So yeah! That's the course I'm taking here at the Denmark Technical University, or Danmarks Tekniske Universitet as they would say in Danish. It's actually a masters level course-- and I'm willing to bet I'm am the youngest one in the course. The course material is pretty high level, but the course itself it pretty relaxed and easy going. This is my second week in it, I started Monday January 3rd. The whole idea of a 3-weeks course here is to take a class-- intensively and just that class. The time period for them is supposed to be 8AM to 5PM (or 08 till 17), but usually most of them aren't this way. My class typically starts at 9, and you can leave whenever you finish your group work-- which is around 3 or 4. The nice part about the 3 weeks course is your done with the class when you leave, there's no homework, so your free after it's done. Today my two group mates and I-- Sabrina & Mathilde worked on our second project. We have to analyze some data that's given to us about Campylobacter in chicken in Denmark, using this program called R. Blahblahblah, I know you don't care, that stuff probably bores you. Well I think it's pretty cool.
Anyway-- exciting stuff? Not that much of it today. I did however get to eat in a different cafeteria that I haven't tried, I think it's called SCION something. Anyway-- it's buffet style. All you can eat and they've got lots of stuff for open faced sandwhiches, the bread I mentioned before: rugbrød, and they also had a warm dish of lasagna, in addition to some dessert. It was 55 Danish Kroner, which is approximately $10.50 US dollars at the exchange rate now. Anyway, I met with Danny there and some of his classmates, for his 3 weeks course. They were all really nice guys, one will be working at Nokia soon. So this was a fun lunch with some good company, and when I got back I told my group mates about the lunch I had, and they hadn't heard of the place I went to eat. They say I always know where to find the food =)! Truth is-- it's all Danny ;P.
Anyway, there is something here called a "Snegl" and it's basically a cinnamon danish/croissant thing. It has almonds in it and some chocolate frosting in the center. Yeah, calories galore-- but it's pretty tasty. One day when I was having trouble with work I decided to buy one, and it was really tasty. My groupmates taught me to say one phrase afterwards: "Jeg spidste en Snegl i dag" which means: I ate a snail today. Anyway, I had another today with Mathilde-- It was pretty good.
Now I'm cooking some dinner-- Danny and I got the apartment mostly all furnished now, he brought in his desk and a table, and lots of other stuff so it's starting to look really nice in here. I'll try and get up some pictures later.
Bye for now, or as they say in Danish: Farvel!
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