Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Sooo.....

It is hard to believe I have been here for almost three weeks. It went y really fast but at the same time I feel somewhat adapted to living in Copenhagen. I no longer wake up wondering how and why I am in a different country. Antoher way I can tell I am acquainted is that I no longer am surprised that after my shower the entire bathroom and floor outside near the bathroom is soaking wet.

I am actually really enjoying my classes (maybe that is because I did not have to write any papers yet! Which reminds me…..).
My core course is International Business and Economics. We had a field study today to some company that makes wires, it wasn’t really that boring actually and they feed us, which is a huge plus these days! Tomorrow I leave for Western Denmark for my short study tour and come back to Copenhagen on Saturday.
My other classes are International Advertising in a European Context, International Marketing a Branding, Holocaust and Genocide, and Danish. In April we have an overnight field study to Germany to visit a concentration camp.
People do not exaggerate when they say everyone in Denmark speaks English. I don’t even have to ask “Do you speak English?” However, the only two people in Denmark who don’t have approached me asking for who knows what (I take it as a compliment that they think I am Danish and think I may know the answer to their question- I guess I fit in!).
Danish is a really hard language though, absolutely nothing is spelled the way it sounds
Example: “Jeg” is pronounced “Yi” and it gets even worse…

I also recently have a lamp in my room! (Still waiting on the heat)

I even made it out of Denmark already! We went to Sweden on Saturday. It is only a 30 minute train ride to Malmo.

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