Some Fun and a Haircut

Monday

We had our last Medical Ethics class today, because our instructors mom has cancer and so she has to drive her to treatment the day of the would-be last class, so instead we're having our final this Thursday.

I presented the advantages and disadvantages of immigration in Danish class, and then I went back to Tivoli to smell the pine.

This is the Glashallen, where the Crazy Christmas Cabaret was.

Then I walked to City Hall Square to take a picture of the huge Christmas tree in the center, decorated with hearts, of course.

And then I stopped in a shop selling Christmas decorations and I looked around for a while but it was pretty busy in there.

Tuesday

We had our last Developmental Disorders class today, unless we all come to the class on Friday which is optional to discuss questions about our final papers. I'll probably go because otherwise I'll just stay at home all day because that's how I roll when it's cold.

We also had our last Human Health and Disease class, and it was in the CEKU again. This time we were doing ultrasound imaging on each other, which was much less painful than IVs. This is me finding a bladder. We also found the aorta, heart, liver, right kidney, and uterus. We didn't find any babies.

After that, we went to Cafe Klimt (after the artist, and there were copies of his work on the walls) and DIS paid for our dinners and a glass of wine so I got a bacon cheeseburger and some white wine. I also had a burger at my house last night, but somehow I still enjoyed it.

I really wanted to go out, but no one else really wanted to because they had stuff to do in the morning, and I had to wake up at 6:30am but whatever I'm not too sad to stop hanging out with those pre-med students.

Wednesday

Waking up at 6:30 in the morning is super tough when it's so dark out, but I made it. I was gone by 7:30 and apparently that impressed/surprised Linda because she told Chloe I was already up and gone, wow! 

No one was very excited to see the parliament today, haha.

We took a pitstop in front of the royal archives and the black diamond to look at the statue of Kierkegaard there, and we also saw the supreme court and how the prime minister's door is up the stairs from the normal entrance, haha.

The inside of the parliament had this trim painted on by an artist who didn't like politicians, so there are a bunch of satirical sayings painted on. In front of the old telephone room were painted 2 ears because that's where a lot of gossip started, from the people listening in on phone conversations, ahaha.

They have four constitutions, because as it turns out they got some stuff wrong the first time, shocker. Women don't get the right to vote until the 3rd one and they can't inherit the crown until the 4th one even though the 1st one was the end of the absolute monarchy.

This is an elevator that is always moving, and it looks super unsafe but they have very few accidents with it... You just step in and step out and you can miss your step and stuff or hold your hand out as you go up and get it bruised, but whoever is in charge let them keep it running for now. There are a few safety things, like if your feet are sticking out as you reach a floor above the floor will lift, but it still seems dangerous.

And this is like where Congress meets but much smaller. The 8 political parties each get a slice of the cake so it's the more liberals on the left and more conservatives on the right, even though their version of conservative is like what Obama is.

Then our Danish instructor took us to a cafe and bought us glogg or whatever we wanted, and then most people left but like 3 of us stayed so he bought us a coffee. We always end up talking about culture and history with him, and it's usually pretty interesting. Like today we talked about how America is still really religious and that's why it's less progressive than most of Europe.

Then I went to the hair school on Vesterbrogade and got most of my hair cut off!

Before: (aka: this morning)

After:

Then I went back to DIS for no reason, but I passed a book store and you kind of pronounce the word for 'books' like booger and then I was thinking about the word for 'why' which is 'hvorfor' which is a combination of the words 'hvor' which means 'where' and 'for' which means 'for' so it's like 'wherefore' in Shakespeare which means 'why' so basically everything in life makes sense now.

Then I had to take a nap because 6:30 is too early to wake up, and then I almost missed dinner, but at dinner, Linda had to draw attention to my hair for Bjarne and Chloe to notice it, haha. Linda said it makes me look older. I hope not too old. It's also weird because the stylist blow-dried it so it looks straight which it probably never will again.

Now I will study for my Medical Ethics final, so hopefully I do well!