Even though I am in a foreign city and there are definitely interesting sights to see all around me every day, I find that I am definitely starting to allow the city to feel more like home (not just my location for 4 months). With that being said, yesterday and today were rather uneventful. Sunday was truly a day of rest after my study tour. I slept in and once I woke up, I put myself to work almost immediately. I didn’t have a ton of homework to do, but I was determined to get it all completed so that I could start the week off on the right foot (and not have a mini breakdown like I did lat week). Thankfully, I persevered and completed everything that was on my intended to do list for the day. I actually completed most of my work before dinner, which was nice because it meant that I was able to relax in the evening. I also had the best intensions to try to go to bed early, however I got slightly distracted and talked to Tory instead for 2.5 hours. J It was definitely worth it though; I needed to be able to talk to him like that.
Today, I assume can now be considered a “typical Monday”. I woke up early to get into the city for my morning classes. Following those, I camped out in Vestergade 7 to get some work done (included making an outline for my paper from my study tour, which has a word count higher than the word count allowed on the actual paper) and relax (watched the first quarter Super Bowl commercials – no I didn’t get to watch the Super Bowl because I wasn’t going to go into town to watch it when it wasn’t going to start until 12:30 AM here, plus the same commercials were not aired here). I also occupied my time with some emailing, playing on the Internet, studying for my test on Thursday, etc.
At 4:15, I then got ready to meet up with my marketing class. We were going to visit one of our “client” companies for our large marketing projects during the semester. The company we visited was Maconomy. It is an ERP system consultant and provider from professional service organizations. It was interesting to here the presentation about the company and several unique qualities to their company as well as the software business as a whole. For example, software companies make most of their revenue from the maintenance of subscriptions; a typical amount being 20% of the original principle is charged every year based solely for maintenance. However, the only thing that made this visit a little more difficult is that we haven’t been introduced to our actual project yet. So while we are learning about the company, it was hard to know what angle to view it from. I am still really interested in the overall project though since we are getting to “work for” real companies. The gentlemen who spoke to us this evening mentioned that we could call or arrange a meeting with him when we have questions and concerns throughout the progress of this project.
After the visit, I made my way home through the route of buses, train, and a little bit of walking. Once home, I simply studied a little more for my test on Thursday (which I don’t think will be too hard, but it is my first test, and I want to do well).
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