First Day of Classes

Yesterday was the first day of classes. I had History of Copenhagen, History of Genocide/Holocaust, and the News Media in Transition. News Media is going to be similar to all my other media classes ever, but I am really excited for the Holocaust class because it is taught in a way that I like.. where the teacher lectures and we take notes. The Copenhagen class, however, is all power point and a lot of small projects and focused on the architecture, not so much the social history. Therefore I have submitted a form to drop the class and have instead signed up for a class on human rights in Africa, which I am pretty excited for. It will be my only class at the University of Copenhagen, with Danish students (I think). Hopefully I will find out today if I made it into the class.

Here at the folk school, things are really fun. I wish I didn't have such a huge amount of reading, but I can do it on the train and the bus that I take to get to Copenhagen. It is really really tempting to just not to do anything academic, because that is the lifestyle that kids here have. I really want to learn Danish really well and then come back to a folk school for a semester (ha.. I don;t think I could ever know Danish that well, but it would be very nice if I did).

Today I have international advertising, and usually Danish, but the class was canceled for today. I need to go read for Advertising, so I need to end this entry a little early. Sorry for not communicating back home much, but I have so much to do and then as soon as I get back to the folk school we eat dinner and then do a little homework and try to talk to the others here.