Food, Folks, Festivities, and Fun

My apologies for the delay in posts! There's just so much to do and so little time (to write blog posts). And so much has happened within the past week that I don't think I can remember or write about it all! But I'll try my hand at it.

Kartoffelkage

TUESDAY: Class. Lunch. Went to La Glace, the oldest patisserie in Denmark, and got a Kartoffelkage (translated in English to "potato cake" because it looks like a potato). Yum yum yum! Definitely going back for the hot chocolate. Walked to Christianshavn, the district across the river. Climbed up Our Savior's Church, which has the best view of Copenhagen from the top. It was super windy up on the spire, but the views were definitely worth it. Visited Christiania, and it started raining, so we took the Metro home for the first time, which was of course very easy.

View from the top of the spire

WEDNESDAY: Extended class. Our floor walked to Nyhavn and took pictures and ate dinner at an (overpriced) Italian restaurant there. And at midnight my floormate Brian turned 21, so we lit sparklers in the courtyard and sang to him.

THURSDAY: Class. Studying (yep mom, you heard me) for a quiz, and then Distortion! It's the massive street festival with music and parties, and it was crazy indeed. But we met some awesome Danes and saw a new part of the city, so what could be better?

Frederiksberg

FRIDAY: Class. Rocked that quiz (proud of me, mom?). Lunch at Sandwich Pigen, which we learned is not pronounced like "pigeon" but rather "peen," which just goes to show how much I don't understand Danish. A rather horrendous adventure to Frederiksberg Gardens where we took a bus in the wrong direction and ended up riding the bus for 90 minutes instead of 15. Oops. And then we thought we were in the gardens but were actually in a cemetery. Double oops. But once we made it to the gardens, they were lovely! Came back, had a bagel and lox from Hey Bagel, wrote a paper (SEE MOM, I'm so studious!), and went to bed early because on the weekend I went to....

WEEKEND: SWEDEN!!! Yep, I went on a DIS Hiking, Canoeing, and Rappelling trip in the Kullenberg Peninsula of Sweden. We took a bus and ferry over to Sweden, canoed down a river Saturday morning, had Swedish stew and bread for lunch, did the hardest hike of my life down to and back up from the beach in the afternoon, and ended the day with a delicious American barbecue and bonfire. Then on Sunday, we went rappelling down cliffs at the beach and hiked some more, stopping at a quaint bakery/cafe for tea and cake before heading back to Copenhagen. All in all, a fantastic weekend, and my tiredness and soreness proves it.

Canoeing

We'll see what this week has in store for me!