Copenhagen Weekend!

March 3rd-5th was the Copenhagen 'Gettogether' for exchange students. Friday started out with me jumping on a train and enduring a 2 hour long ride before being arriving at the Copenhagen Station. All the exchange students got off here and milled about in a confused fashion before a Rotex (young rotary) member put us on the right connecting train to Sjaelor. When we reached our destination we had a night of socialization that was only interrupted by the usual anti alcohol freak out. Some kids were lectured and a lot was confinscated. They ended up with two big boxes filled with the unintelligent people's alcohol. It's a Rotary function! People shouldn't drink!

We woke up on Saturday bright and early (yuck), ate some breakfast and were herded into the gym where they made us run around in circles. After the running we were divided into groups in which we went through several 'tests' to determine teamwork, creativity, ect. My team neither won, nor lost, which was good because the loosers had to clean up the cafeteria when lunch was over. Once everyone ate lunch we were divided up into larger groups. With these groups we first played dodgeball, then basketball, and finally learned how to dance Lancier. Lancier is a traditional Danish dance. Since there were five times as many girls as boys, I had to dance like a man with my partner, Pokchat (Thailand).

I have decided there is no future for me in dancing...

With the athletic stuff finished we had some time to prepare for the gala dinner. Everyone was really dressed up- almost like prom! The only thing spoiling the mood was the fact that dinner was a taco buffet. After dinner we had entertainment from the talented exchange students. As usual, Jordan (Illinois) sang and played the piano ,Michael (Washington) danced ballet, and a Brazilian girl did ribbon dancing. Unusually, Breanne played the violin! Everyone was crying after Jordan's performance (the songs were SAD!) but it was brightened up by a jazz band that performed for us. The entertainment ended and we made our way to the cafeteria which had been made over into a disco and danced, or pretended to dance, until the early morning hours. It was fun, but the Rotex people made me mad when they got smashingly drunk at OUR party after giving everyone a huge lecture on how bad drinking was! Grrr to them and their hypocrisy! I don't mind the rule at all, but I think it was rude for them to make the rules so different for themselves.

Sunday morning ment cleaning and packing up. Arrived home at about 1 pm, but no one was home to pick me up until 3ish so I went down to a little food place that sells everything from hamburgers to Chinese. I had a box of Chinese and struck up a very long conversation with the workers, who had immigrated to Denmark, until my host parents could come get me.