brilliant scenery and beer

they go well together right? haha

anyways, i'm going to make this quick since i have to sleep...maybe this will just be a brief overview of my day

went to class, ate lunch, met up with Dora and Mario, went to H&M at Frederiksberg Centret

where i bought this skirt for 50 kr (by now you should know how much usd that is)

after that, went to Vor Frelsers Kirke aka Church of Our Saviour (near Christianshavn metro stop) and went up the spiral tower to see the wonderful views of Copenhagen =)

the wonderful thing about Copenhagen is how colorful the buildings are so it's always so pretty!

just one of the awesome views of Copenhagen

then we rode the S-tog to Enghave - we saw a building with Carlsberg on it...but it wasn't the museum lol
so we end up walking into that area around the building and then saw signs stating "visit Carlsberg" so we followed that and kept walking and walking and walking until FINALLY we reach the museum

nothing much to see at the museum - it was the room of many beer bottles from all over the world first, then various exhibits on the history of Carlsberg, how they make beer (which wasn't that interesting since it was just a video), barrel making, and other such stuff

oh yea but one interesting thing is that the big barrels they use(d?) needed to be maintained, so men used to climb in to clean them o_o

then after walking through the museum we got our complimentary beers - i drank mine with an empty stomach...which was not smart lol i got kinda dizzy and then turned red later =|

so instead of getting one of those flavored beers i got a sprite =( i wanted to try some but oh well

we walked to Valby since it was really close (around 15-20 min away?) and Mario cooked fried rice for us for dinner haha it was pretty good except he put the wrong kind of meet or too much pepper in it cause it was really spicy - but i've never tasted spicy fried rice before, so it was interesting lol

then hung around there for a while and went home to prepare my lunch for tomorrow (chicken sandwich w/tomatoes and lettuce and pesto) and pack and upload photos and stuff

so now, i must sleep....i only have 3 hours! ahhh leaving for my weekend trip to Bornholm at 6 am o_o

see ya sunday! cheers!

random note: Mario said that the origin of knocking glasses and saying "cheers" was to prevent poisoning, since when you knock glasses/mugs together, some of your beer sloshes into others, so you can't poison someone's beer cause you'll poison other people or yourself as well - very interesting, i didn't know that

relax day!

so today was a relax day for me =)

although i should be preparing for my presentation next wednesday i have absolutely no idea what the professor wants so i just don't want to do it anymore lol

so today i woke up at 11 am after sleeping for a super long time (slept at 12:30 am) cause of the exhausting day yesterday haha

i got ready by 1-ish and went to the porcelain outlet (Royal Copenhagen outlet i'm guessing) next to my dorm and looked around - they have so many pretty and delicate things! like all these tea cups have pretty thin/slim handles

i didn't know if i could take pictures but i took some blurry ones on my iphone haha

i asked one lady what the sign meant for this tea cup set and she told me that it was like, the second run? second set? or something like that because these were not perfect - like in the design, there might be a flower that was drawn too small or something - so each of them are unique
i thought that was pretty cool and she was nice enough to tell me what things meant =) but anyways, stuff there are waaaaaaaaay expensive - a really really pretty tea cup can be around $60 or more

then i went back to my dorm and got my stuff for school and went looking around at stuff at Frederiksberg Centret again haha

then i went to marketing class - which was soooooooooooo boring - my gosh that class is boring - i think it's one of the most boring classes i've ever taken in my life - it's partially due to the professor too though (he's nice, but super boring)

and i talked to another girl in class about the textbook we're using and she hates it too haha so i'm not the only one (then the girl next to me also told me she hated it) it's seriously so dry and there's no color and no pictures T_T

a group presented today and at the end people actually asked questions - my gosh some people asked so many questions - like in the US, at least everyone is courteous enough to NOT ask questions cause they know nobody wants to stay in class or prolong the boredom - evidently some people just don't get it here

i was seriously thinking shut up already, i'm dying of boredom when some people were STILL asking questions

after class our group got together to talk about our project

yea, i really don't understand wth we're supposed to do - the instructions are so vague - i hate that
i mean i get enough vague instructions at McCombs - especially in MIS, i don't need anymore!

then Gloria and i went to fotex - i bought a cake there =) when we were looking at cakes, we asked what one of them was and the girl just asks us if we want samples and we said sure

and she gave me like a slice! A SLICE! they don't do that in america! Danes are so generous with their samples - love it!it kind of tastes like one of those cakes you can find at whole foods but of course it's way cheaper here - it was only 30 kr for this big one (around $6)

this will be my dessert for the next two weeks!

after fotex, we went back to Gloria's residence, Valby, they were having a bbq but i didn't participate in that since i had no idea what to bring

