...And so it begins!

After getting off to somewhat of a rough start (being delayed a few hours, which entailed missing some critical parts of orientation), the crew from the Seattle flight finally made it to Copenhagen!  I was only a little bit jet-lagged and very excited to run into three of my friends, two from Santa Clara and one from high school.  We were all split into various groups depending on where we were living and I headed off to my kollegium in Albertslund (about 25 minutes out of Copenhagen), which was a lot prettier than the pictures I had found of it on the Internet.  We were thrown a pizza party (with free beer!), but that is where our free food ended.  Today I decided that I'm pretty much going to buy the cheapest food possible in order to sustain myself as my money is already seeming to dwindle away on the most basic things.

Today was also the first day we had to ride the metro to Copenagen, which was really confusing to me.  Luckily, a big group of us headed over to the DIS school building together, so I couldn't get too lost.  However, the walk to DIS seemed to have about 50 turns down various streets so I'm going to have to pay better attention to how to get there tomorrow.  The good part about all this was that during this time I got to know a lot of different people and made some new friends who all seemed really friendly and fun!!

We also got a tour of the city today, which was nice.  We got to see things like the statue of the Little Mermaid, the Copenhagen Opera House and the Amalienborg Palace.  Just through simple observation, we have also been amused to learn that Mercedes Benzes and BMWs are the only cars used as taxis.  The most amusing part of the tour was probably when the tour bus left one of my friends and me behind and we had to run down the street yelling after it. 

Tomorrow we're going to take Survival Danish classes and "Coping in Copenhagen" classes starting at 9:00 in the morning, which will be the first classes we ever take at DIS!!