Jeg kan ikke tale engelsk.

don't be fooled into thinking that the title of this post is pronounce "jeg kan ikke tale englesk"
no.
not even close.

so danish classes started last week
wow.
gong. show.
fortunately, i'm not doing it for credit, which means that i just have to put in enough effort to not completely embarrass myself. unfortunately, the amount of effort that it's gonna take just to get by is more than any of my credit courses combined.
i'm not trying to be judgmental, and i know i should be very PC and anthropology and blah blah blah. and i know that learning english is no piece of cake either...
but seriously.
danish is ridiculous.
written danish and spoken danish DO NOT MATCH EVEN A LITTLE BIT.
for example
the word "selvfølgelig" is pronounce "seføli"; "Jeg er" is pronounced "Yai"; and "hedder" is pronounced "he&$#ea" (weird sound that we don't have in english... it's like trying to pronounced a "d" without letting your tongue leave the bottom of your mouth) (wtf)
our most common in-class and homework activity is to listen to the cd that is saying the sentences that we have written in our book. and we have to go through the written sentences and cross out the letters that don't get pronounced and then circle the letters that are not pronounced 'the way they should be'. needless to say, by the time you get through it, there are so many marks on each sentence that you can't even read it anymore.

anyways
i'm not angry.
not frustrated.
no way.
i'm pretty much fluent.
also, the work book is very lovely and pretty, and i've got a system involving three different pens and a pencil. (taryn, you would be proud)
Fluency. i kid you not.

anyways
remember how i was saying that this all just felt like a "holiday" so far? ya. well. that all pretty much flew out the window sometime last week. all of a sudden i'm in way over my head. between the danish classes and the confusing poli-anthropological banter about networks and contextualization, and all the strange techno clubs, and the huge group presentation that i have to do on wednesday (1 hour, seven people. topic: Ethnicity and Political Anthropology), and the major important job interview that i have tomorrow, i'm just tryin to get by. also i keep making stupid mistakes like scheduling important group meetings at the same time as i'm supposed to have a class and deciding to dissect my outlet adaptor with my swiss army knife, thereby ruining the only way that i have to power my computer. et cetera.
somewhere between our quiet day in sweden last saturday, and waking up to a house full of empty beer cans this morning (eerr... afternoon), everything took a very strange turn.

it's fine though. i'm actually having a blast.
but yeah. everybody who i said i'd phone but then didn't, and to who i owe emails and fb msgs, etc (you know who you are), i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry. i think after wednesday things will stabilize a little. i think. maybe. i'll keep you posted.

pictures? ummm check facebook. it think there might be some unfortunate recent tags on me.
but here's a few more city shots and one of me and my housemate.

((oh one more thing - shouts out to my lil shvester and the KC senior girls' vball team! good luck at bartlett this afternoon! you were born ready.))

that look pretty much sums up my thursday night, i think.

looking out my window towards the just-set sun

the main KU library. hogwarts, anyone??? (there are even those old-school slidey ladders to get up to the high shelves!)

graffiti near my house

i really like this one.

until next time-

flowers and spring showers,

-ama