Folkekøkken

Hyperboräisch by Sigmar Polke.

Update!
I no longer have access to the internet in my room because my ethernet port is bust... which makes it somewhat difficult to blog regularly.

This evening, upon the suggestion of many friends, I decided to volunteer at the folkekøkken in Christiania. Every thursday a group of about 10-15 people get together to cook a vegetarian dinner for 50-100 people. In a tiny café kitchen, with an even tinier stove, with food from donations or dumpsters we created a beautiful meal! Okay, so perhaps this week's wasn't a major gastronomical feat because the main organizers were not present, but I was pretty damn amazed (and proud). I met people from all over (even a girl from Toronto) today, most of us being beginner-advanced amateurs in the kitchen. I think the best part was spending time with these people, chopping potatoes (so so many) with a complete stranger and feeling completely at home. There was something I experienced tonight that really hit me. I can't wait to do it again!

Becca came to visit last week from Scotland and we did so much! We:

- visited Kronborg castle in Helsingør, 30 minutes north of CPH - learned about the Swedes brutally stealing everything (or how biased our Danish history lesson was), saw mediocre neoclassical paintings, saw the sea!
- saw lots of lovely Danish-designed homewares at Illum Bolighus and met Becca's soulmate teapot
- took a daytrip to Malmö in Sweden - bought a fjällräven backpack, bought safari pants, listened to singsong Swedish, ate a bagel!
- visited Louisiana, (10 minutes from Helsingør) - saw Giacomettis, discovered Sigmar Polke, Ian McKeever and Yayoi Kusama, remembered how incomparable seeing art on the internet is to real life
- celebrated spring with fresh cut daffodils for 15kr ($3 Canadian)
- discovered that one jar of "asian" red curry paste from the Danish grocery store lasts about two dinners

I actually think the highlight of our adventures was finally eating smørrebrod at a café beside the train station in Helsingør. It was cozy but certainly not fancy, cheap and best of all - filled with the friendliest old people!

Since then I have been pretty busy making plans for the summer, trying to find work and studying for my GIS exam next friday. To everyone preparing for exams back home: Bonne chance!