Saturday, February 9, 2013

First week of classes



     I had my 7th first day of a new school this Monday and it was great. The classes here are one day a week for four hours. It seems like a really long time, and it is, but we have lecture for two hours and then we work in groups for another two while periodically getting breaks. I have class Monday through Thursday so hopefully with my long weekends I can travel. All of my teachers are really cool. You're supposed to call your teachers by their first names because they're really laid back, so that will take some getting used to. They teach in pairs here so I have double the teachers in all my classes. They take turns lecturing and really emphasize team and group work here. I'm in a class called TEMO, its technology economics management and organization, and we have lecture in the morning for 3 hours then work in groups for another 4 in the afternoon. Companies give us case studies that we work on in groups of 6 and make a presentation for it. If the company likes the solution then sometimes they'll even have the students go back to head quarters and present the solution to the workers. I think it will be a very interesting course.
     We had our first "container dinner" with all the roomies which was really fun. Laura made Spanish omelets and Wenzhao made homemade pizzas with the rest of our help. I had authentic Korean food for the first time as well! The Koreans in my group made dinner for us Thursday night and it was wonderful. Spicy, but really great. They're trying to teach me some Korean words but once I get the pronunciation, I forget it 10 minutes later. I need to work on my language skills.
   There is a group on campus called ESN, and its international I'm pretty sure. Anyways, they coordinate group trips and events so I am trying to sign up for a few of those as well. The first one is a 3 day trip around all of Denmark, and the next one is a trip to Lapland. They also have a cruise later on in the semester with all the students from universities in Denmark.
Also- I'm going to take some pictures of where my classes are held so that everyone can sort of see what it's like!
   

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