Last night DIS had a huge party at this bar near our main school building, Den Glade Gris, which roughly translates to something like, 'The Happy Pig'. I think just about everyone in DIS showed up, and we completely packed all three levels of the bar. On the first floor, where there were a couple of locals playing pool, they had fairly decent music playing. However, up on the top floors with all the DIS students, they played only boy bands for over three hours. It was painful.
In this picture, you can see everyone trying to dance under the half disco ball. It was beyond crazy there.


Today, I went down to Christiana with some guys I met at our little DIS bar night. Christiana is the hippy Commune just off Copenhagen on a small island. Originally illegal squatters, the Danish goverment decided to just let them stay there, as its a huge draw for tourists. Christiana basically sets its own rules, with minimum enforcement of Danish policies within its walls. It is currently the only spot in Denmark where marjuana is legal. They also have their own process for accepting new citizens: you have to apply to the city, go on a minimum 10 year waiting list, and then be voted into the city by everyone already in it. There are a number of small cafes and bars, where all proceeds and profits go directly to the commune. It is sort of dingy and run down, since they take care of the space entirely on their own, and they have a general 'no picture' policy, so as to avoid any conflict with the Danish police over drugs or other laws, but here is a picture of the main gate: you can see my friend Ryan taking a picture of the opposite side which says, "You are now entering the EU"

There is a lot of great artwork all over the walls of Christiana (being somewhat a community of artists and all). This is just outside the main gate:
We walked all the way from Norreport Station to Christiana (a decidedly long walk folks). When we were about halfway to Christiana, we ran into a random DIS kid on his way to lunch. Since we all randomly enough knew him, he decided to tag along to Christiana with us. We took some pictures along the way:
This is part of a museum on ancient Greece that we accidently ended up walking through, and this is in front of the Parliament buildings:

Lest you somehow get the idea that the weather here is actually nice, I would like to submit the following picture as evidence for what it nearly always looks like around here:
Note the charming grayness.

The following is part of a Danish folk festival that is currently going on around Copenhagen (but I am not sure why they are line dancing, or how they ended up with cowboy hats):
That is definately what I woke up to this morning in Albertslund. CLASSIC.