Study Tour - Carlsberg Brewery & Western Denmark part 1

On Wednesday 9/9/11, my International Business class had to go to Carlsberg Brewery as for a meeting with some of the people who work there for part of our semester long project on the Beer industry.  We were supposed to meet at school at 1:15 and take the train as a group so no body got lost.

Can you guess what happened?

So I look for my bus pass in the morning and can't find it anywhere. Start frantically tearing the room apart and I finally found it at 1 pm.  I make an executive decision that there is no way I can make it to DIS by 1:15 I decide I'll go right to the train station and hope I can cut them off there.  Miss them by about five minutes.  I hop on the next train and head back towards good ol' Carlsberg.

When I arrived, I called one of the other kids in the class and he hands his phone off to the guy who is running the meeting that day and will be leading us on our tour of western Denmark the following few days.  Unbeknownst to me, we were not going to the same place that I had previously gone when I went to Carlsberg.  I asked for directions to get there and was provide with these super step by step instructions.

"Come out of the train station, and turn left.  Walk to the intersection and make another left.   Keep walking until the road starts to incline. Make your first right and when the road starts to decline make your next left.  Continue over the bridge and call me when you see a brick wall."

Walk until the road starts to incline.


Roger that.

Obviously, I got really lost.  Then as is typical in Denmark it started to rain.  I'm talkin like Hurricane Irene kind of rain. 

So to put it in perspective, I am walking around in a city I don't know at all, its pouring and I am wearing business casual attire.  My wet dress shoes are blistering the back of my feet to the point I start bleeding. 

Suddenly I run into another kid from Loyola who is in my class.  We're both drenched and we're almost an hour late at this point.  Some how we find the place.

We call the guy back who gave the directions and he lets us in the building.  He gives us an earful about how this is unacceptable. Blah blah blah.

Sit down in this boring meeting. Everyone laughs at us.  We're wet, late, and miserable.


I'll continue the story later...