Saturday
My host family took me to Bakken – the oldest, still working amusement park in the world. It was in a really pretty setting – close to the ocean and in the woods. We walked through a park to get inside. We brought the dogs with us and its free to enter so we just walked in and looked around. There were lots of food vendors with fried food, and candy. It smelled delicious at every corner. There were quite a few rides, but not as many big ones as I had expected. We walked around and then found a place to eat. I watched some little kids go one of those free fall rides, but it was a mini version (for the kids) and they loved it. They screamed and giggled the whole time. haha. I also noticed how people of all ages were at Bakken. I saw lots of older couples just walking around, young parents following their kids, teenagers, and lots of people with their dogs. Michael and I went to ride the oldest, wooden roller coaster and it was quite fun. It was later pointed out to me that part of the ride was burned in a fire in like the 1700s. I really enjoyed spending some time with my family away from the house and hopefully we can do more of that with this nice spring weather!
Sunday
Was a chill day, I watched some dvds, did some homework and started setting plans for when I get back to Raleigh to stop by Elon and see some of my graduating friends.
Monday
Was the last day of current trends in the news media! We had hot chocolate and reviewed for the final. In Holocaust we started talking about the Rwandan genocide and I was so disappointed with myself in how much I had already forgotten, even though my research paper was about the Rwandan genocide.
Came home and looked into the American Dance Festival performances for the summer and am pretty excited to go to some more great dance shows with my mom.
Tuesday
We had a guest speaker in Journalism and PR talk about crisis management for VisitDenmark after they had a viral video that didn’t go over so well. It was a video we had watched in advertising, so I already had somewhat of an understanding, but the presentation was provided some very good “lessons learned”. In Advertising we had a guest speaker talk about movie promotion and we looked in to the advertising of Avatar in Denmark. I still have not seen the movie and don’t have a really strong desire to ever see it, but there were definitely a lot of ways they could have creatively advertised it.
Afterward, Joy, Lily and I walked through the King’s Garden at Rosenborg. It is still a little early but we did find a spot with lots of blooming red and yellow tulips. Then we went to the botanical gardens which was pretty big and very peaceful. Even though its right in the middle of the city, with the lake and trees, you feel as though you are far away from the traffic and noise. Lily had fun pronouncing all the scientific names of the plants 
Then we had a simulation for Journalism and PR where we were split into teams and we were the communications department, given tasks to come up with a press policy and then do a press conference for our company. It was a lot more relaxed than the press conference I did last semester for my strategic writing class, and the expectations (like they have been for all my assignments) were very vague, so we didn’t know what we actually needed to do. I felt as though I could not remember anything I have learned in my previous communications classes and it was hard to work with a group of 6 because everyone wanted to participate and add to the discussion – it was overwhelming.
Wednesday
Today I had my final for Current Trends in the News Media. I can’t believe I am done with that class -thank goodness though. To celebrate Rachel, Molly, Lily, Joy and I went to Christiania. Christiania is a self-autonomous commune of about 850 residents in Copenhagen. Marijuana is legal there, so it was just out in the public for people to buy – very strange to see from my perspective. I felt as though I had stepped into another country outside of Denmark – everyone was very relaxed and there were vendors with jewelery, clothes and drug-related things on the street, no photos allowed though. We walked around the residential area – very rugged, old houses that looked really quaint, and along the waterfront. We even ran into another American, Ben, who now lives in Copenhagen.
Off on my last adventure trip tomorrow – to the island of Bornholm for the long weekend!
