After almost a month I am no longer without a camera which is very exciting. Unfortunately, however, I currently have no way of getting my pictures onto my laptop so I will try and make this as riveting a read as possible.
Coming back from Lisbon was a very strange sensation and all five of us felt it. Whilst we weren't going home, we were going back to a home and not another travel destination. We were all very excited to get back to our lives here in Copenhagen but saying "going home" didn't sound right and in the end we gave up trying to work out how to define it. We arrived home on the Thursday before semester began, though I still had another almost week of holidays.
On the Tuesday it was my roommate, Evelyn, and another girl called Alice's birthday and Alice had a bunch of us over for a celebration on the roof of her apartment building. Situated in the near centre of town the view was breathtaking, reminding me of rooftop scenes in action movies where the backdrop is so perfect it's clearly blue screened. Every single one of us had the same reaction and by the end of the night it still didn't appear real. Since I do not trust my unlabelled oven enough for baking I ended up making an Australian favourite: Fairy Bread. It was well received to say the least.
Now obviously my trip can't be all parties, travelling and socialising as I do have a degree to complete so I guess it's about time I talked a little about university. I'm taking 3 classes here: French Literature, Nordic Mythology and Danish. So far I've only had two French Literature class, one Nordic Mythology and I start beginners 2 Danish today.
The Nordic Mythology course is pretty self explanitory and so far it doesn't disappoint. It's an international student only course so I already know a few others in my class.
My French Literature course is obviously on French literature but more specifically we're studying the history and depiction of French cuisine and food culture through/within French literature. There is one other exchange student, a girl from Luxembourg, and also a French guy in my class but I am the only student that can't speak Danish. Every time the teacher switches to explaining in Danish I get a few looks from the other students but I don't mind. I am in their country after all and the Luxembourgish girl translates if it's anything important. What (for want of a better word) weirds me out the most is that other than the novels we have to read, all our other readings are in French and English with almost a 50/50 split. English is most of the students second language, third or fourth for a couple of others and the teacher himself had to read the books these excerpts came from to research for this course. Suffice to say I feel inadequate with my two languages knowing full well that my French is not adequate to be used to research for something like my history courses back home.
Last but not least the Danish course is simply a continuation of the course I did in August in which I did surprisingly well.
As for the students: mostly I've only met other exchange students, for obvious reasons, though I have met a few Danes at various events in my building and through other students. There are quite a few American, German and British students as well as an array of people from other places. As for Australians, as per usual we are in abundance. However nearly all of them are studying law with only three others that I know of that aren't. I have met only one other Uni of Adelaide student so far (yes, studying law) though we're adamant that we can't be the only Adelaide-ians. And, as per Adelaide rules we have mutual friends.
I guess that is as much information as I have to offer at the moment. Summer is most definitely over her in Copenhagen and whilst I wouldn't call it cold just yet, it's most definitely getting close to what would be classified as winter back home. I'm, as you all can probably tell, having a fantastic time. I'm even enjoying my uni homework (for now), and I can already feel the reverse home sickness looming over February, waiting for when I return.
Next post should hopefully have some more pictures from my fabulous new second hand camera but I hope it wasn't all bad without them. xx
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