At this point in my adventure there are still a lot of new
things, but not nearly as much as during the first two weeks. From now on I
will be collecting the details of each week and combining them into one post
per week. It's probably easier for both of us and you probably won't have to
read as much (even though this first one is long). So this week started with my
day off as usual, but this time I actually scheduled my time for almost the
entire day. I enjoy planning things on a weekly and daily basis and this is
probably one of the things that helped me survive last semester. So being out
of practice I wasn't able to do everything on my schedule, but I after
breakfast I spent some time praying and reading the Bible. I hadn't set aside
much time for this amid all that has been happening here. It was very
refreshing and I hope to continue that. I also needed to catch up on some
reading for my courses so I slowly made some progress through my medical signal
processing text book. I also did my laundry and read some more after dinner.
Tuesday I had breakfast with Zlatina, one of my neighbors from Bulgaria. We
enjoyed the sunshine especially when we considered how little sun we'll see
during winter. The lecture for signal processing was good, but when we began
the lab Matt, Maggie and I realized our previous courses hadn't quite prepared
us for this course. However, this just means that we'll have to put some extra
effort into understanding and completing the assignments. Afterwards I had the
opportunity to play Ultimate Frisbee again with the group of international
students I met during introduction week. We only had six players, but we made
the field a little smaller and had fun nonetheless. I had to leave at about the
same time the rugby players invaded so we ended our game then. I was in a hurry
to return to my apartment because I was making Swedish pancakes (per Simona's
request) for a sort of going away party. It was Simona's last night at our
apartment and she'll be spending the rest of the month in Copenhagen before
going home to Lithuania. It turned out really well and there was enough for
everyone to eat. Many others pitched in to help either by providing toppings or
preparing some other things. One of the "toppings" was ice cream
which I had never tried before with Swedish pancakes, but it was really good.
Then we ended the night with a couple of card games. Wednesday I biked to campus
to join the prayer group I missed last week, but I couldn't find the room they
had told me about. I hope others didn't have the same problem. Next week I'll
get more specific directions and try again. I met up with one of my classmates
(we happen to be the only two students in our class) and we worked on a
presentation we're going to give in two weeks over some topics included in the
scientific journals that we've been given. Then I biked to Copenhagen for my
small group. I needed to get there early because I was making pancakes for the
group. Yes, pancakes again, but they requested "American" pancakes so
I made buttermilk pancakes for them.
They even turned down my offer to make pizza which I will probably try
sometime soon. Our time together was good and after the pancakes we shared our
highs and lows for the week. We naturally transitioned into sharing our
testimonies and it's incredible what God has done in and through these brothers
of mine. I'm already looking forward to next week. Thursday morning did not
start with breakfast because I didn't have any milk. Rather, it started with
going to the nearest grocery store and then breakfast. I bought some boots as
well that I had seen there before, but I didn't know what the sizes meant until
I researched it my apartment. My lecture for my medical imaging course was
different this week because it was specifically for the few international
students and was of course in English. The professor gave a lecture right
afterward in Danish to the rest of the students who are indeed Danish. Lab
followed and with some help from the TA's and my teammates I finished my
assignment before leaving. I had a quick dinner back at my apartment and met up
with Matt and Maggie to make some head way on our report that we had previously
had some trouble with. Friday started with a guest lecture about
electro-cardiograms (ECG) and then we continued to make some progress on our
report. I enjoyed meeting with Josh, who I had met playing Frisbee, and eating
lunch together. We might be planning a trip or two in the future because we
both have similar interests and have Mondays off. I finally received my student
card and had enough time to activate it before my meeting with Helge, the
professor Matt, Maggie and I will be working with on our senior design project.
The meeting was short, but we determined that we would make a variation of a
brain computer interface based on the previous two versions other students had
designed. It seems very interesting. When I returned home I decided to go shopping
for ingredients to make granola, one of my favorite snacks back in the U.S. If
you didn't know already I'm not like most people insofar as I was making
granola on a Friday night rather than going out. Jakob, one of my neighbors,
and I planned to go later to the sauna at our apartment and he went early to
get it warmed up, but when we got there shortly after 10:00 we found it was
locked. So no sauna for us and we worried it might stay on all night. I
attempted to get a lot of reading done on Saturday with breaks for food and a
Skype chat with my parents. We went to the sauna again and were able to get in
this time. I can't remember the last time I've been in a sauna, but it was
refreshing. Sunday biked to the Christian Center in Copenhagen and enjoyed some
upbeat worship music and Pastor Mikael's preaching over 1 Cor. chapter 3. After
the service Mikael asked if Daniel, one of the other young adults, and I would
be interested in becoming involved with the usher ministry team and we both
agreed to follow him to the meeting. Previously there had only been a few guys
doing this every week and they were hoping to increase the size of their team
to make things easier. Basically the ushers help with some setup before the
service, greeting people, showing some to seats, and then some tear down
afterwards. I had been looking for a way to get more involved and this
opportunity to serve just presented itself to me. After the meeting some of the
young adults went to eat again at Kosk Kebab, where we had gone two weeks ago.
It was just as good as I remembered and I got to enjoy the meal with seven
others, four of which were Americans (there usually aren't quite so many
Americans in one place here). All in all a good week, but it passed much quicker
than the first two.
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