Surviving my first days!

Well I feel like my first 4 days so far have been a whirlwind of activity and walking, my legs hurt! Its been hard to find time to breathe with everything that we've been doing, but I know it will make my stay here easier. My flight getting her was long, but I ended up meeting 6 other DIS people at the Amsterdam airport so I made some friends!

I am staying with my host family and they are wonderful, my host mom is a great cook. Kristen, you will be happy about this, they make me eat vegetables! I have had some sort of salad thing with dinner every night! My host sister is adorable, we joke a lot together, ahh the international language of laughter :] My host family is very musical, in fact they are all singing around the piano as I write!

I live about an hours commute by public transit away from DIS, sometimes an hour and a half if I am coming home later in the evening. Figuring out public transit is not hard, but when you get dropped into it, its pretty intimidating. I take a bus and then a train to get to school and have about twenty minutes of walking mixed in there, so I am getting my exercise! I have already experienced my first public transit malfunction also lol, yesterday the trains were having electrical problems so I was late for orientation.

Navigating your way through a big city is insane! I feel like such a tourist with my nose in my map 24/7, but I have met a lot friendly Danes who try and help me while I completely mispronounce the names of their streets. I have been lost more times than I can count with friends, we keep finding these great stores that we can never find again because we were lost when we found them. I think I like being lost in Copenhagen, it is fun to see this new place and just wonder down a street because you feel like it. We had a scavenger hunt on the first day of orientation so we could learn about local stores and fun places to go. Yesterday we had fun version of scavenger hunt and history lesson. We had to find our way to these marked locations around Copenhagen, where DIS faculty were waiting for us to tell us some history of that place. I was 30 feet away from a Danish Princess's front door!

I had my first day of class today, so basically it was a day of me being lost and in the wrong classroom or mispronouncing danish words and I loved it! I did end up dropping a class, because it was not what I was thinking it would be and I knew I would struggle too much to justify spending the time on it. I still have 4 classes that look very exciting, so this semester looks magnificent at the moment!

Well I think I am going to do some reading now for my environmental history class, so I shall write another day!