02 August 2009

Wow... August already.

I usually think this every month, but time flies when you have things to do at home as well as doing a degree course. ...Not impossible of course. It's a fine balance between education and leisure, yet doing these things every day without noticing how many days have gone by can be pretty scary if you think about it. But artists, graphic designers, etc, like to work on a schedule and repetition is highly involved. Now, onto today's raids.

Raid 8: A Bit of News from Denmark
...Jeg elsker Danmark!! ...The beauty of learning Danish. :3 Basic Danish that is. I've been learning for about a month my vocabulary is super basic. But anyway, onto some news. Reported in the Copenhagen Post, the popularity of electric cars is on the rise. It's said that they're mostly used on islands like Funen and they're great for transporting tourists at a reasonable price, with as travel distance of 80km with a full battery. The awesome thing about Denmark is that they're actually doing something about climate change and looking for alternative power such as wind turbines and the above, electric vehicles. December will be interesting....
It's kinda similar over here in New Zealand, though you never really hear of anything that's being done in terms of climate change. About a month ago, Denmark just got electric buses that go round the centre of Copenhagen for easy transport but unfortunately it costs to get on it (though they're going to work on making it free). Over here we have the 'Shuttle', a cute looking yellow electric bus that runs round the centre of the city and it's free. It's sometimes really scary to get on them since they're free and it can get really crowded inside. Kinda like a roomy Japanese train. -_-;

Only one raid today, since I really can't think of anything else to say... And I haven't uploaded any images to Pixiv or anything. But have a new Denmark x Norway pic on my Japanese Hetalia fansite, for those that can read Japanese and like yaoi. ^^; Will also be uploading a Denmark x Norway manga in Japanese as well, that will be next week. And some sketches I did in class for a project; some character designs based on Hans Christian Andersen's ideal of the future. Talk about lucky! My favourite Danish writer.
Another thing that really peeved me off was that on the handout I got it said that vikings came from Norway. It's Denmark, Sweden and Norway. GOD. I'm related to the Normans so it naturally pisses me off. xD How sad.

I'll leave it here, and am off to raid some more information to bring to you next week! Hej hej~

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