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!

disastrous

ok i already feel a little home sick but i think it's cause of my disastrous trip here

let's start with friday when i woke up at like 8:30 am and couldn't go back to sleep

took another shower haha and watched portugal v. brazil game which was quite boring..fell asleep in the second half

checked out of the hotel at 12

ate lunch at the airport

read magazines at borders/looked around

then sat and read while waiting to board my flight

i think these 24 hours all alone with like nobody to talk to contributes to my already home-sickness - darn you continental!

board plane - read, watched the proposal again and slept for like an hour, watched how to train your dragon (it's a pretty cute movie) and csi: ny and 30 rock

random observations:
- i was one out of like...2-3 asians on that flight
- danish (maybe europeans in general?) teens/youth eat a lot (for dinner, the danish people around me ate everything - like EVERYTHING - the two girls next to me, the three people across from me, and the girl diagonally from me - yea, they all had empty trays!...i felt bad lol)
- not sure what nationality, but teenage boys wear lots of plaid (some dude was wearing plaid shorts with a plaid shirt)

then i arrive at the airport, wait a long time to get our passports and stuff looked at (there were only 4 people working! but then again it was a saturday morning)

went to baggage claim only to find my big suitcase MISSING

talk to service people so they can find it

go into the terminal where no one from the business school is waiting since they were only there on friday - there were also people with video cameras and they started interviewing some people...dunno who they were =\ some band? soccer players (i don't think so though)?

wander around - go to the 7/11 to buy a phone card, walk to hilton hotel just to check to see if CBS was there - they weren't so i took a taxi

got to the dorm, some people told me the office is closed but i went in and it turns out some girls were waiting for someone to come cause one of the girls got robbed o_o

met one of the ISUP people and her parents who were very nice

FINALLY GET TO MY DORM

unpack a little

sleeeep

went to info meeting at 3 pm - i almost fell asleep during some of the speeches

welcome buffet - met some people

went back to dorm room and unpacked and yea i didn't go to the welcome party but my friend Dora said it wasn't that great

ok so these few crappy-ish days will hopefully be erased from my memory

random note: is therapy a common thing in Denmark/Europe? cause the father of the ISUP person asked the girl who got robbed if she went to therapy and told her that she should go in order to get the stress out and stuff...hmm interesting

someone doesn't want victoria to go to copenhagen

...either that or they just don't like me

you know, flying continental has never really given me any problems - until today

the day started out good - woke up, packed remaining things, got in car, bought kolaches for breakfast, arrived at airport, got on plane to newark

then due to bad weather the captain flew around in a couple circles around baltimore - i heard a guy and a girl saying they were going to copenhagen on the flight too

and then got off plan at around 5:40 pm (that means we were actually already at the gate around 5:20 pm)

hopped off plane - saw the two danish people sitting on a cart so i go up to the driver and ask him where gate 112 is and rude danish dude goes, "he doesn't have time!" so i ask him, "what gate are you going to?" (cause i already know he's going to gate 112 too)

"112"
"oh me too"
so i got on and he asks if i'm going to denmark and i said yes (well where else am i going? i'm going to the same gate as you) i tell him that i don't think they would leave (well from my previous experience they waited) and danish dude tells me they already had one flight canceled so yea i got worried

while we're making our super slow way to the gate danish dude whistles at people so they would move and danish girl goes "please move!"

and then they decide to hop off the cart since it was too slow - so i followed them

when they reach the gate they turn around and seeing that they couldn't go i ask a lady about the gate and she said it's closed
yup - and the danish pair confirmed it - the plane is indeed gone

and danish girl starts crying and yelling "i have a competition on saturday!! i'm going to f*cking sue this place!!!" and everyone is staring

...ok not going to talk to them anymore

walked to service desk

they can't do anything

only option is for me to stay the night -sigh-

i go to baggage claim cause i want my luggage and lady tells me it takes up to 4 hours

so i wait

in about 15-30 min my duffel bag comes out...and that's it

so i wait up to an hour and then go to the lady again and she just says to wait one more hour

so i wait one more hour (when i sit down and put my duffel bag next to a lady an old dude walks up and just stares at my bag - apparently he was sitting there before so i move my bag - i mean he could have at least said please move it right?) and i go back to the service desk and new people are there - then this nice guy asks if i'm missing a bag and i'm like why yes, yes i am

he goes to look for it, can't find it, so he calls the people down there (he must know them well since he's all like "heeeyyy whaassuupp!! how you doinnn? blah blah blah") - i'm guessing he's italian cause he sounds like those italian mobsters

and then he apologizes and tells me that they probably overlooked the fact that i had two bags since they were swamped and if i wanted the other bag then i would have to wait a long time

so i said no and he gave me a toiletries bag and told me how to get to the ramada plaza hotel

i get to the ramada hotel and they tell me that it's full and i have to go to the sheraton

so i take the bus to the sheraton (it's like right across from the ramada)

front desk person asks "so how are you?"

my response: "uhhh..."

"very tired?"

"yea"

and so i get my hotel room

my flight leaves at the same time tomorrow (5:35 pm) so i have like a whole day to kill - lamebeans

and now i'm at the hotel super tired even though it's only 11 ish here and only 10 ish in houston

blah