Saturday was a beautiful day, so we went to Christiania. That's the hippy/squatter/artsy community in Copenhagen. The state is trying to get rid of them, but they have managed to stick around for all these years anyway. It's not too big, but it's fun to walk around. Basically there's a lot of shabby but colorful houses, lots of drugs, hippy looking people, and beautiful plants. There are signs on the main street (called 'pusher street' lol) that politely ask not to take pictures. Every once in a while the police come in and raid the community, so I was told if you see cop cars there when you go to visit, just go back another day :)
[side note: We also bought our plane tickets for Spring Break last week! woo. ]
This is the edge of the community, so the big building in the far background you can tell is not part of it.
Ally in the alley behing some of the houses:
The community is peaceful, so basically you can do anything as long as it doesn't inhibit anyone else from doing what they want to do. The only rule is no hard drugs--just weed is allowed (as is illustrated in the grafitti below).
I came home to beautiful Valentine's Day flowers :) Thanks, Andrew!
That evening my host family came home from their ski trip, and the next day they took me up the coast to the crown prince's castle, the beach (which is gorgeous--crystal clear water and beautiful rocks), and their old summer house.
dont worry, the next one isn't their summer house--that's the back of the castle.
My host mom and me at the beach: my favorite picture of the last week. I had to stand where the ground was lower so she would look taller....
And here are a couple pictures around Copenhagen. They're from this place called the Round Tower.
Last night, my host dad showed me pictures from some of their vacations around Europe. One thing that has made me laugh recently is that they don't know that you aren't suppose to say the 'h' on 'herbs.' And that word kept coming up last night for some reason...so I got to hear 'hhherbs' in a Danish accent multiple times. It's also really funny when they try to say 'corn.' I told my host dad he sounded like a pig oinking. I also watched the Disney channel for awhile with my host brother. Hannah Montana dubbed into Danish? priceless.
I talked to Jenni and Alex on skype the other day!! yay. so fun.
Andrew's coming to visit on Friday--so I have to get a lot of homework done!
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