Early on Thursday I went with a few girls from Hoffmans (Erin, Juliana, Vivian, and Theresa) and a guy named Sanjay from the French Alps to walk around the city and explore. We stopped by the entrance to Christiania, a politically and socially autonomous community in downtown Copenhagen where squatters took over an old military area. We explored a bit but felt slightyl sketched out, so we left pretty quickly after finding food. I had a great time getting to know them all better, and talked for a while with Sanjay about how he compared his experiences in France and Denmark. Later, after knowing what to expect from Distortion on the first night, I went downtown with Jill, Katie, and Ashley again on Thursday. There wasn't as much going on during the daytime; again, there were live DJ sets and plenty of hipsters, but since we arrived later than the day before we didn't get the chance to check as many out. Later in the night we hopped between a club called Rust and a Latin dance club and had a pretty great time at both. Rust was definitely the better venue, though - with two floors and a better variety of music, it was awesome. Unfortunately it was pretty packed for most of the time, and I swear we spent a solid 10 minutes just trying to wedge our way through the crowd up the stairs to the upper floor.
Me and the Others at the Entrance to Christiania
The next day, I got the chance to explore the park near my Kollegium better while getting some jogging in. After hanging around Hoffmans for a while, I headed to the King's Gardens to chill with Kyle, Ryan, Hirsch, Tom, a friend of Hirsch's who was visiting for a few days, and a guy from Boston that I'd met earlier named Tim. We all had a great time just hanging out and joking, then after a while met up with Ravy, grabbed some pizza, and headed to the location of Distortion for that night. The first few DJs we visited weren't the best, but after a while we found one we liked. At first, we tried dancing and waited for girls to approach us, but once that strategy proved ineffective Tom and Ryan straight up grabbed a few girls' hands and told them, "Dance with us!" After about 30 seconds of dancing, the girls ran away as fast as they could! It was by far one of the funniest things that had happened since I'd been in Europe. A few minutes later we approached a group of girls with a bit more subtlety, but they also scattered quickly; it seems that European girls' ideas of having a good time are different than American girls'. Later in the night we met a few other girls from Hoffmans, then while they stayed downtown we went back to the Kollegium. I, however, got separated from the rest of the group by accidentally getting on the wrong bus. While waiting for the bus back to Hoffmans I met a Danish student who was one of the friendliest Danes I had met so far. We chatted for a while on the bus, then finally I arrived at Hoffmans and crashed for the night.
Me, Ashley, Jill, and Katie at Distortion
On Saturday I hung around Hoffmans for a while, then headed back downtown with Katie and Ashley for the final Distortion events (Jill wasn't feeling well so she stayed in). This night, it was located in the old meat-packing sector of the city - so a lot of the events were in renovated industrial areas, which added a lot to the atmosphere. There were a lot of awesome things to check out - for example, there was a set blasting hardcore German electronic music, a reggae DJ who tossed out free shirts and whistles, a laser-light rave dancefloor set up in a gym, a huge electronica concert in an old warehouse, and a pool set up with neon lights and music. It was by far the best night I've spent in Europe so far. However, I sadly lost my brand-new pair of boat shoes after I left them outside the pool - which definitely put a damper on the night when it came time to leave.
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