"I like penguins...a lot"
I’ve typed and erased four or five lines already. I guess going on two days no sleep I can’t keep writing until I think I’m clever.
I’m in Denmark and I’m going to try to blog it (although I do prefer the Facebook comment-picture thread style of travel documenting much better. I’ll do that too.)
For my last meal I had an all American six piece chicken nuggets (and I ordered them as “McNuggets” for reasons I’m not entirely clear on. Maybe I just felt awkwardly self-conscious about ordering food at an airport McDonalds considering everyone around me seemed to be having an unusually difficult time translating their requests into English.)
Watching my parents and Ling’s parents interact was really interesting. I guess they had some sort of shared “oh no our child is leaving us” bond and were hopefully comforted knowing that each was depending on another resonsible Vassar child to keep an eye on their prized only child. Yep.
Anyway, the flight was a flight. I couldn’t bring myself to watch a whole movie. I read without absorbing information. I worried about turbulence. I used new headphones. I listened to most of Mozart’s Requiem. I watched the rest of Hot Fuzz which I started a few weeks ago in Manhattan. I tried to sleep. I tried to sleep. I tried to sleep and they turned the lights on and I made squinty eyes and got upset.
The whole plane was packed with people heading to the same program as us. Most of them were nice. We talked to some of them. We made fleeting “hey we’re both here in a new place for the first time” friends and hopefully we’ll run into them again and hang out.
My room is epic. Rasmus (my Danish roomate) is the man. We walked around the city. For some reason I can’t shake the feeling that it looks a lot like Brooklyn, except baller. Just a different weird Florida-Brooklyn thing that still doesn’t feel far away from home. The fact that I know everyone can speak English is unsettling. It’s very noticeable.
Things are expensive, but it’s okay because I have a balcony.
I’m fading fast.
There’s more to come, but right now I’m going to do something that’s not so engaging.
