For starters, English should really have a plural form of you. Spanish has it. Danish has it. North Carolina has it. WHY doesn't our language? Well, from here on I'll use you collectively to refer to all my followers (shout out PVP/Beavs for being number 2! To the rest of you -- I have nothing to say) at the risk of sounding like I'm writing a fourth grade diary.
So here we go.
Today was my third official day of my sommerkursus at the Kysthotellet. The schedule is as follows:
7:30 - Tasty breakfast. Ymer (pronounced oo-mur ; yeah, try speaking the language, including words like Bofællesskabet) and granola is my daily staple. They're pretty into pork here, which I'm not quite so into yet. I've been surprised by how much meat they serve (something like salami, ham, porkroll, etc.)
8:30 - Danish language class : 15 students between 17 and 27 and 1 teacher. And a lot of difficult pronunciation.
10 - 10:30 - Break. Coffee/tea/fruit. Mmmmm. Begin to actually wake up.
10:30 - Hit the books with a new teacher. Same students.
12:00 - LUNCH. The highlight. Always lots of delicious salads, fruits, veggies. The hotel serves a lot of local and organic (called biologocial, in Europe) food. Water and some mysterious blue juice/soda to drink. It may or may not be liquid kryptonite.
1:00 - Culture class. Today it was on the Danish economy. They pay up to 60% income taxes with a minimum of around 30%! It's vastly different from the US. The Scandinavian model is a social democracy. More to come on this topic as I see it in effect...
Afternoon - HOMEWORK. Yesterday during this time I went in to the town center, the day before I was at the beach. And then at midnight I realized I had all of my homework to do still. Apparently 2 years at Davidson still hasn't taught me time management.
6:00 - Dinner. Tonight there was a salad bar and a burrito bar, but none of my European peers called them burritos! They knew the English word 'wrap' but call them 'kabobs' (props to Carolyn for giving me the heads up that this is our version of a gyro, so I knew what was going on)
7:00 - Program . Today was a Danish music history class, presented by my professor, Henrik, who has his own Danish rock band. Swankkkky.
And then...tea, coffee, cake --- tonight there was a yummy pear and almond pie like dessert (or shall I say Danish. A bit of socializing and some final studying and here we are, at 22:56 (Danes have no word for AM/PM so, like most Europeans, they use what we call military time). This weekend we have a trip to Aarhus so I promise that more recent pictures willllll eventually be coming. Until then, enjoy these shots from my arrival to downtown Copenhagen!
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