here comes the sun...?

sorry for redundant sun references in my blog titles but i'm seriously still waiting for warmer days...

since christiania, i had my first night of drunken debauchery and the best part about it was that it cost me absolutely nothing. my danish brother, jakob, took me out to his friend's house party at casper's (yes... the friendly ghost). being the good citizens that we are, we rode our bicycles. i'm using the family's spare bike and the lowest seat height is as high as my belly button so i have no choice but to step back and practically pole vault onto my bike every time. and oh man am i terrible in snow. i don't know how they bike in these conditions but they do... rain or shine or anything else. i learned some danish drinking games and they almost always involve dice and bluffing. and the rule is to play until the last man standing (or last dane standing because i didn't stand a chance). o.m.g. i did not know how drunk you can get off of beer. and the danish way to resolve drunkenness is to keep drinking. how ridiculous.

but jakob and i miraculously made it back home at 4am on our bicycles. thank goodness we live in the suburbs where there are no cars on the road after 8pm. but i definitely did not make it to my 8:30am class. poo... the class-skipping habit already begins... in the first week.

my danish parents have gone on vacation to india so jakob and i are on our own for 9 days but we decided to alternate who's in charge of dinner every night. darn... my lack of cooking experience (or any experience in the kitchen for that matter) has been exposed. and really badly too :(

i am so ashamed. he can handle the kitchen better than i can. yesterday, i used my secret weapon: 신라면. and then had tea and biscuits for post-dinner (such class right after eating instant noodles). then i did my duty as a rightful american and made him watch zoolander. he loved it!

yesterday he made fettuccine with cream(?) and smoked salmon. and for post-dinner he made nachos and guacamole. this was the smoothest and palest guacamole i've seen in my life. by smooth, i mean there were no peppers, no onions, no cilantro, no nothing. it was straight up avocado, yogurt(?), salt, and lime. not at all chunky nor naturally green like usual guacamole. but still delicious! and post-dinner activity was danish trivial pursuit. holy shit that game is hard!!! i rocked the entertainment questions though.

today was pork stuffed with pesto (don't be shocked. i bought it premade and i just had to stick it in the oven) and our collaborative creation of what i like to call "the white salad." it consisted of: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, eggs, mozzarella. there was about 2 times more eggs and mozzarella than anything else on that list :)

wow... weather in copenhagen sucks balls. i was also unfortunate to have come to denmark during a winter they haven't seen in 20 years where all the lakes are frozen. it has not stopped snowing and snow does NOT get cleaned here. if it does, only the bicycle lane gets cleaned. and did i mention that bicycle lanes are about 2 times wider than the pedestrian sidewalk? i can't even walk next to the person i'm talking to.

btw... fyi... (ahem... sarahkim) you cannot see aurora from here. or very rarely and by ridiculous chance.

gahhh!!! excited for lost... and all the other shows coming back. i have found a way to hide my denmark ip address so i can stream on u.s. sites. thanks lowell :)