5 Hours Now I'll Be on My Way to Denmark

Well, just a quick entry here before our travels begin early tomorrow. I figured with the trip, our last week of class, and Sheri coming to London on Friday, I should write a short post before bed. I am waking up around 4:45 tomorrow morning to get ready for the trip - we're hoping to catch the first Underground train at 5:40 to begin our journey. It's supposed to be rainy in Copenhagen unfortunately, but maybe we'll get lucky. Thankfully the temperatures shouldn't be too frigid though - high 30's or low 40's.

We had a quiet week here in London. Only one more week of class (pretty crazy), but Art History has pretty much wrapped up. We found out our exam schedule, and were annoyed to find out we'll be here later than pretty much every other American student we've asked - our last exam is May 24th. So we'll have almost exactly a month upon our return from our big spring break trip with very little to do. Oh well - now that we know the dates, we were able to choose a time for our trip to Paris. Very exciting.

Other than that, we've continued cooking. This week's meals included: falafel (not homemade, but still freshly prepared) and penne pesto (more homemade than usual in that it wasn't just a precooked mix... we added some fresh veggies and chicken). We took our day trip to Oxford on Monday, and were lucky to be able to enjoy a beautiful and sunny day. The town was nice, but seven hours (certain trains were much cheaper than others, so our time-frame wasn't really optional) was a bit much. They make you pay to enter everything too, so we didn't go inside many buildings. But we went in one college's old church, walked around a cool indoor market, and had a picnic on a park bench (packed our own lunch to save money, of course). The train was quick and easy, and overall it was a nice outing. I remembered the card game 500 Rummy, which we hadn't played in a while, and retaught Jillian - a useful idea when we had to kill some time before our train.

We watched some of the NCAA Tournament yesterday. My bracket is pathetic. Enough said. I was surprised to see Cornell handle Temple so easily though. They seem to be pretty good for an Ivy. Watch out, Jared/Wisconsin. But my favorite players were undoubtedly Jimmer Fredette (yes, Jimmer) and Michael Loyd Jr. (yes, one L) on BYU. Very exciting double-overtime win.

Today I followed a few games online, but we spent much of the evening getting ready for the trip tomorrow. We also met up with Lauren and Michael in the afternoon and checked out Camden market again (they hadn't been yet). It has a much different feel than Borough Market, but it's interesting and fun in its own way.

I'm a lot less nervous for this trip than I was for our last one (as in, not at all). I suppose the fact that it's so short and only one city makes a difference, but also just having had the initial experience of navigating our way through travel in a foreign country makes the prospect of this trip much less nerve-wracking. Not that I was terribly stressed about the last one, but still, I feel very comfortable going to Denmark (I'm going to Denmark... still seems odd).

Well, that about wraps this entry up. I told you it would be short, but I guess it makes up for the length of the last one. No sarcastic jokes or witty (at least to me) humor, nothin. Hard to believe this is our last week of classes coming up. I'll have a five month break before my next classes start up (not counting exams).

Well, cultural difference time. By the way, does anyone else still find it hard to believe the Colts lost that game? I mean seriously. The Saints? Give me a break. They won't even win the division again this year.


Anyway, at one point I noticed in my psych classes that there seemed to be a lot of girls, and relatively few guys. So at various points of boredom in each, I counted up. The results were pretty amazing. In one class, the girl:guy ratio was 49:6, and in the other it was 53:7. Combine that with living with all girls, and there seems to be a lack of testosterone in my life here. I guess I made up for that by living with 35 other guys back in Philly.