Although I haven't written this in two weeks and it seems I have fallen into the Baltic Sea, alas I have not! I have been busy frolicking around in Cope and giggling with glee. Not really giggling gleefully but definitely frolicking. Ok. I'm rusty at this. Soo what I have done in the past two weeks? A trip through iphoto will help describe what I've been up to:
The first weekend we were here I went to Ikea to snatch some necessities for the room - somewhere in all those bags were pillows, towels, hangers, a pretty shower curtain, a skillet, and some desk organizers. In addition to carrying two very heavy bags I also lugged around a 39 kroner table to put our microwave on. It was well worth the struggle as we now have space to prepare our meals! (rather than using the top of the microwave as our cutting board - ew). Here I am on the bus home with all my precious belongings.
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| my excessive spending habits at ikea |
DIS doesn't offer classes on Wednesdays so we have a day off in the middle of the week - it's a weird adjustment but it definitely helps break up the week and allows for more social and cultural exploring. So last Wednesday, I met up with three friends and we went on a canal tour and took in some Copenhagen scenery by boat. The tour took us to The Little Mermaid and we were able to get out and take pictures - a touristy event we had all wanted to experience!
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the (very) little mermaid
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On Thursday, I was able to see a fashion show at Fashion Week for my Meaning of Style class and we saw collections from graduating TEKO students (TEKO is the Cope equivalent of Parson's)! I was standing strategically close to where the models stopped on the runway to be photographed, so I got a lot of cool pictures as demonstrated below.
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| justification for all my fashionable parkas |
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| black is always slimming, even on models |
The winter onesie is very common among children. So naturally I needed to try one on too.
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| when i wear a onesie |
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| when children wear onesies |
On Saturday, I went to Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. It was frigid by the water so I whipped out my fleece-lined spandex, uggs, and a big warm scarf and called it a day.
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| i built this castle |
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| kronborg castle, danish flag, sweden in the distance! |
I have a few friends:
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| friendz taking da bus |
Today I went to Laundromat Cafe with a few friends and here is one of them, Nicki, posing with the washing machines by which we were enamored. I met Nicki at the airport terminal all the way back in America (she was my first abroad frienddd!) but everyone asks us if we knew each other before the trip... so we tell them we've been best friends since fifth grade. We're traveling together over spring break to Budapest, Prague, and Vienna so accustom yourself with her beautiful face for it will be repeated in future posts!
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| wine and dine.. and wash |
So yes that has been a pretty decent summary of what I've been up to. I really like my classes and I will list them for you now: Meaning of Style (I will come back from Cope a very trendy lady), Gender Differences on Human Rights (good ol' feminism), Danish Language & Culture (I will be able to pretend to understand what the signs say), Complexities of Cancer (nerdy science terms) and Human Health and Disease (my core course in the Medical Practice & Policy program).
I will elaborate on the MPP program. It is awesome. Each program (there are 15 I think) in DIS has a core course and you travel with the people in your class on a short weekend study tour and also on a week-long study tour. Our short study tours are this weekend so tomorrow at the ripe hour of 7:30 I will be whisked away on my chariot (a coach bus) and shuttled to Ebeltoft and Aarhus for the weekend where we will see many exciting academic and cultural scenes. I will be sure not to procrastinate and update immediately upon my return to Cope. Anyway, back to MPP. My Human Health & Disease class meets Tuesdays & Fridays from 2:30 to 4:30 at Frederiksberg Hospital and is taught by two doctors, hence why it's so late in the day because they still have to do their jobs. Our course assistant is a current medical student and it's really interesting to get all of their perspectives/experiences with medicine in ways that are similar and also different from our own. For instance, you must decide if you want to be a doctor in high school because it's your grades from these years that determine which medical schools you can apply to. A lot of American students have no idea what they want to do with their lives when they're still in high school, so it's hard to imagine committing so seriously to a profession at the age of 18, or in my case 16. (I am a baby genius. No, not really, I just skipped kindergarden. Why? Because I didn't want to finger paint. Real reason: I could read at a fifth grade reading level at the age of 5. Baby genius.) So yeah, in addition to shmoozing with our teachers, we actually get to do cool stuff like learn how to insert IV needles into dummies (and people) and how to give lumbar punctures (spinal tap) to dummies (and people). Yesterday we practiced all these skills on dummies and some people even tried it on each other - not the spinal tap, just inserting IV needles into people's hands. I did not want anyone poking my veins, no way.
Final words: in case you haven't been spending enough time out in the freezing cold, you can choose to sit and sip your Carlsberg with a nice free blanket covered in snow! Right up my alley.
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