I suppose many people might be wondering; what is it I do exactly?? Well that's a very good question!
In many ways, I do a lot of the things I did at home, except maybe a little less homework and a little more madly flipping through a dictionary. But besides the everyday, I am of course trying to take advantage of every opportunity possible to me! After all, I'm only here for one year, and I want to see all that Denmark has to offer. This is something I plan on taking home with me actually, replacing the words one with one-hundred and Denmark with The World. It may seems obvious of course, but I think when we get into our daily routine we forget that we will only have one life to see this world and we better get checking things off the Bucket List!
So using my handy little iCal as somewhat of a diary, I've recorded all the notable things I have done in the past four months and now I would like to give you an idea. Some may be more exciting that others but they have all been good memories and together they are adding up a wonderful year.
August, September, Oktober, November: A Compilation
- biked into København
- saw the Worlds Greatest Catwalk at CPH Fashion Festival
- cheered on triathletes (8.5 + hours! insanity.)
- enjoyed cover band - The Abbatizers, in the rain!
- made a GIANT black forest cake
- saw up-and-coming band, The Striving Vines
- went to Århus Modern Art Museum, twice.
- attended several exchange student get togethers of ~200 crazy young people.
- toured through an incredibly peaceful/futuristic inflatable "building" made by Air Architects; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwmRYtlCps
- seen Tivoli decked out for Summer, Halloween and Christmas
- dined at a $500 meal of 6
- watched Midsomer Murders nearly every Saturday
- learned at three separate Danish courses (still working on it!)
- watched Harry Potters 1-6
- saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Denmark AND Sweden (cried both times)
- listened to 600 people chew popcorn in the biggest movie theatre in Denmark
- attended 4 birthdays
- skyped people in 4+ countries
- tried to learn French and Danish simultaneously. SO CONFUSING
- biked 30 km in one trip!
- mastered public transit (nearly.)
- payed a $150 fine for not having the proper ticket
- paid a brief visit to Canada, aka the embassy
- learned how to eat everything with a fork and knife at all times, even hamburgers
- cooked some excellent impromptu pad thai, among many other new dishes
- attended my first baptism
- went to Voice '10, a concert at Tivoli with absolutely every big name in Danish popular music
- saw Scottish folk band, The McCalmans
- made apple juice with freshly picked fruit from the neighbours tree
- went to both a Glamrock and Rave themed school party, saw the biggest drunken chaos I never thought possible in a school, with teachers selling the alcohol
- loaned books and CDs from the library downtown Copenhagen
- woke up in bed with a spider the size of my palm, NO JOKE.
- roasted bread dough on a stick
- saw Bob Dylan's paintings on display
- broke an expensive wineglass
- visited several museums and art galleries (ancient greek/roman art, french paintings, mummies, oh my!)
- ate a Kazakstan style feast
- had dinner guests from Miami
- toured Denmark's oldest city (traces found from permanent settlements circa year 710)
- went to IKEA! with a whole new understanding of Scandinavian design
- spent time in Christiana: free town, almost a country in itself: when you exit the sign says, "You are now returning to the EU"
- went bowling, played dismally
- played piano in a school concert!
- created in 3 hours then performed a dance for 300 people to It's a Hard Knock Life..
- went to the most expensive Starbucks in the world ($10 latte, whatsup!) and the only one in Scandinavia, in the CPH airport
- hung out with two other Canadians from Kamloops, first in CPH, then in Sweden!
- joined the gym!
- spent four hours of my Saturday travelling to and from the mall. but happy to have SNOW! :)
- paid for a veryyy expensive haircut - $$$ what else is new
- packed up all my things and moved families!
- went to the dentist
- tried deer, among others
- ate a whole pizza!
- held hands and danced around the Christmas tree singing "Nu' det jul igen"
- saw a Santa Lucia
AMONG OTHERS :)
Congratulations if you read the whole list!
Writing it I couldn't help but smile to myself thinking about how lovely my life is :)
And I would encourage others to do something similar! Because it's so nice to
appreciate everything we've done in our lives, it only takes a minute to realize how lucky we are.
So until next time, MUCH LOVE!
