Friday I got up and went to class. I tried this danish breakfast thing... koldskal? which is some sort of thick milk thing but is served with little cookies? The milk is like sour though (not like sour milk... but like sour... candy?) the cookies are good in it though. Then I was off. I went to my migrants, minorities and multiculturalism class. It should be REALLY interesting. Kinda intimidating though... Lots of interviews... lots of work with refugees. I'm REALLY looking forward to the field studies to... the red cross and another place. I'm sure you'll hear about them. After that, I went with Gaby and this other girl I don't know... And we went to H&M and I got a shirt for the nightclub we were going to later (DIS opening party.)
The shirt.
then we went down and bought school supplies (they hadn't gotten them yet...) Not so exciting. Anyway, I went home and met host brother, Andreas, ate dinner (salmon... but it was good???) and headed out. The party was at the Luux... which is known as the 'snobby' club, but it was all DIS students, so it wasn't bad. On the way there, I was waiting with some other students and we met a nice Aussie who invited us on a bar crawl this thursday. He vowed to show us all the cheap/fun places around. So thats cool. Don't know if we'll go yet! Anyway, at the club, DIS bought us all 2 free drinks... so I tried a sea breeze (they made it with pineapple, cranberry and vodka) and a uhm... sand in your shorts (that of course is OJ, cranberry and vodka.) Then, we left. Everything was SUPER expensive there. (Mixed drinks were over 100 kr! Over 20$. No. not happening!) So, we went to the scottish pub. "We" being a bunch of people from gettysburg. Me, Megan Poms, Tommy Bruno, Katherine Hickey, Abby Downs and another very nice girl whos name I don't know how to spell who I had never met before even though she goes to my school.
So, we found a table (the only one left!!!) and sat down and listened to the American music being played by some guy up front. Then, these slightly middle-aged norwegians started talking to us. One was SUPER impressed that I studied minority issues since he is Sami (reindeer hearding indigionus people in the north). We ordered carlsburg (which, according to the sign in the square, is 'probably the best beer in town' and is the local brew) which wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be. Maybe its just good beer? I don't know. It was my first time trying it. Its kinda expensive here: 50 kr = 10$ for a pint! After a while, they showed up with a tray full of shots... They had bought us all drinks! I'd never done a shot before, but wasn't horrible. It tasted like black licorice. Not long after we had to run to catch busses. It was only midnight... but busses run until 12:30... then no transit until 2 AM when the night bus starts and we're not into staying out as late as the danes... So i took my normal bus back and made it home safe :)
This morning I got up and got ready to go to Amanda's school thing... but was ready late and then we couldn't find the bike lock key... so we could only take 1 bike so I just went to school for the cafe tour. Which was good since I was almost late anyway. The cafe tour wasn't too exciting... We went to a part of town that was being gentrified... so it used to be the meat-packing area and now its making the transition to being artsy and bohemian, with more students and upstanding citizens than before... Was interesting.
Fountain! This was the nice bit of town that had already been gentrified.
This was nice bit too. See that building with the arch? Yeah. That's a mural. It tricked us. Its pretty much awesome.
This was the not-so-nice bit... Former meat packing plant that they're selling to artists...
This is that same building as the last picture. Turned into an AWESOME trendy bar/cafe you can't really see the amazing decor here, but just trust me, its amazing.
This is that same building as the last picture. Turned into an AWESOME trendy bar/cafe you can't really see the amazing decor here, but just trust me, its amazing.
This is the fountain right outside the bar. its a hexagon, but the sides go up and down so you can stand in the middle and things.
This was the fountain and the cafe right in front of it :)
This was the fountain and the cafe right in front of it :)
Anyway, after that we headed toward Vesterbro and saw a very small coffee shop and some other cute cafes. And this building:
After that, the tour was over. We were hungry, so we headed across the street to the ice cream place, planning on getting 15 kr soft-ice. That didn't happen. We walked in and the very nice man excitedly welcomed us to his ice cream shop and asked us if we wanted ice cream the danish way. We, of course, said yes! So he put three scoops of different flavors in a cone, put a giant marshmellow coated in chocolate on top, covered it all with vanilla soft-ice and put a lollipop in it! We all got different flavors that he picked out for us. And, you know what the best part was? it came to 90 kr! thats 30 kr each. So all of that for $6! Thats a good deal! And it was gormet ice cream too. I had uhm... something banana and peach melba. The peach was AMAZING!!!
