Greetings from Samsø

I'm writing this from my hostel on Samsø, on the second night of my trip. We left yesterday at 4:30, and after a 1.5 hour train ride, a 2 hour ferry ride, and a 2.5 km walk we made it to our hostel here. For some context, Samsø is a small island (pop~3,800-4,000) between Zealand (main island, w/ copenhagen) and Jutland, the peninsula of Denmark. On arriving at the hostel we had some nice cake, and then went to bed. I am in a room with Ryan, Eric, and Eric (neither of these Erics are Eric/Eli, although one lives with Eric/Eli and is the reason the whole Eli thing came to be). They all seem like pretty cool guys. 
Today after eating breakfast and packing a lunch, we set off biking. It was a nice day and the biking was easy. We stopped a few places in the morning, such as the Energy Academy and one of four straw burning central heating plants. Both were somewhat underwhelming. We had some time for lunch in the harbor town of Ballen, then biked to a farm. Previously the farm had many milk cows, but the farmer is retiring soon and sold most of his herd. However we weren't there for the cows. The special thing about Samsø is that it is totally energy independent, and a large reason for this is their community based investment in renewable energies. Jørgen, the farmer we visited, owns one of the large wind turbines just off the island, and another on his farm, in addition to many solar panels on his barn and new house. So we went to check out his wind turbine it was big and impressive to see up close (I hugged it), even though with a 50m tower height it was a "smaller" turbine (as opposed to the big ones that have 70m blades that you could drive a double decker bus into). And then we got to climb up inside it. After ascending 8 ladders, we reached the top, which was opened to give us a great view. The blades were positioned so they weren't spinning, but it was pretty cool to be up there and see the mechanisms. That was the literal and figurative high point of the day. Afterwards we returned to the hostel, and checked out some of the activities available. Of which there were many. There were giant bouncy things, 3 different styles of mini golf. Frisbee golf. Soccer golf, human foosball, bowling, a rock wall, archery, a pool, and some other stuff. Most of these things you had to pay extra for, and many were closed for the season (like the pool) so i just checked them out and did not use them. Dinner was good, and afterwards we had a campfire and made snørbrod, which are basically dough boys. Wake up/breakfast starts at 6:15 tomorrow, so I am going to bed now.
One more thing, in case you were wondering, I have been hanging out a lot with Jessica and Lauren, because I got to know them during core course week and they are cool and also on this trip. I also have hung out with new friend James, who is in my Renewable Energy class, speaks German at about the same level I do, and seems like a good person too. Huzzah for friends!