Now, for my weekend! I had a fairly boring weekend, I just stayed home for most of it. Today I woke up and showered, then Amanda and I played a number of games together. She just came to my room and looked like she wanted to do something, which I liked. Her English is becoming really good! And its coming to her quicker now too- though I wonder if it is a little bit because she isn't as shy now as she used to be? Her English teacher has asked me to come to her class on Monday the 29th, which I'd love to do, but I have class until 1 and he wants me to get there at 12:30... There is an express bus I can take right to her school, or I can take the metro to the train and be there pretty fast too, but I can't get there much before 1:30 and I think her school is over at 2? We'll work it out though. Anyway, after we played MANY games, I had to clean my room... And Amanda asked if she could help! So we cleaned my room. I think she mostly wanted to spend time with me? I don't know. Then I let her use my internet cord for her computer so she could try that out. So I did some reading while she played games until lunch (at 2:30...) It was a good morning :) After that, I came down to do research... a little on Poles in Lithuania... really interesting. Poland and Lithuania used to be one country, then they broke apart, only to have Poland invade the part of Lithuania that Vilnius is in... Then Russia came and helped Lithuania kick Poland out... And they succeeded... But Then Poland came right back. So, needless to say, there's a large Polish minority in that area. After I did a bit of that, I had to do research on a Danish Political party for one of my classes because we're having a debate on Tuesday... Only, all the websites with information about the political parties are, well, in Danish. And, since I don't know Danish... that makes research awfully hard... We'll keep trying some other time. After that I called my papa (Hi Dad!!!) and headed up to spend some time with Pia and Amanda. We watched a Danish TV show... I don't really know what was going on. People were angry, someone got cheated on, someone lost all of their money and a guy ended up in Africa. It was in Danish. And, now I'm down in my room again.
Yesterday was even less exciting, if that's possible... I woke up late (noon!!!) and the house was EMPTY. I was rather confused, so I just sat in my room and read for... 6 hours? Homework. I did get all but 2 readings done for the week, so that's nice :) I also tried to start booking my travel break... But that proved to be rather difficult... I'll be in Lithuania. And I found a 10$ flight from Riga, Latvia to London... And I know EuroLines busses has a 20$ bus to take me from Vilnius to Riga... But I couldn't figure out how to buy tickets for the bus and I didn't want to buy the flight unless I knew I could get there in time... So then I got frustrated and gave up. By the way, if any of you are free for the week of Oct 20-25 and would like to visit Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin... Let me know! I would *LOVE* to have you as a travel buddy! Otherwise, I'll be travelling alone. Without a cellphone or a computer since I'm only bringing 1 backpack for 3 weeks... Travelling light. Anyway. After that, Amanda came downstairs and had me set up her brand new computer and told me dinner was on the stove. So I set up the computer and went and ate before doing more homework, talking to Mikes and my Mom and heading out to go to the bar with Kara. Only, neither of us knew where the good bars were... So we ended up at the student house. And then came home at 11:30. I had a really good drink though! Sommersby... its apple cider. But cold, and in a bottle.
Now, FRIDAY. Friday was good. Friday was TIVOLI! And its the reason I went backwards- I was saving the best for last :)
Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park RIGHT in the middle of downtown Copenhagen! It was built during a war to keep peoples' spirits up. AND its its last week open. So admission and a all-rides pass was only 100 kr (20$!!!) And it was *SO* worth it. I had a blast! I went with Kara and Gabi and we tried to go on all the rides. It was lots of fun. The best ride there were the swings:
Yes, they're swings. Just like the classic swings that spin you around so you go up... Only these swings are 83 meters up in the air! You get a GREAT view of the city :) Basically amazing. Other notable things about Tivoli before I just give you pictures... Tivoli is great. The food is even really good! Denmark has really high health standards, so the burger I had that was FABULOUS. You can buy cotton candy there too... but its bigger than your head. In fact, its TWICE as big as your head. I didn't buy any. Also, every food stand sells beer. And then, if you don't want to wait in line at the food stand, you can just go to the tent thats selling beer. At the amusement park. And no one cares. Its partially because, while people drink a lot, no one gets 'publicly drunk' to the point where they're disruptive. Probably lots of other reasons too... But thats for another time. Now, pictures.
In the fun house! This was spinning like a hamster wheel. The whole fun house was AMAZING. AND built inside the roller coaster! It had fun lights and moving bridges and spinning things... Great fun.
The ROLLER COASTER. It is the oldest operating wooden roller coaster. Its so old that this guy sits in the middle of each of the trains with a brake so you don't go down the hills too fast.
Okay. So. Its a small world? No. This is the ride where you sit in a treasure box and it tells you all of HC Anderson's stories while you go past beautiful puppets reinacting each story.
This food stand was IN a landrover! It was pretty cool.
In China Town. By the big roller coaster. It was a good roller coaster. A bit short, but good. Loved how tacky China Town was. There was even a fake great wall. And the food stands, which were named "Asian Station" sold hamburgers and hotdogs... which we thought was rather funny.
LOOK! Its me and Hans Christian Anderson! Okay. So this isn't in Tivoli... Its right across the street by my bus stop. But still...
Carousel! I rode the GIRAFFE. It was really tall.
Creepy statue by the front of Tivoli... Nothing says 'WELCOME TO TIVOLI' like this creepy face...
Castle thing in Tivoli... It lights up at night!
Me on the octopus/squid ride thing. Yay for children's rides :)
Kara and Gabi on the octopus/squid (we couldn't decide) ride!
Entrance to China Town. haha :)
And thats about all I have for you for this weekend. This week, I have a presentation, a debate, another presentation and I have a guest lecturer and friends are coming to visit(!!!) and tomorrow is cooking class... And then on Saturday... LEGOLAND!!! Why? Because legos were invented here and they have a HUGE legoland and *I* am very excited. You'll get pictures on Sunday, no worries :)
**PS: as always: there are more pictures on my photobucket. I took over 50 pictures. I think there are 15 here? I didn't count. So, there are lots more.
**PS: as always: there are more pictures on my photobucket. I took over 50 pictures. I think there are 15 here? I didn't count. So, there are lots more.
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