This is outside of Christenborg Palace: This old palace holds the royal horses, Parliament meets at the palace next door.

Well, I have officially made it through my first three weeks of classes. Tomorrow I have a walking tour around Copenhagen (theme: Kierkegaard was once here), and a meeting at the Red-Green Alliance Party Headquarters (Denmark's resident crazy-Communist party). Somewhere in that time, I need to rewrite a paper and pack for my weekend tour of Western Denmark.
This is the plus side of DIS classes: everything is a fieldtrip or a study tour. I'm not really sure what we're doing for our study tour...it's supposedly the philosophy tour, but according to the schedule they gave us, we are going to lectures on the Mohammed cartoons and American television programming...I'm really not sure what the connection is. Being the philosophy tour, it is a generally great group of kids, and we all seem to be excited about tramping around Denmark to see places Kierkegaard once visited. I personally have high hopes for out little adventure. Our tour leader is my Kierkegaard prof, and he is more than a little exuberant about the whole thing. He basically planned the tour around what he would like to do (and I'm assuming what he thinks we would like to see).

Some more pictures of Copenhagen:




















Denmark does not have gangs, they have groups of punks. Large groups of these children are seldom seen, but when the temperature reaches more than 60 degrees farenheight, everyone comes out to the city.