School is Starting? Time to Party

Finally, after all the travel, we came back to Copenhagen last Thursday. We moved into our dorm, which is about a 20 min walk to campus. The first night in town we just had some dinner with Nicolai, one of the Vikings in town, and watched the Spain vs. Russia game. The following day we went to the Copenhagen Business School orientation and that was followed by a barbecue and a party at Club Mambo. In no way was the barbecue a "barbecue" since it was catered with really nice food and everyone was inside. They simply used a grill outside to cook the food. We went on to Club Mambo where there were some salsa dance lessons. One of the Danish Vikings in Copenhagen, Thomas, had invited us to a private party at his dorm and had bought tickets for us and other people if we met some. So from Club Mambo we bused it out to the party with 6 others, who all seemed very skeptical of the party and if we could even make it there. Turns out the "dorm" used to be a hotel and about 500 people live there, so it was a good time. DJs, multiple dance floors, cheap drinks, see the pictures. We partied and danced until about 6 in the morning. Tyler and I got back around 6:30 and checked his email to find that Lars, the man in charge of our scholarship here wanted to meet with us that same day so we slept for 3 hours and then woke up to leave on about an hour train ride to Helsingor, the town he lives in. We didn't have the right tickets and were swiftly kicked off the train to buy new ones, but we ended up making it. Lars took us out to lunch and told us some amazing stories, he was actually one of the first Vikings to come over to Madison in the 50s. He showed us around and we were able to see a bit of the town. We got back in time to get a few things done and then headed over to Nicolai's pad, getting a crate of beer on the way. We went out again that night and made it back around the same time. It's funny because the trains and buses stop from about 12 to 5 in the morning, so it kind of forces you to come home early or really early, in the morning. Now it was Sunday and while with Lars we had picked up the tickets he bought for us to go to the Roskilde music festival, which is a massive 4 day festival (July 3-6, around 100,000 people). We woke up and headed on a 20 min train to the festival to set up our tent early and get a good spot, what everyone does. It was absolutely insane, so many people, very diverse crowd.

I just had my first class today (Intro to Marketing) and really enjoyed it, something very practical for later in life. I met some Scandinavians in class who were not part of the international summer university, so they have been living here a while. Overall, I've met a ton of cool people. Unfortunately most of the people in my dorm are Americans, but hopefully we'll keep meeting more and more internationals in random places.