College started again. Thank God. I now have an excuse to avoid AIESEC work. Luckily in the past few days, due to pitifully tiny amounts of sleep, I have actually managed to get a lot of work done finishing up the things on my To-Do list. It was growing really really long. And I was getting overwhelmed. Unfortunately, my to-do list failed to include reading for classes. :( SO that I have to do now.
For once, I had a wonderful weekend. It was just me and Dad. Fed up of AIESEC work, I shut my comp and didnt open till late Sunday night to find loads of mails in the inbox. However, that is not the point of this story. The point is that it was a fantastic day.
We went to this Italian Bazaar thing they have going down at this place called GammelStrand (which in Danish means Old Beach). And it was magnificent. I felt like I was a tourist on holiday to Europe being enchanted by the sights and sounds of Mediterranean markets. We went around tasting wine, eating gelato, buying foccacia, buying olives and pasta and sun dried tomatoes, lemoncella. All food, pretty much but that was the fun part. Btw have you ever tried Lemoncella? It is this citrusy kinda liqueor they have in Italy and it is (no other word for it) 'magnifico'.
After that, we wandered around and over to Strøget (translated it means the streak). It is basically this touristy, up market pedestrian street right at the heart of Copenhagen. Lined with shops on both sides, this street is always packed on weekends. It is the place you come to when you are tired of the loneliness and silence of your house to reassure yourself that other people do live in this city as well.
So we walked up and down Strøget, window-shopping, trying to reach shops before they closed at 5. My Dad ended buying some candied fruit which, shockingly was too sweet even for my taste. And I bought a blueberry lollipop just for kicks because it had been ages since I had one and I must say, the charm is still there. It is the most fun thing. I wonder, though, what the inventor of the lollipop was thinking when he said to himself, "Why don't I put a candy on a stick? That will sell."
We reached the Town Hall Square only to realize that is Gay Pride Weekend and so there was a huge concert going on there. We were surrounded by people holding the rainbow flags of gay pride and generally, making merry. Loads of fun. We headed back, as we were kinda tired, and on our way home, we came across two drag-queens, dressed in very tacky ballerina outfits, the kind 5 year old girls enjoy wearing for days on end. They were in very high spirits and carry placards, with slogans on them such as "Free Gucci handbags - now". They ended up overtaking us and so the whole way home, we had front row seats to view their antics to scandalise other shoppers. They ever harassed the street artists they passed. It was hilarious.
And then we came home and watched a nice, old, black and white Hindi movie (most of which are really nice). Nice, old Dev Anand movie. sigh.
Good times, indeed.
