I spent New Years Day just relaxing after being exhausted from staying up really late, I went to sauna at three in the morning and didn’t go to bed until around five. It was a nice way to chill and spend the first day of the year. Later in the week I hung out with some of my friends because we hadn’t seen each other since before Christmas break started. Other than that my week was pretty uneventful until Friday.

Friday morning my host mom and older host sister, Nea, and I left for Copenhagen. Our flight was really early and we arrived in Copenhagen around nine in the morning. We spent the first day in the city going to the touristy places. We tried to visit the Tivoli (it was closed), the Copenhagen Town Hall, the shopping street of Copenhagen, Nyhavn, did a boat tour, and saw the Little Mermaid statue. It was a crazy day and I fell in love with Copenhagen. It was warmer than Finland, there was no snow, there was sunshine, and the everything was just amazing. Our first day there was crazy busy and we saw so much of the city in such a short time. The next day we visited the Amalienborg Palace and watched the guards do their regular switch at noon. After that we visited this military fort/park in the city while Nea went to a cafe. The weather was perfect, the park was so nice, and I got time to talk to my host mom. We got lunch before taking a train to a museum about thirty minutes away called the Louisiana while Nea stayed in Copenhagen to shop. The museum was amazing, without even going inside the view from the outside was amazing! Inside was crazy art from things about the moon, pop culture, dictatorships, old movies, and other art pieces that somehow all seemly worked together. The museums was huge and took us almost three hours to get through all of it. It was an amazing experience that added to the weekend trip to Copenhagen.

We met back up with my host sister to get dinner in the city that night. We left Copenhagen around 9am the next morning, I was sad to say goodbye to such an amazing city and experience. I really hope to return to Denmark again, what I saw of the country was amazingly beautiful.

At the Louisiana Art Museum