Just got back from a wonderful Danish Christmas dinner held in my kitchen! The people in my hall are great cooks, lol. Well, we had pork, caramel potatoes and red cabbage. For dessert we had “ris ala mata” with cherry sauce. It’s basically some sort of rice with whipped cream and milk and almond nuts, topped with cherry sauce. Only one whole almond is mixed in, and whoever gets the whole almond gets a present! We had a nice time even though I couldn’t understand any of the Danish being spoken at the table. I could, however, pick up a few randon words here and there. But next semester I will be taking a Danish class and will hopefully be able to follow along with coversations to some exent. :-)
Last week the International Students at RSLIS held a Christmas party as well. Everyone brought things they eat for Christmas back at home, so we had a wide variety of foods from many different countries. It was all delicious! Since I didn’t have the time (or the skills) to make anything (at that time I was still trying to finish up my project paper), I brought popcorn, popped over the stove!
The Danes really get into the Christmas spirit. The Christmas decorations around town are wonderful. I will try to take some more pictures of them later before I leave to go home!
One more thing — apparently there was a minor earthquake this morning. The epicenter was somewhere in the southern part of Sweden, not too far from Malmo. Some people in Copenhagen felt the tremors. I slept right through it. Man, the first earthquake I ever experience and I sleep through it. Oh well.
Well, the semester is winding down. I haven’t been updating because I was working on my project paper. I was working with a partner and we turned it in this past Friday! The oral exam is next Friday, the 19th. I’ve never taken an oral exam before but I hope it goes well. In the exam, we have to defend our paper. Our paper took a look at knowledge management strategies in Facebook. We used 3 theories to analyze all of the ways in which to create and share knowledge in Facebook and concluded that while Facebook manages knowledge, there isn’t one single theory that can explain how it does so. It was an interesting project and it could be expanded upon in the future (ahem, possible Master’s Paper?).
Well, I have uploaded tons of new photos on Flickr. I will be back later with a more detailed post on other fun things I have been up to over the past few weeks (besides the paper, lol).
I opened my email this morning and found this message via Flickr:
Hi Michelle,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo
has been selected for inclusion in the newly released fifth
edition of our Schmap Copenhagen Guide:
Botanical Gardens
http://www.schmap.com/copenhagen/tours_tour5/p=80030/i=80030_21.jpg
If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link
will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version
of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see
exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the
iPhone version of our guide at:
Botanical Gardens
http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=copenhagen&sid=tours_tour5&p=80030&i=80030_21
Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to check
out the customizable widgetized version of our Schmap
Copenhagen Guide, complete with your published photo:
http://www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=83416482N00/c=SH18011417
Thanks so much for letting us include your photo – please
enjoy the guide!
Best regards,
Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
Wow. I first heard from her a few weeks ago when she sent me a Flickr message informing me that my photo was shortlisted for inclusion. I filled out a form giving them permission to include it, but I never thought that it would actually be included! Wow. I mean, the photo that they selected is not the one I would have picked (since I took several better ones while I was at the gardens), but it’s still an honor! I’ve never had a photo of mine be used in anything (except for when I had to take some sports shots for the yearbook back in high school, but that’s not an accurate comparison I was already on the staff).
Cool!
