Two Months Later... (St Patrick's Day)

Yay parade!

Hello! So today marks two months since I landed in Copenhagen. And it simultaneously feels like I've been here forever and that I've been here since yesterday. It's incredible and I am so glad that I'm here. Oh, yeah. Miss y'all too.

Haven't been up to too much that's terribly exciting. Actually doing real Uni work, finalising US plans, celebrating when I understand a spoken phrase or a piece of Danish text I come across, random bike rides to nowhere, partying through my last weeks of teenagerdom, that sort of thing. It's gotten colder again but that's really just windchill. Riding in the wind is irritating because it is so much harder and you feel so unstable! I rearranged my room the other day so next time I post a video you'll have a new view. And I've fallen in love with a brand of cookie/biscuit (I'm not entirely sure which. Actually, what is the difference?)

Parade parade!

People gathering in Rådhuspladsen
(remember that from an earlier post?)

Good costuming effort!!

Music and dancing stage. Nice balloons, no?

There were festivities in the main town square yesterday for St Patrick's Day, so we went along to check it out. Little strange really seeing as Denmark isn't terribly religious and then isn't Catholic. But I guess there is enough interest and any occasion to drink extra beer on a Monday goes down well with the locals, and hey, why not?.

There was music playing and Irish dancing, then the crowd went on a parade through the streets. Just a nice sea of (somewhat) green just casually walking around, a bit of singing, people were looking at windows and such and it was fun parading around.

A group behind us started up a chant of "LEPRECHAUN" a few times to the tune of "here we go, herewego, here we goooo, here we go here we go here we gooooo-ooooh....". Some people put a lot of effort into their costumes (or recycled them from last year) which added to the fun. They had a tent set up offering face painting [free only for kids ):] and with more live music. I think there were other things planned for the rest of the evening but me and Manon were tired and cold so we went back.

Short parade video :)

Haven't got much planned in the near future at the moment. I have a huge chunk of work I want to get done before I go to the US so that's kind of taking priority at the moment. Or, well, in theory at least :P

Farewell!