American Stress, Denmark Style

This week has been a week full of unwanted adventures and a lot of stress.  In order to be officially accepted into my summer internship I need to pass a security clearance.  You would think that this would be a simple task seeing as I have never even come close to committing a crime in the United States, or anywhere else for that matter...but simple it was not. 

The major problem was that I needed to get fingerprinted for my clearance.  In the US this is a simple task requiring you just to go to the nearest Police Station.  So naturally I meandered through Copenhagen looking for a Police Station.  I finally found one and went inside to inquire about getting fingerprinted.  The man looked at me like I was crazy and asked what I needed them for.  He informed me that the only people who got their fingerprints taken in Denmark were criminals. I thought about my options at this point, but decided committing a crime in Denmark would not help me in passing my security clearance. 

The next day I meandered over to the embassy... and they were closed.  Naturally the only weekday the embassy is closed is the weekday I don't have classes.  I e-mailed them to no avail, and when I called I got no where.  Finally I got a call back from the embassy and they gave me two options for fingerprinting... Call a PI who would charge a small fortune and might be able to do it, or go to a hospital and see if the morgue could finger print me.  I decided to decline both options...

So I finally accepted the fact that I won't be able to get my fingerprints taken and I won't be able to complete all the forms over here either.  The last problem was that FedEx costs $200 back to the US. So I resolved to use the usual Danish Post and it was much much cheaper and should hopefully still only be a few days late. 

At least it's the weekend now! I think I'm going to tour the Carlsberg Brewery tomorrow, should be fun!