Welcome to the Old World!

Today was my first day of DIS orientation so obviously the day was full of learning fun facts. Because everyone loves a good fun fact to pull out over dinner or during awkward silences, I have listed my favorites:

1. There are 5x more pigs in DK than people

2. Danes often like to refer to historical events and then boast about how America hadn't even been discovered for the second time (b/c it was discovered long before Columbus by none other than the Vikings).

3. When people say everyone in Denmark speaks English, they are kind of lying (most people can get by with small talk, etc., but Katie and the Danes are having some major language issues)

5. Danes love bagels and hot dogs (not together).

6. Danes are surprisingly unconcerned about global climate change...they could do with some warmer weather and none of their cities will flood

This morning we had a opening ceremony which was pretty nice, just a bunch of people telling us to make the most of our semester here, yada yada yada. Then I went for lunch with 2 people that I had met. We went to a little bagel shop and had bagel sandwiches which were absolutely delicious! After lunch we had a long info session about living in Europe. Just reminders about being safe, you can't miss all of your classes to travel, stuff like that!

Tomorrow I have a crash course in Danish for 3 hours, and then a scavenger hunt throughout the city. After the scavenger hunt we have an "Immersion Fair" where a bunch of Danish clubs set up tables and you can sign up for stuff.

Finally, the epic food log:

Breakfast: Musseli, which is like oats with dried fruit and nuts mixed with yogurt (it took me a while to find the yogurt in the fridge since a. the package was in Danish and b. it comes in almost a milk carton type thing. But it was really good!

Lunch: Bagel sandwich which chorizo (the only word on the menu I recognized) greens, some sort of cream cheese, pesto, cucumbers, and pickles. It sounds very bizarre and I was kind of nervous to eat it but it was amazing! So good, the cream cheese here is BLISS!

Dinner: Peter's chicken (whole chicken plus broth and seasonings of some sort, celery, parsley, etc. with a brown sauce, rice, and steamed broccoli - another great Danish meal!