My friend Thiago visited me a couple days ago! He is the cousin of my friend Flora who lived with my family for ten months. Thiago and I met when I visited Flora's family in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is now working as a veterinarian in northern England. (I posted pictures previously of when I visited him) We went to Christiania, Tivoli, and the Royal Palace. Unfortunately it started snowing hard on his second day, so we couldn't do as much as we would have liked. To warm up we joined some Australians at a bar for drinks. I'm finding that this is what the Danes do a lot to get through the cold winter months!
Us in Tivoli, which is an amusement park that goes crazy on decorations for Christmas! They have rides, Christmas mulled wine, and tons of booths to buy ornaments.
At the bar we started to do puzzles, specifically mind bogglers and here Thiago is explaining the rules to one.
The Australians (all engineers) figuring out the puzzle.
From left to right; me, Ron and Milly (Perth, Australia), Jessica (north carolina), Devon (Alaska), then Pip, Matt and Mark also from Perth.
Thiago's second day in Copenhagen we went to Kongens Nytorv and looked at these photos from all over the world. Had to find the one taken from Recife, Brazil. : )
Me in Kongens freezing my butt off right as it really started to snow.
Sofie is usually always this happy.
Mom and Dad, we need Sofie to come visit us.
Daniel being goofy and trying to get Sofie to finish off the fondue.
Some nights we all get together like this, Mike pulls out his guitar and we sing old songs. Such good times.
Us in Tivoli, which is an amusement park that goes crazy on decorations for Christmas! They have rides, Christmas mulled wine, and tons of booths to buy ornaments.
From left to right; me, Ron and Milly (Perth, Australia), Jessica (north carolina), Devon (Alaska), then Pip, Matt and Mark also from Perth.
Thiago's second day in Copenhagen we went to Kongens Nytorv and looked at these photos from all over the world. Had to find the one taken from Recife, Brazil. : )
Me in Kongens freezing my butt off right as it really started to snow.
There are bikes located around the big Christmas tree that you can ride. When you start pedaling you generate energy to keep the tree lit. This was my attempt.
The large globe was in the center and it listed facts about energy consumption on it. The picture above it is somewhat blurry but it shows large green glass rooms that you could enter and read about different energy saving options, etc.
Julie preparing the welcome drinks
These guys wouldn't stop wrestling!
The entrance
Last night Sofie told me that that night I should put my shoes outside my door, because Sinterklaas was supposed to visit. (only if I was a good kid though) In Belgium Sinterklaas comes the 6th of December. It is similar to putting up stockings in the U.S. I got really excited by this, so I put two pairs of shoes outside my door! I 'went to bed' but kept coming out to go to the bathroom to check my shoes. Sinterklaas had not come. This morning when I woke up for my final exam I found these Belgian chocolates in my shoes : ) Love you Fieke thank you!!
As a study break I went ice skating! Another exchange student, Nico from Switzerland plays hockey and was nice enough to teach me how to properly skate. I only fell flat on my butt once! Yay! It's really starting to get chilly here, the days are really short so you have to get up early to enjoy the day.
