This Monday I had some fun searching
through my apartment junk yard. It’s not really a junk yard, but it’s a fenced
in area where people put things that won’t fit into the dumpsters. Sometimes I
see people taking things from there so I thought I would check it out. Most of
it was worn out or broken furniture of all shapes and sizes, but I was excited
when I found some hex wrenches. They were slightly damaged, but I found more
than a full set and I had been thinking about buying some so I considered my
searching a success. Tuesday I finished up the first report for our signals
processing course and submitted it. Then Matt, Maggie and I had lunch with Kaj-Åge,
the primary contact between DTU and our adviser back at Purdue. He wanted to
meet us in person and to see how our transition was going, but wasn’t able to
until now. Having finished the first report, we were given the second report
for our signals processing course which would be due in about three weeks and
started exploring ways to accomplish the tasks we were assigned. Afterward I
looked forward to playing Ultimate Frisbee with some of my friends as we had been
doing each week. We may not have many more days with suitable weather.
Wednesday morning we had the opportunity to meet with one of the two developers
of the brain computer interface system that we were working off of for our
senior design project. This was especially helpful because she showed us how the
MATLAB code worked and provided us with a copy of the code to work with. I
appreciated how well she explained things and how willing she was to help our group
branch off of her project. I was able to make it to the prayer group meeting
again this week and afterward Grace, one of the others in the group, and I
decided to go to IKEA to study instead of working in the library. We reasoned it
was a good idea because both of us were going into Copenhagen later and both of
us needed to study. Grace is also from the USA and is here for one semester as
well. Not having my laptop with me, I had to print some things and was planning
to read through some journal articles so I went to the library briefly before
biking to IKEA. Grace took a bus and we met there so the timing worked out
well. We both had some coffee and worked off and on, but chatted intermittently
and I enjoyed getting to know her. About the time we were getting tired of
working we met Kim, a mutual friend of ours, and strolled through IKEA marveling
at all the Scandinavian designs. We parted ways and I biked to my life group
where we had dinner and discussed Psalm chapter 1. I was looking forward to
discussing the psalm and we had a good time together. Thursday seemed rather
ordinary until our group meeting with Marcia and Allison. Jeremy, my BME adviser,
surprised us by joining in on this meeting. I had worked frequently with him
last year when I was on the board for the biomedical engineering society and I
enjoyed hearing his usual upbeat, enthusiastic voice. He’s also the main reason
we were able to come study in Denmark as the first BMEs from Purdue. Another
highlight of the evening was when Steffen, one of my neighbors, I decided to eat
and serve apples with peanut butter and cheese to our other neighbors. Though
we served it separately, Steffen and I both tried the peanut and cheese
combined on the apple, but we agreed it was best kept separate. Friday night
was the first time the Danish and international young adults’ group at the Christian
Center had an event together. Normally the Danish group meets every other
Friday and the international group meets less often. We had a service of sorts
in both Danish and English and then a good time getting to know each other afterward.
Among other firsts, I finally made it to the fitness room at my apartment on
Saturday and actually applied for some jobs. My arms will be sore for the first
half of the week. On Sunday I helped with the other ushers at the Christian
center and since it was the first Sunday of the month I also helped serve
communion. As I’ve probably mentioned it’s a simple job, but needs to be done
by someone. I’m thankful for the opportunity to serve. After the service I
bought ingredients with Jessy, the international young adults’ group leader,
for Swedish pancakes which I had planned to make for the group. The only
complication was that the special induction stove top didn’t work so we
resorted to using two plug-in burners. It was fun making all those pancakes and
Joseph, one of the guys who lives at the church, took over after I had made
about two thirds of them so that I could eat some too.
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