papers, movies, and a party

hey everyone,

well, i don't have anymore exciting travels to try to condense into a blog entry but I have been having fun back in Copenhagen.

After getting back I went with my tine and oliver (host mom and host brother) to the planetarium to see the permanent exhibit about planets and then see an imax movie about ancient deep sea creatures. Unfortunately the imax stuff wasn't working so after sitting in the theather for like 45 minutes waiting, the imax people eventually gave up and we went home. but we did get free tickets, so we ended up goign back and watching it next week, and bo (my host father) came along also.

Friday, the 7th of nov, was j-day and was a lot of fun. The danish word for christmas is Jul but it is not the day that danes celebrate jesus's birthday but the day they celebrate the introduction of christmas beer. To help the celebration, tuborg (a danish beer company) has employees dress up in christmas stuff (elf hats, santa beards, etc) and drive around in big trucks from bar to bar giving away free beer. usually the trucks only drive about a block or so between bars, so a big crowd follows the trucks, singing jingle bells in danish and english and having a jolly time. So some friends from my business program and I followed the trucks around for a while and managed to get some free stuff like hats, fake beards, a blue santa coat, and so on. that was a lot of fun and after that we just hung out in the city for a while. all in all a good friday

On saturday i went to the exploratarium with tine and oliver. it was like a science center but bigger and with better things to play aroud with. i had a great time even through most of the stuff was aimed at a younger audience than me. but it wasn't all kids stuff, they had other stuff, but the kids stuff was the best, no lie. That was a lot of fun.

On sunday i went with lynsey, xiao, and anju (all carleton kids) to another FCK soccer game. FCK won 4-0, so that was really cool but it is starting to get a little cold for soccer games, it was really windy. speaking of weather the last week was rainy and dark for the majority of the time, not a lot of fun and the days are getting really short here. i got up at 10 am the other day and it was still dark, it started getting dark around 4 in the afternoon. the worst part is the days will start getting longer the day after i get back to the states.

The last week was pretty busy starting to write some big papers for classes. I had 3 papers due today and one due tomorrow. i think i have written almost 30 pages in the last week, good times. Glad to get a lot of that out of the way.

This past weekend i didn't do a lot, went into the city and chilled with people for a few hours on friday night. Saturday was the annual meeting for my host parents lotto club. It was at our house, so about 11 adults and 5 kids came over. We ate so much good food, it was amazing. Smoked salmon and shrimp for starters. A really good cut of venison that was baked and wrapped in bacon for the main course and some apple pie for dessert. It was great and i was really full. We also blind taste tested some wine and tried to guess where it was from and what year it was made. I played some wii with the kids and also played a board game about wine that was in danish that i didn't understand at all but i had a partner so it was ok.

I'm excited, i'm going to another Denmark national soccer game on weds. They are playing wales in a friendly international match, should be a good time.