5.14.10 – Closing Ceremony

Today I took my time getting up. My first planned activity for the day was the closing ceremony and that wasn’t until about 2:30 in the afternoon. The only I thing I had to do beforehand was to return my schoolbooks to DIS. I will miss simply being able to “borrow” books next year. Since I was already up and I didn’t really have anything to do around the house, I simply headed into town where I returned my books, wrote some emails, and then just walked around town a little bit before the ceremony. This included finding two really cute and comfy dresses at H&M.

The closing ceremony was at 2:30ish. Luckily when I got there, I ran into some of my friends, so I was able to sit next to some people that I knew. It was a nice little ceremony. There were a couple of awards presented, the director spoke, and couple students spoke. I really enjoyed the student speeches; they did a very nice job, and they were funny and definitely relatable. The best part was definitely the fact that Carsten (my history professor) was the Emcee of the show, throwing in historical facts where he could.

After the ceremony, I then headed over to meet Dad and Bob at the hotel. Bob wanted to take a nap in which time, Dad and I headed over to the newer part of the city, Orestad – the area I was in for my last field study. We didn’t see too much, but I think Dad really enjoyed seeing the modern architecture and some of the designs in the area. We then made our way back into the center of town to meet up with Bob at the metro station and head to our dinner location. It was actually a restaurant that Dad and Bob had been to a few days before and enjoyed it so much they decided to go back. It was really quite nice, and a great location for their last dinner in Copenhagen. After dinner, we headed over to locale for the DIS closing party. Once nearby, I said goodbye to Dad and Bob. It was crazy that they had already spent the extent of their time in Denmark.

I then made my way into the club and was able to find my friend Gillian. I hung out with her for most of my time there, which was really nice. I am definitely going to miss that girl. In my time there, I was also able to meet up and say goodbye to some of my other friends. Again it was crazy thinking that I was already saying goodbye. It felt like only a few days ago that we all met.

I had decided not to spend the extent of my evening in town because I was determined to get to Hillerod to say bye to some of my friends at the hojskole. A few of them had early flights in the morning as well as packing to do and decided not to go into the city for the part, but there was no way I was going to let them leave Denmark without saying goodbye. It was quite a journey to get there though. I unfortunately missed my train by like a minute, which led me to miss the last bus once in Hillerod. Luckily, I did make it to the hojskole prior to my closest friends – Tatiana & Xue – going to bed. They all seemed exhausted though. After a little time there and multiple goodbyes (since I simply didn’t want to except it), I finally made my way home around 2am.