Copenhagen Calling

Hello! The last few days have been full of things going wrong all over the place but the fact that I'm not ready to board a plane home has made me feel like I'm a lot more situated and comfortable here than I thought! I'm exagerating a little, things could be much worse, but I'm definitely handling myself better than I expected. Between my bike being stolen and the kollegium's internet company going bankrupt meaning we had no internet for a few days, as well as me losing all kinds of important things, times have been a little hectic.

Saturday was a pretty great day. I got a bike! Yay! More about that bike later. I rode it around a lot and then organized my room and went grocery shopping and was such a productive human being! The freedom of being able to ride my bike felt GREAT it was so much fun! Here are some pics:

Now, don't get too attached to this bike. On Sunday, I woke up and went to church with Cyndi, an awesome woman that my dad knows from the Wesley Foundation. She was a student when he was on the board and she lives here now with her husband and they are both Ga Tech grads! Her husband went to grad school here and now has a job here and they are in it for the long haul here! I was really glad I went to church--there were 2 other girls from my program there and one is in a class with me! It was an international church so there were many Americans there.

Later Sunday we visited Christiania, the free squatter's town that isn't under any legal jurisdiction and they only have three laws: 1. Have fun 2. Don't run (it causes panic) and 3. No Pictures. I wish i could show you pictures it was nothing like I've ever seen before! We sent to see a free concert but it started pouring and we didn't get to see anything. It's basically just a town full of old hippies but some of the art and creative architecture there was interesting. I'm going back with my Danish class on a guided tour by someone who lives there, so I'm excited to get to know it better in a non-touristy way.

But then...I come home...and want to show all my new friends my brand new bike....but...dun dun dun....it was not there! My bike got stolen! But I can't complain too much because it was all my fault. I hadn't bought a lock yet. Silly, naive me assumed that in a sea of bikes that were locked with little wheel locks, that anyone trying to steal one wouldn't look hard enough to notice that mine was lacking one. Well, I was wrong. I'm still going through the process of filing police reports and insurance reports and stuff but I'm over it now. But I should be reimbursed for all of it though so I'm not too upset about it.

Yesterday (Monday) was a super long I have class from 11-1 and then again from 3-6. It was really weird walking home...all the shops close at 6 so everything was compleeetly empty! So weird!

Today I went to Tivoli! It was beautiful! here are picturess! it was SO COLD though which you can see! One of my friends was there to see a ballet so thats what all these pictures are of! The first was an Italian one and the second was Thumbilina!