Week 5 - Balancing School and Relationships

I started off the week by doing my laundry and meeting with my group to work on our report for our signal processing course. Later I biked into Copenhagen to officially say goodbye to Simona. It was around dinner time and Simona had the intriguing idea to make a fruit salad because there are a number of cheap produce shops near where she was living temporarily. We probably both ate too much fruit, but we were determined to finish the entire salad. On Tuesday my signal processing lab was fairly good  with just a few sticking points. I had some fun mashing up potatoes for dinner before practicing the biosensors presentation I had to give the next day. The presentation went alright, but some more practice would have made it better. Keep in mind though that my biosensors course consists of two professors and one other student so the audience was quite small. It was actually a mix between a discussion and presentation. I had a quick lunch and met up with some DTU people from the Christian Center for the weekly prayer group. There were a couple new people and we all spent some time discussing a particular passage in the Bible before praying. Afterward I biked to IKEA on my way to Copenhagen, but again the rolling pins were out of stock so I just bought some ice cream (not that that solved my problem, but it tasted good). My life group met as usual and we enjoyed eating pasta that one of the guys made for us. I like how we share a meal together in addition to discussing the Bible. Thursday I went back to the same hospital as last week, but this time we had a lecture about PET and CT before using the PET/CT scanner on our tissue samples. My neighbors and I had planned to make pizza (the reason for trying to find a rolling pin) for anyone in our building and a few of us helped with the various preparations. They took longer to cook than we expected, but turned out well. There were seven pizzas in total. Friday my time was mostly devoted to my group's signal processing report because it was due next Tuesday and Matt and Maggie were both going to Oktoberfest over the weekend. We took a short break for lunch and met with Helge about our brain computer interface project before continuing on the report.  We made a lot of progress (in addition to my progress in consuming a liter of chocolate milk), but we worked later than I had hoped. Stine and Jerry, two members from my introduction week group, had birthdays this week and we decided to celebrate it tonight, but the party had already started before I even started biking to Copenhagen. I let the group know on Facebook and headed there as soon as I could. We had a good time and our host had a few games planned that we all enjoyed. It went quite late so I slept in on Saturday. I did get around to updating my resume and I was going to start applying for jobs, but I got side tracked when I created a website about myself. Pretty soon it was dinner time and then a few of my neighbors and I went to the sauna. The next morning was the "super" Sunday service at the Christian Center where all five of the services meet at the same time. They did the whole service in Danish and English (translating both ways). Even though I was in the balcony because of the great number of people it was incredible. They do that on the last Sunday of every month so I'll be looking forward to that next month.