Hi, and welcome to my blog! A week from today, I'll be just about ready to leave for Copenhagen! It's hard to believe, because it feels like I still have so much left to do (include pack, which you all know is not my forte) but there is it. I (finally!) received my housing information - I'll be living in a kollegium (basically like a dorm) in the Trekroner neighborhood of Roskilde, a city about 40 minutes by train and foot from the center of Copenhagen, where I'll be attending classes. It'll be totally different from what I'm used to at Smith, where I can get anywhere on campus in under 10 minutes and all of my classes are located less that 3 minutes from my dorm. In addition to getting used to commuting to school, I'll also be cooking entirely for myself for the first time in my life, and all that goes along with that, including grocery shopping and working with a weekly budget. I'm nervous about both commuting and cooking for myself, but I'm sure I'll get used to it in no time and will have a hard time readjusting to life at Smith next fall!
I signed up for a visiting family, an option DIS (Danish Institute for Study Abroad, where I'll be studying) gives to students not living with a host family so they can still meet a Danish family and do things like eat dinner and go on outings together, but I haven't heard whether or not I've been assigned a family. I hope I do get one though, because I think it'll make the transition to living independently a little bit easier if I know I have a family somewhere in the city that I can contact if I'm feeling really far outside of my comfort zone.
Alright, I think that's it for now! This is my first time blogging aside from occasional blog posts for classes, so I'll do my best to keep you all updated as often as I can, but once classes start up and I begin exploring both Copenhagen and Roskilde more, I don't know how often I'll realistically be posting.
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