a brief update

hi everyone! i'm too lazy to plug in my camera right now, so no new pictures shall be uploaded at present. ALSO frustration!!  i realized my computer doesn't have iPhoto. isn't that weird?! it's just not there! and you can't download it from the apple website! if anyone has tips, please email me. anyway, updates:

- i have a serious case of the sniffles, and currently have toilet paper shoved up both my nostrils. it's very elegant, thank you.
- i had a pretty silly test today in human health and disease, we had literally never heard of some of the questions (ex: question: what is the condition called when your sclera are yellow? answer: i have no idea we were supposed to study cardiac diseases...)
- last class in HHD, we got to IV eachother! i stuck hannah with a needle and vice versa. neither of us got the vein right away but it was still very cool.
- it was COLD today
- went to Christiania after class with hannah, her host bro, his friend, and new friend anya (not to be confused with anja...). it's basically an old hippie commune, now an independent area within copenhagen where everyone sells and smokes pot out in the open, and they don't pay property taxes and it looks like summer camp on a hallucinogen. you can't take pictures there, but i did manage to snap one of a crazy house on the lake. i'll def include it in the next picture post.
 - i am newly addicted to "modern family," a hilarious TV show sort of like arrested development but not as strange. i'm just flying through the first season (thanks, megavideo!)

ok off to drink tea and sleep so i have normal nose function tomorrow. planning on going to tivoli - i'm so excited for roller coasters wooohooo!

xoxo
LT

must...study....effectively...

so this has nothing to do with me being in denmark, but i thought i'd share this article i just read on the ny times website. as someone who sometimes thinks more about the idea of studying than actually doing it, it's always interesting to hear about new research in the field of study habits, memory, fact retention, etc. read and ponder! (in two different rooms! while you also ponder other things in mixed sets!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html?_r=1&hp

a more cheerful look, and some photos

prompted by the many wind turbines in denmark and olivia's urging to embrace purple, i made this blog prettier! also this happened because, uh, hannah showed me how. thanks han!

anyway! it isn't tomorrow from the last time i posted (oops) but here are some assorted photos, which i shall narrate for you. er du velkommen.

Here is my scavenger hunt group from Orientation, posing near Nyhavn in what appears to be a transvestite zone? We weren't sure. 

SOME DAMN TASTY HOT CHOCOLATE. sideways. (also, i think i have to rotate the pics on my desktop before uploading them? i am not very tech savvy, anyone know?)

Anja amongst the bikes in her metro stop's bike garage. Later that night we had dinner at her house with her host fam - spaghetti with very amazing meat sauce. Dessert was our hot delicious mess of a chocolate cake (made after converting cups and tablespoons into grams and deciliters, yipes)

Rainbow over downtown as seen from Nørrebro, where I had a cafe night with my danish class. Had red wine and a tuna sandwich, not a word of danish was involved. As we were leaving the rain stopped and this happened! Aren't the buildings great? I want to live on that top floor.

okay, that's all i got picture-wise! life is good, though the first week of school efficiency and enthusiasm for homework is waning slightly.

exciting thing - i'll be on a short study tour from this thursday to saturday visiting some other cities in denmark - århus, odense...and one more place. hold on. oh! vejle. it's part academic and part cultural, so i'll be visiting some hospitals with my human health and disease class, but also doing bike tours and visiting museums. i'll be sure to take pictures and report back!

mucho amor,
LT