let the sunshine in…the suuuunshiiiine iiin

As there have been a few sunny days recently (I guess I can count them on one hand for the time I have been already here ) we did some exploration again. Two weeks ago on Saturday, I went to Malmø with Kevin from Italy and Tomas from Lithuania. So it wasn’t a shopping day, for what Malmø is famous here in København –everybody just goes shopping there, because even with buying the train or busticket, it is cheaper to buy clothes on the other side of the Øresund Bridge-but another sightseeing tour. I am not complaining about that, because I am not the shopping girl , and we had a great day in Sweden, I am just trying to write complicated sentences in English, which seems to work, because now even I am a little confused.

In Malmø you find the highest appartement building of Europe, as far as I remember. It is called the Turning Torso and is about 190 meters high with 54 stores and an turning angle of 90 degrees from bottom to the top. We also visited the Malmøhus, which is an ancient castle and an evidence of the ancient fortification against enemies coming from the sea. Furthermore we ate a very nice typical Swedish desert at a café, forgot how it is called something with bølle though…surprise surprise…at least I remember that it was very tasty.

A windmill in Malmø…

The torsing tower

This weekend, or better Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday we used for getting around København a little. Everybody, except me, because of the lab project, had a week of holidays. I thought it was actually really funny, at home you guys just start with the sommersemester, and we here are already having a holiday week. Weird! Anyway, I took Thursday and Friday off and we went to the Louisiana, a museum of modern art, which was very awesome, but it is supposed to be ways more spectacular in sommer (I am getting a little annoyed by hearing this phrase so I decided enjoying it even though it is still winter). The current exhibition is called “colors in art” and shows paintings from Van Gogh, Kadinsky, Matisse… As I like to spend time in museums and tend to look very carefully, I kind of got left behind, because most people were already going home 2 hours earlier than I. Well I guess this can happen . By the way, I learned how to say Van Gogh with the right pronunciation – it is very nice to have people with different languages around.

On Friday we went to Christiania, the “social experiment” in the city of København, tend to be not very accepted by the government though, well and honestly I am not surprised, because you can see people smoking joints in the middle of the day, in the middle of the street. It also seems to be a quite good market of drugs there, just noted by me, as lots of people sell their “goods” there. It is really a completely different part of the city; You can even see farmbuildings in there, people on trackers, little houses, that look more like “Schrebergaerten”, than real houses. And all in all it seems to be a very “chilly” place. The funny thing is: When you leave the area it says: “You are now entering the EU”…just funny!!!

Then on Saturday we went to the “Black diamond”, the royal library of Copenhagen. It is near the sea and the new part of the building is black glass or something like that so it looks very fancy and it really is. We actually saw the Danish press pictures of the year exhibition and some cartoon drawings, which I thought were quite great.

Hmmm…and what did we do on Sunday? Just a second I have to think about it…oh yeah..we went to Hillerød, which is a suburb of København. It takes like 45 minutes by S-train and we took a chance of the free S-trains they have on the first Sunday of every month. That’s a quite great idea, I think, because that way people, like even Copenhageners themselves travel around the city area a bit. They actually have this free train because all the shops are open on the first Sunday as well, and they want to transport people to the shopping centers outside the city or to the ikea mostly (because on this Sunday every second person I saw, carried an ikea bag. Anyway Hillerød castle looks very nice and has a fancy garden in the backyard and it looks like it is built in a lake.

With the mentor program of the university of economics we went to the Carlsberg brewery this Friday, for a business presentation and some free bears afterwards. I thought the best story the guy was telling us, was the one about the alcohol shops in Germany near the border to Denmark. Carlsberg sells the Carlsberg bear to those shops and about 90% of the Carlsberg bear in these shops goes back to Denmark. Because in Denmark a can of bear in the supermarket is about  1 Euro and in Germany it is about 40 cents. That is just ridiculous somehow…And the other really crazy thing is, that they want to change the skyline of København by rebuilding the old brewery in the city (they only stopped brewing in the city about 14 months ago) to make a fancy new district there. So they are planning to put 6 (lets call them) skyscrapers there, and as København has no other high buildings this will just be very striking. And the government already approved it, so they are just waiting until the crisis is over and they can start. Oh and I learned something very important. The main focus on bear  advertisement is for males, aged between 25 and 30, who are single, football/tennis/skiing/golf fans have a good job and like driving Audis or BMWs. …definitely out of my league XD.

Med venlig hilsen

Michaela

Christiania

With Sophie and Kevin in Christiana..pleace notice: THE SUN!!!

on our way to Hillerød

Strong (needs to be if he wanna carry me ) Hungarian David and me in front of Hillerød Castle

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