First Day!

I can't even contain myself about how awesome I think Copenhagen is. It was totally worth the 9 hour sleepless flight filled with crying babies and arctic air conditioning. I finally made it here and I could not have expected anything better.  It's just so beautiful! All of the buildings are painted different colors and the architecture is so interesting. When I got to the airport I found other people in my program and we breezed through customs (they literally just looked at me and stamped my passport) and found our luggage. Luckily all of my luggage arrived with me. We took a bus sponsored by the program to our kollegium, but we got a little tour of the city because we had to drop of some people at their kollegiums first. The way the dorms work here is that buildings of student housing exist, but they are not designated to one specific university like dorms are in the US. So in my building there are 250 other people, but only 60 are with my program and the other people staying there go to other schools in the area, so I am really excited to meet other Danes and learn about life as a student over here!

Mine is in an awesome location and is basically perfect! I am right at a train and a bus stop that go straight into the city's center. I am also within a 5 minute walk of 3 grocery stores AND an H&M connected to a small shopping mall (sorry mom and dad). My room has a baby kitchen with 2 stove plates, a sink, and a fridge. Whoever lived here before me is an absolute saint and left all kinds of essentials like toilet paper, spices, pots, pans, silverware, plates, and even hangers and an ethernet cord! I am also lucky enough to have a giant window which basically takes up my wall and a mini-porch that I can take about one step onto.  Here are some pictures:

sorry for the room being so messy I'm still in the process of trying to organize it!

After unpacking and getting settled in and having some dinner, I hopped on the bus explored some of the city with some other girls in my building. We passed a lot of cute shops and restaurants with sprawling outdoor seating, as well as many extremely well-dressed Danes. It started to rain so we ducked into a pub and had our first pint of Danish beer and waited for the rain to pass. The place looks beautiful even when it's raining. We were so proud of ourselves for making it back and figuring out the busses on the first day! Hopefully that's a good sign for the rest of the trip, although I will definitely remember to keep an umbrella with me at all times from now on!

Tomorrow will be the first day of orientation so I've got to get some sleep! I can't believe I made it this long without napping. Hopefully that means tomorrow will be easier in terms of jet lag!

Farvel!