Here we go...

Hello my fellow americans! Hope you are all doing well. This post will be a two-fer i guess (because I missed a day! HA HA get it?) Ali and Anna, do you like my snowda joke? (Because it was for you!)

Yesterday morning I had a bit of a dark period, I was sitting in a morning orientation meeting when I realized that I was not happy, actually I was kinda pissed. After that realization my mood went down hill pretty quickly. The reason for this is that I miss you all. Terribly. LIKE A TON. I don't care how much I say it on facebook or wherever, it does not do justice to how much I miss all you wonderful people back home. Small things here remind me of everybody (for example I saw a "La Perla" restaurant today! <for all my milwackers). So I'm gonna continue on, one day at a time, breath by breath; and hopefully it'll get easier (although I promise I won't miss you any less.

Anyway! Sorry, back to business. I got out of that funk a little later by drinking coffee,  naturally. WOO DRUGS. (Just kidding grandma.) Yesterday was day 2 of orientation! We learned lots about danes, healthcare, visas, etc. I picked up my books (my nordic mythology class had 9. HAIL ODIN), then went to lunch.

OK heres a little lesson on Danish Kroner (skip if you hate money)
-100 Kroner is about 20 bucks back in the states. 
-the cheapest deli sandwiches for lunch are usually 50 Kroner. SUPER EXPENSIVE
-Danishes, however, are 10 Kroner usually. 
-there are 5 coins. I think....a 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 k coins. Some even have holes in them! ooh!

After I had gotten books and such, we toured around some other parts of Copenhagen. Let me tell you, Copenhagen has got itself a top-notch public transportation system. There are buses, trains, taxis, etc, not to mention a third of the city population rides their bikes to work/school. Also, you don't even have to scan a card or anything to get on the subway trains, you can just walk in! The officials of Copenhagen are just that trusting. (They do occasionally send officials down to check some passes, but I have yet to see one.) Also, if you get lost any Dane will be more than willing to help you figure out where you need to be. 

P.S. Danish grocery stores are teeny tiny. I bet you could give any danish person a heart attack by simply taking them into a Costco. 

I met a guy today who chewed gum like this: 

We went to a bar as a group last night too! I had a shot of something that tasted like straight up mouth wash....europeans are weird

Today was our last day of orientation! yaaaaay! The administrators split us into groups and they sent us around the city to different spots on a scavenger hunt like thing. It sounds childish I know, but it was really interesting! plus we got to see some pretty great things!
here is what we learned:
-Denmark has a Queen, but no King. She gets paid about 55 million kroner a year. which is about 10 mil in US dollars
-The guards at the Queens palace (which actually consists of 4 small palaces) wear these really awesome fluffy hats. Plus they are allowed to talk, unlike those dum briish gaads who cayn't talk to nobody.
-Copenhagen is a center for Architectural design. However, the Danes also rarely destroy buildings, instead they have the mind set of: "what else can we do with this?" 
-They call danishes wienerbrød and get very confused when americans call the treat a "danish" because the pastry originated in Vienna (hence the name vienna bread in english).

I'll put up actual pictures soon!
Love, bb