Day 23 - January 23

I went off to the city center to buy some postcards, because the only ones I could find nearby were super expensive. These were about 50 cents each, and it was in a cute tourist shop. Remember trolls?

They had tons of them, including a pirate troll. Might have to get it!

I stopped in a used book store. Who cares if everything is in Danish – books are books, and old books are awesome no matter what they are! But there were random English books mixed in, especially in the history section, every other book was English. Maybe I’ll go back and give it a real look, see if there’s anything interesting. I then stopped into the new bookstore to discover that half of their books were English as well, so if I run out books to read here…however, like everything else, books are wicked expensive – I saw a $20 paperback. I ambled over to the children’s section looking for…yep, Harry Potter. They only had hardcovers (and started with book 3 – that is my favorite, but book 1 would probably be easiest to read in Danish), and it was – EEP - $40! So I think I’ll look around a bit before I buy my Danish Harry Potter…maybe if I can’t find it anywhere else, I’ll buy it right before I leave. I was also hoping to find some Sherlock Holmes, but with the prices, I might just wait until I go to England where, even though the prices may be double, they’re still cheaper!

Photos from my morning:

Signalhuset, my kollegium.

Just like a postcard.

I was making a cheesecake for a friend’s birthday (the only cake I actually know how to make…I didn’t want to experiment too much in another country when the result wasn’t for myself), so I went to the Netto grocery store by Norrepørt – never again. It was tiny, crowded, didn’t have a lot of food, and it did not seem to be any cheaper than Bilka, though everyone says it’s the cheapest. I ended up having to go to Bilka anyway to pick up some things Netto didn’t have.

I did have to improvise a bit on the cheesecake. We didn’t have the right size pan, so we weren’t sure if the mixture would be spread too thin…it seemed a little off, so I had to semi-quarter the recipe (basically, use what was left of the cream cheese, which was in grams, and that amounted to…mostly a quarter of what the recipe called for). Also, for the crust, they don’t have graham crackers, but they do have digestives – English biscuits which are pretty much the equivalent of graham crackers…only better. As I was making the cake, Bo came out and wondered what I was making. When I told him, he laughed, and said “That must be more of an American thing. Anything with cheese is an American thing…” But I thought, on the plus side, since most people haven’t had cheesecake before, if it doesn’t turn out alright, no one will know…It looks pretty, though!