FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2nd

Hi. Woke up a little before 7. Ate breakfast with my host family of croissant and tea. Karen explained some of the news stories. Denmark lost the semi final handball game last night to Poland so they play in the bronze medal game against France who lost to Germany. Interesting about the finding that humans are causing climate change and that the Bush adminstration is keeping global warming quiet. Finally understand that how Anders Fogh Rasmussen is called liberal but is actually what in the US would be conservative. Did homework.
Went into DIS. Had 20th century Euro history. We talked about industrialization (urbanization, use of fossil fuels, transportation and use of machines, production to make a profit, and population growth). Had lunch of a peanut butter sandwich on yummy bread from Karen's bakery and an orange. Ate with Elizabeth and another girl who transfered from Smith to Wellesley.
Went to Enviro history. Talked about ecosystems and how humans don't really follow the rules of ecology. Then we got into Lucy (first human-like person) and prehistoric neanderthals and the Ice Age.
Went to Danish. Learned about the different genders for nouns. Also learned to say Jeg kan godt lidt (I like...). Did some dialogues in partners about ordering things in restaurants. It was Nina's (the professor's) sons 11th birthday and her two other children were sick so she let us go a little bit early.
No run today. It was warm 6 C and rainy.
Amendment to the radar on TV. They do have it it's just not Doppler. The weather man stands on a ship in the ocean and there is a split screen with a map and symbols.
I showed an album my Mom made for me a while ago to Ida and Jens. They commented how dark many of my family members are and seemed interested to see.
We had bread, soup from a bottle not a can but not processed really, bread from Karen's bakery, lots of different yummy cheeses, and pear. Ida and Jens had wine.
We talked for a long time. Finances came up. They seem to be very frank about expenses here but not in a miserly way. Upper edc. is free (for a ton of money in taxes) here. We talked about boats some also. Ida's uncle works at a Viking ship reenactment program. Sounds cool. Jens had been to see his mother who is doing well. Jakob (Jens' son from a previous marraige) has his thesis defense next Thursday. I hope it goes well.
I watched The Good Girl (with Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhal) in english on TV. It was interesting to read the danish subtitles beneath.