Off to Prague!!

This week was a shortened week (classes only on Monday and Tuesday - meaning I only had class Tuesday, and one of them was cancelled!) because Denmark, though technically a Lutheran nation, recognizes whatever different religions they have here so instead of getting days off school/work for random religious holidays (Ramadan, Hanukkah, All Saints Day, etc. etc. etc.) they just have one big Prayer Day this week. In addition, as I found out tonight at dinner, all 8th graders are confirmed this weekend because it is Prayer Weekend (my host bro is being confirmed, very exciting)!! Soooo, despite the 4 10-page papers and 2 tests (one being an oral exam in Danish...gulp!) I am off to the old world to eat pork, see castles, and drink Pilsner! I will be in Prague from tomorrow to Monday, so I probably won't be posting (though it is not like I post every day anyways, sorry for being such a slacker), but I will take LOTS of pics so you can feel like you too got to experience this grand city!!! Originally I was going to meet my friend from Cornell there (she is in London now), but her parents freaked about the volcano and told her she couldn't go :-( So, I will be traveling the first 2 days with a girl from one of my DIS classes, and then for the last 2 days I will be a lone wolf. At first I was quite freaked out about this since I consider myself to be more of a schooling fish (in fact, I think I am of the tuna variety - I school with other tuna, but I rely on dolphins to find the food sources...), but I feel that this will be a time of self-discovery and learning to find my own damn food!

-->note: sorry for the fishy metaphors, I had a double marine bio lecture yesterday and have spent literally all day writing 1. a paper about humpback whale songs and 2. a fairy tale ( a la H.C. Andersen) about...you guessed it, jilted humpback whale love!

Anywho, other than trip prep, I really haven't done anything exciting this week. Monday I wrote a paper, Tuesday I had class from 8:30am to 9:15pm (though since one of my classes was cancelled I went to a cafe with my friend and had LITERALLY the best carrot cake of life, I wanted to take a bath in the deliciously creamy cream cheese frosting, I actually had to restrain myself!!!) which was NOT fun because the night class was marine mammals and all we did was watch Blue Planet. Now, don't get me wrong, I love Blue Planet more than any human should love a film, but 1. I have seen it many, many times and 2. it was Tuesday night, and as most of you probably know by now, Tuesday night is drinking night and I don't appreciate it when class gets in the way of my rigorous drinking schedule. The one good thing though was they bought everyone sandwiches at the movie and they were delicious and free! Today I woke up and started writing more papers! Of course I didn't get much done because I had planned to get stuff done, but that is life!

Anne has decided that she needs a new house so she had an interior decorator come in and they spent all day talking furiously in Danish, waving their arms, and measuring random things. Slightly distracting: yes, immensely entertaining: double yes. Though I think my favorite part was when Peter came home, accepting defeat that Anne was "spending the family fortune" and whispered that "if she (the decorator) decorates like she dresses we are in deep shit!" (this decorator was wearing combat boots and a skirt that looked like a trash bag sewn in random places by a blind monkey.) Anyway, apparently I am the last host student they will be having for awhile/ever because they were planning what to do with my room (tear). Guess I'll just have to eat the peanut butter my parents sent myself!!!

Food Log:

Breakfast: muesli and yogurt

Lunch: peanut butter and banana sandwich

Dinner: roasted chicken, rice with gravy, green beans, peas