Copenhagen!!!!!

So I last left off with our last full day in Berlin. The next morning, we slept in and headed out to catch our flight to Copenhagen. We got there a couple of hours early and sat by the terminal and played cards until it was time to board the plane. It was only about a 40 minute plane ride. Basically, we reached cruising altitude and 5 minutes later we were descending. I had the window seat, so I sat and watched the whole time. It was cool because I got to watch the landscape and the ocean. One of our friends from Gettysburg, Angela, is studying at Copenhagen for the semester, and we met up with her at the airport. It was a lot easier getting out of the airport with Angela there to guide us. We got on the Metro and found our way to the closest stop to our hostel. We also needed to get money to use while we were there. The Kroner is the Danish currency. About 500 kroner is the equivalent of $100, but everything is extremely expensive. We walked to the hostel. If any of the hostels we stayed in were going to be the set for the horror movie by the same name, it would be this one. As soon as I walked it, I realized it smelled almost exactly like a barn. The walls were covered in graffiti and it was overall, not a very nice place. We had to pay extra for blankets, which was sort of a pain. After we dropped off some of our stuff, Angela took us on a walking tour of the city that she put together herself. We saw the times square of Copenhagen, as well as the longest pedestrian street in Europe. We walked out to the Little Mermaid statue by the water. It was put up there because Hans Christian Anderson, who wrote the story, is a native of Copenhagen. We took the bus back from there and had dinner from a place along the pedestrian street. We walked around for a little bit more and wound up at a cute little place called BarBar Bar. Angela recommended a really tastey apple cider that is a lot like sparkling apple juice. We sat outside the bar, talking and catching up for a couple hours before James, Zoe, Ryan and I headed back to our hostel and Angela headed back to her host family.
The next morning, Angela had class, so we had to amuse ourselves for a few hours. We walked down the pedestrian street and found a really awesome pastry shop. I also discovered that Danish danish’s are amazing. I had an apple one that was, quite possibly, the best I’ve ever had. We wandered around for a while and just took in the sights of the city. We had lunch in the main town hall square. They’re really big on their hot dogs, so I enjoyed the cultural exchange and had a hot dog for lunch. We went to the national museum of Denmark and had a lot of fun in the children’s toy exhibit. After a month of museums in London and a week of museums while we were traveling, we were tired of looking at exhibit after exhibit, so when we found one that let you play with the things in it, we let loose. There were stilts, hop scotch, helmets and costumes from the medieval time, and a Viking boat that came with swords and shields. At the end we got to color, which was fun too. Around 3, we headed back to Town Hall Square to meet up with Angela. From there, we got on a bus and went to Christiania, which is a hippie commune in Copenhagen. It was its 37th birthday, so there were people all over the place, music, and really pretty murals on the buildings. It was a lot of fun, for a while. I found a really cute bag that I love. We also had dinner, which was the cheapest meal we found the entire time we were in Copenhagen. We were there for a couple of hours before we left. We walked back into Copenhagen and headed to a Scottish Pub that had live music. It was pretty cool. After that, we wanted to hang out again, so we went back to BarBar Bar. Around 12:30 we wanted to head home, but we had to run back to Angela’s school to get some of her stuff. We all really needed to use the bathroom and the only one that was open was Burger King and they literally had bouncers guarding the stairs that went to the bathroom to make sure that people who were using the bathrooms had actually purchased something, so we stood in line and bought the cheapest things we could find on the menu before holding it like a bathroom pass to get past the bouncers. After that we said goodbye to Angela and walked back to the hostel.
The next morning we got up and headed back to the air port and got on the plane back to London. First we had some issues with security, but lucky for us, our plane was delayed and we made it in time. It was about an hour and a half flight back into the air port and from there we had another hour and a half bus ride to get back to the city. We checked in at the Globetrotter hostel that was being paid for by Gettysburg. We had dinner that night with some of our friends from the seminar who had stayed in London for the week off. After that we went back to the hostel and crashed. The next morning we got up and got on the 6 hour bus ride that brought us to Lancaster. There was some confusion about where we were supposed to go, but once that got figured out, I found my room and started unpacking.
I’ll leave off here for now. Not too much has happened in Lancaster, but then again, classes have just started. I’ll tell you all about it soon!