doing well despite midterms!

hovedbibliotek-- hard to capture!

i left my room for a minute and came back to find johannes playing with my computer AND cell phone at the same time!



i am happy to report that although today was grey, cold and rainy and i had two midterm exams and two papers to hand in, it was a good day!

i’m usually not so great at relaxing but this weekend i thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to do so. my host family was out of town visiting relatives so i had the house to myself all weekend. besides the typically regretful meals i made for myself, it was actually quite nice. i slept in, rode a bike (how danish!!) around my neighborhood, bought a loaf of bread at the local bakery, had a friend over, wrote a paper at my leisure, caught up with loved ones on skype, lit candles, drank lots of coffee and tea, ate the most delicious cappuccino chocolate bar ever, and read a book for fun in an arne jacobsen egg chair…life is sweet!

in the past week i have made two stops at the hovedbibliotek, the public library about eight minutes away from DIS. i had coffee with two friends there last friday— their café is cute and not too expensive— and today i did some reading on their quiet study floor. the building itself is amazing (i guess i shouldn’t be surprised by that): you walk into a very open, natural-lit foyer through a gigantic revolving door. there are four floors that you can gaze at from the entryway; each has a different color scheme of neon lights. in their lobby opposite the café is a temporary art exhibit and a room covered by astroturf and fake plants. what an odd and wonderful place! i think i’ll be back there often to mix up my study breaks.

oh—in other news, i think i want to go into urban planning now. i realized that all this studying of urban morphology (history of copenhagen class) plus design plus immigration issues could all be combined in one field: urban planning. i was talking to a classmate of mine, a fellow anthropology major, who explained that was what she wanted to do. i looked some information up online and it seems to click perfectly! does anyone have any suggestions on this front? know anyone in the business that i could talk to? the only downside i can foresee is graduate school is pretty much a requirement.

this weekend i am heading to denmark’s oldest city, ribe, for an “academic adventure trip.” i don’t really know the details yet but a weekend spent with my wise history of copenhagen professor should be great! unfortunately i’ve got some midterms to conquer first…