Finally!

            So I finally am in Copenhagen! After one long, boring flight from Newark, NJ to Copenhagen, I am finally here. Let me just say that Scandinavian Airlines is one of the nicest planes I have ever been on. There were 8 seats to each row and they served us dinner and breakfast! They also had a pretty good selection of movies on the plane.

            So I finally get to the airport and then we go to the Hilton Hotel where they had a little orientation to tell us what we should expect the next couple of days. Then we all waited in a room waiting for our Host Families to come pick us up.  Soon, my name was called and I finally got to meet my host mother! Her name is Anne Marie. She brought her little dog named Trille, which means rolling in English. We then took my heavy ass bags and walked to the metro. Man it was hard to pack up 4 months worth of stuff into just two suitcases. Soon we were going to get off and go on the train where my Host Father and host sisters would meet us in the car. Anne Marie and I were so busy talking that we ended up missing where she wanted to get off to transfer to the train, but we ended up getting off at another stop to get on the train.

After we got off the train, I was greeted by my host father Michael and Eva and Jane. They are so cute! They don’t speak English, but are learning it in school.

Later that day, my family had a Street Party, where all the neighbors on the street sat outside in the middle of the road with a bunch of tables and ate dinner together.  You definitely could not do that in the US as there would be so many cars trying to drive through, depending where you lived. You would have to ask permission from the township to close your road for a party. The kids had a little garage sale, where they were selling toys they no longer wanted. It was really cute. I was sooo tired trying to adjust to being 6 hours ahead of schedule. Anne Marie suggested I go take a nap, so I slept for an hour, which was nice.  I went to bed early and my host parents helped me to figure out where I was going the next day. Anne Marie was nice enough to show me where I should go.

Let me just say, there was no way that I would not have been able to figure out where to go for the Opening Ceremony on Monday as there was a giant mass of DIS students standing in the middle of the station after I got off the train. Thankfully, my train ride is really short- maybe 15 minutes.  I am really happy I am not too far outside the city. I know some people have almost an hour commute. However, my friend Jen and I got lost trying to get to an optional session called “I’ll tell you where to put that fork” about Danish social norms. The session was very interesting, the getting there part- no so much.

I definitely have more stories to tell, but I think I will save it for a later time.  Let me just say that I love Copenhagen! I am starting to figure out my way around better, which is good.

Vi ses! (See you!)

~Jenna