TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6th

Woke up. Had breakfast. Just Jens was up. Looked at the Danish paper. Big news is about squatters in a house in Christiania (an area where lots of drugs are done and laws are very lax). Yesterday was Crown Princess Mary's birthday so the buses had danish flags on them.
Went for a run in Fredericksberg Have. Found a hill and did 5 fast repeats including the hill. Pretty incredible to be running up a hill towards a gorgeous castle and have an amazing view of Copenhagen and a sunrise in front of me. There are no stop signs here but there are separate traffic lights for pedestrian. Both lights for the cars and the people flash red and orange before going green.
Talked to Karen for a while about the people in Christiania and a protest she was at a while ago against cutting of funding and stopping the welfare state.
Went into DIS. In Euro. History We learned about the working class and social conditions in europe leading to the development of socialism and communism. I never really understood them or the working class motivation behind the movements before but it makes sense now.
Had lunch with Elizabeth. The prof uses an overhead to show maps and pics. I haven't seen those in a while. Most use power point now.
Talked briefly with my professor for both history classes as I was going into Enviro. History. He knew my name which was nice. He was cheating by looking at a roster that has pics and I am in both classes but oh well. I've made a point of participating in both classes with him.
Learned about early humans spread around the world and the overhunting of animals and climate change leading to mass extinctions of the large land animals. He showed us pics from the Lascaux caves and the Dordogne caves that I remembered from an Art History class I took at Smith.
In Danish we reviewed the stuff we've learned so far. All classes need to have class reps as a liason between the profs and students. I offered to do that for Danish. There was lots of speaking in Danish today but she is willing to help you and work until you get it. She really knows how to explain the face positioning to make sounds well. We've learned quite a lot for only a few weeks. There is no conjugation of verbs which is AMAZING! I still have no sense of pronunciation because different letters are given emphasis or ignored that in the romance languages. At the end we talked some about the culture.
Hung out with Ashley and Emily (two girls from Hobart and William Smith). Emily is a big birder and worked on an island in Maine with puffins last summer.
Went back home. Watched Beverly Hills with Karen my host sister. She knew it was an old show but its still fun to watch. After that Friends was on. We talked about foods and restaurants and what we like to eat.
We had pasta and salmon sauteed in a pan with leeks, carrots, and red pepper for dinner. Yummy. Jens' son Jakob defends his thesis Thurs. so we talked about what he should get for a present. Karen was planning stuff for her ski trip as well. She has tons of friends.