An idol, a father, a leader – Sean Taylor – has past away!

I have just read the news that Sean Taylor, age 24, did not survived the gun short he received from intruders in his house yesterday. This is not only the lost of maybe one of the best NFL players, but also a man who have become a leader among friends, and most important a father. After his baby girl was born he changed, and became a man, and his baby girls was one of the most important things for him. Nobody knows, but the police report says for now, that Sean was protecting his family when he was shot. My thoughts and prayers go to Sean’s family and friends. What a tragedy and totally unnecessary crime.

Hail to Sean Taylor – a true Redskin.

Marc

25 on the 25th!

Yes, today I turn 25. At around 11PM Danish time on the 25 of November 25 years ago in 1982 I was born, and I can not be thankful enough for my fortunes and experiences. More will follow.

Marc

With the Oklands to St. George in privat jet!

I went to St. George with the Okland family from Friday to Saturday.
More info will follow.
Marc

Thanksgiving dinner at the Salt Lake City Country Club

Today is Thanksgiving and Sandra and Randy have once again been so friendly to invite me. The food was nice and I got to meet some more of the family, including more of Sandra’s family. It was a very nice dinner. Thank you very much Sandra and Randy.

Do I speak Danish?

I was contacted by Professor Dan Christiansen of the University of Utah through the international office here. He is going to Denmark in two weeks and wanted to start his speech with a paragraph in Danish, so we met Wednesday and I taught him some Danish. It was very interesting for me. I was writing some of the speech in Danish, when I with out knowing suddenly was writing in English but thinking in Danish. Anyway, it went really well and I hope he will ask me again later to help him.

Winter is coming

Monday this week, I was walking around in shorts and a sweater. Tuesday we were down to 38F, which means big jackets (around 3,33C). I love it since that increases the chance of snow, and I love to wear my big jacket that my parents gave me a couple of years ago. Now we just need the snow.

Jazz won 102-75

The Jazz totally destroyed New Jersey Nets, and I had one of the best seats to see it. Meghan and Cries pick Elin and me up, and their daughter Haley was not glad to see us, she is still too young to talk, but based on her wet eyes and crying; I must have had a very bad hair day!
Devin was also at the game, he was sitting on the second row on the floor, with a great view of the game. He tried to take a picture of me in the box, but as you can see it is hard to see me. I am sitting in the second box from the left in a white polo shirt. (A polo shirt I got from Lasse just before I left Denmark, Thanks Lasse I love it).

GO Jazz

Tonight I will be cheering for Utah Jazz against New Jersey Nets (http://www.nba.com/games/20071119/NJNUTA/preview.html?nav=scoreboardhome)
I am going to the game with the Okland family and Elin. I guess that I will buy a Jazz t-shirt to ad to my enormous collection of t-shirts that I have gathered during my stay here in America

GO JAZZ

Who is visiting my blog? Test scores. 50-0. Big Bang!

If you want to know, you need to go all the way to the bottom of my blog where there is a map you can click on, and see where in the world people are reading my blog.

I got some test scores back, which were really good. I scored in Organizational Behavior 95%, Current Economic Problems 93.5%, and in International Marketing I scored 98%. It is looking good, and I will continue to study hard to see if I also can finish strong.

50-0 – that is what the Utes do to teams who guaranties wins over them. Wyoming’s coach guaranteed a win over us, big mistake – the Utes won 50-0 and we were yelling: Guarantee – Guarantee – Guarantee!!

Most of you know that I love TV-shows, just ask Kritte my Scrubs buddy, and now I have found another show that is very funny. It is called the Big Bang Theory, and it is free to see on joost.com (joost.com is a legal TV site made by the founders of Skype). Go see it and you will know why grasshoppers are good for men!

No snow yet, but I got an Ipod Shuffle!

The winter has not really arrived yet and it will most likely be another week or two before all the resorts are opening.
I went to a company event with Elin yesterday and while bowling they had some drawings for prizes. Well, apparently I did not use all of my luck in Las Vegas – I won a Ipos Shuffle, which is perfect for skiing and biking.

Election in Denmark – 86%

Being in another country and reading about Denmark makes me extremely proud. I wrote earlier about Clinton talking about Denmark, but this time it is the citizens that I am proud of. Even though I do not agree with what people vote, I am proud of the amount that votes. 86%. Of the possible voters did their duty and voted. GO DENMARK

Indoor Soccer

I have joined a team to play indoor soccer, and it looks like this team might be able to go all the way as One Love, maybe even wining the final. We won the first game 14-8.

One Love to the big dance!

