Our plane landed in Denmark at around 1pm. I was extremely happy that I made it through that long flight. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and was absolutely freezing the whole way because they ran out of the blankets they were passing out. It worked out okay because as I flipped through the channels on the tiny tv screen, I came across the movie; The Great Gatsby, which I've never seen before. To anyone who hasn't seen it, IT HAS A TERRIBLE ENDING! Anyway, we got off and had our passports stamped for the very first time. We also got to say our first Danish word to the man who was stamping, Tak! (Thanks)
We walked through this tunnel looking archway to a crowd of people waiting for their friends and family. We were greeted by Sahra, Kathrine (my family's former exchange student), and her friend. It was so cool to see her again after 10 years! They were waving little Danish flags with our names on them which was super cool also. Then we all hopped on a little train that took us to a downtown station. We were in the city of Copenhagen!!! It was crazy beautiful with all the tall old looking buildings. Sahra took us to her brothers apartment we would be staying in and made us a typical Danish lunch for the seven of us. I got to try a couple new things such as a spread they put on bread that was sort of a pâté which I didn't particularly like and hyldeblomst (elder flower) which is a drink that they water down with sparkling water because it's too strong. To me, it tasted like pickles, but it was still pretty good. Haha.
After lunch, Kathrine asked me if she could take me around town and go on a boat tour. I of course couldn't pass that up. We walked all around while her and her friend talked about the history of almost every building. I took a bunch of pictures in the process. We got on the ferry after we walked around all of the buildings. I was very glad that the tour lady recited her little history lesson in English along with Danish and Russian throughout the ride. About fifteen minutes into the ride, the skies went gray and it started to pour down rain! I got soaked! Kathrine said "Denmark does this and then after ten minutes, the sun is out again." That reminded me of Oregon. Overall, I enjoyed the boat ride with them. We started walking back to apartment after and stopped at a very pretty tall tower called Doctrinamet Dirige. We walked all the way to the top to look at the amazing view. It was cool!
They dropped me off at the apartment at 7pm and Emily and Mimi were passed out. I was also dead tired and wanted to take a nap, but March told me that it would be easier for me to adjust if I just stayed awake and waited for bedtime and be able to sleep all night. After a little while, we woke them up for dinner. Sahra made lasagna and it was awesome! After that, we went bike riding around town on some bikes that Sahra managed to get for us before we arrived. (Thank you Sahra!) It was very fun experience. We rode to the Little Mermaid statue by the water and took some group photos. We also saw some other statues and the Queen's house along with the other royal family houses. They were gorgeous. Fun fact: When the danish flag is up on top of the house, it means that one of the royal families is home. When the flag is not up, they are away. We were all curious to find out what they were doing inside. Haha!
I was totally beat when we arrived back home. I got my teeth brushed and March had put in Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't even get to watch ten minutes of it before I slowly drifted off to sleep...
Goodnight!
Lanie
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