Leaving CPH soon

I meant to update earlier this week, but I've been pretty busy. Let's rewind to last Friday.


Friday: watched the results of X-Factor wherein the best singer almost got voted off, tried to go to Palermo, but they were having another private party, and ended up at Out of Juice for a bit. Went home pretty early, but made plans for dinner the next night with Anna and Caitlin.


Ended up at their kollegium and we and their friend Matt had pancakes and some frikadeller (meatballs of a sort) and strawberries (which were surprisingly ripe and cheap). Also watched "Across the Universe" -- but since we had all seen it were also kind of talked through it, but that's the way to go with movies sometimes.


On Tuesday (Saint Patrick's Day), we of course had to go out to an Irish pub. We chose The Dubliner, by virtue of it being the closest to the Metro stop we all decided to meet at. We got there around 9:45 and it was, of course, absolutely packed and probably had been all day. There was a three-legged race/pub crawl earlier in the day, wherein the competitors had to race around to several Irish pubs and drink a beer at each. I had wandered around a bit earlier during the day and saw some of the competitors and the crowds around the pubs. But, we went in and fought our way to the bar, each got a beer, and then went to find a place to try to see the live band (doing covers -- Oasis, U2, etc.), and ended up standing on benches and/or table to do so. Probably the best choice, as we were then mostly above the rest of the crowd. So we stayed there for a couple of hours and sang and danced until we were tired and sweaty and wanted to make use of the trains and regular buses, and not wait for the night bus. Got home by 12:30, took a shower, went to bed.


On Wednesday I had a field study to the Danish Resistance Museum with my Danish language class. Basics of Denmarks involvement in World War II: occupation started in April 1940, and the government cooperated with the Germans until 1943 (during cooperation they were able to still hold elections, administer most things as normal). After August 1943, there was more open resistance, and of course there was an underground resistance movement that assassinated German officers, sabotaged trains/supply lines, etc. Denmark successfully evacuated the Danish Jews (all but about 500) to Sweden in in October 1943. It was pretty interesting, they have a lot of cool artifacts, but we were only there for an hour and it was a museum better suited to individuals, as all the information was in Danish and English and I probably would have gotten more out of it if I just went around and read all the placards myself.

That's about it! Now, I have to basically pack for the first couple of legs of my trip tomorrow, and then we fly to London on Sunday afternoon!