5.7.10 – Tivoli

Today was considered the legitimate last day of classes! I went in a little early – simply because I had nothing to do at home, read over my Danish paper one more time, then simply waited around a little bit prior to going to class. In Danish, the remainder of the class was giving their individual presentations. Then in honor of our last day, our professor brought us pastries for class. They were so good. I handed my paper in at the end of class, which officially signaled the end of my Danish class!

I then headed to my last leadership class, which was rather uneventful. We simply did some recapping of the semester, in addition to going over our last case study project and briefing a little for the final.

After classes, I had about a couple of hours of free time. In this time, I was planning on trying to find Bob and Dad – they arrived in Copenhagen today. It was sort of odd though because I kept calling and texting Dad, and he never responded. Therefore, I didn’t even know if they had landed. I decided to head over to their hotel just to try to figure out if they were at least in the city. Once I arrived, the front desk informed me that they had checked in. I then tried to call their room – no answer – and proceeded to leave them a note. About 30 minutes later as I was making my way back to DIS, Dad called me. Apparently, his phone was not working and he had spent the past 45 minutes at the hotel computer trying to figure it out. He then told me that the hotel computer was in the lobby, which is why they weren’t in their room. Therefore, I was about 100 meters away from them and simply had no idea. Oh well…

Now the reason I couldn’t go back to see them now that I knew where they were was because I had signed up through DIS to go to TIVOLI! I was so excited. I met up with the group, which included one of my best friends, Gillian, at the front gate. We then all headed inside and from there we were on our own for the evening. The first thing we did was to buy an all ride pass, so we could go on as many rides as we wanted. Our first ride was the tallest carousel in the world. It is a set of swings, which gives you a great view over the city. Following that, we went on several roller coasters and other thrill rides. It was so much fun.

After some time we set out to find some good amusement park food – aka fries and burgers. It was also a nice dinner because the food was warm. (It was a chilly evening, so it was nice to have something hot in my hands.) Following dinner, we went on several more rides – many of them were repeats including the carousel and my favorite roller coaster. We then simply started to walk around the park a little bit and stopped in a few shops in an attempt to warm up a little bit – unfortunately the shops had open doors and therefore weren’t much warmer. Lastly, we congregated in this large open area of the park to watch one of the Friday music concerts. The performer is apparently some well-known Scandinavian pop artist; she was only okay and singing in Danish, so we didn’t stay too much longer. We all ended up leaving the park around 10:30 to head off in different directions. I myself headed home because I had to get up early the next day.

I did really enjoy Tivoli. The best part about it was definitely our timing. We were able to see the park in the daylight and then progressively got to see everything light up, as it got darker. It was very beautiful and charming. One of the most interesting parts about it is that once inside is does sort of feel like you are transported to another place. It definitely doesn’t feel like you are in the middle of the city.