Danish Design Center

Luckily, today I didn't have classes. Sometimes we have field trips for our classes but this week none of my classes had any field trips so I got the day free. Slept in for a little bit and then went out with some friends and tried Smorrebrod which is apparently a staple Danish food. Basically, it can have different toppings on rye bread and its like an open faced sandwich. Really good though! We got the roast beef ones...

Later on, tonight a few of us went to the Danish Design Center downtown and saw a lot of awesome stuff. It's amazing how creative and original the Danes are. A really cool exhibit that they had was all about lamps...lamp shades etc... One of my favourite designs was actually done by Jorn Utzon. This is also the Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House. Unfortunately tomorrow I DO have classes so I should get to some of that hw...


But before I do, I should mention that I was very proud of myself tonight for cooking a whole meal hahaha. I made pasta meat sauce and this was accompanied by salad and beer of course. Anyways the important thing was that everybody who ate it really liked it and I thought it wasn't half bad either! Maybe I won't starve over here after all.

Getting Settled...

So, even though the first couple of days here were really tough trying to get into the swing of things, it seems like everything is getting better. I've started all of my classes and they actually seem a lot harder than I thought they'd be but I think I might be able to get away with not doing most of the work ;) hahahah. The other cool thing that I've learned about this time of year is that all of the shops have big sales. The next sale season isn't until July so today I took advantage and went out buying stuff. Then the other awesome thing that happened was that as I was about to order my new favourite food (Shawarma, which is like Gyros from Greek but Shawarmas are from Lebanon or the Middle East...) a couple in front of me spoke perfect English so I thought that was weird and maybe they were just some Americans on vacation. Anyways after I order I walk upstairs to go eat my shawarma and they follow me and then at the top of the stairs they say, "so you're Canadian eh?" (from the flag on my backpack) and they ask to sit with me. Turns out their Canadian too from just north of Toronto. The guy (Dan) is here working on renewable energy in a northern place in Denmark and his girlfriend (Natasha) came over for a week to visit him. It was awesome just talking to people from Canada again hahaha and cool that they recognized me from my flag.

And, last night was pretty cool because in front of the city hall downtown there was a huge welcoming party for the Danish Handball team which just won the European Championships for 2008. There were thousands of people gathered at the City Hall and I'll try to upload some pictures to see if it works. But there were fireworks, cheering, lots of Danish flags and the Prince even made an appearance. Pretty cool. It reminded me of how excited Europeans get about football (aka soccer) on tv and stuff.

I made it here!

Hey everyone!

Well, here I am in Copenhagen, Denmark. It seems like I've been waiting so long to finally get here and now that I am it doesn't really feel like it's actually here. The last couple of days have been so busy with orientation business and stuff like that that I haven't had too much time to do my own thing. So, sorry for this late first blog post. I would like to add more but right now I have to go find food, it has proved to be a daunting task as I am not used to making my own food and am pretty much starving as I type. Anyways please keep checking back in for more posts and I will try my best to keep this as updated as possible.

Take care everyone and I will talk to you all soon