Today we adventured all around Copenhagen. We saw many of the popular tourist attractions as well as famous, old and important buildings. One thing about Copenhagen that I love is that there are so many parks all over town. You will be walking down the street with cars and busses flying by and all of the sudden there is a huge park with beautiful flowers and a giant pond.
On Saturday a few of us ventured out to Christiania. Think Eugene with all the "free spirits" but to the FAR extreme. These are people who want to be separate from Copenhagen. It is very strange to come across. You are walking down a normal-ish street (slightly more sketchy) and you stumble across what looks like a little park. But you walk through the arch and it opens up into this huge commune type place. For some reason it reminded me of the Puyallup Fair, except instead of selling elephant ears and ice cream they are selling drugs and other related paraphernalia. It is very controversial and attracts many tourists, but they do not let you take pictures once you are inside. yeah. weird.
In Denmark they celebrate graduation in a very special way. They drive around the city in the back of a giant truck that is decorated with signs. The graduates wear sailors hats and get driven around the city blaring horn to punctuate the loud music while the drink and wave and everyone staring. I have witness SEVERAL of them driving around the city.
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