Friday
I went to Tivoli with Taylor and Josie for the last Friday concert of the year.
The bands were Veto and The Floor is Made of Lava and from the singing Danes it sounded like they were pretty popular bands.
I had ice cream with a flødeboller in it, and later I got a dark beer that Josie said tastes like ass after she tried it. She obviously doesn't know beer, lol.
Saturday
Taylor and I went to a flea market (loppemarked) with my buddy network.
But I got there 40 minutes early so I was just browsing around Nørrebro and I found this great market square with fudge and pastries and bread and chocolates and soaps and coffee and it was wonderful to look at and to smell.
We went to a tiny flea market and then to a big one on the sidewalk of a street. No one bought anything, but it was still fun. I think I need to hit up the Red Cross's thrift shop now, because there are at least three in the area and they look like Goodwill.
The buddy network coordinator, Jo (pronounced Yo), baked some bread/buns and brought cheese and fruit and a picnic blanket so we went to a big cemetery/park and had a cute little lunch.
That's Jo on the right and her good friend from Norway. They are super nice and funny and friendly.
We found Hans Christian Andersen's tombstone.
Then I took Taylor to the market square and we admired all the yummy things there and bought some fresh squeezed orange juice. These are Danish strawberries, small but tasty like the ones I had in Paris.
I asked Taylor to come with me to see an apartment that I was checking out for my mom and grandma for when they visit, and we were early so we stopped in an adorable cafe. It had antique lights and furniture and delicious chai tea.
Then we went to Christianshavn.
And then we visited Christiania. It was established by squatters so they haven't paid taxes in a very long time and I think now they have to. It's filled with street art and artists and cafes and smoke and marijuana. It's also on a river or lake or something and it's very overgrown and green and the houses are strange but cool. It's very interesting.
I was getting very tired so I went home for dinner. Bjarne and Linda had some friends over, so they cooked a three course meal. The starter was a bruschetta, then we had salad and potatoes and bacon-wrapped steak. The finale was a pandekage (Danish pancake, actually a crepe) flambé with vanilla bean ice cream and tons of fresh fruit. We had wine and I tried some old rum and some Polish mead. Simon left before dessert and Chloe and I stayed for hours. I got home around 8:30pm and I left the dinner table around 2am. It was pretty fun because they tried to speak to us in English and they were telling us stories and it was great and we were laughing the whole time.
Sunday
Today I went fishing with DIS people in Helsingør, a northeastern coast town where Kronborg castle is (where Hamlet is set).
This was our fishing boat.
It was very windy and it was drizzling on and off. I couldn't wear the gloves I brought because they would get wet and fishy so my hands were cold and my face was cold. I was proud of myself for going out there and fishing, though. How Danish am I?
This is the Hamlet castle.
Look, I'm a fisherman.
It took me forever to catch this fish.
By the time we left, I had caught 6 fish. I caught a mackerel and 5 herring. Some other girls who lived in a dorm didn't want to keep all their fish so they gave me some. It was really fun and I unhooked some of my fish and everything! But I did ask the guy next to me to unhook some of them... Haha. Some people caught a huge cod that was bigger than all my fish combined, and some people caught about 15 fish but I'm happy I only had to carry home about 10 because there are so many bones in the herring that I don't think my family really likes eating them.
This is my bag of fish that I took on the train and the bus home.
The back tire of my bike was flat this morning, so I went to check the bus times but I wasn't going to make it so I decided to bike to the train station anyway. It was super difficult and noisy and everyone who was out walking their dogs was staring at me like, "Why are you riding a bike with a flat tire?" Because I thought it would still be faster than walking but it was horrible, haha.
When I got back, I left my bike at the train station and took the bus home with my fish. Linda drove me back to the station and we picked up my bike and took it home and I think Bjarne fixed the wheel :) Then they grilled up my fish and made gnocchi and grilled veggies and we tried to pick all the bones out but it was pretty hard to eat. Tasty, though.
I did my part, though. I went out into the wild and the cold and I brought home dinner.
And now I am very tired.
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