First day in Copenhagen, by Max

July 10

After waking up and having a very nice breakfast of yoghurt (spelled joghurt), we got out of the house and found a good street to walk along.

Last night we had a tough time finding the right house (and the right street). Here’s the story: After getting off the plane we got on the Metro to get to the stop. With the Metro you can’t fall into the rails because of a plexiglass shield, just like an Air Train. The ride was incredibly smooth so it went by fastly, when we got off we saw our first view of Kǿbenhavn (Copenhagen). The first thing we saw were bikes, the station was surrounded by bikes, bicycles, vespas, tricycles, etc. There were so many bikes, they even had to put them on elevators like cars. Once we got away from the bikes we saw all the sidewalks lined by bikes, and LOTS of people on bikes.

Now that we’ve seen the bikes we need to see our house so we looked at our instructions: Langenlandsveg, Frederiksberg. We were in Frederiksberg so now we had to find Langenlandsveg.

The troublesome part was, we couldn’t pronounce it, but luckily we had it written down, but unluckily nobody knew where it was. But luckily, we found 4 men in an outside bar who were happy to help us. We asked “Do you know where Langenlandsveg (pronounced “langilansvey”) is?” And they looked at each other asking about it, and they didn’t have an answer, so we showed it to them on the instructions, and they said, “Oh, you mean Langelandsveg (pronounced lenglansvey). Let’s see.” So they searched on their phone and found it, they showed us how to get there and so we were about to leave, but then we remembered to say “Tusen Tak” (thousand thanks). And as a last thing they said they had just gotten their Bachelor degrees in philosophy! (yay). But then we left.

We found the house, got the keys, went into the apartment and looked around. At the table there was a note from the girl whose room I was staying in, in perfect English, saying that I could use any games, including the tons of Wii games they have (Tusen Tak). (Now there is an actual 3 hrs of night time.)

When we woke up we had a light breakfast and started walking on a street bound for the city center. On the way I ordered in Danish three chocolate buns for us to munch on. We learned that in Kǿbenhavn, restaurants are only open for dinner. By the time we wanted lunch we were pretty far from our house and right next to “Shawarma Huset” (the Shawarma House), so we had shawarma. Me, mom, and dad had shawarma wraps, and Cedar had a pig in a blanket the size of a hot dog.

Lopsided mary go round, all 4 people

Kept on walking (always seeing bikes), and we found a very nice little playground with a lot of the same ideas as in New York, a lopsided mary go round, a steel ball to spin on, and of course swings. There were also lopsided cups to sit and spin in and made me nauseous. I spent most of my time with a 9 year old from Texas on the lopsided mary go round. We were always running up hill on it so that it would spin, we would see how long we could keep at it until someone fell off. Later, two more kids joined us and there was a lot more falling. The kid from Texas was leaving tomorrow and he had a soccer ball that he didn’t want to take back so he offered it to me. Of course I said yes, so we went over to his house and saw that a grass field was in his back yard to play on. It was very fun, he was really good, but we had to leave.

Lopsided cup that made me nauseous