First week retrospective....

Sunday evening, after my first complete week in Copenhagen. What a time. I've seen so much, done so much, experienced so many new things and, of course: PARTIED SO MUCH. Whenever I thought I had been going crazy the last few months, it was just a warmup for being here. I went out every night since wednesday. Still, luckily I am trained and so I could get up most days without a headache and even go running this morning.

We have visited different bars and clubs throughout the last days, and my favourite until now is Kulorbar, the place we went thursday and I'm looking forward to go there again next week. For the rest I'm not sure I have to visit the places again, but I'll see where other people go and just follow them. And as the Italian says there's a Jazz Bar which does not play Jazz, it's definitely a place worth checking out, just because it seems crazy. You also wouldn't have a restaurant called Bella Italia serving Chinese food. But I am looking forward to some quiet nights of staying home or maybe visiting people, but not clubs.

Today I was looking at my stay here in a retrospective, I think my honeymoon phase is over. I was amazed by everything working so well and people speaking English everywhere. I start to take that as a given and observe more and more odd little Danish things, the worst story already known of course. Still I am having a great time and I don't think culture shock will hit me hard, as it wouldn't be the first one. I really miss my friends, it's so weird not having somebody around to share your random thoughts with. Most of the talks here are pretty superficial, party, shopping, boys, party, shopping, boys and the guys seem to be talking about girls only. It is really weird, Summer School is like being back in High School again: thinking hours about what to wear and what people will think of me. That's what happens if nobody has a time-filling occupation, we're just living from one partynight to the other. And there are many hours in between...Thank god from tomorrow on there are four days of class, so I can keep myself busy with more serious stuff. Luckily I also have some better friends who I actually have interesting conversations with, the one I am most happy with is my twin Elise. She's from Singapore (so we don't exactly look like twins :P) and we have both classes together and in most other occasions also end up together and have a really great time. Today we discovered we both love baking, so we will go and bake for the garden party on friday together.

The social program of ISUP today was a Canal Tour, we took a round trip on a boat on the canals of central Copenhagen. Was nice but not spectacular and for some reason made us very very tired. I am still tired and I have to make Guacamole, but I can't find lemon or lime juice. Maybe Stine has some hidden somewhere, I will ask her later.