World Cup semi-finals!

ah so many sad Germans =(

i came home kinda late yesterday and was dead tired, soo i'm updating today!

first half of my day was boring - watched make it or break it and pretty little liars, went to class, worked on our marketing group project (this one guy insists on making things so complex! i have NO idea why since it's not even for a grade, but he just wants to be more detailed - me? i don't really care so much for something that's not even going to be for a grade - different mentalities i guess)

SOO after that frustrating meeting i ate dinner and then met up with Dora at Kongens Nytorv - then we sat around Ofelia Beach to wait for the Valby people to come

and while we were waiting, Dora asked this man in green

if all the little coke cans that he was picking up were for free - and he said yes! and even asked us if we wanted some, so we were like "sure!"

then he says that he'll go bring us some! haha and even asked if we wanted regular coke or coke zero - so nice =)

and we sat by a mini soccer field - there were these little kids playing soccer

i have to admit, it's so different seeing so many people who can actually handle a soccer ball really well - unlike in the US where everyone is basically just throwing a football around

so the Valby-ers finally come and then the game finally starts!
Dora and i probably should have saved some spots since we got there so early - there were sooo many people!

random cute picture: these people put headphones on their baby haha - so cute

first half came and went - during the half time break, we stood up to stretch and then all these people came and then it got even more packed! ahhh

we were all pretty squished

and then Spain scored =(

and Germany lost =(

yup, my German friends were sad, but some people were rooting for Spain, so they were happy haha

all in all, super fun (minus the crowdedness and the inhaling second-hand smoke for 3 hours part) - especially listening/watching the German fans! haha they have so many chants and songs - i taped some of them but i'm not going to upload them

one so is like, "now, let's score....(in German of course)" over and over and another is just "deutscheland, deutschland,..." over and over again haha

after the game we went to this tiny bar, and most of us went in for like 2 minutes and came out and just waited for other people (apparently they were using the bathroom?)

some people stayed out some more, but i had class in the morning so a bunch of us left!

and now i part with a sparkling picture of Nyhavn at night =)

gonna go out now! tata for now!

homesick? definitely not

so i was right - that rather nasty trip to Denmark (courtesy of Continental airlines) definitely bogged me down

now? i'm a rather happy camper

Day 1 (cause you know, yesterday doesn't count)
woke up and went grocery shopping with my friend Dora at fakta

which is one of the few things that are open on a sunday

and i bought a bottle of pure orange juice, some jam, bread, a bag of frozen bolognese pasta, and some toilet paper haha - all of which cost around 94 dkk (around $15)




and then i ate my brunch consisting of some of that bolognese pasta (which was quite good)

then Dora and i walked to Forum metro station and Dora stopped by a bakery to get a pastry



and then bumped into some people at Forum metro station that we met yesterday and then we took the metro to Kongens Nylorv metro station which is basically downtown and then started the treasure hunt

first stop of the treasure hunt: the Royal Theatre aka Det Kongelige Teater

(it's that building on the left)

couldn't really take any close up pictures of it since there was construction around it

2nd stop: New Harbor aka Nyhavn
it was built in the 1670s by Swedish soldiers and used to be a red light district with strip clubs and stuff but then they wanted to clean it up so now there's only one strip club left and there's also a bar named Hong Kong that's open 24 hours and only closes for 15 minutes in order to clean up the place

3rd stop: the Royal Palace aka Amalienborg Plads

this is where the crown prince and his wife live

and this is where the queen lives and the flag isn't up so she isn't home - apparently they royal family is at their summer house

this is a guest house

4th stop: Frederickskirken or Marmorkirken ("the Marble Church" - even though only the base is made out of marble)

inside

the dome

after this, half our group went to Ofelia Beach to watch the game on a big screen
and the rest of us walked around some more - supposedly to the next stop but it was far away so we ended up stopping by a grocery store where some people bought stuff

and then we went to go watch the game - which was worth ditching the treasure hunt haha

look at the huge screen and people!

and Germany scores! there were actually lots more people standing up - and some people threw up confetti too haha i believe there were more German fans than England fans

then we went to a pizza place and got pizza - shared a Vegetariana? pizza with my friend Gloria

and since we took it to go we ate it while sitting next to the harbor - nice right?

and then rode the metro back to Fasanvej Solbjerg and walked back to Porcelaenshavn

oh yea, did i mention that the weather was super nice? except it got hot at times since there were no clouds
but yea, a nice 70-ish degrees =D

uh i think this is gonna be one of the longer blog entries - i probably won't write that much for some other ones - i guess it'll depend on how much time i have