Today I said good bye to my sister and her friends who have been with me in Copenhagen for the last few days helping me settle in (my parents who came a long with me on the flight left yesterday morning). This week has been... crazy? A constant whirlwind of events, this week has been filled with a million and one new and insane things for me.
Copenahagen is beautiful, unique, UNREAL and so different from Canada. Getting around it has been my main focus these last few days. Most people here bike or use the metro which I am proud to say I am quite accomplished at by now. I also started my danish language course this week because although everyone here speaks english, all the signs, menus, etc, are in danish, and it would be very nice to not have to stare confusingly at people when they try to talk to me (or me laughing awkwardly and pretending to know what they say, only to be returned with an another confused look..). I've met many amazing people already from around the world. Many of my friends come from Austrailia and it now seems that the Canadians and Austrialians have forged together into one big group very quickly.
A bunch of us went ice skating after class the other day where I was able to show off my inability to skate and apparent "canadian shamefulness" for not being good at one of our national sports. We also have a habit of running off after class to a pub for a pint of Carlsberg (the danish home beer) or my personal favourite, european hot chocolate.
The food in Copenhagen is delicious! Expensive, but worth ever penny..or kroner. I have developed a diet of morning coffee and danish's (yes they are still called danish's in Denmark... although they are a million times better here), lunch danish's and chocolate milk, and wine and danish's for dinner...dear mom and dad you will have to roll me home from europe as I don't think I will be able to walk by the end of this!
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| Diana, Erin, Skip and I loving life infront of the Little Mermaid |
But walking seems to be the primary mode of transportation (besides bikes) which is what I tend to be doing at all hours of the day. Today my sister and I along with her 2 friends and 2 boys from New Zealand who decided to tag along, went sight seeing around the city. One of the main attractions we were determined to see was the famous statue of the Little Mermaid. A long the way we journied through the Royal Palace's courtyard just in time to get to see the changing of the guards, which is a huge, historic traditon in countries with monarchy's like Denmark, and entails a parade of guards with band music and marching. This happens every day at noon and lasts about an hour. We also ventured to Christiania, which I will have to explain in another blog because it could probably take up an entire page. Let's just say it is quite the interesting place...
But for now I am still settling into my apartment and meeting people who live around me. Tomorrow I have class early in the morning and then hopefully getting a cell phone finally. I am certain this is going to be a very interesting and unreal next few months, can't wait!
Missing everyone back in Canada! :)
xox
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