First Day Doing

I was hoping today was going to be extremely productive. After waking up at 5 in the morning (gotta love the jet lag) I wrote out a list of eight things I wanted to accomplish. It included starting a bank account, registering with Danish immigration, and talking with the university's international office to find out what the hell they want me to do about a mysterious meeting tomorrow at an undisclosed location at an undisclosed time.

After writing the list of eight things to do, I started feeling like person should after waking up at five in the morning, extremely tired. I laid in bed for probably an hour and opened my eyes to the surprising realization that it was not one in the afternoon. I figured I would have to cut my list short for the day since many of my goals depended on normal business operating hours. I decided that I would register with immigration and talk to the university international office.

I managed to easily find the right train station and even got off without missing my stop. I was fairly confident I would be able to find the university from there, since the Google Maps print out I had showed it it to be a block away. But the print out didn't show all the tiny pedestrian street the cut through the blocks. After an hour of guessing my way through street names I could barely pronounce, I began to look for the most touristy business to find directions.

I found a sign that said "WE SELL SOUVENIERS" and talked to the cashier. She handed me a map of the city and told me I had wandered completely off of the little square on my Google print out. She gave me directions and I sort of followed them until I thought I was lost again. I asked again for help from this guy who sold bagel sandwiches who told me that the school was by a church. I looked outside and it was a block away!

Yay! I got to the international office to find that it had closed fifteen minutes earlier. But the woman there was able to tell me where I am supposed to go tomorrow and when I should be there. Hopefully I'll be able to wake up in time to find the place by nine o'clock.