THE SUN!!!!

THE SUN IS OUT!!!!!

This may not sound terribly exciting to those of you in the States but I have been here for five days and this is the first I've seen of it. No glowing circle underneath the clouds, nothing. They don't even have a word for the sun in danish (not true). But today it was out in force! And between the clouds you could see blue! Its terribly exciting.


Today was also the first day of classes, and I had my core class on the European Union and Warcrimes and Human Rights. Both were very interesting and both professors expect a LOT of work. My warcrimes professor is a major in the Danish Army who has done human rights work in almost every major conflict in the past 20 years (Bosnia, Afghanistan, Israel, Napal, Iraq, etc). She's kind of my idol for the moment, I want to find out how you get into that kind of stuff without joining the Danish military. I also feel terribly ignorant I had no idea the Danes were in Afghanistan or Iraq, it probably accounts for some of the flack we've gotten for being Americans, although to be fair, if their government is doing it too they really have no room to talk.

The class on the EU is really interesting! I had no idea how complicated it was. We breifly talked about the problems they're having selecting a system for electing representatives. Our professor was telling us that their was a move to divide up votes based on populations proposed by the Germans, and that the Polish response was that if the Germans hadnt killed so many Poles in WWII they're population would be much bigger, so that went awkwardly out the window.

We're having our first cafe night (aka bar night) at the hojskole tonight so we'll see how that goes. We also have a theme party on Saturday and we have to come as famous couples which should be interesting. I think I'm going to have to come as Cleopatera or something, because I have no theme party clothes to speak of. We'll see.