Birthday festivities and my new class!

As some of you know, Monday was my birthday, so we went out to dinner and then to a really nice bar downtown on Sunday night. We weren't expecting it to be crowded (it was Sunday night, after all) but it turned out that all drinks were 1/2 off and the bar was packed. Also, there was a live band that was surprisingly good. They played everything from Tom Petty to Gavin DeGraw (the Danes really, really appreciate outdated music). My favorite part though (I'm not sure if it is clear in the picture) is that the really hardcore, long haired guitar player was wearing very non-threatening rosary beads as a necklace and just really wasn't as hardcore as he was trying to be.

Here is a picture of Eszter and I at the bar... obviously it's not the best lighting situation but I'm pretty sure that's the drink that I had at midnight on my birthday! Also, I can't waittttt to come home and get to tell waitresses that, no, I do not want a juice or a soda, I will have a real drink like everyone else. That will be a nice birthday gift in itself!

The band also played another song in Danish that the whole bar knew and started singing along to (except us, obviously). Eventually though we caught on and learned the tune and a few of the words, and couldn't stop singing it for days. With countlesssssss google attempts on the lyrics, we almost gave up hope that we would never find our new favorite song. All we knew was it had the word elske in it, which we found out elske means love, which really didn't bode well for finding a unique song with it in it. Luckily we found a Danish person who wouldn't judge us and we COMPLETELY embarrassed ourselves by singing it for her and she knew it!!! Turns out it is a song from the 70's or 80's and is a classic. Obviously I wouldn't talk about this without adding a link to the song!!!! The part where the bar went crazy and started singing is at about 1:12 in the video.

Then the next day we went and explored Amager Beach, which was very windy and a little cold but we had a good time anyway. I obviously missed everyone from home very much, but overall my birthday was great.

Tuesday we started our next "semester" of classes, which is really only a 3 week term... I am in a class called Human Trafficking and Prostitution. My professor (who insists on us calling her by her first name) is super cool and well respected in her field of anti-human trafficking.  Next week she is leading us on a study tour to Amsterdam from Monday morning til Friday evening, so that should be really fun. There are about 30 kids in my class - I haven't talked to all of them but most of the ones I have are pretty cool and it seems like everyone will get along well. So far we have had a TON of class time (I feel like I spent a ton of this week in a classroom) but we've also done really cool things such as tour of the red light district of Copenhagen. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures (cameras weren't allowed)..

The rest of the days are kind of a blur (a sign that I should really be blogging more regularly?) but I spent a lot of time reading and hanging out in the many parks here and shopping all around the city. Also, I went into my favorite Shwarma place the other day and the guy looked at me and was like "oh hey, falafel with hummus?" and now I think that this many be a sign that I go there a bit too often. I'm off to go see a few friends, but will write more soon!