Meghan's Copenhagen Adventure: An update: She is still alive

Hey all!

Sorry for the large hiatus on the blog front, its been a relatively uneventful couple weeks filled with school...yeah, I know, I go to school here? huh? haha. If anyone wants to help me write two 15 page papers let me know :). I suppose I should tell you about school as well, so here we go, ahem. I'm taking 3 classes; Shakespeare and England, Textile Production and Danish Culture.

My Shakespeare class is taught by a man who is very nice on a personal level, but quite an awful teacher. He's been teaching for years and I think he just has too much knowledge. His lectures go off in tangents and with only one class remaining, I'm left with a sense of what exactly was I supposed to take from this course and how I'm I going to write a paper on it?! I know I'll figure it out, but for now research is the fuel for figuring that question out.

Textile Production is an anthropology/history class I took for fun (it's a long and insanely boring story that involved a change in the English Department curriculum). It is really enjoyable, we've gotten to do some really cool stuff like use sheep wool and spindles to try and make yarn, which by the way, is a lot more difficult than you would ever imagine. I broke mine about 5 times before getting the hang of it and it still wasn't very even. It was really hilarious though there is this big guy, at least 6'2 and large, who was out spinning us all! That class is something I look forward too, most of the professors (about 5 in total and all women!) are actual archaeologist who have been (and still are) publishing works/books/journals etc. Plus, they are all really nice ladies willing to help all the time.

Danish culture is taught by several different teachers, some lectures are cool, others are very dry. It is quite interesting though, and reminds me of the level of nationalism that drives this country (see my older post on nationalism inspired by this class).

One exciting thing I did was go out to dinner at the Fiskebaren, which is a lovely fish restaurant...and expensive too. My friend Elena and I stuck out like sore thumbs, which was clear when the greeter said "...you have reservations...?" "yes, under Meghan". Definitely hindered the experience a bit. Another thing I didn't appreciate was that the waitress didn't check up on us once while we were waiting for our food, which seemed quite odd. I understand that we looked like students, but we were still paying customers. Nonetheless the food was amazing. We shared mussels in a apple cider sauce, and then I had the cod which came with a great puree and leek. It was worth every penny and definitely my first GREAT meal in Denmark, though I suppose you get what you pay for. Pictures below.