Today marked the completion of my spring semester in Denmark. I woke up in the morning and managed to study for a brief period of time for my last final – Leadership. This was rather impressive considering I didn’t really have to study for it, if I didn’t want to. The final itself was an open-note/open-book exam, which consisted of analyzing a case study using the different models we learned throughout the semester. I also did some basic outlining for the final once I got into DIS. I went in early again since I really didn’t have anything to so at home; I also figured it would be a good way to encourage me to at least think about my exam.
The final itself was rather vague – as I mentioned it was simply a case study that we had to analyze and suggestion a correcting course of action for the leadership problem presented. I think I was able to coherently deliver my thoughts, however it is always hard to know with a test in that format. It has the capability of being rather subjective. I did manage to cover a lot of the material and crafted a rather well rounded analysis, however when I went back to read it afterwards, it definitely sounded rather vague and generalized at parts. I am simply not going to worry about it. After all turning in that exam meant that I had officially completed my junior year of college.
After my test, I then headed to meet up with Dad who at the time was poking around Magasin (the big department store in Copenhagen). We had a little trouble deciding what to do, but we eventually decided to go get coffee at Baresso and talked for a little while. It was nice to just talk about some random things for a while. We don’t always get to do that all the time. Post-recaffeination, we headed back to Dad and Bob’s hotel room, where Bob had been napping. It was a really nice hotel; it actually used to be an old warehouse and is located right on the harbor. Their room in particular had the best view looking over the harbor directly to the new opera house on the opposite shore.
At around 7:15, we began to make our way down Stroget and across town to meet up with my host family for dinner at a restaurant near Tivoli. Unfortunately, Sofie was not able to make it due to a year-end event at school, however the rest of the family was able to come. I must admit that sometimes it is a little weird introducing your host family to your real family, but in this experience and when they met my mom over travel break it seemed to go really well. We all had a really nice dinner – steak and a great salad bar (a difficulty to find in Copenhagen). We also exchanged a few gifts at dinner. Dad had gotten Charlotte and Steen a nice box of chocolates, and I was gifted with the best remembrance of Denmark I could think of: a Danish flag. It was perfect.
After dinner, I said goodnight to Dad and Bob and headed home with my host family. Once we arrived back at the house, I gave them my gift for them – the vase that I had bought them a couple of days before. They really seemed to like it a lot, which I was very happy about. Unfortunately, I also had to say ‘goodbye’ to Steen that night because he was leaving early the next morning for a golfing weekend in Sweden and would not be back prior to my departure for the states. It was really odd to say goodbye. First because, I wasn’t really the one leaving, at least not at that moment. Second because, this was the point I began to realize just how quickly my four months in Denmark had flown by.
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