Autobus do Dánsko

(Translation: Bus to Denmark)

I made it to Denmark! I will tell you about the sightseeing and all of that after tomorrow, but my bus ride was pretty interesting.

Earlier this week I decided to book a bus to Copenhagen, Denmark this weekend. Most of my friends in my program were going to Istanbul for the weekend, so I decided to go somewhere while they were gone. I got on a Student Agency bus (I feel like I live on them) at 6pm. It was delayed for a while, but finally we were on our way to Copenhagen. I watched movies and read for a few hours, and then around 10pm I decided to take some cold medicine to knock me out (and get rid of my cold), and I went to sleep. Around 3:30 the bus attendant woke me to tell me that I had to get off the bus 'cause we would be getting on the ferry. THE FERRY. I hadn't even known that there would be a ferry. This was an interesting little twist. I got off the bus and hung around on the ferry for an hour while we crossed. When I finally got back on the bus, I found out that while I was sleeping we had been stopped by a "German control," (whatever that means, because the bus attendant's English was shaky). Well apparently that had caused us to miss our ferry and have to wait for a second one, so we ended up getting in over an hour late! Thirteen hours on a bus! I thought it was going to be terrible, but I actually kind of enjoyed the experience.

You may be wondering why I chose to come to Denmark, but one of my friends from PC, Lauren, is studying abroad here for the year. I've been wanting to see a Scandinavian country, and I've been wanting to see Lauren, so it was perfect! We had a great morning (that I will tell you about later), and we are resting and regrouping now. Denmark is much different from any of the countries that I have seen so far, but I really like it!

I just wanted to mention that I did get a chance to put up my pictures from Budapest before I left, so just click on the right if you want to see them!