TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20th

Went for a run around the lakes. There was a duck hanging out sitting on a bike that had fallen into the lakes. There is quite a lot of garbage and ditched bikes (I've seen a ton of bikes in the water). The water is kind of gross and very shallow.
I was struck again about how many people are out running. Also about how many dogs there are.
I went into DIS to print out a paper about Sweden impressions for my education class.
I had 20th Century history. We talked about WWI and the cause of the war. A lot of it sounded really familiar. I must have learned it at some point at CMS or CCHS but I didn't remember learning about it. It's intersting how the alliances and silly war plans made the whole situation escalate so quickly. I really like the prof. He has a great sense of humor and can tell stories well.
Environmental History was good. We talked about fertility and mortality and population fluctuations. We had already done this in 20th century history but its all good.
Hung out with people and read some of A Thousand Acres (I borrowed it from Elizabeth).
There was a Danish Class representative (which I am) meeting at 5PM to discuss how the classes are going. It was fine. People are generally pretty happy other than that the pace is a bit fast and there has been a little too much culture part of the class as compared to language learning.
I had choir practice. We worked more on the same song. A few people were missing and we are all a little sick so we didn't want to do too much. One of the alto women mentioned getting put next to McCurdy and struggling with her part because McCurdy was such a strong singer! We had fun sharing short study tour stories.
Cecil (Ida's friend) was here last night. She gave be suggestions of places to go in Paris when Elizabeth and I are there. Ida showed Cecil and I pics she had children take about the food they eat. Many of them eat alone or in front of the TV and many eat a ton of sweets and soda. I thought that was an American thing but its not. There was lots of chocolate in the pictures. One of the boys took a pic. of his dog eating. Ida got told some stories from the children that the parents didn't know. One girl would eat a tiny bit of stuff she didn't like and go to the bathroom and spit it out so she didn't have to eat it. Another child took pics of all the sweets he ate and his mother was appalled. In many cases the parents were the ones pushing the sweets and unhealthy stuff in an attempt to be nice and good parents and make their children like them.