it's been a real slice

I can't believe it's been over a week since I've written! Time is flying by here, and I feel like not a lot of super exciting adventures have happened, but I know they'll come! It's still very very cold here; right now it's 28 degrees, but it's been in the low 20's and high teens this past week. This past weekend was my first weekend of really being out and about, since the weekend before I was still suffering from jet lag. Friday night, Laurel, Nicole, Maria and I tried to go to a comedy show we had heard about, but we got there 20 minutes late and couldn't quite find the entrance... so we ended up heading back into the city to find somewhere to hang out. We found this great cafe that's in an old library. It was so cute! There was a local band playing so it was a lot of fun :) After that we checked out a club near school to experience a bit of Danish nightlife!
Saturday was a chill day at home. Ida had a friend over and Gustav was at a friends all afternoon, so I did a little homework and had my first laundry experience here! The washer takes 3 hours to wash, and the family only uses the dryer if they need to, so there's a lot of drying racks around the house. Before dinner, I went with the family to a modern cafe called Cafe 8 Tallet. It's a newer place that is part of a contemporary apartment complex located a bit further away from the city than where I live. It's located in an area that has one of the only open field areas in Copenhagen (as close to nature as it gets!). There's an artificial lake outside, and two walls of the cafe are entirely glass so you're able to see the gorgeous open space. I definitely want to go back in the spring and eat and drink a latte and sketch. That night, I got together with some friends at one of the DIS dorms and watched some Disney movies and ate a ton of food :)

Sunday the family had brunch to celebrate Peter's birthday, which was about a month ago. I've noticed that, my family at least, doesn't celebrate birthday's on the actual day. Next weekend they are having a party celebrating the kids birthdays, and Ida's birthday was in early December. The brunch was nice, we had scrambled eggs, bacon (which is really popular in this family, not complaining!!), fruit, and pancakes (which are expensive in Denmark so I probably won't have them many more times while I'm here..). In the afternoon I went to a church called Vineyard. It's a Danish speaking church, and is really contemporary. It reminds me a lot of a church called Liberti that I've gone to at school. There were about 8 of us that went, so we sat in the back and had someone translate the service for us. It was incredible. The first song they sang was in Danish, but the rest were in English, and we even sang Mighty to Save. There is something so incredible about worshipping at a church in a different country, in an entirely different language, with complete strangers, yet feeling so at home, because we are all bowing down to the same beautiful God. 

My invitation to the kid's birthday party!

The Little Mermaid statue!

This week has been pretty simple. It snowed Monday morning, so it's been wonderful to have snow on the ground the past few days (the only good thing about the freezing cold weather). Tonight I'm going to my first choir practice, with a student choir that's based out of the Copenhagen Business School. Friday morning I leave with the rest of the Architectural Design deparement for our short study tour. We're going to Western Denmark and visiting 4 cities. I'm really excited to see a part of Denmark I haven't seen yet! It'll be cold, but what else is new?!