Ordrupvej

In response to a few requests... our flat in Denmark.

Fried eel & Veggies

Over the last few months I've often looked out the window and say out loud... "Crap, it's snowing again!". It usually starts snowing just an hour or two before I have to go out - which makes my bike ride to the train station a little tricky. The best part is that it accumulates so freaking quickly! Chris is a trooper - through wind and snow he still commits to his daily bike ride to work. Winter has taken a toll on our poor bikes - everyone should also take note that gears don't change easily (or in my case, at all) when the temperature falls below minus O. Winter has also taken a toll on me. I am ready for some sunshine - I am ready to rise before 8am (in the summer the sun will rise at 4am) and ready to put our balconies to good use and have our meals out there. We went to Ikea yesterday to start picking out our patio furniture!

I am also ready to start speaking Danish. I need to find more opportunities to practice what I am studying... hopefully this practice will come as part of a job. The one language that is coming in handy is Spanish. I've begun teaching private lessons and I love it. It's a great challenge for me; talk about dusting off that good old university degree! I may pursue this new little hobby a bit further, I'm having way too much fun correcting homework and coming up with lesson plans.

At the grocery store the other day, I saw a man buy what looked like a thick black rope. I investigated a little further and confirmed that fried eel is a very popular dish in some parts of Denmark. Yummy?

The one thing we often laugh about is the amount of packaging that we end up with in the kitchen after cooking. It's really because a lot of the produce is sold like this:

I think I prefer Norweigan

It's been four months since I started going to Danish classes - at first the progress was amazing! Every week I'd pick up a few new sentences and often impress Chris with all my new vocabulary... Now I've hit a plateau, and I have realized just how hard this language really is - it's not complicated in terms of grammar but it has no logic or real structure. My Ellen Degeneres look-a-like teacher is great, she tries to correct us as much as possible, but she can only do so much. On another note, the one thing that still gets me here is the TV schedule. Programing begins here at any time - Ellen is on at 12:15, David Letterman is on at 8:45 my new favourite Canadian show Departures is on at 11:50. It's so funny to see the random programing but the best thing is that commercials are removed from the shows so there are no interruptions! There are German channels, Finnish Channels but my favorite is Norweigan! It's a really close language to Danish except it's much easier to understand! Okay, enough ranting... I am totally procrastinating studying for my test tomorrow....