Yesterday morning I went and registered as a Danish resident, so I am one of those now. And in the afternoon I went to Tivoli with a couple of girls from my course. Tivoli is an amusement park with loads of restaurants and rides, it also has a concerthall (which shows musicals and plays) and an outside rock venue. We wandered around for a while and then watched a free ballet production of Swan Lake.
Anyway its pretty cool - check it out.
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Watched a free ballet show
Afterwards we strolled around town and had a pint in the Dubliner on Strøget, the main shopping street. My pint of Stella cost DKK53 which is approximately £5.95 and I'm not going to lie, I was very angry! But you live and you learn. After that we went to the FridayBar at CSS which is like a Students Union, but the students actually run everything. Here I got two cans of Carlsberg for DKK20 so I was placated. Had a really good night, danced around and met some new people. Got the Metro home - this city is incredibly safe.
This is very long already but I'm going to include today as well. My mother arrived at my apartment just after 10AM and I gave her the tour. Then we walked down my road to Frederiksberg Town Hall and went to a 2nd hand market as I was in need of a couple of things for my room.
Around the front of the town hall there were a couple of weddings finishing and also some kind of charity event with live music. Everything melded together beautifully and we both got wet eyes at one of the just married couples, they were so happy and unpretentious, she was wearing a denim jacket over her short white dress.
We got lunch at this amazing Italian Cafe across the street from my flat and it was one of the yummiest sandwiches I have ever eaten. Yum yum yum. We walked up to the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen which is meant to be hip and cool and multi-cultural - and it is all of these things. During our wandering we happened across Nørrebro-parken where there was another 2nd hand market and also some kind of summer fete which had a rap crew competition and a bouncy castle.
On our way back to my apartment we took a side street which had this crazy house with crazy decorations. I was really interested because the street was completely normal and this house was mental. It had a sign outside that said ISLAMER UDANSK, which I guessed meant Islam in Denmark because this is a very diverse area of the city. I googled it when we got back and it actually means Islam un-Danish so thats horrible. Good example of how Denmark is just like anywhere else though - there are always the insane.
Gosh, this entry is going on forever, I promise I'm nearly done. We also walked home via the churchyard that Hans Christian Andersen is buried in.
Urgh the length of this entry makes me feel a tad sick. I would apologise but that would be insincere - ENJOY!
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