3 days left

The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but in Denmark it isn't quite that picky. I remembered to bring my umbrella and I still feel like I'm soaked.

The IT intern took all the IT workers out to eat tonight on DIS's dollar. We went to a place called Chili's, which serves amazing burgers. Between the drink, the burger/fries, and chicken wings I guess I cost DIS over $25... tuition dollar at work. It was a half-pound bacon cheeseburger and quite amazing.

Absolutely pouring by the time we got out of there. On the way back to DIS there was a guy standing in Gammeltorv in the pouring rain dressed in a much too large clown suit. He had the monster shoes, red nose and all. The clown had handcuffed himself to a sign and was blaring out strings of horrible sounds from an old tuba. Due to the rain there was nobody else around in the square, just this one lone clown, handcuffed to a sign, blowing notes in a tuba. Quite the sight. :)

All final tests done. One final paper to get turned in by Friday afternoon.

My flight is leaving Copenhagen 3:35pm on Saturday. Arrive at OHare 5:30pm, leave OHare 8:00pm. Arrival at Minneapolis 9:24pm Lindbergh Terminal. Flight to Minneapolis is United Airlines 597. I would just hop on the train when I got home, but somebody forgot to build it I think. Maybe I could hop on the bus... er, I think they forgot to get that running too.

2 finals, 2 papers left

The end of school for the year is in sight. Always a nice feeling. To think that I only have one more year left! I better get a lot of learning done.

It will be sad to leave Copenhagen. If I ever come back, it probably won't be for a long time. It will be nice to be home again too though.

So much to get done before I leave. Things to see, people to say goodbye to, maybe some souvenirs to buy, school to finish, etc. I need to somehow fit an entire room of "stuff" into 2 suitcases.

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Well, got that out of the way. I got a B+ on the danish oral final, which I am very satisfied with. It had three parts:

- Prepared presentation (tell about yourself)
- Interview (teacher plays the character of a student, and you ask questions to find out about this person. then after you find out, you tell what you know)
- Conversation (given a starting point of what I did over Easter vacation, it is supposed to be a 5-6 minute free conversation)

I did well on the first two, and 'ok' on the last part. The conversation is definitely the hardest, and I didn't understand all of her questions. There is another person in the room who is the grader. She said I had a good command of the language, and had good use of inversion and subordinate phrases. I guess thats good.

In Danish, sometimes you flip the subject and verb in the sentence. For example, "On the weekend, I play chess". In Danish, you would literally say "On the weekend, play I chess." That is only if "On the weekend" is there. It would still be "I play chess on the weekend."

I weekenden, skal jeg skak med min far. Min far spille skak men ikke saerlig godt. :)

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Yo. Update your blog. :)
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20 minute oral final in Danish tomorrow. Aaaargh!