Awake For 36 Hours

I have been awake for 36 hours at this point.  I was too anxious to sleep on the plane and then the day just kind of ran away with itself so I only had 15 minutes to power nap and pretend to pull myself together so I could at least resemble some sort of human form.  I somehow managed to get all my baggage from America to Copenhagen, and more importantly into my dorm room, but not without being judged by many a rude Danish bus driver. Oh well, I have a tendency to over pack - all my leftover toiletries/medications not in use right now are stored in one of my big suitcases underneath my bed.  I have mostly set up everything in my room except for some pictures of friends and family to remind me of home etc etc, and I was able to spread out because my roommate's first flight was cancelled so she is unable to come to Copenhagen until tomorrow morning.  This morning I waited for 2 hours in the Kastrup airport for the DIS bus to come back from delivering other students and pick us up and bring us to our designated dorms.  We were given free Starbucks hot chocolate to ease the pain but it definitely wasn't the same as the Starbucks I know and love from my meal plan in Rochester and so I was homesick after the first hour.  The excitement of being in Copenhagen quickly turned into anxiety and annoyance and the overcast weather was very fitting for my mood.  Upon arriving in my room at Hoffmans Minde, I did what any typical study abroad student does: I called my mom and cried, partially from exhaustion/hunger, partly from shell shock.  After composing myself (eating a chocolate chip cookie from New York), one of the DIS interns took a bunch of us into Copenhagen proper and we got to see the DIS buildings where we will be taking our classes and we actually wandered down Strøget, the longest pedestrian street in all of Europe.  It doesn't matter that H & M looks exactly the same in Europe as it does in America, it's a Danish company which means I have a moral obligation to support them, and I shall do so.  I took a 15 minute power nap and then headed out to Netto, a supermarket located a thirty second walk from the kollegium to get some bread, cheese, yogurt, juice, and soap for the kitchen and bathroom. All the DIS students living in Hoffmans Minde gathered for a welcome dinner where I had a piece of bread, a piece of sliced cheese, and a couple tomatoes, oh and some curried egg salad.  I'm so totally ready to embrace the food culture of Denmark.. only if Danishes are included in every meal.  After "dinner" I finished unpacking and skyped with the parents to give them the grand tour of my room, and now I am heading to bed so I can be prepared for three days of orientation!


I don't know any Danish yet except for the municipality I'm living in outside of Copenhagen is called Brønshøj!