Post for the Parents

Friends, feel free to ignore this. This is a post for my parents going over all my classes.

First class: International Business

This is my first class and also my core class. Since its my core class this is the group I am going to travel around with on my short and long study tours. This wee we are going to Arhus and Kalundborg in Western Denmark. Arhus is the 2nd largest city in Denmark and Kalundborg is a tiny town. My class has a pharmaceutical and green business focus, so we're going to visit a drug plant and a manufactuer of toilet seats. Later this semester we're going to Prague and Berlin for a week. I'm excited for the study tours because this class has been a little boring so far.

Second class: Hans Christian Anderson and the Golden Age

This is by far my favorite class. Its so much fun to read all the fairy tales and to see another side of the stories that I learned when I was little. Also, my teacher, Lisa Lotte is adorable. Kelly, a girl in my Kollegium, and I volunteered to be class reps just because we want to hang out with her. Class reps meet with the teachers a couple times a semester to offer student feedback. Eventually we're going to Odense, H.C. Anderson's hometown, which is supposed to be really cute.

Third class: Danish

Danish is both good and bad at the same time. German has been helping me out a lot, because I can hear the connection to the German words when they are pronounced. This is sometimes a hinderence though because I just want to say the German word! Also, Danish is really hard because how things are spelled are completely different than how they sound. For example, My name is Michelle is spelled Jeg hedder Michelle, but pronounced Yai helle Michelle. There are usually a bunch of silent letters and dropped word ending too. I like learning about the cultural stuff though. For example, the Danish say tre (3), syv (7), tretten (13) and knock underneath the table when they want to knock on wood.

Fourth class: International Advertising

This is my only class on Tuesday and Friday. We have mostly just watched Danish ads so far. Our semester long project is to compare the European and American ads of a certain category of goods, like potato chips. We are also going to do some group projects. Tomorrow will be exciting because a person from the marketing department of Diesel is going to come in and talk to us. Diesal is one of my biggest memories of Copenhagen, as we walked up and down Stroget, the big pedestrian shopping street about five times looking for a pair of pink Diesel sneakers. Thanks for that Amanda.