Our flag football team made it to the final, but semifinals and finals were played on the same day. Our opponent in the final did not play their semifinal before the final since their opponent forfeited, leaving them rested and ready to beet us. They won, and they are without a doubt the best team together with us, but the game was never close since we were too tired, and the referees let them play physically.
We have had a lot of fun, but we would have linked to win, I hate loosing!!!!
In the semifinals I was tackled by Sean Taylor and Laron Landry known as Area 51 of the Redskins! Well, maybe not those two guys, but while returning an interception, the opposing team had no other way to stop me from returning it for a touchdown to tackle me violent. One guy took me legs, while the other hit me hard in the ribs with his shoulder and gave me a hit to the face with his fist! I was deeply disappointed with these people - that they did not have more self-control. They did not even say sorry, and the penalty was 2 minutes on the sideline – how about kick the immature kid out of the league!!!
My ribs have hurt for two weeks, but the pain is almost gone now. Elin (who is a nurse) said that I might have had a small fracture in the ribs. I don’t think so, but I will play cool and say that she is the expert, what do I know!!

I will soon write!

I am sorry that the there has been few updates on how life is in SLC, but a lot of midterms are taking away my time to sit down and write about what I am experiencing, but this weekend I will write and the topics are going to be: Cracked ribs, intramural sports, 50-0, ski season, midterm results, and the big bang theory!

So, comeback to stay updated on my fantastic stay in Salt Lake City.

Marc

Do your job and vote!

If you live in Salt Lake City your response to the title of this post might be: "hmm, the election is over and I did vote!"
If you are a Danish citizen, you better vote. There is election for parliament on November the 13th.
But no matter whom you are or where you are, you must vote on this site. In the right column I have made a small poll, please indicate your favorite post.

Thank you.

Check out the map at the bottom of the page where you can see from where my visitors come from! (It is all the way at the bottom of this page)

To the answer why I am not posting more often: I have midterms and quizzes every week!!! And those who know me well know that I will not settle for second best without a fight!

I talked to Bill Clinton!!

After his impressive speech, former President Clinton walked a long the stage as a rock star. Everyone wanted to shake his hand, take pictures and have him sign his book. But that was not what I wanted. During his speech he mentioned Denmark, my country, as a great example and a country to follow, because of our increase in wealth, but decrease in inequality, no increase in consumption of energy, and 25 % of the energy in Denmark comes from windmills. I have never been as proud of being a Dane than when he said: “In tiny Denmark..”. Therefore what I wanted was to talk to the President about that. I got in line and shock his hand, but he could not hear that I said I was from Denmark. But you should never give up without doing everything you can, so I got in line again further down the fence, and this time he could hear me. We talked for what seam to be 5 minutes, but was probably only 1 or 2. It was amazing standing there talking with him, well he did most of the talking, but wow it was cool.



SÅDAN DANMARK!!

Listen to the part of his speech about sustainability and Denmark on the video below. (approximately 2 minutes)

See his entire speach on the following link:

http://www.myfoxutah.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4833893&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

I will meet former President Clinton!

I have just bought a ticket for a dinner being held at the Union Building here on campus, where former President Clinton will speak. I hope to see him, and maybe shake his hand.

Basketball

I have just attended the first basketball game of the preseason with Elin and Manuel. It was cool, and I am looking forward to more games. (We won 82-40, I think)

Winter ski pass

There are so many nice ski resorts right next to Salt Lake City: Park City, SnowBird, Alta, The Canyons, Deer Valley, and Solitude. I therefore had trouble figure out where to have my season pass, but after talking to Jason, good friend from football, I decided on SnowBird and I am looking forward to testing the snow on my new skies.

http://www.snowbird.com/

Flag Football with One Love

We won last Monday, and we are now in the semifinals (I think it is the semi) where we will meet a team that we met before, hopefully I can do the same as last time, with some INT, TD, and good tackles.

Halloween

The end of October means Halloween, which we unfortunately did not have a lot of time to enjoy, but I did borrow some things from Sandra, which in the end made me Brian Johnson’s (QB for the Utes) cousin from Japan, whom plays soccer for the Danish national team, but is a afraid of getting the ball in his eyes!

Park City Tour with Randy and Brett Okland

I previously talked about my new host family here, Sandra and Randy. Randy is together with several family members running the successful Okland Constructions, which his grandfather, John Okland, founded in 1918. Randy and his son Brett who also works for Okland Construction took me on a tour last Friday to see some of their construction sights. It was very interesting, especially a hotel that was being build in the Deer Valey ski resort, which is where the pictures below are from. Brett, Randy, and I with the construction of the hotel in the background.

Midterms

I am back, and you than might ask yourself; “from what”. The answer would than be: My first two of four midterms! Second round of midterms are under its way, and it is demanding, since I will continue to see how well I can do.
Had a midterm in Human Behavior last week and scored 91,25%, which is really good. This week I had a midterm in Current Economic Problems, which was very interesting, but I have not received my grade yet. Next week is Marketing, which will be extremely hard, I will study a lot tomorrow and over the weekend, but as you can read in other posts; I will also meet former President Clinton. The week after the Marketing midterm, I have another midterm in Human Behavior.