The Worst Train Ride of My Life.

Well after a long week of stress about everything under the sun, my visiting family invited me to their house for dinner. I did not really want to go because I was simply in an awful mood from an awful week but I did not have much choice and began walking to the train station. However, half way there, I realized I forgot my clip cards for the train.

Here was my dilemma: Do I risk being late (Danes HATE being late) and go back to get the pass or keep going and risk a $100 fine. Naturally, I decided to be a good traveler and go back to get my pass. Sorry visiting family, I'm going to be a bad Dane, be late, and make my REAL family happy by potentially saving $100.

Finally I get to the train station, clip my card 4 times, and hop on the train. I'm almost to Holte station (my destination) when the man comes around to check cards. "YES!" I think,  "It's my lucky day!!"This will make being late and going back to get my clip card all worth it. With a huge grin on my face, I hand my card to the man and he looks at me and simply says "That will be a 775 kroner fine. You needed 5 clips on your card."

THERE IS NO WAY. Can this day get any worse?! Can this WEEK get any worse?! Be strong, Kat. Nope, that's not working. Don't cry, Kat. Negative, that's not working either. The tears start flowing. And I walk off the train with a $140 fine. Potential worst experience in Denmark.



Disclaimer: (mainly for dad) I in fact got this ticket appealed the next week. Good new. :)

Danish Christmas

This past week, we had the pleasure of going to my Virtual World and the Digital Consumer teacher, Marie's, house to celebrate the end of a great semester, enjoy one another's company, and see how the Danes celebrate Christmas.

Upon arrival, we had a delicious spaghetti dinner, which was so nice considering my specialty these days tends to be chicken and frozen veggies. We ate tons and the table was covered with bowls of cookies which was absolutely fabulous! So we ate even more...

Glogg and aebleskiver

I have come to learn that the staples at every Danish Jul (Christmas) Party are glogg and aebleskiver (except the "a" and the "e" are smooshed together, naturally). Glogg is hot wine with nuts and raisins in the bottom. It is a very sweet drink and is one of my favorite things about the cold in Denmark. Marie is not a fan of the typical red wine glogg and has created her own recipe of white wine glogg, which was delicious! Aebleskiver is harder to explain. It is essentially donut-hole-shaped, but is baked instead of fried (soooooo healthy!!). You dip them in jelly and powdered sugar and they are to die for.

We all sat around and ate and drank adn even sang American Christmas carols at the end of the party. It was so great to simply be in a home and celebrate Christmas. It made me very excited to be home with my family and friends to celebrate this wonderful time of year.