I would like to add to the list of things I've learned since being in Copenhagen:

1. Biking in a blizzard is less than desirable.

2. Biking in a blizzard and coming home to find your road is blocked is even less desirable.

3. Standing in the blizzard with your bike one hundred feet from your house and waiting for the giant truck to unblock your road for twenty minutes in the wind and snow just plain sucks.

4. It is easy to compare people's treatment of their bikes with their treatment of their babies. Someone will get on the bus with their stroller, park the stroller (and child) at the front of the bus, and go sit in the back, reading and chatting, leaving the baby sitting there by itself. Someone will also go into a cafe to get lunch with a friend and park their baby outside, lock it up, and leave it. Much like a bike. The biggest (and best) difference is that bikes get stolen far more than babies.

5. The sun does come out.

6. If you jay walk, people will hit you. Hard.

7. I think I will be falling in love with handball.

8. There are politically conservative Danes that are opposed to taxes and like Bush a lot ( I met one and engaged in a relatively long debate ending repeatedly with me asking "Why do you live in Denmark then?", "How can you like Bush?", and "Are you delusional?")

Next week I start tutoring kids at this international school in Hellerup. I interviewed for the position yesterday and will be tutoring a 2nd grader in math, a 4th grader in general subjects, and a 7th grader in organization. Most of the kids that attend this school are children of diplomats, business men and women, and international families that move from one place to another frequently. It is an interesting dynamic and I am excited! I am also going to a seminar on Climate Change tonight with the Ministry of Finance for the EU to talk about what happened during the COP15.

I found out about my two classes at the University of Copenhagen last. Both my class on the "Social Context of HIV/AIDS in Africa" and "Human Rights in Africa" have one single grade.. a final exam. That's going to take some adjustment... I'm excited to actually meet some Danes though and experience the Danish education system though.

Well I am off to get my green card!

Hej Hej!