I woke up earlier than usual for a Friday because I was heading into town to meet up with a group from my history class to work on our second assignment. We were given a map with 6 locations to visit. Once we reached these locations, we were to analyze the façade of the building. Basically since it was cold outside, we ended up walking around to all of our locations, doing minor discussion, took a bunch of pictures to reference later for analysis and our final project, and would head on to the next location. It was actually a lot of fun to walk around the city. It really feels like I am starting to know my way around and how to get to different places. I was also excited because one of our locations was across the harbor in Christianshavn. I had yet to be in this area of the town. It is supposed to be one of the most expensive locations in the city, which probably explains why I like it so much ☺. We had allocated about 4 hours to make sure we could walk to all of our locations and finished in only about 2 hours. This then allowed me to sit around DIS for a little while just talking to other students and attempting to do one of my readings for the weekend.
Unfortunately, I did have to go off to class at 1:15. I had Danish today, which is getting to the point where it is a little overwhelming. I think this is partially due to the fact that we have our first test next week, and there is a LOT of information to know. I understand the concepts and rules that we need to know, but the vocabulary is going to kill me. I’ll let you know how it goes. I also had much Leadership Across Cultures class today. We had a guest speaker who was kind of odd. The whole basis of his lecture was to discuss short business cases and try to pick out where cultural wrongdoings occurred among different transactions – not a bad way to lecture. The only problem was that the scenarios he gave us were very vague, and we weren’t given any background information about the cultural backgrounds of respective countries that were involved in the cases. This made it much more difficult to analyze considering we had no idea what to analyze. Overall, it was fine, but it is definitely becoming a hard class to have on Friday afternoons when all of us just want to be done for the day and for the week.After class, I then made my way home to Hillerød. It was a little difficult because I had been hearing throughout the day that the trains were all messed up and not running on time or simply were not coming. It was weird but eventually my train came and I slowly made my way home. I then made myself a rather random dinner consisting of carrots and a sandwich. I have been trying to eat the things that my host family left in the house instead of going to the store. It is bad; it just means dinners have gotten a little more interesting.
I then started to get ready to head out again because I had actually planned to meet up with a couple of the girls in my history group to go out into the city for the night. I had figured that it was going to take me a while to get to the location where I was going to meet them, so I had to leave rather early. Unknown to me at 8:30 when I left my house, this commute turned into an adventure that would last 2.5 hours. I got on my regular bus and train just fine and was then planning on transferring lines once I got into the city. I was waiting for the other line for about 40 minutes – within that time span 2 trains passed that should have been the train I wanted, but they didn’t stop; and the teleprompter kept showing changes for different lines for the evening. I eventually figured out that the line that I wanted was not running from the station I was at, so I would have to make my way to a station a few stops down via another line. However, there was only one other line heading to the direction I wanted to go, and it didn’t go to the stop I needed to be to change lines to the B line – the one I needed to meet up with my friends. Between a ride on the A line and a regional train, I eventually made my way to the station I needed to be at. However, once I got there, the station was actually unsure of what the train was doing, what track it was going to come in on, and when. There were probably about 40 people waiting for this train. It was so weird. Eventually they called over 4 buses to take us to the respective stops on the line that we were waiting for, so I headed over to the buses with everyone else. After that it wasn’t all that bad, I just had to wait for my stop. Once I finally got to my friends housing, they were getting ready to turn around and head back into the city. It wasn’t really a problem, it was simply an interesting start to my evening – what should have been one bus and two train lines, turned into a bus, 3 train lines, a regional train, and another bus ride.
Once back in the city, we headed out to a club for the night. It was another girls 21st birthday so we also partially celebrating as well. Overall, it was all worth it because I had a good evening hanging out with a few friends. This was also my first real time going out into the city on a Friday night!
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