I love Copenhagen.
I feel entitled to say this after only 2.5 days here because of the sheer quantity of things I have seen and people I have met. Yesterday, was a day full of exploring. And by exploring, I mean getting lost. Along with my host-family sister, Katie, we managed to turn the wrong way not only immediately when we got off the train, but several times afterwards. Thankfully, a helpful Dane saw the extreme confusion on our faces as we tried to determine if a park was indeed the park on our map - it was not - and helped us find our way to the opening ceremony. She even went through the extra effort of looking up a street name that wasn't on our map to help us find our way. Yes, we were lost off the edge of our map. A good start to the day.
We then spent a few hours in info sessions, and took lunchtime and a couple of hours in the afternoon to explore some of the city. We wandered down some of the main shopping streets of Copenhagen, and discovered Christiansborg Palace which now holds the offices of the Parliament and Supreme Court.
Today we went on a 4-hour long scavenger hunt, in which we visited some of the main tourist attractions of the center city. I am proud to say we did not ever get lost... but we also didn't go to the right church (if you haven't heard, there are just a few in every European city) and back tracked multiple times trying to find the few spots we were suppose to go to. Along the way we managed to visit the Royal Palace at noon for the changing of the guards. While there, one of the girls in my group went a little bit to close to guard in order to get a picture taken. The guard promptly hit the butt of his gun on the ground and gave her a light shove, which startled her and made the rest of us laugh hysterically. We also traveled to Nyhavn (the harbor with colorful houses that is the typical postcard from Denmark), the Playhouse with its stunning modern facade of glass, and the Danish Cathedral.
I am still in awe at the massive hordes of bicycles that travel down the boulevards, somehow staying at the same incredibly fast pase as the 50 other bikers around them, as well as the trains that sound like little more than a whisper as they pass less then 10 ft away. However, I am sure before long I will take these things for granted as I adjust to the Danish lifestyle.
I feel entitled to say this after only 2.5 days here because of the sheer quantity of things I have seen and people I have met. Yesterday, was a day full of exploring. And by exploring, I mean getting lost. Along with my host-family sister, Katie, we managed to turn the wrong way not only immediately when we got off the train, but several times afterwards. Thankfully, a helpful Dane saw the extreme confusion on our faces as we tried to determine if a park was indeed the park on our map - it was not - and helped us find our way to the opening ceremony. She even went through the extra effort of looking up a street name that wasn't on our map to help us find our way. Yes, we were lost off the edge of our map. A good start to the day.
We then spent a few hours in info sessions, and took lunchtime and a couple of hours in the afternoon to explore some of the city. We wandered down some of the main shopping streets of Copenhagen, and discovered Christiansborg Palace which now holds the offices of the Parliament and Supreme Court.
Today we went on a 4-hour long scavenger hunt, in which we visited some of the main tourist attractions of the center city. I am proud to say we did not ever get lost... but we also didn't go to the right church (if you haven't heard, there are just a few in every European city) and back tracked multiple times trying to find the few spots we were suppose to go to. Along the way we managed to visit the Royal Palace at noon for the changing of the guards. While there, one of the girls in my group went a little bit to close to guard in order to get a picture taken. The guard promptly hit the butt of his gun on the ground and gave her a light shove, which startled her and made the rest of us laugh hysterically. We also traveled to Nyhavn (the harbor with colorful houses that is the typical postcard from Denmark), the Playhouse with its stunning modern facade of glass, and the Danish Cathedral.
I am still in awe at the massive hordes of bicycles that travel down the boulevards, somehow staying at the same incredibly fast pase as the 50 other bikers around them, as well as the trains that sound like little more than a whisper as they pass less then 10 ft away. However, I am sure before long I will take these things for granted as I adjust to the Danish lifestyle.
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