I just needed a day to relax. I enjoy everything I do, but there is all this pressure to go and see everything and to do everything all the time because EVERYTHING is a once in a lifetime opportunity. However, speaking of those, last night was Kulturnatten, aka the greatest thing of my life.
Once a year, always on the same Friday in October, Copenhagen has Culture Night. You buy a pass for 85 kr, which is about $16, and you get access to over 500 places and events. The entire city is focused on Kulturnatten from 5pm-5am, and it was maddness in the greatest sense of the word. Grace and I tried to plan what we were going to, but ended up just kinda winging it, which happened to lead us to everything we wanted to do anyways. Something you need to know about Copenhagen is that it closes at 6pm, sometimes 8pm if it is a Friday, but things close early. SO, on Kulturnatten not only is everything open, but it is night themed! For example, we went to this cool statue museum and it was dark except every room had a different color theme with colored spotlights moving around and focusing on the different statues. It was way trippy and exciting. There was also live jazz being played in the courtyard! There was live music everywhere! Then we ended up in Christiansborg Palace, then at an ice sculpture show. After that we were trying to find the canal boats and on our way stopped at the Jewish Museum, and we stumbled upon a Civil War reenactment/Mideval Market/Tolkien thing? I have no idea, but there were definitely confederate soliders with cannons and people who would write your name in Elvish. We got candy apples that were the greatest things ever made with real sugar and stuff he was throwing in the big pan over a fire and then dipping in nuts, cinnamon-sugar, or coconut, then it would create this really awesome hard coating. That is obviously what people in the Civil War ate every day. Then we accidentally found the cannon shooting demonstrations that scared us to pieces, and the awkward stained glass house modern art where the light wuld turn on from inside and a creepy girl would stare at you. We then took the boat over to Nyhavn and we walked around there. We kinda went to the Industrial Museum because there was a fashion show, but we missed the fashion show and the rest was just really weird... We went into the big church by where the queen lives that I am forgetting the name of right now, but it is just a huge dome and is gorgeous. We took the bus from around Nyhavn back to Nørreport so that we could take another bus to the cemetery, but we are not going to discuss the cemetery, because it did not happen and I was sad. BUT, some of the busses that were running last night were old city busses and the driver was all dressed up in the old uniform and it was precious. After the cemetery did not work out we went to Rundetarrn, which is Round Tower and where Kathrine took me my first week. It is neat because part of it is an observatory, but it is usually not open at night. Although, stupid Denmark's weather was too cloudy last night to see anything, but I at least got to look through the telescope! And the view from the open space was gorgeous. It was about 1am when we got home and everything good was closing anyways, although I did have a brief moment where I was obsessed with the leaves of the ivy on our building when I took my only pictures of the night:
I have not planned my 2 week travel break at all and it is in 2 weeks. I am annoyed at myself, but am also totally discouraged from England. (oh shoot, need to finish my England posts, ugh). I am going to Legoland tomorrow, as in the real actual Legoland where Legos were invented complete with Vikingland place. It is supposed to be great, and also my first adventure onto Jutland! I am having a little bit of a hard time right now and school is currently kicking my butt, but I did get an A on my first Danish test! I can tell you my name like no ones business! I was going to go for a walk around the lakes, but it is 40º outside so I may just clean my room and take a shower instead.
The stressing over my 5 page paper and my 10 page paper and where I am going for travel break and having money can continue on Monday, tomorrow I am going to have fun.
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