My School, it really does exist!

Here it is, the infamous DIS...this is the main building of my school, with only one other large building across the street. It lies on one of the original streets of Copenhagen called Vestergade and the school has been hosting study abroad students since 1959.


We even have gates to let us into the building...and when the school's not open we have to scan our IDs and enter a code and the door automatically opens for us...pretty high tech!


The door to the right and the far-off set of double doors are the entrances to the other building. This alley leads right through to a sort of short cut I found, which is great for those days I catch the "just make it in time" trains to school. :)


There's 4 floors in each building and no elevators! haha, the buildings have been there a long, long time and you can tell they were converted into the school because you have to go up stairs and cut over through some offices to go down other stairs to get to certain departments. Roughly 500 students go here from North America, Russia, and China. So, coming from the big U of M, it's funny to see the same people all the time! I was talking with someone the other day who goes to a college of 1500 students in Iowa who thought this program had way too many students, which is quite the opposite of what I was thinking. I like running into the same people though for the most part and will now have both the extremely large and the extremely small school experiences under my belt.

Classes I'm taking:

• Danish language and culture
• Producing Content for Mass Media (we make videos and write aritcles)
• Pop Culture (we've talked about music, sports, advertising, and graffiti so far)
• Copenhagen: History and Contemporary Urban Issues (we've taken ourselves on tours of Copenhagen and learned about the growth of the city from the Medieval times and on)
• Ancient Art and Archeology (it's interesting things we look at but oh, so boring!)

Well, that's about it...so now you have it...proof there is some truth to the "study" part of this semester!