Hey everyone! It's been awhile! Sorry for the delay, I took a little time off to settle in to classes and everything....not to mention I kept forgetting to take my camera places with me. SO I am making it my goal next week to fix that problem. Ok cool. Anyway, this past week has been great. Classes are officially going and I am taking:
European Memory and Identity - France (We are studying everything France......history, culture, the people's identity, famous frenchies, etc. I wonder if my teacher will tell us why the French hate americans...jk jk My teachers name is Ditte (pronounced Dit-uh) and here we all call our teachers by their first names! Crazy danish. In March we take a week long trip to France and our teacher Ditte and her assistant Karen get to come too! I think we are going to Paris and northern France so that should be really great.)
International Reporting - Our teacher (whose name escapes me) is really awesome! Last class he brought in traditional Danish groceries and we had to guess what they were. My group was lucky and got the Cod Roe (which is basically Cod caviar) YUM. It looked like spam. Danish people really like fish I guess because 5/5 of the items he brought were fishy......(one was half decomposed herring.....) It should be a pretty good class I think!
Religion and Politics - This class is exactly what the name implies. Our teacher is named Bo (but there is no way any non-dane can pronounce it correctly). Bo is a super cool calm collected hipster who reminds me of a small Stanley Tucci. (Pretty awesome right?!)
20th Century European History - Apparently history isn't important in America, because none of the people taking this class know what is going on. I mean, it's history right? So it should be pretty straight forward. War here, war there, maybe a revolution. However, it isn't, because our teacher thinks of things differently (dang it I can't remember his name either.....I think I have a problem). It is a good different, when I can explain it fully I will let you all know! I really like his teaching style and I think we will learn a lot from him in the coming months. He is a teacher at the University of Copenhagen and likes to say "hmm?" a lot.
Nordic Mythology - MY TEACHER'S NAME IS MORTON AND HE IS SO GREAT! But seriously...the first day of class he gave us a lecture on scandinavian humor (aka very dry humor). Apparently Californians don't get it hahahaha. Morton also is a teacher at the University of Copenhagen. We have already read about Thor! Also, he said we get to watch The Lord of The Rings. Best. Class. Ever.

So those were all my classes!

This whole week has been just getting into the routine of living here, which has been really nice. I'm starting to feel more like a resident and less like a visitor every day.

Things I learned this week:
1) Danish men wear their wedding rings on their right hands
2) I found soy sauce! (that's not something I learned, just something exciting).
3) Cling wrap and Ziplock bags do not exist here. Please excuse me while I go cry.
4) The Danish view of Americans: Semi-superficial
American: "hello, how are you?"
Dane: "what? You don't know me, why do you care how I am?"
^direct quote from a teacher
5) Danes don't like small talk.
6) I really don't think road rage exists here....at least the audible kind.
7) Dating doesn't exist either. Danes simply "hang out" to get to know one another better....and I don't really know anything else about the subject.
8) Danish people love emoticons. :) ;) :o

YESTERDAY
I went to a Danish cooking class!!! We had rosemary/oregano chicken that had olive oil on it, homemade bread, this weird rhubarb stuff that looked exactly like salsa (I totally thought it was weird salsa until someone told me it was rhubarb), small yellow potatoes, and cucumbers in vinegar! Dessert was Lemon moon cake with marshmallow creme frosting. Everything was sooooooo delicious and we all got to help make the food. I even got to help make the cake! Except what the other people in the cooking class don't know is that the head chef had us mix the batter actually with our hands. So I thought,  "well, when in Denmark." So essentially I paid to learn how to cook food, eat tons of food, and play in food.

TODAY
After waking up, I went on a bike ride with a few other people. In the end there were just two of us because it was too cold (wimps pshhh just kidding she had a good reason!). And we biked around the west and central areas of Copenhagen! It was a really grey day out there but definitely still worth it. We visited the Business School of Copenhagen and somehow snuck into the Royal Academy of Music near the city center. It was an insanely old building with floors of music rooms full of pianos. The main concert hall is the best part, simply because everything is covered in polished wood. The room was designed around the time the radio took off, and was built to acoustically enhance any sound within its walls. http://dk01.jsmediatools.com/15307749613/mailview/pagedata/19781_3.swf

So here it is...at long last.....a picture of me...in Copenhagen. So if you wonder what I am doing over here, just use this photo as a reference; because odds are, this is probably what I am doing.