Still Fighting the Good Fight

Well, no posts in a while cause I have had no activity in a while. My Danish class ended on Friday and I did well although I do not feel like I have learned much. I would like to at least learn to read it so I am thinking of picking up a dictionary and weekly newspaper subscription. As for speaking and understanding I am not too confident. It is a very difficult language to understand and speak...but maybe a few months of listening to it will make it a bit easier.

I have been dubbed a sort of local celebrity here among my classmates since routine excitement seems to attend to my life in Denmark. We went out together for an end of class celebration on Friday and the evening was abound with laughs over my many misadventures in Denmark from the water rescue to accidently waking up at 3 am and leaving for class without realizing the time. I am like the Forrest Gump of international students I think. Thats all I did this weekend and after an evening in the haze of cigarette smoke my cold/sore throat flared up again. I had a great workout and a terrific run yesterday though...I will not be defeated by a runny nose and mucus-filled cough! But I did go to bed at 8 last night. Thats the worst aspect of being sick so far is that I feel run-down all the time. I have been sleeping quite well, and I think it is the workout that makes all the difference. At home I would surf 3-6 hours a day and go for a 5 mile run. Here in Copenhagen I generally sit around in different places.

I am in the process of trying to plan an excursion next weekend cause my roommate may have friends in town so I will give them some space, and me some much needed solitude. So far I am looking into Sweden (Stockholm), Finland (Helsinki), or Germany (Berlin and Dresden). I think Finland is my first choice followed by Germany and Sweden...mostly cause the latter are rather close at hand so I am sure I will go to Stockholm some other time and there is a gallery exhibit in Berlin later this month that I would like to see. It has been more difficult to find out about traveling than I thought. Usually it is cheaper to fly, except to Stockholm, and I cannot afford a 16 hour strip to Helsinki at this point since I only have a weekend. Checking flights is a real pain though because they don't have those integrated search pages like Travelocity, Expedia, etc...so I have to check all the airlines and often accumulate legs of the trip given in different currencies...its dreadful really. So I may just do Sweden because its just a Danish train to Malmo and then a Swedish train to Stockholm.

Besides that I got tickets to a concert for a couple American bands I like in February and I am fairly stoked about that. Ok, I have nothing to say...and its time to go workout. I have to put some pictures up that I took like a week and a half ago...and if my classmate sends me the pictures she took of me and my friends on Friday then perhaps I will post them if they are not boring.