It's a Force Field!

Greetings my friend! I have been very busy lately! So I haven't had time to sit down and write, but finally, even though I don't have time still, I'll just write this and sleep an extra hour tomorrow :D This comment I wrote the other night, I went to sleep before I finished what I was writing, of course, hahaha

The nice city of Copenhaguen

Now there are a lot of stories to tell, and most of them are mixed in my head, so try not to get confused :P and don't worry about the exact days hahaha

The welcoming of the ICOWES Meeting!

So let's start with my adventures in Denmark with Claire! Claire is a PhD student at Hopkins who works in Meneveau's group as well. She is also visiting Copenhaguen as part of the international collaboration from our wind energy grant. Claire came two weeks ago so last weekend we went and touristed around Copenhaguen. We first met Saturday morning. We went around the area I knew and then we went to the City Hall where we wanted to get on one of the free Copenhaguen tours. It was quite funny when we had walked for 10 minutes and got to the lakes. Claire was taking some pictures when this drunk was talking to some people next to us. Suddenly he goes up the ledge, all drunk, and the people were worried and yelling for him to get down. He definitely had some business to take care of, and of course, our location had quite an interesting view. And since Claire was taking pictures, this magical moment was captured.

Watering the water

We were taking a tour at 1:00pm, but when we got there it seems they are not giving the tours at 1, only the ones at 11:00am, so that was a bummer. Being tourists, and having planned a day of trouristing we decided to walk around and just find our way through the city. This doesn't sound appealing, but remember Copenhaguen is a veeery safe city and makes for a good walk! At some point we were walking away from the city and werent sure where we were headed. So during our discussion, on a bridge, a biker stopped by and helped us out! He asked us where we wanted to go, and of course we didn't know hahaha. So he pointed us in the direction of Christiania! And there we went! This is quite a place, it even has a green district where no pictures are allowed, go figure haha.

The land of the free hahaha

At some point during one of our touristing days we walked by this car! Guess who still hasn't paid their tickets? hahaha

They are not willing to pay the ticket...

Our tour guide providing some history facts with the use of tourists, as part of the explanation! This was way more entertaining than my history classes back in high school, hahaha.

There was an important conference this week here at DTU. The ICOWES Meeting were we had people from all over the world visiting. I met with some old friends and made some new friends as well! It was a very good conference with many talks on wind energy aerodynamics and all the fun stuff! Here is a picture of the audience being challenged by Claire's hard questions on the effects of forcing in wind turbines!

The audience being challenged!

Here is a picture of a floating hotel in in Copenhauen! It seems fun, but very expensive! I think I could stay like 1-2 weeks before running out of funding for the summer, hahaha.

A very nice hotel in the water!

I walk by this statue every day, I wonder where the drunk guy found his inspiration....

Watering the wall

I have been working a lot lately and a funny thing is in my code I have a variable called "ForceField". This reminds me of the song "Feel So Close", so I've been listening to the song while coding, it's kinda funny. haha

Having some Champaign with my friend Chris, who I met at GE several years ago and Claire!

Aqui hanguean los cacos en Copenhaguen. jajajaja (inside joke for Puertorricans)

Sand sculptures seen from the boat tour.

Where Kierkergad, the philosopher, rests. (esta es para ti Juancho!)

Me being quite an athlete. Dont think I made it much further. Well I did, just not in the vertical direction ;)