One of my favorite things so far is sitting on the back or the front of the metro, at the window. I only wish the outside leg of the trip was longer, but even in the tunnels, it’s really neat to watch everything traveling past. Undeground looks like some sort of less-high-tech Star Wars hyperspace vortex. It’s really neat to just sit at the window and watch everything.
The view from the back of the Metro at my stop; the gigantic shopping center Field's.
We took a visit to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, a collection of art from Carl Jacobsen, the son of the original Carlsberg brewer. It had quite the collection, from Danish artists to French to Egyptian artifacts and Greek statues. Oh to be a rich man living in the 19th century.
Walking to the Glyptotek.
The earth mother.
A hippo attacking a child??
At home, I attempted to put up the curtains I was finally given. I’ve never hug curtains before, but it seemed pretty simple, although it took forever to get the hanger out. But as I was loading the curtains onto one side, suddenly, the entire other side fell off from the ceiling. Turns out the contraption was not put in very well, and the screw is in by a very loose hold. I cautiously returned the hanger to its screw and prayed to God that it wouldn’t fall again. It didn’t, but whenever opening or closing my curtains, I do it very cautiously.
On the way home, I saw an amusing advertisement for the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. In Danish, it’s “Det regner med frikadeller”. Literal translation? It is raining with frikadeller (a Danish dish of meatballs). Ironically, that night, my Danish flatmate, Bo, was cooking us dinner – we wanted a Danish dinner, so he made frikadeller. I offered to help and he set me to chopping vegetables for the salad, but then set about critiquing my slowness of chopping. In my defense, he gave me a VERY large knife to cut with, which was rather unwieldy :). But the dinner was delicious, so I can’t complain!
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