Getting Around Town

Bikes are ubiquitous in Copenhagen - it seems that everyone who lives here owns a bike and uses it to travel everywhere. On nearly every street there are separate lanes for bike traffic, and they're usually just as congested as the sidewalks or the streets. There are also a number of free bike stations positioned around the city; you can insert a 2-Kroner coin to release a bike, ride it around for as long as you want, then return it to any other station and get your 2 Kroner back. I have yet to use one of these free bikes, but I look forward to checking them out soon.

Bikes Parked Outside My Kollegium

On Friday, I went to class and along with the rest of the class made a short presentation about what we'd found by observing/interviewing the Danes in downtown Copenhagen. Afterward, I returned to Hoffmans for a while and got some cleaning done around the room, then once Kyle, Ryan, and Hirsch returned we met up with a a couple guys named Ravy and Tom, and we all went into town and explored for a while. While Kyle, Ryan, and Ravy stayed and got food in the downtown area, though, Hirsch and I headed back to the Kollegium, bought a few sausages, and cooked a feast like none other. After meeting back up with the other guys and a few girls from the Kollegium, we went back downtown and chilled late into the night.

One of Many Churches in Downtown Copenhagen

The next day, I woke up extremely late and got very little done during the daytime. However, the guys and I did make a pasta dinner of epic proportions while the girls from Hoffmans went out. Afterward, we all visited Tom's Kollegium and watched the Manchester-Barcelona game before going out on the town. Today, we all met up downtown and got last-minute tickets to a live soccer game between Copenhagen's own F. C. København and AaB. Although the game was very one-sided, the experience was a great one - at one point, the crowd suddenly erupted in an orgy of inflatable toys being tossed around, and throughout the game a collection of Copenhagen's finest soccer hooligans shouted boisterous anthems. After the game, we returned to Hoffmans by bus, and I Skyped my family before hitting the books and crashing for the night.