Today wasn’t too eventful. It consisted of my history class in the morning, followed by my long break in the afternoon, my marketing class (which we simply had time to work on our projects), and then following that I had presentations for my Danish class.
For Danish, we had group projects where different group looked at different parts of typically “Danishness”. We had then planned an evening where we would give our presentations in addition to having a “hygge dinner”. We started the evening with two groups presenting (including mine). I think we ended up doing well, although one of my group members talked for only about a minute, which meant needing serious time fill (the presentation was supposed to be 15 minutes long). Overall, the presentation wasn’t really that big of a deal, and it was definitely a relaxed atmosphere.
We then stopped halfway through presentations to have our “hygge dinner”. Interestingly, the term “hygge” is very Danish in itself. There is actually no translation for it into English. It is more of a feeling that one gets in a certain situation – sort of like a state of being relaxed, calm, and simply enjoying the time in the present. We simply had smorrebrod (open-faced sandwiches), a typically Danish meal, and were able to talk as a class. It was a little goofy, but I did have a good time. I also know that many of my friends who are not with host families (and therefore have to cook for themselves) really appreciate free food. After dinner, we went back to presenting. Det var hyggeligt. FYI: I think that is the one phrase in Danish that I am going to adopt regularly.
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