Monday Monday

I really don't have much to say today. I got up at 6:30 as usual and got ready for work. I tried to leave a little earlier than normal because I was planning on buying my monthly pass. Caught the bus to Hellerup Station and went in to buy my pass. I had my picture and my address written down and thought I was all set. The lady asked me for the zones I wanted and when I told her 1,2,41, and 51 she looked puzzled. She pulls out the zone map of Copenhagen and, as it turns out, I can't get from 2 to 41 without passing through another zone. I had no idea. So I had to quickly change my zones and then she printed the pass. By this point there was quite the line of people (there was only one woman working at the time) and I felt embarrassed but, honestly, who cares? I needed the pass; they need passes; we all have to wait our turn. So then I was off to the train. It was a 5 minute wait then a two minute wait once I got to Jaegersborg for the local train. Believe it or not I was at work, at my desk, before 8:45! Crazy! I had both the reactions planned for the day up and running before 9:30 and, because of our current experiment plan, would spend the rest of the day researching, reading, and taking observations. I was a bit tired, though, so reading patents and journal articles on the computer didn't help things.

Speaking of reading, oh my goodness, some of these patents have the most ridiculous grammatical errors! Language barriers are easily understood but mistyping something and not checking it? Many of the patents I read today were from 2000 to the present. We have spell check, people! Haha, ah, it makes me life and at the same time cringe. Oh, remember how I said I was tired? Yeah, by 10:30 I'd have two cups of hot chocolate and 4 of water. :-D Those free coffee machines are pretty sweet. Ha, no pun intended.

Anywho, lunch was nice. There's a big festival thingy (name is escaping me right now) this week so Arkady is gone. Klas will be gone starting Wednesday but was at lunch with me and Esben today. We exchanged weekend stories (though definitely did NOT discuss my Friday lost dinner story) and I asked questions about the festival. I'd like to compare it to Summerfest but that would be way off. Apparently there are stages all over, much like Summerfest, but people camp out ALL WEEK. The bands don't actually start playing till Thursday but people are still there, partying like nobody's business. Kind of sounds like a chance for people to return to college for a week. :-)

I left work and was home by 5:30 and went grocery shopping. I bought some bbq marinated meat (I think it was a pork product of some kind) and it was delicious! Then I just relaxed and wrote e-mails. My throat has been bothering me today, much like it did near the beginning of finals week, so I'm hoping to sleep it off and not have another sinusy thing wrong with me. It's still beautiful here. I know many of you are in the middle or end of huge heat waves but we've had 70s here and between 2-7 it's really rather warm.

I'm sure I'll remember something that I forgot to write. I'm much better today after yesterday's adventure. I'm still coming to terms with the fact that it is totally okay to speak English and to not feel badly (well, at least not too badly) but it is getting easier each day.

Prayer requests for today: my throat is number one because I do not want to be sick here. Pray that I would be open and patient as I meet new people and to remember Europe is not the States so while I may expect some things to be the same they very well may not be. And also pray that I stand firm. As of yet I haven't felt my faith has been attacked but I know it will come. It always does. God is good, all the time, even when I cannot see it. :-)

Have a great night/day/afternoon!
Bekah