The week started off well, with a visit from some other Mac kids - Anna Frye and Ella Bandes. I actually had never met Ella, but she and Anna are on the same program in France and had a week off, so they were in Copenhagen. Ella's friend from elementary school is Danish and lives in Copenhagen, and she showed us around. It was a really cozy time - we got hot cocoa at a really sweet cafe, ate at a shwarma place in Nørrebro, and then went to a bar/cafe in Free Town Christiania, where there were free crepes and ice cream, as well as interesting people-watching - awesome. I'm hoping I'll get to see Christiania in the daylight before too long - it's a really interesting place, and when I know a little more and visit again I'll probably do a whole post about it.
Tuesday was also really lovely, with the first beer-tasting session of the semester. One of my (non-academic) goals for the semester is to learn a lot about beer so that when I get back home I can impress everyone with my expertise. Or just know what to look for for beer-lucks. The beer-tasting was at Nørrebro Bryghus, a microbrewery in Copenhagen. The owner/master craftsman of the brewery is actually our guide for all three sessions, and is super knowledgeable. He also makes super great beer!
The rest of the week was a little calmer and a little less fun. I found out that I didn't get a Lilly fellowship, and apparently a lot of people want to work at the Mac library, so I might not even get to work there over the summer - I'll find out the first week in March. I'm hopeful about that though, since I worked there last summer and know what the summer routine is like.
But this weekend was really great - I went skiing in Sweden with DIS! There were only 17 of us on the trip, and most of them all knew each other, so it was a bit awkward at first, but I shared a cabin with three really sweet girls from Hamilton and got to know them and their friends from St. Lawrence University. It was hilarious to watch them all make connections - apparently everyone on the East Coast is connected, especially if they go to smaller colleges, so a lot of their parents and relatives knew each other in college!
The skiing was excellent and really fun. On Saturday I did downhill skiing, then I lost m
y lift ticket so I decided to switch to cross-country. It was quite an adventure trying to find the trail head, but I found it and skied for a little while. Then I got super lost coming back, walked down a really steep and difficult downhill slope and ended up taking a t-lift up to the top of the mountain after I struggled to explain the situation to two confused Swedish lift operators. They were really nice once they understood what I was trying to say, though. That night we had a really fun dinner and mild party in our cabin with the kids from the cabin next to us. Today I did cross-country all day. It had snowed so much I had to blaze a trail myself. I skied about 5 kilometers - it was a 2.5 k trail, but I did it twice, once to make tracks and then again just for fun! The trail was just gorgeous - the trees were so heavy with snow, it was unbelievable. Oh - and I (finally) got my camera back right before I left, so I was able to take this picture. I only took like one other picture this weekend, but I'm going to try to edit the Jylland post and add pictures from the trip there.
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