spring fever.
old entry...forgot to post it in mid-April.
The sun shines everyday!!! I've been back in Copenhagen for about 3 weeks and the sun keeps coming up earlier and staying out later. It's lovely. My first week back went by very fast because I was recovering from the flu and I had to catch up on a lot of reading. That weekend I went to the a modern art museum called Arken, it looks like a ship and sits next to the coast. Annette took me. We saw an exhibit with oil on canvas paintings from Skagen, Denmark. It's located at the most northern tip of Jutland (main land of Denmark) and it's where the two different waters meet. The paintings were originally thought to have been artists capturing normal everyday life, but later on, people found out that the subjects of the paintings were paid to pose. But they were still really pretty. There was also an exhibit of a British artists paintings. One painting was a large black circle, 3-d like...as we got closer to it we found out that it was made up of dead flies. After exploring the rest of the museum, we had some hot chocolate and relaxed before heading back to Annette's for dinner.
That Tuesday I went to see a Russian Ballet, Eugene Onegin, at the main theater in Kongens Nytorv. The stage was so gorgeous. Huge, overdone but very elegant drapes, simple and delicate costumes. The queen even came to see it!! It was her birthday the day after...so we all figured she took a night for herself before her big day. I went to see her at her winter palace the following day, as well. (We're best buddies now). All the kindergarten classes around Copenhagen and all the study abroad kids (and tourists) make it out to see her. At noon, the guards changed and then she makes her way out to her balcony for a few hellos waves. She came out about 6 times...each time she was prompted to enter and exit the balcony based on the guards band. Her husband, youngest son, his fiance, and his two sons all accompanied her on the balcony for the many waves and thank yous to the crowd of prideful danes and their mini-flags. The most exciting part of the morning was when the band played the tune to the Danish birthday song and we all sang 'HURRA, HURRA, HURRA' at the same time. (The only part of the song I can remember).
In other news, my fodbol (soccer) team will be starting to play more games from here on out. We had a fun 'Grass Party' a few weeks ago...buffet, boys and girls team and fun club bonding games....but it was all in German/Danish...since the Grass party has something to do with German traditions...not too sure about all that, but I had everything translated to me. We have a few games before the American girls (incld. me) leave. The team is about 20 some girls (Danes and Americans) we practice together at a huge field in Christianborg. Tons of Clubs practice there. Our boys teams also practice there, we have 7 different teams of boys in the club. The girls team is split into two teams on game days...a 7-a -side team and an 11-a-side team. (11-a-side playing on a regular field and 7-a-side playing on a smaller field). I've missed many practices because of class...but I hope to make the games which are on odd days. It's been a great experience so far, I've met some great girls and boys who have taught me a lot about soccer...something I hadn't played since middle school. Also, I found a friend from soccer who lives in my neighborhood, we've been going to our neighborhood park on the weekend and for festivals. It's so nice out all we want to do is just 'study' on a blanket in the park all day. But papers call us away too often from those thoughts...we will definitely go to the park more before we leave.
Today, I walked with Annette from Fredricksberg to Center City in support of women's rights in Denmark and in celebration of women having the vote for 100 years! We went as a part of Annette's union of nurses and childcare workers (FOA). Her union is on strike now so we had some pretty cool outfits for the march. We wore bright yellow vests (construction worker vests) with reflectors, buttons, a hat that said 'more money now' --in danish-- and a shirt that said that and 'more hands'--in danish. We were decked out! We also passed out information to onlookers and threw packets of mints to everyone we could. We ended in the main square where a big concert was already in progress. Annette took me to Tivoli while we waited for her favorite artist to come on stage. Tivoli is an amusement park in the middle of the city. It's enchanting and it's where Walt Disney became inspired to create Disney world. They have rides, a concert stage, fountains, a mini royal family and mini-royal guards who have a changing of the guards and walk around the park twice a day, and restaurants and everything compact into about 4 x 5 city blocks. We hung out and ate some snacks...and we watched as the mini princess and prince arrived via boat to their carriage and then were greeted and escorted around the park by their guards. All made up of kids...It was like a mini-Copenhagen...with really cool rides.
I'll have to go back soon :)
That's all for now, final papers, final exams, and soccer games/socials will take up my time from now on...I'll try to blog about it.
Take care and thanks for reading!
