Yay for Wednesdays!
Wednesdays are usually free days, or there will be a field trip for a class.
Today, there was a meeting for info on our short study tour.
I got to sleep in a little (11:00am) and then I met Taylor at a DIS building. This is my landmark, so I walk in the right direction from the train station at Vesterport.
Guess what we did?
We planned a trip to Spain!
So, from November 14 - 17, we will be in Barcelona, Spain. We're staying at a hostel that is pretty cheap and ranked really high on websites for everything. Most flights in Europe aren't that expensive, or you can find a cheap one. So, the flight was about $226 per person round-trip and the hostel is about $35 per person per night.
Total = $331
Worth it?
Look at this place.
It's newly renovated so there's an outdoor terrace and a hot tub...um, yes please.
Bjarne said that food is pretty cheap in Spain, so I plan on getting yummy breakfast and coffee and then doing some Tapas at night.
Today I also bought an annual card to Tivoli, so I get free entrance every day that it's open. There are concerts on Friday nights and the card gets me discounts and deals to restaurants and things to do inside, so maybe when I have some time between classes I can just go read in the gardens or pay to go on a ride or whatever. And free entrance to concerts on Friday nights sounds great. They're only open until September 22, but I think I can use it enough to make it worth my while. The card was 280 kroner so about $50. It's also pretty beautiful at night.
The annual card also gets me free entrance to their Halloween and Christmas events.
YAY!
At our meeting about our short study tour, we learned a little bit about what we'll be doing when we're there, but the itinerary won't be sent out til Friday or so.
Basically we wake up around 7, eat breakfast, and then go to lectures and activities. Some of the activities are a ropes course and touring a castle.
We're going to Kolding and Ribe, if I didn't already say that.
That's Monday-Wednesday next week, but Thursday and Friday we're back in Copenhagen and have class one day and an immersion activity the other and a lecture or two.
We got to choose which immersion activity we got to do. The choices were a medical training institution where we could practice like med students, a drug abuse treatment facility, an elderly care institution, a sex-education volunteer-run place for 7-10 year olds, a psychiatric treatment facility for refugees, and a global health workshop.
Guess which one I picked?
The elderly care institution.
I really have no idea why, except that I thought we'd get some practice training through my Human Health and Disease course field trips, I've learned a lot about drugs and treatment through my neuroscience classes, I get a lot of sex-ed exposure at Family Tree Clinic when I'm volunteering/training, I don't really find the global health workshop interesting, and I'd prefer seeing a psychiatric place that works with all sorts of people.
And I had a strange attraction to the elderly care place. I guess because I'm not learning about it in any other way? Because I want to tour the nursing home?
I couldn't tell you.
At our meeting about our short study tour, we learned a little bit about what we'll be doing when we're there, but the itinerary won't be sent out til Friday or so.
Basically we wake up around 7, eat breakfast, and then go to lectures and activities. Some of the activities are a ropes course and touring a castle.
We're going to Kolding and Ribe, if I didn't already say that.
That's Monday-Wednesday next week, but Thursday and Friday we're back in Copenhagen and have class one day and an immersion activity the other and a lecture or two.
We got to choose which immersion activity we got to do. The choices were a medical training institution where we could practice like med students, a drug abuse treatment facility, an elderly care institution, a sex-education volunteer-run place for 7-10 year olds, a psychiatric treatment facility for refugees, and a global health workshop.
Guess which one I picked?
The elderly care institution.
I really have no idea why, except that I thought we'd get some practice training through my Human Health and Disease course field trips, I've learned a lot about drugs and treatment through my neuroscience classes, I get a lot of sex-ed exposure at Family Tree Clinic when I'm volunteering/training, I don't really find the global health workshop interesting, and I'd prefer seeing a psychiatric place that works with all sorts of people.
And I had a strange attraction to the elderly care place. I guess because I'm not learning about it in any other way? Because I want to tour the nursing home?
I couldn't tell you.
I also did laundry.
But there is no dryer so we hang our clothes out like so.
Even in the winter.
But now that there is the glass-encased patio, we can put our clothes out there when it's cold.
Tonight, Chloe was volunteering at the Studenterhuset bar, so it was just Linda, Bjarne and me for dinner. Since Chloe wasn't there, we had a beef roast.
YUM!
Bjarne also gave me a glass of red wine and we had the yummy peanut salad with apples in it, some couscous-like corn stuff, and a lot of talking. It was a long dinner, so somewhere in the middle, Linda lit some candles and said, "I can't see what I'm eating" haha so I asked, "Is this hygge?" and they both said "Yea, this is it."
I don't think that's all there is to hygge. But really, I'm not totally sure what it is.
Linda also said that since it's summer now, we're eating less meat and eating lighter things, but that in the winter, everyone eats a lot more and lights a lot more candles and gets all bundled up inside the house and doesn't do a lot.
I'm super excited for that.
On Friday, there's an even in Taastrup for our host family network, which is like, 20 kids living in host families in the sort of nearby area. So I'll go and meet them and maybe their families and we'll eat. Maybe some of them will be my friends so we can do stuff around town together!! (I'm not as needy as I sound...)
I'm also going kayaking on Saturday in Amager (pronounced "Ah-mah") Strand.
And on Sunday, I think Bjarne is going to take me to Bakken, the oldest amusement park in the world.
And Simon is coming home from school on Friday, so then he will hopefully hangout with me/take me cool places that I wouldn't find on my own. Ha, but I have no idea if he wants to or not, or if Chloe and I are just weird strangers in his house. But this family has had about 20 students like us, so maybe he likes it or is used to it?
We'll see.
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