Tuesday:
Busy class day, but as always not too bad. It is nice because in all of my classes I have at least 1 really good friend so the day kind of flies by simply because I look forward to seeing my friends! I think that is what is really interesting about going to college but living at home. Usually at Cornell you see people either walking around campus, in the dining halls, at the dorms, etc. so you don't really have time to "miss" people (so to speak). However, here, I'm with my family for a lot of the time and I only see my friends during the school day (i.e. only twice a week) or if we hang out in the city in the evening. I don't know, this is a random tangent and I don't know anything about the psychology of living with friends in a dorm versus living with a family in a house so ya...
Anyway, after class we usually get dinner and drinks in the city but because a. everyone has a lot of work and b. Wednesday was St. Patrick's Day, we decided to go home after class and be good students and write our various papers (Which then turned into the 4 of us sitting in our respective houses talking about writing our papers rather than ACTUALLY writing our papers...) But anyway, I went to bed early because I feel like I am in a constant state of sleep deficit (yup, I may be in Denmark, but I'm still a college kid) and had a really restful night's sleep (I even woke up on my own at 9am, good job Katie!)
Wednesday:
Today I woke up and headed to the main train station in Copenhagen to try and reserve some train seats on the various international trains my friend and I will be taking over Spring Break (rather than booking 90 different flights all over Europe we just got a Eurorail pass so we can take trains all around Italy and Spain). HOWEVER, we got quite a shock when the guy at the ticket counter told us that seat reservations were going to cost about 50 bucks per person per reservation. Needless to say, we did NOT make any reservations and are going to have the ultimate backpacking around Europe experience, hop on whatever trains we can and pray to God that we are going to the right city!
After the train station, I met up with another friend for cake and hot chocolate at La Glace (v. famous cake shop in Copenhagen, the cake is unbelievable and the hot chocolate tastes like just melted chocolate bars!) We spent a couple hours there having "girl talk" which sounds lame but is sometimes very necessary!
After La Glace, I went home, finished one of my papers, and started making dinner for my family! I made Parmesan Chicken with green beans and mashed potatoes. Of course dinner was a smashing success, my family LOVED it and there were NO leftovers!!!
After dinner and dishes I attempted to explain the concept of St. Patrick's Day to my host family (yep, they didn't even know what it was) which was interesting... After telling the whole story of St. Patrick, Ireland, etc., they basically said, "so this is another excuse for Americans to get drunk?" I chose to leave it at that and headed into the city to meet my friends for a green celebration! Of course all of the Irish Pubs in Copenhagen were FILLED with Americans so it wasn't the most fun, but we did get our Guinesses so the night wasn't a complete fail!
Today (Thursday) I woke up, went to the gym, did laundry, procrastinated writing my paper, and then finally did write my paper. My morning class that I usually have on Thurs. was rescheduled for tonight because today is the last day of class so we turn in our papers and then go to a "history class social". Unfortunately I just turned in my paper and left because I have a big test in Biology of Marine Mammals tomorrow morning at 8:30!
Not much on the schedule for tomorrow, classes in the day, dinner and X Factor at night, and probably a night in with the family!
Food Log:
Breakfast: muesli and yogurt
Lunch: sandwich and apple
Dinner: Schwarma and 7-11 ice cream (we ate in the city before our class)
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