Vi ses!
Emily
The sun shines everyday!!! I've been back in Copenhagen for about 3 weeks and the sun keeps coming up earlier and staying out later. It's lovely. My first week back went by very fast because I was recovering from the flu and I had to catch up on a lot of reading. That weekend I went to the a modern art museum called Arken, it looks like a ship and sits next to the coast. Annette took me. We saw an exhibit with oil on canvas paintings from Skagen, Denmark. It's located at the most northern tip of Jutland (main land of Denmark) and it's where the two different waters meet. The paintings were originally thought to have been artists capturing normal everyday life, but later on, people found out that the subjects of the paintings were paid to pose. But they were still really pretty. There was also an exhibit of a British artists paintings. One painting was a large black circle, 3-d like...as we got closer to it we found out that it was made up of dead flies. After exploring the rest of the museum, we had some hot chocolate and relaxed before heading back to Annette's for dinner.
That Tuesday I went to see a Russian Ballet, Eugene Onegin, at the main theater in Kongens Nytorv. The stage was so gorgeous. Huge, overdone but very elegant drapes, simple and delicate costumes. The queen even came to see it!! It was her birthday the day after...so we all figured she took a night for herself before her big day. I went to see her at her winter palace the following day, as well. (We're best buddies now). All the kindergarten classes around Copenhagen and all the study abroad kids (and tourists) make it out to see her. At noon, the guards changed and then she makes her way out to her balcony for a few hellos waves. She came out about 6 times...each time she was prompted to enter and exit the balcony based on the guards band. Her husband, youngest son, his fiance, and his two sons all accompanied her on the balcony for the many waves and thank yous to the crowd of prideful danes and their mini-flags. The most exciting part of the morning was when the band played the tune to the Danish birthday song and we all sang 'HURRA, HURRA, HURRA' at the same time. (The only part of the song I can remember).
In other news, my fodbol (soccer) team will be starting to play more games from here on out. We had a fun 'Grass Party' a few weeks ago...buffet, boys and girls team and fun club bonding games....but it was all in German/Danish...since the Grass party has something to do with German traditions...not too sure about all that, but I had everything translated to me. We have a few games before the American girls (incld. me) leave. The team is about 20 some girls (Danes and Americans) we practice together at a huge field in Christianborg. Tons of Clubs practice there. Our boys teams also practice there, we have 7 different teams of boys in the club. The girls team is split into two teams on game days...a 7-a -side team and an 11-a-side team. (11-a-side playing on a regular field and 7-a-side playing on a smaller field). I've missed many practices because of class...but I hope to make the games which are on odd days. It's been a great experience so far, I've met some great girls and boys who have taught me a lot about soccer...something I hadn't played since middle school. Also, I found a friend from soccer who lives in my neighborhood, we've been going to our neighborhood park on the weekend and for festivals. It's so nice out all we want to do is just 'study' on a blanket in the park all day. But papers call us away too often from those thoughts...we will definitely go to the park more before we leave.
Today, I walked with Annette from Fredricksberg to Center City in support of women's rights in Denmark and in celebration of women having the vote for 100 years! We went as a part of Annette's union of nurses and childcare workers (FOA). Her union is on strike now so we had some pretty cool outfits for the march. We wore bright yellow vests (construction worker vests) with reflectors, buttons, a hat that said 'more money now' --in danish-- and a shirt that said that and 'more hands'--in danish. We were decked out! We also passed out information to onlookers and threw packets of mints to everyone we could. We ended in the main square where a big concert was already in progress. Annette took me to Tivoli while we waited for her favorite artist to come on stage. Tivoli is an amusement park in the middle of the city. It's enchanting and it's where Walt Disney became inspired to create Disney world. They have rides, a concert stage, fountains, a mini royal family and mini-royal guards who have a changing of the guards and walk around the park twice a day, and restaurants and everything compact into about 4 x 5 city blocks. We hung out and ate some snacks...and we watched as the mini princess and prince arrived via boat to their carriage and then were greeted and escorted around the park by their guards. All made up of kids...It was like a mini-Copenhagen...with really cool rides.
I'll have to go back soon :)
That's all for now, final papers, final exams, and soccer games/socials will take up my time from now on...I'll try to blog about it.
Take care and thanks for reading!
Vi ses!
Emily
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