Day #276

Friday, June 19

Copenhagen, yeah! My two friends and I took a train to the Frankfurt airport around 9am, then (after figuring out those darn electronic ticket things and having our gate changed one we finally got close to the depths of the airport) boarded our plane at noon! I pretty much just read Harry Potter the entire ride, as per usual. And snapped this classic plane picture.

We landed a little after 1, and got to our Airbnb around 3, leaving plenty of time for exploring the rest of the day! Our Airbnb was a super adorable studio apartment with a balcony that overlooked the sunsets at night. Speaking of sunsets, we were in Copenhagen during the longest day of the year- over 17 and a half hours of daylight! Funnily enough, I was pretty far north for the winter solstice as well, and enjoyed 6 splendid hours of sunlight while traversing the Scottish highlands. 

We explored Trivoli Park, which is kind of like Epcot in Disney Land (World? I mean the one in Florida) with rides and food from different countries and, most importantly, AN EPIC PLAYGROUND. 

The coolest part? On Friday nights in the summer, Trivoli Park puts on concerts free with the entrance fee to the park. So, for roughly $15, we got hours of culture, food, rides, playgrounds, and JESSIS J LIVE IN CONCERT. If you don't know who Jessie J is, go look up her acoustic cover of "Bang Bang" on YouTube. Even if you don't like the song, you gotta admit she is extremely talented and has such a versatile voice. Who would have thought we'd see her live in concert in Copenhagen? What??Like how does this even happen???

Very tired but extremely happy, we headed back to our Airbnb and slept for days. 

That's a joke, I promise we didn't waste all of our time in Copenhagen sleeping.

Day #275

Thursday, June 18

Literally this day was nothing more than packing for Copenhagen and finishing a paper, no wonder I didn't post about this. Here's a door from our English department: 

They're really passionate about learning.

Day #274

Wednesday June 17 

So you know how I love saving money? If not, go back and read about how, for the first 5 months of this blog (when I was actually good at updating), the two themes were basically "free" and "food", preferably together. So that saving money thing. I waited it out- a skirt that cost €30 when I first got to Heidelberg WENT ON SALE FOR €7. Patience is a great thing, friends. I took a pic to commemorate the day in my new skirt. 

Also I made some friends with two lovely cows. And became a cow myself.

As for the rest of the day, I went to class and Mensa and studied with my friends and all things good.

Days #270-273

There were a few relatively uninteresting days, during which I took two german tests, studied a lot as a consequence (though in the opposite order of how I just listed those two activities), had some gr9 (better than gr8, better known as "great") talks with my lovely British friend Sasha, and stayed late at Mensa playing card games with the fam. 

In other news, Tom decided to set me a new background for my phone:

"Hey. Hey everyone. Hey where are you all going? Can I come with you? Hey? Guys?"

Day #269

Sunday, June 14. CLOSER!

Wow I studied a LOT of german on this day in the history of Kimberley's life. We're talking massive amounts. I also booked the Airbnb for my family's stay here (YAY) for during our time in Konstanz. My friends persuaded me to take a break from studying to explore the playground on the banks of the Neckar river. It was certainly a sight to behold. There was a thing that spins like a top where you RUN REALLY FAST HOLDING THE THING AROUND THE EDGE then you REALLY QUICKLY JUMP ON IT AND SPIN!

There was another cool pink car that rocked back and forth and allowed us to take an impressive selfie.

Don't worry, we waited it out so we got to go on the cool rides. But it did take a while- apparently those kids get to stay out really late on Sunday's! There were a lot of interesting people there, including one guy with long hair who kept challenging everyone to ping pong tournaments and kids that were hogging the fun rides. In other news, Heidelberg was beautiful. But what else is new?

Three photos to make up for my lack of photos in the last post. Okay?

Day #268

Saturday, June 13, 2015. Getting there. Poco a poco. Or should I stick with the German and say Stück für Stück? Yeah no that's pretty ugly. I'll stick to Spanish for this one. This one's short anyway.

A late start to the day. One of the local food eatery and bars, The Brass Monkey, closed on this day, so we got drinks and celebrated our first (and unfortunately last) trip to the fine establishment. We decided against going out, and instead ate gelato along hauptstraße to end our evening which, in all fairness, is arguably how all evenings should end.

Day #267

Friday, June 12, 2015. Yes, a very long time ago. I know I know I know it's been almost a month (that's TERRIFYING, by the way), but at least I'm doing it, right???

After a rather uneventful course of morning events, my friend and I traveled to a new location: a lake! Who knew there was a lake near Heidelberg? Apparently my friend, that's who. 

It's in a place called Weinheim (pronounced Vine-Hime), and is actually more of a pond than a lake. One of my friends there is from Scotland, and she was excited because she had never seen a lake before! 

Although we didn't swim in the lake, we read Harry Potter (at least the 2/4 of us who had the various books downloaded on our respective devices) and took the very long way back. However, the way back resulted in a super cool tram stop, so I wasn't complaining. 

It was an evening filled with watching videos of Manny Ramirez's best bloopers, Mensa food, and the Alte Brüke.