All my new shoes

Aren't they pretty? I figured, as a girl in Copenhagen it's essential to have different shoes in different colours so they always match what else I am wearing. Of course I have matching bracelets and earrings to each of them. How more princessy can it become? I don't think much more, but compared to the last four years living in Copenhagen is a healthy shock for me. Remembering those funny moments living in Enschede, dressed up and rouged on a normal day and always being asked: "Do you have a party later?". Still, Copenhagen is not the other way round, as I first expected it. The majority of people here is well-dressed (even if they're pregnant), but then well-dressed is of course subjective. Still, they look as if they care about how they look and that manifests itself in different ways. The surprising thing is that the different peer groups don't have a common dresscode. This was illustrated very well during the huge garden party some weeks ago, but I come across it again every day: guys in suits hang out with hippies, they are joined by gangsters and eventually a high-heeled girl with expensive sunglasses walks by and joins the crowd. Very different from everything I've known before, where through your dress you also express the kind of group you belong to, but probably this is the environment in which people can truly develop their own style. I wonder what this will do to me. I already discovered that wearing 3/4 leggings under a skirt is the best invention ever. I can sit on the floor, go by bike, it's not as cold when it's cold and not as warm when it's warm. Perfect. The second day Helen was here she bought leggings too.

As she was in Copenhagen a major part of our programme was shopping, what we did on saturday. We didn't end up buying a lot of stuff but we got nice inspirations. Saturday night we went out in Norrebro, to Rust, which is a cool place where we had almost too much fun dancing, as nobody knew us there (see the pictures) and yesterday we visited the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, north of Copenhagen at the coast. Apart from the artworks it's a really nice place to hang out, it has a park with seaview.

Today Helen left at 11.42 and I'm alone again, after cleaning the apartment I will now enjoy the quiet time and study. I hope I can use the time until Mariya arrives on friday to get a lot of things done. I also have to, with only a week and two days to go until the exams. The time is now!!!