Exchange life

From left to right, top to bottom: Savoy Hotel- Copenhagen, Frk. Barners Kaelder restaurant, Apropos Restaurant, DTU main hall

The past few days have been long and productive days. Besides trying to get over being in Mountain time and waking up at 3 am starving, everything has gone smoothly.

The first night here we went to a traditional Danish restaurant call Frk. Barners Kaelder. It was a very good introduction into what eating in Denmark would be like: lots of meat and potatoes. I am perfectly okay with that. The Savoy Hotel is very quaint and its nice to have some "luxury" from the box I'll be living in the next 5 months. Danish style is very modern, simplistic, sheer and clean.

I moved in today and will be posting pictures later when I get moved in with all my new roommates so that I can hopefully post a picture of all of us. So far I have a roommate from Chicago, two from China, a Spanish girl, and one from Japan. They all seem very nice. I'm pretty sure I also have German roommate, which leaves two more a mystery. Tonight, the Chinese had a bunch of friends (from other "containers") making homemade pot stickers in our kitchen which was neat. I'm staying the night in Copenhagen again to get to know the city.

After journeying back into the city we picked a restaurant close to the meat packing district. The restaurant we picked was the Apropos Cafe and it was a great random choice. I had my first Danish beer and was asked for an ID. Too bad I still don't even look like I'm 18... It was strange to use an American drivers license where it is relentlessly made a point to not be used for alcohol until after 21 to ordering a beer in a restaurant. All the same, my dad and I got to enjoy a quite cafe, some good food and a local beer (Carlsberg).

I finish moving in tomorrow and begin my introduction week so I'm looking forward to meeting a bunch of new people!

Copenhagen, Denmark

Into the night

We made it in to Copenhagen several hours ago. I got to fly over in a double decker airplane which was a new experience.. it was overwhelmingly large! My dad and I were jet laggin' pretty hard so we had to sleep for about four hours and pull ourselves out of our beds to figure out a place to eat for dinner. Its cloudy and rainy, something very common for the month of January, but there is supposed to be some sunshine on Wednesday which would be nice! I start my introduction week on Tuesday and classes start the following week. Time to venture out into the streets of Copenhagen, wish us luck!

The first day/night/day

I am currently sitting at the airport getting ready to take off into a new lifestyle for the next 5-6 months. It should be a real eye-opening experience and I cannot WAIT to start! My flight leaves from Denver and flies straight to Frankfurt, Germany, where my dad will be meeting up with me. We will then fly from Frankfurt to Copenhagen, stay there a night, and then I'm off into what my school, The Danish Technical University, calls "introduction week". Hopefully there I will meet a ton of other students living in the international "campus village" with me and I will be shown around campus and Copenhagen. In the campus village I will have my own bedroom, but I will be sharing a bathroom and kitchen with 8-9 other students... that should be interesting. I may have to cut down my shower time..
Well! I'm off! I'll post pictures and a note as soon as I can!