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Friday, May 11, 2001
So the morning was good today, and so was the afternoon... I rode my bike around the city's fringe neighborhoods and found an awesome, cheap bagel shop. Yay. Then I hung out in a park by a pond and listened to a group of guys play guitar. Had a good discussion with my Kierkegaard prof, too... Found out that Big K says some stuff I wasn't looking for. My final paper topic is about choices and how we should make them. And Big K says nothing about this. And I was all confused, because people call him the philosopher of choices. And it turns out that he says that individual choices are not important, and in fact you will never know how to make them, nor should you attempt to know. You should just want to know, be concerned about following God's will, not society's, and do the best you can. And whatever happens, happens. Then if you made a mistake, you'll be forgiven.
16:55
Today was my host brother's birthday, so everyone woke up early, and he opened presents right away. The whole house is decorated with tons of Danish flags. Then neighbors came over and they joined us for breakfast: rolls, cheese, sweet peppers, croissants and pastry. And black coffee. We sang their birthday song, which involves pretending to play various instruments that the birthday-ee chooses. Then we sang the American song, just for kicks.
14:49
Last night was the most entertaining thing. I went to a concert at my host sibs school, and I thought it was going to be the usual mass of kids singing dreary songs all night. Some of it was -- there were three different choruses that came on and sang songs about spring flowers and stuff. But the kids were so cute it wasn't boring... they were all smiley and blonde and dressed like little trendoids. The other performers, though, got to have more fun: A group of girls came on and sang and danced to ABBA... a few girls sang Billie Halliday, and some kids played as a band -- Not a concert band, a rock band. The bass guitarist kid was hilarious. He came down in baggy pants and T-shirt and a knit hat, totally the opposite of the Euro slick look, and made the 3-finger hand sign up to his friends in the balcony. When they started playing punk, he head-banged through the whole thing. The Danes didn't know what to think. I just wanted to congratulate him after the show, but I didn't see him. ... So after the concert, we came home and my host fam put on ABBA's gold collection. I danced to "Dancing Queen" and felt so Danish.
14:44
"They're real flowers, we can smoke them afterward." -- alterna-Danish kid at a school concert, all the kids got roses for performing
14:36
Thursday, May 10, 2001
i wasn't jumping... for me it was a fall... it's a long way down to nothing at all... - u2 (still listening to the new cd)
18:19
Wednesday, May 09, 2001
You know what? Sometimes I am much more screwed up than I realize. And so are other people. Why do I put this faith in others when they're probably just as messed up as I am?
17:26
"I have a match: your face/ My asking you questions/ you can't answer/ You want to box me?" --Barenaked Ladies, "I Know"
17:04
Tuesday, May 08, 2001
May I never live in a place where there is nothing left to explore.
15:15
Monday, May 07, 2001
Have you ever tried to throw a fresh kiwi onto the roof of a building from across the street? Me neither. But it's fun to watch. ... Today my Nordic Mythology class was absolutely surreal. The prof was going on about something droning, but outside they were repairing the pavement with some machinery that drowned out everything he was saying, so all I could hear was this high-pitched buzz. And I hadn't slept and I hadn't ate, and David was tossing fruit out the window, and I knew the prof was saying something, but nothing made any sense. I accidentally tried writing with my left hand and spelled the word "make" wrong.
11:56
All work and no sleep makes me ill. Actually, it was probably the five hours of chugging coffee and eating sugar.
11:56
A.J.: What's with you today? Yesterday you were normal and today you're like the Chinese guy from the Karate Kid.
Lucas: What's with today, today?
--Empire Records
11:54
Random thought: I wonder sometimes what it means to be a four-month part of peoples' lives. And I wonder about the lost stuff, the stuff I didn't go for and the pieces of life here that I never experienced. It's not regrets. Just wondering about parallel universes.
11:52
Sunday, May 06, 2001
"(Product) placement has been used effectively on `Survivor,' though I think bringing out those bags of Doritos when they were starving seemed a bit awkward." -- Mike Shaw president of sales for ABC
20:50
Realization: It is completely possible to have an excellent day when you have a term paper, a short story, and an essay due tomorrow. Today I learned how to throw a boomerang, flew a kite, rode my new bike (Matilda) through a forest, and had an ice cream cone. My program held a picnic for students and their host families, and the weather was perfect for exercise-type stuff because it was a little chilly but sunny. The boomerang was David's, and the lesson was funny, since I can't really throw much of anything decently, but I got better. The kite was Eric's. And the new bike is actually an old bike that I'm going to sell back in a couple of weeks. But it's gold. How cool is that? My host parents came to the picnic with me, and we brought our bikes, and took a long ride through the forest and then stopped for a soft ice (like a cross between custard and whipped cream) on the way back.
11:59
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