For those of you who do not know, I have to take a 3 week Danish language course; 3 hours a day from 9-12. But all my classes during the semester will be in English.
Our first day of class we walked into a large auditorium with all the new international students in the same boat as us. People of from all over the world; we met a girl from Sweden and one of Germany when we sat down. We listened to the dean of the humanities department speak, who had a very cool sense of humor. He told us the "Danes are supposedly the happiest people on Earth. We are also the most modest: we are the best at that" Very funny professor. Then we got split up into our individual class rooms. I have people from Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Australia, Kuwait, England, etc. But there are lots of Germans, Australians, and Americans; typical.
It was super hard the first day trying to learn even as simple as the alphabet, and numbers from 1 to 10. The way words are pronounced are so different then how they look on paper. It will make for an interesting 3 weeks. I just want to be able to pronounce words and people able to read street signs, etc. I should be able to. The Americans, including myself were definitely the worst at pronouncing words though. It's alright, we are all starting from the bottom.
After class we got some great Italian sandwiches and then had our University of California wide orientation. I think they are around 40 of us from the UCs. It seems that most of the Americans here are from California, interestingly enough.
When we were walking back to our apartment we noticed these concrete blocks being lines up everywhere I found out the city festival was putting on a domino train of 3 km through the city center, weaving in an out of buildings and ending in the city square. It even went through a church that was built in the 1600s, dropping from the organs to the floor and continuing. Crazy time, and it was all by chance that we were there.
Later that night a couple of us went to the bars and had a great time. There is a lot more to come!
Domino Train
Our first day of class we walked into a large auditorium with all the new international students in the same boat as us. People of from all over the world; we met a girl from Sweden and one of Germany when we sat down. We listened to the dean of the humanities department speak, who had a very cool sense of humor. He told us the "Danes are supposedly the happiest people on Earth. We are also the most modest: we are the best at that" Very funny professor. Then we got split up into our individual class rooms. I have people from Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Australia, Kuwait, England, etc. But there are lots of Germans, Australians, and Americans; typical.
It was super hard the first day trying to learn even as simple as the alphabet, and numbers from 1 to 10. The way words are pronounced are so different then how they look on paper. It will make for an interesting 3 weeks. I just want to be able to pronounce words and people able to read street signs, etc. I should be able to. The Americans, including myself were definitely the worst at pronouncing words though. It's alright, we are all starting from the bottom.
After class we got some great Italian sandwiches and then had our University of California wide orientation. I think they are around 40 of us from the UCs. It seems that most of the Americans here are from California, interestingly enough.
When we were walking back to our apartment we noticed these concrete blocks being lines up everywhere I found out the city festival was putting on a domino train of 3 km through the city center, weaving in an out of buildings and ending in the city square. It even went through a church that was built in the 1600s, dropping from the organs to the floor and continuing. Crazy time, and it was all by chance that we were there.
Later that night a couple of us went to the bars and had a great time. There is a lot more to come!
Domino Train
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