Gosh, I have no idea what I have done for the last few days - its been snowing for 7 days here and the temperature is pretty consistently below 0.C at all times. It is occupying my mind.
On Thursday Matt came round mine and we played my guitar and listened to the White Stripes, then went for a very cold walk round the block in the snow, was pretty nice.
Friday I went to the library for a bit and then did a spot of shopping, and the snow felt like it was clearing up a bit. Emailed my petitum to my Climate Change lecturer Jakob and felt relieved - as it was the deadline. Charlie came round for dinner and we went to the shop and in this short amount of time, my normally busy road had been swept away in a flurry of snow, everything was completely covered. And the Falkoner Alle Christmas lights had been put up, they are so pretty. We had a huge meal and then went to Alex's house and then on to RUST where it was Hip Hop night, it was so good to hear some live music. We walked there through the freezing night so I had to walk home through the snow-filled backstreets of Norrebro at 4am.
Slept until 12 and did some useful stuff round the apartment and chatted with Si. In the evening I went to half-priced dinner with Matt, Lorelai, Pauline, Max and Max's visiting friend - it was good, but I hadn't eaten all day so I thought 'oh good, now i can eat loads' but found it really hard to finish my vegetable lasagne. Weird. On leaving the restaurant, I realised how incredibly cold it is in Denmark at the moment -it was -4.C. In November!
On Sunday I slept for a crazy amount of time and emerged from my room with sleepy eyes to Simon having done loads already with his day. Rubbish. I got up and vacuumed the entire apartment, played guitar, read a book, etc - all the stuff I always do. Managed to sort out my life a bit, making lists, lists, lists. While a snowstorm brewed outside.
Today I got up early, went to the shops looking for a pair of boots. Then I studied for a good couple of hours and tried not to slip on the compacted snow. I have decided to do the Danish Language pre-semester course in January as I will be here anyway and I have no plans. Haha. Also made lots of suggested changes to my petitum, ready for our final lecture of Climate Change on Thursday - it has definitely been my favourite class this semester so I will miss it. Our lecturer works at the Ministry of Finance and is going to COP-16 in Mexico as part of the Danish team - good man! Also got told 'of course' I was English - didn't really know what that meant. -4.C again on my way home at 6pm and I've just seen the forecast that says that Friday night will be -12.C. DENMARK IS COLD!
PS. After class today, me and Max saw loads of bikes completely covered in actual ice and Max ripped an icicle off one of them.
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