Week One in Review

It absolutely amazes me that I've already been here a little over a week. I am finally adjusted to the time change although I am still adjusting to the cold weather!

Classes started last Thursday and each of my classes has amazing experiences and information to offer. Tonight, for example, I went to a cafe with my Danish language and culture class for (complimentary) dinner and drink. On Thursday, my Creative Industries class is canceled in the afternoon and we will instead go to a night club/concert venue called Vega (vega.dk - check out all the different types of music that go there!) to get a private tour of the club(s) and (if we want to, which, who wouldn't!)we get to stay at Vega and see the US band, OK Go! This is pretty much the coolest study abroad program ever.

Last Saturday, I went to Roskilde Cathedral & Roskilde Viking ship Museum learn about the lineage of the Kings and Queens of Denmark (38 are buried at the Cathedral) and the Viking ship museum had 5 original Viking ships that had been found out in the fjord. The trip was really interesting and I even got to walk out on a frozen fjord! We could hear it cracking under our feet- it was pretty intense- but luckily, I didn't fall in! :)

On Sunday, I went to the beautiful Frederiksborg Castle- it houses a museum of the History of Denmark through paintings (like the Andy Warhol original of Queen Margrethe II in his "Reigning Queens" series) and antique furnishings. There are gardens outside of the castle that one can usually explore- but it was so cold on Sunday that I couldn't even bare it- I guess that means I will just have to go back when it is warmer!

This weekend I will be going to the middle age Esrum Abbey (not sure what this will entail... more details after I've gone!) and to Kronborg Castle in Elsinore- which is where Shakespeare's Hamlet took place!

I have been having technical difficulties with my camera, so I don't have much documentation of what I've done thus far but my camera seems to be working just fine now so hopefully I'll have more pictures next update!

For now, here is a stolen picture of me standing on the frozen fjord... you can't really tell that it is supposed to be water under all that snow but I swear it is!