since I’ve arrived in Copenhagen at Kastrup airport have been cherishable, humorous, thrilling, confusing, and tiring all in different ways. To commemorate this, here are 15 things I did in my first week here.

1. Louisiana Museum – Me and two friends I met that day – Dung and Julian from Germany – took a beautiful train to Humlebaek to see a lovely art gallery, literature festival, and architecture that will forever have a place in my heart! The Museum actually has many lawns, and, while it was raining, you could see the coast literally a baseball throw away.
2. Swimming in the Humlebaek harbor while it was raining – and no, i didn’t even plan to swim that day! I just arrived and saw a tranquil gray coast with light blue waters and I decided to strip + swim. There were lots of seaweeds inside that terrified me when I ran into them, not seeing because I was swimming for distance. Then I just stood in the water and enjoyed. Less salty than the US beaches, I might add.
3. Ate pølser on the street. Sausages, basically like hotdogs with a whole array of ketchup, mustard, fried onions, pickles, and mayo. It costs 47 dkk which is 6.21 USD. Yum.
4. Danced on a rooftop birthday party which I crashed 1 hour in. The french dude whose birthday it was, was very happy to see me and we did a jig where everyone skips around and locks elbows before switching partners!
5. Got invited to a private sailors club to tour a bout and then made friends with a sailor who wants to take me to Greenland! And yes, for free!
6. Meditated in a garden – actually a cemetery. Which in Copenhagen, is quite common for me to see in the city.
7. I landed in Pride week – And joined a huge parade of buses and organizations and students at Copenhagen University to parade the downtown streets
8. Walked & watched the sunrise in my first 24 hours here.
9. Made a friend on the metro when I was filming with my camera – she sat down, bubbly and excited to talk!
10. Began a money tracker at the end of every day to #adult better.
11. Ate Licorice ice cream (which is, i’m told, distinctly Scandinavian)
12. Listened to Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese poet and writer, give a reading and talk about his ideas about how storytelling has many forms. I got inspired to think about plot and conflict and tension between people in stories in a different way.
13. Went shopping – bought a yoga mat from FLYING TIGER (just wanted to note the funny name), notebooks from MUJI (I am so glad that they have this here, lol), and groceries from NETTO (i live a 2 minute walk from a grocery store, #score)
14. Watched anime at 3:00am because insomnia. Demon Slayer btw.
15. Introduced myself to my apartment neighbors by saying hi and giving out hi-chew