This past weekend was my first weekend fully spent in Copenhagen in a while. I thought I would have the stamina to travel every weekend, but it is just not possible!
Thursday night was my first experience at a "club" called Nexxus.. Why the parentheses around club? Funny you ask. This "club" is actually located on the ground floor of our school...It resembles a high school homecoming dance with everyone you go to school with there, the randoms that they bring with them, and groups of people huddling around a flask they snuck in. FUN! Don't get me wrong it was a lot of fun actually. They even ended up having a huge dance floor and legit DJ. Safe to say me and my friends took advantage of that. The Danes could learn a thing or too from us and spare us there incriminating stares. Sorry were fun! Consequently my friday was shot.
Saturday was a majorly productive day for me. Me and two of my other friends headed to Cafe 22 for their weekend brunch. For $20 (cheap here) we had a buffet of a great assortment of food that we could not produce ourselves. There were pancakes, chicken wings (random breakfast item), scrambled and hard boiled eggs, lox, pesto, brie cheese, so many different spreads, turkey, chorizo, fruit galore, etc etc. You get the picture. I also had an amazing vanilla latte here, my first in europe! My mom would love this place solely for there lattes. They one thing I am confused at is why they put them in large glass cups.. holy hottness. The etiquette of a buffet is somewhat different here. The danes eat everything on there plate. My standard buffet consists of sampling one of everything. They eat everything because you are intended to use the same plate for each round at the buffet. Stupid Americans-- we did not follow this rule. My favorite item from the buffet by far was brie cheese, pesto, and rugbrod (their classic bread). So simple but so amazing. Brie cheese here is like cheddar cheese in the U.S., not a bad substitute in my book. I will be back again!
After brunch we headed to another coffee shop, Baresso. This is the Starbucks of Denmark. You will find one everywhere. The perks of Baresso is the free wifi. It was the perfect place to spend saturday sipping lattes while studying for our many classes (the real reason we are here.....) I yet again ordered another vanilla latte, semi obsessed with them here. Something about being in Europe, in a cafe drinking coffee makes it taste so much better. After a solid 4 hours of studying, flight booking, and facebooking we headed back home to our dorm to prepare for our night out. Tonight there was a party, in a "club", in the ground floor of one of the student dorms. Still amazes me. This dorm called tieten-something was amazing. It was modern, clean, visually appealing, and way cheaper than the "suite" (that has been broken into and robbed 4 times) I live in. The one downfall of this place is how far away from everything else it is. But back to the "club," 800 people replied that they were attending, and this place could fit about 150, maybe. So we got there fairly early. The drinks were super cheap, cheaper than the U.S.(gasp!) But it was way too crowded to have an enjoyable time so me and Jenn left to go to an even better bar ;) This was the joke of the night. We were actually embarrassed to tell everyone we were just going to get food so we made it sound like we were going to this really awesome bar that nobody knew about-- in actuality a pizza place. This was the cheapest and probably best meal I have had in Copenhagen. Brings me back to the days of Ian's pizza. All I needed was some ranch. Consequently (again), sunday was shot. I did however plan two 10 day trips throughout Italy and Spain respectively.
But today, Monday, usually a dreaded day, has been a great day. Me and my friend Jenn got up early and headed to the gym, Fitness dk. This is the Lifetime of Denmark. Early in the morning you get the before work crowd, during the day around 10-1pm you get the older crowd of people, the ones who smell, and the later in the day you get all of the students and younger adults. This is where it becomes a scene. How dressed up can you get to go to the gym? This is why LuLu Lemon makes a killing, their (Almost put "There" but Lauren and Aaron would have a hissy fit, sorrynotsorry) workout clothes are cute and fashionable. It is a sea of beautiful people. I was of course repping my "I'm going to the KK" shirt (oh if only I actually was) and my Wisconsin shorts. Pretty successful workout. I plan on joining this heinous place this wednesday when there is no $60 signup fee, after all Lauren & Joe's wedding is only 144 days away (:-o) !!
Im looking forward to my long week of school with over 21 hours of pure class time. The highlight will be friday morning when I fly out to Budapest, Hungary! I cannot wait to see this amazing city. Can't wait to fill you in on the adventures I have!
Cheers (-ing water) from Chels!
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