Tuesday... Pool Day!

6:00 am wake up!

But I'm falling into bad habits. So I actually woke up at 7:00 and skipped breakfast again but I took a peach for the road.

It was packed on the train, so people were three-seating it and standing and crowded and blah. But, I was sitting next to a guy with his headphones in and his bag on the seat like it was a person. It was so crowded and eventually the lady across from me starting talking in Danish at us, saying something like "When there are this many people on the train you need to sit three people in each seat!" So I scooted closer to the wall, but the guy did nothing. The lady was like, horrified that he was so oblivious or rude so she said, "I need to put this on Facebook" and so she took a picture of the guy next to me and the empty seat next to him where his bag was. HAHA. I don't know if she was mad at me or not or if I'm in the picture on her facebook post about people who are rude on trains. And she was speaking in Danish but it's actually not that hard to understand.

So I went to my horribly boring Immunology class, and I was on time, and I hated every minute of it. It's dark in the room so we can see the powerpoint and we do all this reading and then she talks about the same things. She asked us to come up with the five reasons for this or that, and I think we were supposed to do it in partners, but no one was talking and no one was sitting next to me. 

Then Developmental Disorders was almost as bad except the content was slightly more interesting. 

UGH.

Those are the two classes that are counting towards my majors/minor so I guess I'll just deal with it.

Also, I gave some girls wrong directions to Copenhagen University on accident, but they should have passed it when they were following where I told them to go, ha... I feel bad.

Hot enough to go to the pool!

So I came home and made a lunch and then went to the pool.

But it was locked when I got there at 13:00 even though it opens at 13:00. This guy who was in an office there didn't speak English but he managed to call the lifeguard to come open the pool for me, haha. The lifeguard looked unhappy when he got there. Like it's not his job...?

That is actually a tiny book, a tiny purse, and a tiny towel, but I make do.

Oh, don't mind me, just reading my book about how to be a doctor for my class in two hours.

There is a bar across the path from the pool. Cool.
I think there is a small cafe and a small grocery store nearby, too, but I forgot where they are.

Here are the pictures of the hospital where my Human Health and Disease class is.
This is the tunnel that goes under the road because there isn't a crosswalk that leads directly to the hospital (it's close, but I guess building a tunnel makes it closer).

It looks like many people bike to the hospital. There are either a lot of visitors and employees, or people in Denmark refuse to stop biking even when they need to be admitted to the hospital.

There are about 20 different entrances and that many buildings on this hospital campus. I think it kind of looks like a mental institution from the outside. 

The entrance we use to get to our classroom is 7.

And it's very orange...to be modern, maybe?

Another cute Glostrup neighborhood.

And then, since Bjarne said it's basically a straight shot to the hospital from our house, I decided to try my luck on the bike path on the highway and hopefully I'd recognize where to turn when I needed to.

I did.

I'm a pro biker, now.

I know my way around Denmark, now.

And it was a much quicker ride than the ride from the hospital to the train station, the train ride to Albertslund from Glostrup, and the bike ride from the train station home.

I also got honked at, like in a "Lookin' good!" way, I believe. I was wearing a Danish top-knot and shorts and a plaid button down and sunglasses, so they probably couldn't tell I was American and trying to find my way home but instead thought I was a sassy confident Dane with dark hair. HAHA.

Then, I heated up some meatballs and potatoes for dinner because Linda and Bjarne are out tonight. I tried to take Molly for a walk, but she was like, you aren't the right person to be doing this, and so she wouldn't walk anywhere.

And now I want to nap because this day gets really long waking up at 6 and getting done at 6.

I also need to do my first load of laundry and I should sweep my floor and clean the bathroom. Ugh.

So glad we don't have normal classes on Wednesdays.

For each class, there are one or two field trips that take place on Wednesdays throughout the semester.

There's another volleyball practice tomorrow, but I'm going to miss it again because there's a mandatory short study tour meeting at 5:30. Maybe I can leave early, and also, I don't know the way to the sports center but it looks like a straight shot so I can do that on my bike, right?

We're going to Kolding and Ribe in Western Denmark for our short study tour next week, and I know nothing else about it. We go with our core courses, so Human Health and Disease for me. We're looking at the Danish healthcare system, I believe.

Hopefully I'll be able to say more about it soon...