Some photos from around Copenhagen

YO it SNOWED early last week!!










This is a pølse-wagon. Yum.
This is Nyhavn, the site you see on pretty much every postcard or touristy advert for Copenhagen. Note the colored buildings. More interesting: the wooden shacks on street level - they're setting up for the Christmas Faire, so you can wander around and buy/sell regardless of the weather. Hot mulled wine!

I found this lying in the front room of my program's building. I thought it meant literal mice - like the animal - but it only has computer accessories inside

Found this pre-election when I was on a bus. It says, if you can make it out, "Obama," graffiti style


Pretty neat railcar at Central Station

I found these people by accident. I was doing work and stepped outside to pick up a falafel for dinner, and saw three OLD, torch-wielding ladies meanderng down the street. Of course I followed them. I found over a hundred such people, although mostly younger than the three who led me there. We marched, or they marched and I followed, to the headquarters of Politiken, the big newspaper in Copenhagen, at which point they went inside and I left. It was, I found out, a Krystalnacht memorial rally that over time has also become a leftist/anarchist (socialist?) march.



More strollers. I visited some friends in the burbs and the next morning, at the bus stop, I found a herd (flock?) of moms with strollers and children.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA I don't even know what schwanger means and I think it's hysterical


Note in one building we have McDonald's, Burger King, and Kentucky Fried Cruelty. Welcome to Copenhagen! Although given Europe's food standards, it's probably a safe bet that it's not actually fried cruelty here.

table set for Christmas Lunch (julefrokost, pronounced vaguely like "yool-uh-frohkuhst" with the 'r' gurgled). Lunch is the wrong word. Event ran 4 pm to circa 5 am. Delicious traditional Danish food, including pickled herring in curry sauce, as well as Danish meatballs (frikadeller, I think), and various other picked, fried, and smoked fish. Also sauces and beets. And lots of Christmas beer and snaps, which is sort of like Danish vodka in strength, but totally unique in taste. And by unique I mean horrifying. In the nicest, most culturally sensitive way possible, though. But in all seriousness, that stuff will fuck you up. Afterwards, when my hallmates asked me if I liked the snaps, I replied that I respect snaps.

Anyway, these hopefully show a little more of Copenhagen and how awesome it is, and how bizarre I find it to see Americana here. Which is, I suppose, a symptom of the ridiculous position of privilege I find myself in as an American (although if I were studying in somewhere like, oh, say, Venezuela, I don't know if I would term it 'privilege').

Finals are fast approaching (as in tomorrow) and I'm definitely weirded out by how quickly this semester has gone. I don't know if it's because everything seems new and so it's sort of difficult to fall into a boring routine that eats up time or if it's because I'm getting older (AAHHHH) and so three months is a smaller portion of my total time spent alive and aware so far.