The Cold is Here to Stay

Midterm are finally over, thank goodness. I had another week of tests, papers, and,inevitably,stress. Thursday evening I had a chance to relax. I had been looking forward to getting a cone of gelato (the hazelnut is incredible there) at the stand on my way home. As I approached the stand people were coming and going out of the back door. It was closing up shop for the year. I was too late! It's probably for the best, seeing as it is around 40 degrees here now.

It seems like during our trip to Brussels the weather has completely changed. I pulled out my puffy winter coat on Monday morning. I expected to be svetiing by the time I got to the station. Instead, my fingers were numb. The wind here gusts constantly. I love listening it when I'm in my room, but the full force of it when I'm outside always shocks me. It's resistance training when I'm running.

This week I made a bunch of 'fall foods' items, like pancakes with applesauce, chicken soup, potpie, cinnamon buns. All great. My friend Elisabeth also taught me how to knit on Saturday. I'm making a scarf. It's going well. I'm a bit of a perfection when it comes to stuff like that so it's taking me a while.

I've decided that I would show you a 'day in a life'. Here is the first batch of around my kollegium. I'll take some at my school tomorrow. Here is the route I take from my room to downtown Copenhagen to get to school everyday.

This is the entrance/exit to my kollegium complex. Notice the tree on the right; it's the infamous apple tree.

I take a left out of the exit and then I reach the cross walk (left picture). After I wait there I cross the street an enter the new cross walk section (right picture). They are building a park there. I walk straight ahead to the metro station (back, left side of the picture)

Iclimb a set of stairs and see this at the top. So pretty in the morning.

This is the view from the side of the track that I take to get into the city. The building on the left are the kollegiums, mine is just like those, but hidden behind the one to the back. (left picture). In the right picture you can see the inside of the metro. Pretty typical of public transport--but I bet back home the announcements don't come on in danish!

The last picture is of Norreport, the metro station at the center of town. Now just a 5-7 minute walk to school (which I will document sometime this week)