Day 14 - Unexpected

Normally my course on Wednesday would start at 8am, but I received an email telling us students to meet at 9:30 instead. I always try to improve my daily habits and make them more efficient (I call it every day engineering) so I biked with shorts due to the amount of sweat my pants accumulated yesterday. I had another opportunity to appreciate the quadrant building number system and had little trouble finding the building I was told to go to. However, I didn't want to show up to the lecture in my shorts so I found a restroom to change my clothes. I came to what I thought was the right room, but a lady in a nearby office explained that I needed to go to the next building over. I was a little skeptical at first, but I followed her instructions and found two professors and one other student in the lecture hall. That was it. Apparently the course had low participation this semester, but it was also optical biosensors which is a very specific topic. After introductions, Lars, one of the professors, sat in between us students and gave the intro lecture on a laptop because the projector wasn't working. We decided that the course format would be something like a journal club where us students would study scientific journal articles and present topics from those every few weeks. Afterward I had lunch with my intro week group in the kantine and then I went to the library to read. I saw Allwin and Marion from the Christian Center and Allwin sat next to me for a while. Apart from reading I needed to print a map in order to bike to Copenhagen for the small group I had decided to join. I got lost twice, but not too badly and I had plenty of time to get where I was going. I stopped along the way at one of the few bike shops still open just to check some prices. Once I found the apartment building I was looking I took a stroll because I was quite early. I also stopped at a nice candy shop where everything was priced per weight and purchased a sampling of their chocolates. When it was time I went up the five or six flights of stairs and met some of the guys who lived there. Chibz was the leader for the group and he asked me some very good questions that made me think introspectively. We shared a meal together and as we got to know each other better. Tonight was different than usual so we didn't study anything in particular. When it was time to leave I had to bike back in the rain, but it was actually kind of fun because biking at night in Denmark in the rain was a first for me. I went all the way to Herlev (a little further than I needed to go) and then used the hospital as a beacon to get home. Zlatina had some of her friends over whom I met them, but headed to my room shortly because I was tired from that biking. I tested my salvaged speakers which worked wonderfully and set my alarm to one of my favorite playlists before going to bed.