.

My room!

Denmark was epic! It all started Thursday morning in Baltimore, MD. My friends Xi and Ismail gave me a ride to the airport! I got there on time for my flight which was leaving at 1:49 from BWI to JFK. It turned out that my flight had been canceled, so they drove me to Dulles airport and then I got on another flight from there to Amsterdam. The flight got delayed for about 2 hours, because of bad weather but I finally made it! I then moved around Amsterdam airport towards my gate to get on my flight to Copenhagen. We were on the plane about to leave and then someone had an issue and had to leave the flight. Then we remained in the plane for a while until they got the luggage out. Finally I left and got to Copenhagen!!! Mario picked me up, we became good friends really fast! He is Mexican and has been in Denmark for ~10 years! We went on the train home and then took a bus. I finally got home and took a nap.

The toilette/shower haha

The kitchen!

Later I got groceries, oh that was hard, I didn't recognize any of the brands and it was all in Danish. So I got all my stuff (it took me a while) and when I'm at the register they wouldn't take my card, because I needed a PIN. I walked around, got some cash and finally payed for my groceries and went back home.

Later Mario was having a friend come over who would let me know where they play soccer around. It turned out into a party with people from Chile, Argentina, Spain, London, Italy, ect! It was fun! Then we all went to a club, had some beer, danced and finally I went back home at around 4:30am.

Yes, it was an epic first day in Denmark!

The living room!