Denmark has bagels. And lox. If it wasn’t so cold there I may never have left. It had been a long, dark 3 months sans bagels, but upon seeing the “bagel man” shop near our hostel my world was set right again.
I started off my winter vacation in Copenhagen with Lauren and Alicen (2 other assistants). We were only in Copenhagen for a day because we were staying with one of Lauren’s friends in Aarhus (also in Denmark, but further north).
The Danes speak English really well. This was good news for me, because I had attempted to learn some Danish before I left and I’m pretty sure they’re just making it up as they go along. Sometimes I forgot that I wasn’t in an Anglophone country, because it seemed like everyone could speak English fluently.
Lauren’s friend was so sweet and welcoming. She cooked traditional Danish food for us and introduced us to her friends. The question we kept getting asked was “why are you here?” They just couldn’t understand why Americans would want to come to Denmark. We had to keep reassuring people that we thought Denmark was really cool and interesting—plus it is Hamlet’s country after all. . . .And I may have done some soliloquizing while walking along the streets of Denmark.
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