This evening was overall very relaxing and began with a dinner with Lizzy and Anya at Anya's host family's house. We had some delicious carbonara and wine, and Lizzy and I did not leave until 11.30. we walked 25 minutes to the metro, rode it back to a train station in copenhagen, and caught separate trains home. My train arrived in Roskilde at 1.12 am, and the night bus that runs every hour left at 1.08. really sad about that. So I had to wait 56 minutes for the next bus, and I didn't get home until 2.30 (3 hours after I left Anya's) not cool at all, however, I did get to spend that hour talking to a woman who teaches English at the engineering highschool in Roskilde, and she was pretty interesting and a lot of fun to talk to. Sadly, I had to wake up at 5.30 in order to get to the climbing trip, so I got very very little sleep.
I managed to sleep a little on the drive to Sweden though (2 hours including the ferry and the driving in sweden), but I obviously had to go up on the passenger deck on the ferry and enjoy the sea mist and wind as we passed by Hamlet's castle in Helsingør. It was all beautiful even though it was a very early gray and rainy morning. The countryside of sweden was much hillier than flat Denmark, and it had lots of beautiful woods compared to Denmark's farmland. Apparently though we were in some sort of natural park. When we arrived, we hiked down to the ocean, and the guides told us all about climbing safety and set up routes on the kind of small cliffs right by the ocean. Thankfully I brought my climbing shoes because the rock was pretty wet and slippery. We had four routes total, and it was a lot of fun to get to know everyone while watching others try to figure out how to get up the cliff. I spent some time belaying too, and by the end of the day I had climbed all of the routes. So I went down to the ocean with a girl named Julie to look at the tide pools. we saw some amazing jellyfish and were so entranced that we stayed by the shoreline for the last hour of the day. It was so great, and even though it had rained on us a little, the day was overall pretty great. When we got back to DIS, Julie, Lizzy, and this guy Alex, and I went to get hot drinks to warm up. We went to this little cafe that Lizzy and I have discovered to have the best hot chocolate you can find, and it was so cozy and wonderful that we didn't want to leave. So we were a little late for our train, and we had to run the entire normally 12 minute walk. Thank goodness I have been running so often these past few weeks. We made the train, and Lizzy and I headed back to my house. we had canceled our evening plans because we were so tired from no sleep the night before. when we got home, we took very refreshing hot showers, had a delicious dinner of lasagna, and passed out. fabulous.
I had all of yesterday to myself, so I read a lot and went running and biking and did my homework and skyped some too, and it was a very relaxing day overall. Next weekend I am going to Poland and Berlin for a week with one of my classes, and Lizzy and I are extending the trip through the following weekend so that we can stay and explore Berlin. This was a very spontaneous plan, and we could not be more excited about it.
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