I update too often.


I have officially committed a huge cultural faux pas: Not only have I been hanging out with some Danish boys I'd met while getting lost in Copenhagen - which is disgraceful enough as I'm generally the only girl there, and a foriegner at that, but I failed to delve deep enough into the Danish culture and customs concerning beer. Evidently there's a seldom discussed, but relatively enforced custom of sorts over here: if a Dane buys someone a beer, and that person accepts, it means that they will be going home together. I'd never heard of this. So there I am, in a bar on a Saturday night, with some lovely Danes. Beer can be expensive (if you're lucky one beer will be about 5 american dollars), so when one of them offered to buy me a beer, and simply shrugged off my attempt at a no in Danish, I didn't really think much of it. A couple hours later, he goes into the bathroom, and one of his friends buys me a beer. There was a flurry of mad-fast-hushed Danish when he got back to our table. Not speaking Danish, I simply sat there, confused, watching them carry out some sort of increasingly tense conversation. I look over, see that the bartender is laughing at me, and ask him whay they're arguing about (at this point they're all ignoring me completely). He explains to me that they're discussing who is going to take me home. To make a long story short, I fear that this particular group of Danes and I are no longer friends. It is clearly very bad taste to accept two propositions in a single night, I will probably need to make new Danish friends. It was all incredibly embarrassing.

But here are some completely unrelated pictures, of my adventure trying to get to what I thought was an office-supply type store, but turned out to be an S&M shop:














I ended up by one of Copenhagen's beautiful gardens:













This is part of Copenhagen's ongoing "Images of the Middle East" series, a collection of very random and diverse pictures around the city (and I think an actual gallery somewhere too) designed to combat the less than subtle racial discrimination against immigrants of middle eastern origin in Denmark.





That particular picture is on the side of a church that is over a century old:









I just find that strange, ironic even.