Three days ago we stopped playing with synthetic fabric and began working with cellulous fibers (fabric made from plants like cotton or linen). We learned to measure out our colors, which is something Michigan knows nothing about, and we have been working with shapes, stencils and overlaying. It’s been an interesting experience comparing the new things I am learning here and what I learned back in Ann Arbor.
It is more or less the same process but here they steam everything, instead of heat setting what we create in Michigan. Still, it is the same process. I have been more or less stuck in the studio working long after we are let out of class because there is so much to do. When I get back to the kollegium, I end up heading to the bar/café and hang out with my two Danish friends Johanna, Emil and Neals. Emil works for a software company that makes a cheap 3D modeling program, Johanna is in the business school in Copenhagen but her true love is textile (love it!) and Neals is a dairy engineer worker. They are so interesting and are really nice and love to talk to us (Katie and I). It’s nice to finally meet Danes and get to know them over around 2-3 Carlsberg beers a night. Thursday night when I got to the bar, Emil told me that the following night is Christmas. Now I know I am Jewish but I know enough about Christmas to know it is in December. Here the word for Christmas phonetically is Yul and the word for July is Yuli, so they call July 24th (6 months till Christmas eve) Yul Yuli and throw a huge Christmas party! I got so excited and made plans to make sure I was back the next night for the festivities.Friday, I got to class and Katie and I decided that we are finally going to get bicycles. We have three weeks left here so we might as well get them now instead of “talk about it”. The problem was that all week long it has been raining after class so it didn’t really make us want to get bikes. During lunch I sat at the picnic tables in the back of the Danish Design School with a bunch of girls and Katie announced that she just got a bike from the cycle shop across the street and is picking it up after class.
So I thought to myself, “All I want for Christmas is a bicycle!” So I walked over and asked the man in the shop if I could rent a bicycle for 3 weeks and I would love it if it could have a basket. He said it would be ready by that afternoon. I was so excited and continued my work in the studio waiting to go with Katie to pick up our bikes at 4pm. Finally 4 rolled around and Katie and I ran to the bike shop. The man showed me my bike and I fell in love…IT IS YELLOW!!! I always pictured myself riding around Copenhagen on a yellow bicycle and now it came true. The sized me up to my bike, attached the back basket and then sent me on my way in the pouring rain. We locked our bikes in the back of school and realized we were locked out. After 20 minutes of banging on the door the librarian heard our cries and let us in. We printed the rest of the day and Sarah and I grew STARVING! We headed to a Vietnamese restaurant, which was super fancy (we were so not dressed correctly) and literally had a candle lit diner.
The food was amazing! After dinner I got on the train with my bike and decided to take it to Central Station. I don’t know how to bike from the Design School so I decided it would be smart to bike from a location I was familiar with, especially since I didn’t have a helmet. Once I started biking , it was smooth sailing. I took Ingerslevsgade to Vigerslev Alle and then cut to the Hvidovre hospital. It was around a 20-25 minute train ride and I felt so accomplished (with an sore butt). I sat in my room singing some Kabbalat Shabbat prayers before napping and heading down to the Christmas party! (I know, I have been soooo Jewish since I have been here) I get downstairs and everyone is wearing Santa hats and drinking the special addition Turborg Christmas beer. So naturally I drank some too. Lets just say it was a long night and I ended up getting to bed at 3:30am.
I woke up the next morning at 11am and knew that I needed to write my paper. It isn’t due until August 3rd but I know that since my mom is visiting this week, I wasn’t going to have time to write it. So I wrote it and sent it to my dad to edit (the hardest part is over). Of course I went right back to sleep after I finished and woke up at 4 pm, showered and biked over to Central Station and took the train up to the Design School. I was working in the studio from 6pm till 11pm. It was insane. I can’t believe I didn’t even realize what time it was.
Katie, Sarah and I left the studio and headed to the center of town to grab some food but instead we found the World Out Games party in City Hall Square. What are the World Out Games? A simple explanation is that it is the gay Olympics and each country sends a team of all types of sports. The sports are everything ranging from running, rugby to swimming and also include bridge, line dancing, and chess to name a few. The party was a huge light show with techno music that ended 5 minutes after we got there. While heading to find food we saw the Canadian, Mexican and Australian teams and then found a Middle Eastern place to eat. We ordered and say at a table next to 3 women from the Nova Scotia softball team, talked to them for a few minutes and then scarfed down our food. Katie and I headed to the bus and got home at around 1am.
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