After that, the tour was over. We were hungry, so we headed across the street to the ice cream place, planning on getting 15 kr soft-ice. That didn't happen. We walked in and the very nice man excitedly welcomed us to his ice cream shop and asked us if we wanted ice cream the danish way. We, of course, said yes! So he put three scoops of different flavors in a cone, put a giant marshmellow coated in chocolate on top, covered it all with vanilla soft-ice and put a lollipop in it! We all got different flavors that he picked out for us. And, you know what the best part was? it came to 90 kr! thats 30 kr each. So all of that for $6! Thats a good deal! And it was gormet ice cream too. I had uhm... something banana and peach melba. The peach was AMAZING!!!
That's Jacob, Megan and I with our AMAZING ice creams!!!
By the way, it was HOT today, like over 70 F. It was crazy. Totally not prepared for that. Anyway, we walked down to the lakes where the international festival was being held. It wasn't too exciting- had some AMAZING mid-east singer/dancer troupes though! And, of course, the lakes were beautiful! The lakes are where the moat around old Copenhagen used to be... then the wall came down and they filled a lot of the moat in, but theres still some left.
Anyway, after that we headed for Stroget to buy 2 kr post cards! Now I'm home, eating dinner, and doing some homework before heading out to BarBar Bar tonight with Megan and probably some others. Yup yup. Tomorrow Gabi and I are going adventuring around Nyhavn. She hasn't been there and its gorgous so I don't mind going again and I wouldn't mind walking around there a little bit, exploring more. :) Also will have to get home early... I haven't done any work since I got here. WHOOPS.
OH! Some other mini things. So, when I'm taking the bus, people keep talking to me in danish. One older woman started talking to me and she didn't know english and it became REALLY akward... Today the guy behind me started talking to me, but when I told him I only knew english, he understood and said it again in english... which was nice. Then, on the way home, there were two deaf girls talking in Danish Sign Language who sat next to me. I know its rude to stare, but I wanted to see if it was like American Sign Language. It really made me sad I couldn't talk to them about it, for obvious reasons. And it made me miss sign language a lot :( But, I was thinking about it, and being here has given me a better understanding of what its like to be deaf. Like, I can hear people talk, and have NO IDEA what they're saying. They don't either. But they don't know whats being said all the time. I can atleast find people who know english. They can't find people that they can hear. I tried to tell them, in ASL that I knew a little bit of ASL, but i don't know if they understood, and then they were at their stop and had to leave, since I waited until they had stopped talking to tell them/try to talk to them. It was a good expirience though.
By the way! Mike made it to Japan! Yay Mike! His blog is linked over on the left hand navigation panel on the bottom, if you're interested :)
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Lots of pictures of the lakes... Not much to say.
Bridge on the lakes :)
Thats the tallest building- the SAS building, over the lake too! What a nice view!
There are swans EVERYWHERE!
The middle-eastern dancer-singers!!! They were amazing.
Beutiful little park by the lake...
Amazing houses by the lake too, as you might imagine...
Perfect no?
Anyway, after that we headed for Stroget to buy 2 kr post cards! Now I'm home, eating dinner, and doing some homework before heading out to BarBar Bar tonight with Megan and probably some others. Yup yup. Tomorrow Gabi and I are going adventuring around Nyhavn. She hasn't been there and its gorgous so I don't mind going again and I wouldn't mind walking around there a little bit, exploring more. :) Also will have to get home early... I haven't done any work since I got here. WHOOPS.
OH! Some other mini things. So, when I'm taking the bus, people keep talking to me in danish. One older woman started talking to me and she didn't know english and it became REALLY akward... Today the guy behind me started talking to me, but when I told him I only knew english, he understood and said it again in english... which was nice. Then, on the way home, there were two deaf girls talking in Danish Sign Language who sat next to me. I know its rude to stare, but I wanted to see if it was like American Sign Language. It really made me sad I couldn't talk to them about it, for obvious reasons. And it made me miss sign language a lot :( But, I was thinking about it, and being here has given me a better understanding of what its like to be deaf. Like, I can hear people talk, and have NO IDEA what they're saying. They don't either. But they don't know whats being said all the time. I can atleast find people who know english. They can't find people that they can hear. I tried to tell them, in ASL that I knew a little bit of ASL, but i don't know if they understood, and then they were at their stop and had to leave, since I waited until they had stopped talking to tell them/try to talk to them. It was a good expirience though.
By the way! Mike made it to Japan! Yay Mike! His blog is linked over on the left hand navigation panel on the bottom, if you're interested :)
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