Wednesday
I picked up Andrea from her bus, which had come from Malmö. Not much time for excitement, since I had to rush off to class, and the teacher won’t let us bring friends. But when that ended I got to hang out with Andrea…and introduce her to Doctor Who. I’m taking over the world, one person at a time.
Thursday
Thursday was a good day. In fact, my notes say, “Good day!!” With a purpose in mind, I was actually able to get myself up and ready in reasonable time. I then taught Andrea how to bake peanut butter cookies. I’d been feeling like baking for quite a while. Mmm….
Then it was time for class! Andrea decided she wanted to come to class with me, so she got to learn about Denmark and its relation to the EU, and Viking religion. Exciting stuff!
After wandering back and forth a bit, we made it to Bo’s house (contrary to how that sounds, the walking back and forth was intentional, and it was not in search of Bo’s apartment, which is rather weird to find…along the way, though, we sort of helped another man who was lost).
Bo cooked us a Danish Christmas lunch, as opposed to the previous Christmas dinner. This is traditionally started with schnapps and marineret sild – pickled herring. The schnapps was awful (even the Danes say so, but “it’s tradition!”)…the fish tasted mostly like pickles, so while you won’t see me snacking on it anytime soon, it was not as gag worthy as the schnapps. The meal then consisted of smørrebrød with tons of different meats – pork, ham, eggs, leverpostej (liverpaste), salami, shrimp, frikadeller (which surpassed the taste of Bo’s last frikadeller -> seriously, best frikadeller of my life right there…). And for dessert, Bo was going to make the fancier version of risengrød, but got lazy – no complaints here. Risengrød is pretty delicious in its non-fancy form. Good food, fun people, very hyggelig.
Fish? Yech!
So much food.
Awwww, flatmates! Or, now that Bo has left us, former flatmates...
The photo I had of risengrød was unappetizing, so I found this one.
Water in the canal - the days of ice are over!
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