An's walk in Copenhagen

I am so enjoying this Erasmus student life, although it’s just my first week here! I don’t go to work, I still don’t have any classes, I just have time to walk and enjoy the city. It’s a bit cold, but still not so much. I went to arrange my residence permit today. My landlady showed me a useful site, where you can find the best transport to go to a certain point in Copenhagen – http://www.rejseplanen.dk/, you just type the two addresses and then choose the best way. I wanted to go with a bus, because this was the only way not go with two different kind of transports, but it takes almost an hour to get there by bus. So, after waiting a bit at the station, I just decided to take a walk, and I am so happy I made it, because I had a an hour and a half just walking, staring, taking pictures and enjoying the warm weather; it was so warm today, not like the freezing cold yesterday at the bus tour.

I took a picture of the Humanitarian Faculty, but I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunities to take a better one after.

Danish administrative affairs are so easy to understand and to do! I had to fill only one form, with full description in English, and the lady on the desk checked of everything is ok, I gave her a photo, my Letter of admission and my ID-card and that was it! If this was in Sofia, first I would have to have a copy of the letter, the ID-card, the forms would be more than one, only in Bulgarian and as I am Bulgarian it would be very hard for me to understand where and what to fill. And wouldn’t whether  that have to have a photo, or that I need a letter of admission or even something else. Danish are so accurate!

I feel really happy that I am a foreign student now. There was a Spanish girl who was also filling her form for the residence permit. I had plenty of time so I waited her and then we went walking in the area. I still feel difficulties with speaking, but I am trying, so we were comparing Spain, Bulgaria and Denmark the whole afternoon. We even went to the frozen lakes, it was so unusual, the lake seems like ground with a lot of snow on it, but you can find some places without snow where you can see how thick is the ice!

It got dusk shortly  after 2 pm This is the only thing that makes me unhappy here.

There is also another thing that bothers me for five days now, but I hope I’ll get used to it – I can’t determine directions here. You can see the sun only before noon and there is no mountain to use it like a landmark. I usually  go at the exactly opposite direction than I intend to and I have to check the map regularly so I can be sure for the direction. It is just not right! I don’t know where the sea is, I think it is all around, there no mountains or hills, and there is no sun to find the direction. I see know why people of the bronze age in Denmark worshiped the Sun. They just needed it so much!

My landlady is listening to ABBA at the moment I haven’t listen to them for so long. I’m also posting a map with my route today. It’s about 6 km I think. This is realy a small city, although they say Copenhagen has 1,5 million residents. But it turns that I don’t even live in Copenhagen. They call Copenhagen only the little area between the lakes and the fortified coast. I also don’t live at the same island.

I have so much homework for my home university now, but I just do something and shortly after that I go out, or go googleing about Denmark and interesting places to go, that I can’t imagine how I’ll manage to finish it before 17 th February.

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