A week of Laura

The day my mother left (monday) was the same day Laura arrived. Laura, for those of you who don't know, is a friend/soon to be housemate from school. She has spent the summer traveling through Europe and I am her last stop before she goes to the Netherlands to spend the semester in Denhag. Anyways, earlier that day I was glued to the computer to finish up any last minute problems with my files for my digital print. We are required to print a few sample color ways and one large scale print in one color way. At 5pm on the dot I got a call from Laura and quickly headed to central station to meet her. It was so weird seeing someone from school in Copenhagen with me. She seemed exhausted! So we went back to my kollegium, made some pasta and sauce, opened up the bottle of red wine she had gotten me for my birthday, drank a glass and fell asleep. The next morning we woke up together and she came to class with me. I finished working on my digital files and then the two of us headed up to the Danish Design school to print out my project! It was so exciting, seeing my masterpiece come to life. First it was printed, then it had to dry, then steamed, washed, boiled, spun and lastly ironed!!! It took around 4 hours but we had many a fruit breaks to keep us sane. It was finally done!!! Since we were already in the northern part of Copenhagen, we went to see the little mermaid because when in Copenhagen, it is a sin not to. The tourists there are so funny. Anyways, we headed back to the Kolligium, made a delicious pasta and vegetable dish, ate it, watched some weird British version of CSI and fell asleep. 

The next morning I decided not to go to class because I was finished and it was just going to be printing madness for the other half of the class, so Laura and I went on an expedition to Louisiana. "What? Louisiana?!" you might be thinking. Yes, there is an amazing modern museum called the Louisiana in Hummelbaek, which is a 35 minute train ride north of Copenhagen. It houses some of the most amazing sculptures in their garden and they have a whole exhibit on future green architecture. It was pretty fantastic. After the museum, Laura and I headed back to Copenhagen and I showed her around Christiania. She loved all the houses and it's history so we decided to get lost there and found a group of hippies, jamming by a river. So we sat and listened to them play for an hour or so, then we headed back to the city center and headed  back to Hvidovre ate a massive dinner and fell asleep. 

Thursday morning, I woke up and Laura slept in. I biked to class and Helle Vibke was there explaining our portfolio process to us and I scanned my work in ALL DAY! Brittany's friend was going to be a model in a free fashion show that night so Laura and I tried to work into our schedule. After class, I met up with Laura and we headed back to Hvidovre to shower, change and get ready to go to the Carlsberg brewery. 

We finally got there and took our self guided tour which includes the largest unopened bottle collection, creepy wooden statues that show the process of making beer and at the end we got 2 free beers (one Carlsberg or Tuborg and one specialty beer). The place closed at 7:30pm and the guy at the front desk told us last call was at 7:30pm...we got there at 7pm and thats when Last Call was called. So we had 30 minutes to finish 2 delicious beers and we basically had empty stomachs. What a great idea! After the brewery we drunkenly walked over to this fashion show but quickly realized we needed food in our system. Across the street from the show there was the street of four Thai places including Porn-Sak...thats right, we ate at a place called Porn-Sak, which is conveniently quite close to the red light district. It was surprisingly very cheap and delicious! After dinner we headed to the fashion show but obviously missed the show. We met up with the majority of the "Textile Ten"  (that what we call ourselves), enjoyed a bit of the after party and then decided to go to a bar. We went to the Wall Street Pub closed to Norreport station (which is not close AT ALL!) I got a beer and ended up leaving around 11:30pm. It was really great to hang out with the rest of the group in a bar setting. Emma was saying the funniest things, less because of the alcohol and more because of her comfort level with us. It was great! 

Friday, Laura slept in again and I headed to DIS and we were all groggy but that was ok because we went to another fashion show. This one was from the design school in Kolding and the 6 graduates from the fashion program had their graduation show. It was very good. Some of the clothing was HILARIOUS and some were plain odd but it was way better than the photos we saw of the fashion show the night before by Design Crackers (no link cause they are so strange and have no site).

 After the show I spent the day making the books for my portfolio and then Natalie, Sarah and I met up with Laura at Riz Raz and ate a delicious vegetarian buffet dinner before going to Tivoli. There is a deal at Tivoli which it to get a cheaper ticket you need to buy it before 8pm and it gets more expensive after 8pm. Friday night was insane because AQUA was playing at Tivoli. Thats right, you read correctly, AQUA from the 90's, the Barbie Girl song group, was playing at Tivoli and that was amazing! The lines were CRAZY! A woman ended up handing out tickets for those of us who were on line before 8pm but couldn't pay to let the ticket man sell us the cheaper price. Tivoli is beautiful... It is actually a magical place. Rumor has it Walt Disney came here to get inspiration for Disney World/Land and in my opinion, he didn't do a great job. The most amazing part of Tivoli is the lighting. They have beautiful lights in amazing designs. I took a bunch of pictures that are on my facebook if you want to look at them. We headed in and split up into 2, Natalie and I went on the less terrifying rides and Laura went with Sarah and did the crazy rides. It was perfect!  But we did one ride together.

 The Flying Star, a "swings" type of ride that goes so high that you can see all of Copenhagen, and whats better is that it was just turning dark so everything was lit up. It was beautiful! Natalie and I rode a few roller coasters, a kiddy pirate ship ride, the carousel, a scary ride called the "Monsoon" AND got to catch the last bit of the AQUA show! The place was packed to capacity and it felt it. As soon as the concert ended, Natalie and I got a sorbet in a cone and walked to meet Sarah and Laura, headed for the bus and we all passed out in our own homes. 

Since Laura has been sleeping in I decided I deserves some sleep time as well. I slept in Saturday morning in true Shabbos fashion, then did my laundry, cleaned my room (around Laura) and then went jogging for the first time in a week. I started jogging in the beginning of the summer and have been really good about jogging almost twice a week. Here its harder when I have people staying with me, but I didn't care, I jogged for 30 minutes and came back sweating my life out, showering and then Laura and I made some food and watched awful TV (it was our lazy day). Last night was a whole other story. It was Emma's birthday and she wanted her party to be on an old German boat that was transformed into a bar/club. Laura, Katie, Chris and I left Hvidovre, met up with Natalie and Sarah and headed to a park with some beers and cider from a kiosk and pregammed in the park. It was beautiful outside. We finally headed to the boat and the rest of the night was filled with laughing and a bit of drinking. The band downstairs wasn't bad either...Junior Boys, from Canada...who knew? Anyways, I am now awake on a Sunday morning and need to head to DIS and finish up some last minute stuff!