Who would bomb a tanning salon?

Before any daily updates, I really felt like I needed to talk about an incident, or group of incidents, that have been going on in our area these past few days. I can't remember if I wrote about this in the last week or so, but a few Fridays ago there were people setting cars on fire in Copenhagen. It was due mainly to the Mohammed cartoonist conflict from years past in which a Danish cartoonist drew the Muslim god wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse on it. Obviously, Muslims were upset about this and it caused quite a stir back a few years. Well, since Denmark is so liberal about free speech, they reprinted it recently. When Kosovo declared it's independence from Serbia there were demonstrations here in Denmark (and across the world) at the US Embassy. There were a few more political-based acts that spawned from that. The scariest, for me, was the bombing of a tanning salon. Other places like mainland Denmark or government buildings are scary to hear when things like that happen but for some reason knowing that a place I frequent and would never think twice about my safety there really hit hard.

Alright, on a lighter note--the past few days have been filled with workouts, cooking lessons, and a little schoolwork. I really like this new gym I joined, even if it probably was a waste of money since I'll be gone so much traveling. It's really weird too because in the locker rooms everyone showers publicly naked. I guess Midwest America is just not as "open" or whatever because I've never, ever seen/heard of that before. Sooooo weird! Monday Dino and I worked out together, it was nice to have a partner there to keep you motivated and he made me feel less like an outsider there since it was only my second time. During the afternoon, our daily routine lately has been to go to lunch and the library together (me and Dino). After getting some studying done, we go to Fotex and get food to make for dinner. One night we made fajitas, another night we were lazy and starving so we got a frozen pizza, and tonight we made big Italian sub sandwiches. It's fun to try and learn how to cook, but a little intimidating since his mom is such a good cook and I think he tells her how inexperienced at cooking I am. I think his family is really nice, even though I can't speak their language or understand them but whenever he talks to them on the phone they always say hi to me or ask about me.

Besides getting pretty much nothing schoolwork-wise accomplished tonight, we got the email for our Oslo cruise! We leave friday!!!!!!!!!! I'm excited to see something other than CPH for a weekend. Also tonight we had some interesting guests... Ben and Chris (Tordens residents) came in looking for clothes to wear to the 60s party on the cruise. They both snagged some of my tight jeans.. that's a kick to the ego for sure. It was hilarious though, I can't wait to see them at the party.

Other than that, no new news really to report.