Gloria cooked for me =) rice noodles with some soup and tomatoes and chicken - it was pretty good

then Claire and i started planning our trips lol we're probably going to Malmo in Sweden for a day and we planned all our trips to the museums in Copenhagen that have free admission

i think she and i are the only ones that actually want to go to museums haha

then i went back to my dorm and ate some of my cake with tea :) feels like home

yup so that's my day! nothing exciting really

random note: some people here really don't wear deodorant

random note 2: did you know that there's no word for please in Danish? apparently they don't really care about the polite things - like on the street they basically expect you to move for them - i'd be walking and this guy would be walking towards me and as they get closer, they won't move at all so yea, if i don't move i bet you they'd just run into you

and if you think you can get run over in China with their crazy driving, think again - here in Copenhagen if you don't move, they'll seriously run you over - they just keep going! i think i've almost been run over like twice now - no joke

Shopping....again?! bwahaha + International Dinner

yea i can't get enough of shopping - especially when it's shopping in downtown Copenhagen cause you can still go just to window shop and look at the buildings or hang around Nyhavn in the nice weather =)

but first things first - class! managerial finance with my eccentric teacher - i find that i'm scared when he talks to me cause i have absolutely no idea what to say lol

then met up with people and went to the Fotex in Frederiksberg Centret to buy stuff for the International Dinner - we decided to split making Vietnamese spring rolls even though only Gloria is Vietnamese

i'm not gonna gossip on here just in case anyone who's here in CPH with me just...happens to read this but yea i'll say we had a clash in personalities during this shopping trip

and then i met up with another friend so we could go meet Dora at Porcelainshavn and turn in the housing forms, but turns out that she was at the Fotex i just left so we went to go meet her at the Frederiksberg metro station


rode the metro to Kongens Nytorv station and went shopping! =)
first H&M then Topshop (which again, there's nothing to buy) and then to the souvenir shop (they have lots of cute stuff there like I <3> Christian Andersen's fairy tales (he's a Danish poet/author who wrote children's stories)

then to the 2nd HUGER and more awesome H&M (totally not going to the other H&M anymore since this one has so much more stuff) and the ZARA!

bought my sister a tanktop/tshirt 2-in-1 thing (basically a tshirt and tanktop comes together) and it said 59 dkk so that's a pretty good deal i though - but when the lady rang it up, the total turned out to be 49 dkk! awesome possum (that's around $8! - you can't even get that kind of deal in the ZARA in Houston)

then when we were walking back to the station we saw Danish bboys - some of them were pretty old and they had pretty interesting music - it wasn't strictly hip hop and like rap or anything - just like Danish dance-type music i guess and then that "i like to move it move it" song came one but that's expected since it came from Europe (...am i right? or am i thinking about another song? lol)they're pretty good i guess - i mean, they're not bad

so by the time i got back to Porcelainshavn, it was around 4:30 pm and i guessed Gloria didn't really need any help making the spring rolls anymore - whoops sorry Gloria! but she said it was ok

then hung out in my room and stuff until the international dinner started at 6 and then ate lots of different things - some Americans bought McDonalds lol (but that must have cost a lot o_o)

then hung around and then some of us went to my room in order to plan our trip to Lego Land, but it was waaaay too expensive for a train/plain/whatever ticket to get there so we abandoned that plan and decided to go to Tivoli tomorrow!

then met up with other people again and then we decided to go to King's Garden to sit and drink and stuff but on our way, we bumped into people who were going to hang out on the roof, so we went to 7/11 to buy drinks and then went back to go hang out on the roof (i didn't buy any drinks fyi - i'd rather spend my money on clothes than beer and vodka - one guy bought a bottle of smirnoff vodka - i think it was 40% and it was 80? dkk o_o)

so yea - hung out on the roof (i didn't have my camera, but i believe Claire took some pictures)

then went back to my room around 9:30 pm and voila here i am - really tired and getting ready to go sleep...while other people are out partying
some of the other people went to a club and i think one girl said they were going to a bar that has free beer at a certain time (except you pay a cover charge, so technically you're paying for the beer - but it's still cheaper)
yea, i'm not much of a drinker or a partyer so i chose to not to go and left the roof party with some other friends (they're from Singapore) who wanted to go back to their residence too

random note: my German friend, Mario said that when you drink and don't look people in the eye when you say cheers, it means 7 years of bad sex lol he says he wasn't kidding and that's what it really means in Germany

random note 2: a friend from Austria managed to convince two of my other friends that his plaid shirt represented his country's colors lol they actually believed him haha and it had like yellow, green, and stuff on it (just obvious colors that are NOT Austrian)

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