april 15 sunday

Laura and I looked at the directions from NY to Paris as suggested by my uncle and were laughing about how it tells you to drive to Boston and then swim across the Atlantic ocean and takes days and days. Then we were looking at satellite maps of Manchester, NoHo, Copenhagen and Long Island (where Laura is from). We went into the Glyptotek. Such a great museum with lots of neat sculptures. We looked at an impressionist painting exhibit that wasn't open when I was at the Glypotek before. There were paintings by Degas, Manet, Morisot etc but not any of their especially great paintings. We went from the Glypotek to a bakery near DIS to get pastries. We then stopped by this church with a cool spiral tower and a gold dome on top. St. Peters Church I believe. Then we went to Christiania-a place where the laws are not followed adn they have a very hippy laid back type of lifestyle. It is the number one tourist destination in Denmark. Christiania was interesting. The gate on the way out says "You are now entering the EU" (in english). There are lots of little shacks and stalls where people are selling stuff. Laura got earrings at one stall. The guy is mixed race and wanted to build a ranch in Brazil. Don't know what he was going in Denmark. He was asking us about American Indians and wearing a Boston College shirt but he hadn't been to the States.
I took Laura to the airport and then went to DIS to watch Grey's Anatomy with Ashley, Emily and Elizabeth. My danish professor had invited us to her house before we went as a class to a soccer game. She lives in Osterbro which is a pretty weathly posh area of the city. Very nice. We sang the FCK cheer song again and had OJ, Coke or some had beer to drink. We walked from there over to the stadium.
The game was really fun. People got very into cheering. Three guys from the spectators went running across the field and had to be stopped by guards. FCK (the Copenhagen soccer team that we were rooting for) got 4 goals and OB (the team from Odense (another big city in Denmark) got 2 goals. Soccer is really fun to watch there. The grass got pretty torn up and there were some collisions and people that got knocked over but it is not a violent game. THe ball went into the stands more than I thought it would. They throw out a new ball but then go and retrieve the old ball.
I walked home along the 5 lakes in the center of the city. It was a beautiful night and it stays light so late (almost until 9PM!).