Friday, August 8, 2008

I got a call from Copenhagen today...

It was the housing coordinator for DIS. She told me that she found what appears to be the perfect family for me to live with for my time in Denmark.

The parents are both Architects.
They are musicians.
They have two kids. (one boy, one girl)
They enjoy cooking. (= good food, also, I too enjoy cooking)

Could it get any better for me? I think not. I am so excited to get to meet them.

The reason I was called is that the family lives farther away than they typically like to place architecture students. Architecture students like myself will be needing to spend a lot of time at school, and so a longer commute can complicate everything. I was told that between where the family lives and DIS is a 55 min commute.

She (the housing coordinator) asked me if I was ok living with a longer commute. I told her that I would not want to pass up the opportunity to live with such a seemingly perfectly matched family. The cost of a slightly longer commute is well worth it for me in order to get to live with this family.

I am very very excited to get to meet my host family and to share my life with them for 9 months.

Next week I should be receiving an email with more information about my host family and how to get in contact with them. Stay posted.

4 comments:

David said...

I think what you need to be asking yourself (CRAP A GIANT BUG JUST RAN OVER MY FOOT) is how you're going to be doing the commuting. I'm guessing car access will be pretty minimal? If you're taking the metro or something where you're not the one concentrating, you can do all sorts of fulfilling/useful things during that 50 min commute (e.g. reading, homework, macking, etc.)

Steve said...

yup I will be using the bus/metro. Copenhagen has a very good public transportation system so it should work out just fine.

The plus side to having a longer commute is the school will provide me with a better bus pass that allows to travel to more "zones" than if I was living really close to the school. This allows me to get around more of Copenhagen for free. :)

Daniel Nelson said...

Pure awesomeness. I approve.

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