Thank goodness I was able to sleep in this morning (at least a little bit). I didn’t wake up until about 9, and then I got to take my time getting up and doing some random things at home. I then caught the bus at about noon to head into the city for two classes this afternoon.
First, I had my Danish class. We simply went over some more of the common phrases that we had already learned. Then we added some more to our vocabulary. I am still finding it very hard with pronunciation. However, now that I have some homework and phrases to work on, I can ask my Danish family for some help. I think they have been eager to help me because almost every evening they asked if I had Danish today. I have had to say “no” but now I can say yes, and “I need help” J. Danish, while a hard language, is simply a fun class. Our professor is really easy going and wants to make sure that we say things properly and hopefully understand (at least what we are saying).
My second class was my leadership across cultures. This one was very easy today because we were working in groups for our presentations this coming Tuesday. I had started to organize some of our interview notes (which took me all of 5-10 minutes this morning), which in class allowed us to wait to see if our instructor had anything to add, which she didn’t. It is only a 5 minutes presentation for a group of 4 people. I don’t think we have anything to worry about. Plus, I am not entirely sure if it is even graded. (This is a class where our actual instructor is away on business and we have a substitute for the first couple of weeks, so I don’t know if she will be grading us cause she isn’t our actual teacher.) Regardless, I think it will be fine nonetheless.
After classes, I hung around DIS for a little bit doing random work and things. Then I headed over to Keops Kollegium where my friends (from Elon) Emily and Kelli are living. I just hung out with Emily for a little while, and then around 7:30 we went down to gather everyone for dinner.
When we tallied the head count we had about 20 people ready to go out to dinner. We had a feeling this may be a problem but we headed out anyways in search of a restaurant where we could fit everyone. Just so you know, it was snowing at this time and there were already a couple inches on the ground. It felt like walking through a mini blizzard. We did finally make it over to a little restaurant that a few people had been to before, however there was no way it had room for 20 people. It was at that point that we decided to split up into two groups. The group I ended up with went over to an Italian restaurant and had a nice dinner all together. I got a glass of wine (to relax a little from the week) and then risotto. It apparently was what I wanted since I finished everything on the plate.
After the restaurant we headed back to their Kollegium with a stop at the 7/11 for some drink along the way. I chose not to get anything because I decided that I was going to head home shortly. They were all getting up to go to a town in Sweden for the day. They invited me to go along, however I am going to try to explore some more of the sites that I need to see for my history project, as well as enjoy Copenhagen a little more. I think I may also try to check out some of the stores. There is a huge sale period going on here right now. I don’t know when exactly it ends but I think someone told me at the end of January, and since that is in only 2 days I figured I should try to snatch a deal while I still can if I find something that I like.
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