FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23rd

I went for a run down Rolighedsvej/Rosnarns Alle and up Allegade. The sidewalks were a bit snowy and slippery but not too bad.
Going into DIS at the bus stop there were two women talking in English. One was Danish and one was from West Virginia. I started talking to them just because I'm nosy and it was so nice to hear english. The woman from the states is married to an Nigerian man and she was saying that he (and other Africans) are very afraid of the ocean. I don't quite remember why that came up. We were also talking about the huge amount of snow.
I went into DIS to do Danish HW on the computer. 20th century European History was interesting. We learned more about WWI (use of submarines, old fashioned ground fighting, huge loss of life, major battles that serve as national icons, no famous commanders etc. etc.)
In Environmental History we learned about the fall of the Roman Empire in terms of resource scarcity and deforestation due to the large population.
In Danish we sang the birthday song. It is quite long and very fun. A line Hurra hurra hurra keeps repeating as does a line about chocolate and cake. After that we talked about vocab for family members and occupations. We also played a fun review game where we worked as a group to complete a worksheet asking us to complete different translations of english sentences. My group won.
After Danish Ashley, Emily, Elizabeth and I went to get food at a market. We all went back to Elizabeth's host family's house. Only one of her host sisters was around. We had a salad with lettuce, tomato, chicken, bacon, pineapple, pine nuts, and feta cheese. With the salad we had bread. For dessert we had brownies with icecream and strawberry sauce. The icecream here is much lighter or something. It has a much different texture. Almost more like thick yogurt or something. I was being a goof and getting all worried about the trains running in the snow but it was perfectly fine.
The five of us including Kira (Elizabeth's host sister) played cards. It was really fun.
Things I miss:
friends, family, Mocha, familiar faces.
the "v"and "d" sound
being able to eavesdrop on people's conversations
a shower that doesn't make the bathroom floor all wet
clothes dryer
being able to turn on the TV and understand any of the shows
reading the newspaper and not having to guess from the pics and guessing from some words what the story is about (although I can read it online)