First Week Back

Sorry for the delay in writing, but I figure now is as good a time as any to recount the activities of my first week back in Copenhagen.

I flew out of Portland on Monday--three hours earlier than scheduled. That's correct earlier, not later. On Monday I had a plan: wake up, run, shower, finish packing up the odds and ends scattered around the house. Mother nature had a different plan, one that was at odds with mine. At 8 am I woke up to a world of white, a mini-blizzard. lovely. continental called and told us that if I wanted to get to Newark in time to make the one and only plane continental plane flying to copenhagen on monday that I woudl have to get out of portland earlier. as in get to the airport within the next two hours for a flight out a few minutes before 11. so much fun. no run, my dad was working in the morning so he wasn't home to drive down with my mom and i. and oh yes, driving down to portland. in a mini-blizzard. as in 30/40 miles on the high way. thank goodness my mother is a patient driver. we got there on time, around 50 minutes before the plane ended up taking off. the plus side was the guy at check-in didn't weigh my bags(it would have been pretty close). so I was good to go.

I slept on that flight, arrived in Newark with roughly 6 hours to kill. finish a book, bought a couple of american magazine. the flight over to copenhagen went well, no major problems. my luggage arrived, so that was good.

I got to the kollegium at 9, picked up my key. the kollegium is really nice, but i was not thrilled to the arrival scene. my floor was smokey, had to use my inhaler. my room was dirty, towels, sheets left over from the person who lived there last semester, dusty. at that point all i wanted to do was sleep and then run/shower, but i trekked into the city( short trek-20 minutes door-to-door) and talked to housing. they were very nice about the situation. they give me new towels, sheets, bedding and sent a cleaner over. i ran while the people cleaned my room. they did a nice job. i checked for dust afterwards because apparently i am my father's daughter. the room is quite nice. one wall is all windows. it's large. probably as big as my room freshman year and my closet of room from sophomore year combined. the people on the floor are very friendly.

wednesday i went into the city, got books, ect. i'm babysitting this semester for an adorable boy so i met with him and his mom and went over their routine. he is such a happy baby; it will be fun.

thursday and friday i had my first classes. this semester should be good. i am taking transition econ, health econ, migration and identity(cross-cultural encounters), war crimes and human rights, and environmental history of europe. i just switched into environ history because danish politics ended up conflicting with transition econ and i want to take that for my econ major. the teachers seem nice. it's odd being back in a history class, haven't taken a strictly history course since high school, and history teachers are an interesting breed. it should be fun though.

last night DIS had a welcome party at a club downtown. my friend elisabeth came over before and we made dinner then went into the city. it was nice. it's an odd feeling being a full year. i'm enjoying not feeling overwhelmed all the time. i'm still learning new things, and living in a new area is nice because i am discovering things i didn't know before. yet, i don't feel disoriented. the other day I was at school and I gave someone directions. me. so odd.

today I just relaxed, ran, grocery shopped, after i planned my menu for the week. there is a non-chain grocery store around the corner. very rare over here, it's great. low price by copenhagen standards, and great quality. i didn't most of my shopping there.

tomorrow i will read, run, and relax. i love the beginning of the semester. the reading are exciting and the work has begun to drive you insane yet. there's plenty of time for that...