Another week gone by

I can't believe we're already one week in to March. In two weeks and one day, I will be in London for the CMM study tour/first week of travel break.

Travel break for me, looks like this:

March 21-27: Program study tour in London and Oxford
March 27: extra night in London
March 28-April 2: train to Paris on the 28th, fly out to CPH the night of the 2nd
April 3: One day in CPH to recuperate
April 4-April 11: Krakow

I'll be meeting and hanging out with Heather in Paris -- she's even staying with me for the first two nights at the hostel. I posted a message on the DIS forum at the end of last week, asking if anyone wanted to go to Krakow in the third week, and someone actually responded: a full year student named MaryElise. We booked everything this afternoon. The flights were pretty cheap, but the price on the hostels was AMAZING. No more than $15 a night; for seven nights it was still under one hundred dollars for two people. I have a feeling I will love the cost of things in Poland. Then, Heather will be visiting me from April 23-27, so that'll be fun too!

What else has been going on this week? Last Saturday, I went out in the morning to a small photography exhibition called "Mirror" by Camilla Holmgren, because I need to write a 4-page exhibition review due this past Monday of an exhibition of a female artist. I also went to H&M and bought a cute shirt off the sale rack, and a necklace. Caitlin, Anna, and I went out to a bar called Palermo, where we paid for overpriced drinks. (Basically all cocktails were 75kr, almost $13.) But the place was cool, and we found out that cocktails are only 50kr on Fridays before 11, so we might go back there next week. We all decided we would rather stay in tonight. And Kathryn lives so far away that she has to crash somewhere if she wants to meet up with us in the city -- last weekend we acquainted ourselves with the night bus system. We had to take one, and then get on another heading in the opposite direction to get to my home, and we would have ended up walking like 15 minutes in high-heeled boots if the second bus driver hadn't been extremely helpful.

My first class of the day was cancelled on Monday, but I (and about 25 other people) didn't know because our teacher had posted a message on the forum but not e-mailed it to us. I got up at 7am when I could have slept till like 10 instead. Ack. On Monday night, Anna and I went to a restaurant called Peder's Oxe for their Monday night burger special -- great, decently sized burger for 35kr (compare that to the cost of a drink mentioned earlier and it would only make me angry). We ended up having to wait for awhile because they have a really inefficient serving system, but it was worth it.

Tuesday was my Danish written exam (cultural things, easy) and my Danish Politics exam (which, although I was kind of... improvising on a couple of the short essays, I still got an A on the test when we got it back today). Wednesday was our field study to the Venstre (Liberal) Party Headquarters. We just had a short talk and Q&A session with one of the higher ups, it was okay. Most interesing parts of that field study, though? The candies with wrappers emblazoned with "Venstre" and the backwards clock. The numbers and hands went around counterclockwise. It was freaky.

Today I had my Danish oral midterm, which went well. But yeah, I'm staying in tonight and likely watching "X Factor" with the host family, and then I don't know what I'm doing for the weekend yet! I think we're going to make the trip up to the Little Mermaid on Sunday at some point, and maybe we'll go out for dinner or a couple of drinks tomorrow...? We'll see!

I haven't taken many pictures lately, but one of these days (hopefully when it's sunny -- a rarity) I'm going to stop off at the lakes and take some pictures -- especially of all the swans! I don't think I've ever seen so many in my life.