Sister Lottes Kaospilot Application

My sister is applying for the Kaospilots. How I miss that place.

A Kaospilot indeed

I've finished my final written and oral exam at the KP and the only thing left before take-off is evaluation and the finishing ceremony on the 15th of June.

Cover of my final exam report on our project Innovation Battle

I wrote a little post on the last days at school on our friend-blog, den ytre sirkel. It's in Norwegian, but there's pictures if you don't get the language.

A long and painful stay at Kastrup

Torgersen is back in Europe. After some fifteen - twenty hours of traveling, I'm now at Kastrup waiting for my plane to Amsterdam. Long journey.

I've had some fantastic days in Vancouver and Seattle, me and Torhild had a little bit of illness in our team the last week, but yesterday we shook it off and joined T12s tour de chambres. The themes were Christmas, baby shower, Team 11, Japan and mental institution. Here is some photo evidence and a couple of other pictures from before, after and in-between.

Chronological order or tastefulness is not guaranteed.

A short film about the KP

A few weeks ago some students from the Danish journalist school, visited Mejlgade 35 and the Kaospilots. They made this little piece about it. And yes, I'm the very inspired guy in a purple/white cap and blue cardigan attending one of the lectures.

..and then some Indian

After school and champagne, Jon came around to pick up all our boxes. Amazingly we managed to fit ten boxes and different smaller objects into his car which is a load off our backs. When this was done Rolf Arne came around to work a bit on our contract with Clockwork before we met up with a bunch at an Indian place just down the street.



After some Cobra beers and several courses we headed over to Engelen where Daniel from Team 13 was introducing his newly composed cocktails. Nice. Herbal Verde was crowned as the perfect basil drink.

Sickness and new company

Headache, stuffed nose and a sore throat. This should have been my last 'normal' week with my team, but instead I'm stuck at home.

31.01.07 - Snot, beautiful snot

Yesterday Jon decided that he will not join the Amsterdam-project. He's still really excited about the project, but it didn't really fit his learning goals for the last semester.

The good thing is that I have talked about the project with another class mate, Rolf Arne, earlier and now he's in instead! I'm really looking forward to working with mister Leer, so all we need now is to get some practical stuff sorted out with Clockwork, and then we're hopefully off to Amsterdam!

Amsterdam - not the iconic tulips-and-canal-shot, but still Amsterdam

Chuck Norris and leaving for Amsterdam

I'm off to Amsterdam for a meeting with a possible customer for my final exam project. The company is called Clockwork and their website is in dutch. I'll tell you more about my trip and Clockwork during or after this weekend.

In the meantime.. and I mean MEAN time..

I'm a sucker for Chuck Norris jokes, so I was very happy (and a bit scared) when I came across this video where he shares the top 10 of them.

"Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants."

Here are more true facts about mister Norris.

Tuesday night in our apartement

After a day learning about innovation, culture and leadership from Anders Drejer (Århus School of Business) and then having the first hours of final-exam-preporatory chit chat with Bjarne - it was nice to bring together some good friends, eat sushi and drink beer.

23.01.07 - Delicious sushi and Linn in the middle
23.01.07 - Pouria is trying to read Malous thoughts. Torhild is impressed
23.01.07 - Torhild and Jo lurking
23.01.07 - Jo brushing, pressing and posing

Once upon a time..

I predicted yesterday that this would be a good party.. and boy was I right!
19.01.07 - Two cats on their way to the party

19.01.07 - Two tired people on their way out for some groceries the day after

.. and here are some pictures from the actual party!

Threesome

Today we have split into groups of three and talked about our projects. What are our challenges? What time frames do we have? What do we wish for? And how do we get there?

17.01.07 - Jon and Julie were my coaching partners today

After lunch we had a gathering and I announced me and Torhilds wedding-gift-plans. Hang tight for an extensive explanation of this project later!

..In the meanwhile check out the hot dude with the hot hat!

17.01.07 - Jorg was in a threesome with Jorg and Jorg.. How freaky is that!?

Uffe and the iPhone

This day has been really long. From nine to seven we've been presenting our projects and getting feedback on them from Uffe (our principal for the un-enlightened). Trying to concentrate, look interested and think of what to say about the project you might do, but isn't sure about and that might not happen, at the same time, can be pretty hard.

16.01.07 - Uffe is giving feedback to Haakon, Måns appears to be thinking (but it might be a pose)

There's been a lot of hazzle about the iPhone after it was released. There seems to be no limit to what it can do. But today I came over a video clip that shows what it can't do.

Torhild on preject trip

As most of you probably know, Torhild is spending three months in Vancouver this spring. Her whole class is going there to get some new perspectives on what Kaospilots have to offer the world and also what life is about in general. Before they embark on this journey they're going to clarify some goals and principles, and they've chosen to do this at a place outside Århus called Mols-something.

16.01.07 - Torhild on her way down the stairs in Rosenkrantzgade

I got to follow her to the bus and spend some extra time at school..

16.01.07 - Jo eats his breakfast at school

A day in the name of gospel

Is there a better way to start a Monday than by singing gospel tunes for six hours? "Absolutely!" some of you may say, "No way!" says the Kaospilots. Three hours later my chest is still warm and my throat is sore in a sweet way.

Here's a picture from the session

15.01.07 - Janne Wind takes the lead and three teams of KP-students follow up

and here's a long run of pictures accompanied by sound