Week 9 - Symphony

Though classes hadn't started for us three from Purdue, we decided to have a group meeting to work on both our report for our shared course and the semester project. I did get around to doing my laundry and on my way I talked to the inspector about the lights in the entrance to my building. They hadn't been working for quite some time, but since it's getting darker sooner I thought it would be nice to have them working. I gave a presentation for my biosensors course and then I met up with the DTU prayer group before my lunch. This week it was my turn to cook dinner for my life group and I decided to make sloppy Joe's. However, I decided to make it before I left so I just put the pot on the rack on the back of my bike and secured it as best I could with a couple of bungee cords. Thankfully it made it alright, but people may have been wondering about my sanity when they saw or heard the pot on my bike. Thursday my group was finally able to record ultrasound images of our phantom tissue we've been analyzing this whole semester. Back at the apartment I briefly Skyped with Matt, Maggie and our professors back at Purdue about our BCI project so they know how things are coming along. After dinner I played Over the Hedge on the TV in our common living area and a couple neighbors joined me. I tend to watch kids movies more and more. Perhaps this is good preparation for parenthood. Friday I was able to have lunch with Josh again and we enjoyed our time discussing our unique experiences over the past week.

 I was really looking forward to the evening because I was planning to go to a symphony with some friends from my church. We also planned to have a pre-symphony dinner that everyone was contributing to in some way or another. I had a little difficulty finding the apartment, but it was literally seconds after I finally prayed that God would help me find my way that I came upon a street I knew. The dinner was good, but we had to eat quickly because we weren't that close to the opera house where the symphony was taking place. Half of us rode our bikes and the other half took the bus. I rode with them and we lost each other when my chain slipped off. That happens occasionally and this time I even set a personal best for shortest time to reset my chain, but we still got separated. At that point though, we were close enough we found our way to the opera house and eventually found each other too. It was refreshing to hear actual instruments instead of amplified instruments or recorded music. During the intermission, which was between two different movements, we explored the opera house and enjoyed the view of Copenhagen from the balcony. Afterward we walked along the pedestrian streets and stopped at a cafe called Retro where we ordered coffee sort of drinks and played cards. Saturday night I had to set my clocks back an hour for daylight savings and then it was super Sunday at the Christian Center so all the services were combined and earlier than usual. My neighbors and I had planned a community dinner so it worked out very well that the service was earlier because I had extra time to prepare my part of the dinner. I made beans and franks and cornbread to add to what the others brought. As I've come to expect and appreciate, we had a great time together. Afterward, I enjoyed talking with my parents through Skype.