Christiania!....that place is so creepy

ok so i thought today was going to be a resting day but nope, that's not what was in store for me

woke up at 11:30 though - slept in

watched pretty little liars (it's actually pretty good show - i really like it lol)

went to class at 2:25 pm and then the professor bored me for the next 2.5 hours (omg he's so boring and it's even worse since you have to listen to him drone on and on for 2.5 hrs)

went to Frederiksberg Centret again with Gloria after class

then while i was walking back, i bumped into Dora, who was going with people from her floor to Christiania - i wasn't planning on going anywhere but what the heck right? there's a group of people going so i dropped off my stuff and then went

as you walk further away from the metro station, it gets more and more ghetto lol with posters on the wall and graffiti and stuff - yea this place is pretty shady



OK here's the interesting stuff

took this picture and then another tourist guy tells me that they don't let you take pictures, so you should put your camera away - i say thank you for telling me

but you know, he really didn't need to tell me since there were basically ten million huge signs saying NO PHOTOS and no camera signs were painted on the walls of buildings

so you wanna know why you can't take pictures?

well, they sell marijuana there and you can sit there and smoke it and stuff - one girl told me that it used to be legal to smoke there (and only there) but then like last year they made marijuana illegal and then the police started patrolling the area, but since people still did it, they just don't patrol there anymore
i don't know if it's right, but there's lots of weed stands there

so i guess that's why you can't take pictures

yea so while students bought marijuana and sat there and smoked it (notice -students- not me - some of them really knew what they were doing....some girl even knew if one bag smelled fresher than the other....hmm yea i wouldn't know) me and some other girls just kinda stood there and talked and soaked in the atmosphere and tried to imprint it into our minds since we really won't be going back (well i might go with other people who haven't been - not sure)

so i learned more about drugs today than i did in two years of college - i saw how you roll up the weed and wrap it up and how smelly it is (to me, it's like a flat stinky smell)

there's lots of interesting signs there...

if i remember correctly, there's a "sunshine cafe" but it really didn't look all that sunshine-y to me - one girl commented that if you're high, everything will look sunshine-y! haha (there's also a sign there that says "if you show your tits get a joint?pint? (i forget this part but it's not important) free!"

and then there's "say no to hard drugs!" cause you know, hard drugs are the only drugs you should say no to

and then there's this little shopping square place with shop stands and there's so rather interesting things - there was a homer simpson shirt with him holding all these cigarettes and we found marijuana socks! lol they're socks that say Christiania on it and they have marijuana leaves on it

and there's like a lot of stands that seem to have like Jamaican-like stuff - there was some cute dolls (they look like those voodoo dolls that were really popular in asia but kinda different)

the people who hang out there are basically like those hippies/homeless people on the drag and some young people who basically look like they're up to no good and then some tourists mixed in there haha i saw a couple kids too - seems like it's not that bad - but it's still safer to go with a group

except one girl said she saw a woman who's eye was bleeding o_o and then this other girl saw a dude with no teeth

yea - once in a lifetime! i probably? won't go again haha

but it's still definitely worth a visit cause it's an interesting place (and for those who do smoke weed, you can try some Danish weed) and a different part of copenhagen - but try to at least go with a group or else it'll be kinda scary haha

ok so then after that, i ate a danish hot dog!

the sauce inside seems to be like mayonnaise or something

but anyways they stick the sausage inside a bun - and there's also regular hot dogs (the buns are so small compared to those in the US haha)

then rode the metro back to Porcelainshavn (where i live...dunno if i mentioned that)

and then Dora and I went to Valby (pronounced "val-boo" apparently - not "val-bee"), where our other friends are staying and watched Valentine's Day

and since it's Claire's birthday, we drank some wine (i think it was some italian red wine)

and then came home around 11 pm -kinda late but it's ok!

time to sleep! nighty night - today was definitely an unexpectedly interesting day

random note: apparently Norwegian sounds basically the same as Danish