The days and weeks are becoming routine to me now, which is part of the reason that I have lightened the extent of my blog. While everyday is still different and holds new experiences, it is starting to feel more “normal”.
Today was a field study day. I didn’t have anything planned in the morning section, so I took my time at home in the morning just taking my time getting ready to go. One funny thing though is that on Wednesdays my host family has a couple of people whom come clean the house. They normally come in the morning so if I am there I always run into them. It is kind of weird because they don’t speak English but talk like crazy the entire time they are cleaning. Also I always feel like I am in the way. For example, I was in my room just checking email and doing some reading for one of my classes. They were mopping the floors. The gentleman came into my room to clean the floors – which is fine – but then he literally mopped around me! It was awkward cause I became trapped and had to wait a minute for the floor to dry before I could move. Then once I got a chance to move, he said thank you and mopped the spot where my desk chair sits. It was strange.
I did have a field study in the afternoon though. I went with my core class to visit a construction company, NCC, in Copenhagen. It is located on one section of the harbor right on the water and at one point during the visit we went up to an upper level terrace area, and I got really nice view of the surrounding area there. The visit was definitely informative in terms of where the company is headed and how it formulates its strategy and directive. The only negative of the visit was that it was a little over 3 hours long! The presenter divided it into 3 sections; I think I maintained for the first one and most of the second, but the last hour, I wag gone. He also had a very extensive PowerPoint to add to all of it. Everytime someone asked a question he would say “I have a slide for that”. It was originally kind of funny and then turned into, whoa this guy like diagrams and PowerPoint slides. I am still definitely enjoying the company visits though and find them to be helpful in understanding how businesses are actually applying the principles that we are learning about in class.
After this visit, I headed over the train station around 5:15 to meet up with another class. My marketing professor invited our whole class to come to his house for dinner. There was a little confusion organizing the group and getting out there, but overall it went well. His home seems relatively modern (I think is a combination of having the home be open to intereact with the family and also the lack o materialism in Danish culture). They had prepared frikadeller – a little different recipe than the ones I had before, but still just taste like meatballs – and pizza for dinner. It was absolutely crazy because they must have made about 10 pizzas. There were probably 2 that we didn’t even touch because we became so full. They also had a little selection of alcohol for us to enjoy. I refrained from too much, however our professor kept bringing in more beer once we finished those that were on the table. At one point we were talking about getting ready to leave, and he said ‘no, stay and have another beer’. It was a lot of fun to just relax and enjoy spending time with our class and professor. His family was also really nice. He has a wife and three children (although only the daughter, who is 16, was there). We eventually left around 10-10:30ish. After a couple trains and the bus, I got home at about 11:30 and was ready to crash. However, I briefly looked over my notes for my test tomorrow (we will see how it goes) and went to bed – I figured it was better to sleep than study. J
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