Copenhagen!

Well, I've made it here!

The flight from Chicago to Stockholm was pretty nice - there were way more features than any airplane ride I've ever been on before. I sat next to a girl (Markeeta (sp?)) who is also at DIS, goes to school in Milwaukee, and is from Chicago originally. Highlight: tied between flying into the sunrise when landing and the fact that I was able to watch movies on an individual screen in front of my seat. Lowlight: Markeeta and I were in the last row before a box-like thing (apparently that's where SAS puts the Economy Extra patrons) and thus couldn't recline or sleep very much. The flight from Stockholm to Copenhagen was in a much smaller airplane, and obviously much shorter. For this one, I wasn't sitting by anybody, so I had 3 seats to myself, which I took full advantage of by taking a luxurious nap.

After waiting a bit at the airport in Copenhagen, a large group bussed over to the IT University in Copenhagen, where we were briefly oriented and then set loose to register and get cell phones if we didn't have an appropriate plan already or if we had ordered them online (this second course of action is the one I chose...definitely a good choice). Then there was still almost 2 hrs to kill before host families were set to pick us up. I spent them chatting with two of the other students from Mac - Bronwen and Owen - and with Markeeta. Right before I went to meet my host family, I met another girl with a pump. We commiserated on the difficulty of transporting diabetes supplies for the semester.

Then, I finally got to meet my host parents in person! It was very exciting! Dorte and Erling took me to the train station to get my transportation pass, and then we went home. At home, I met my host sister, Sabina, who was on her way out the door for a driving lesson. Apparently she will be helping me get to where I need to be for tomorrow. Their house is wonderful - it's very spacious and warm (as in cozy, not temperature-wise). I had a chance to unpack and get my room organized, and then we had a lovely dinner of soft-shell tacos.

I'm really excited to start getting oriented and meeting classmates...I'm especially anxious to start learning Danish! However, the next week looks like it will be remarkably busy, so I'm going to head towards bed now, even though it's only 7:07 pm here. I figure, since I only got 2 hours of sleep while traveling, 12 hours of sleep should be great!