Rosenborg Castle, Ballet, Homework!

Thursday my friend and I went to Rosenborg Castle which was once the "country estate" of King Christian IV. It is now located right in the middle of Copenhagen, along with the King's Garden which is a huge open space with tons of flowers (that are now FINALLY starting to bloom) where people can walk, picnic, etc. etc. etc. Rosenborg Castle is now where they keep the crown jewels which were gorgeous! Denmark doesn't have nearly as many jewels in their treasury as Sweden or Germany, but the Danish jewels were all super ornate and very colorful. After the castle I went home, went to the gym, and then had a wonderful sushi dinner with the fam!

Friday was a normal but really fun day. I had a guest lecture in my marine bio class talking about a mysterious virus in seal communities in Denmark that has caused 2 huge epidemics which was actually really cool (insert lame science joke here...)! Also, in my Hans Christian Andersen class we watched the Disney version of the Little Mermaid to see how it compared to HCA's version (needless to say for those that have read the real fairy tale - it is quite different!). After class I ate the best cupcake of my life (yellow cake, caramel center, milk chocolate frosting, toffee chips on top) and then went home, went to the gym, and then had my favorite Danish dinner (I don't know what it is - I called it Danish hamburgers which caused something of an outcry from the Danes - but it is ground beef, seasoned, covered in flour, and then cooked in a frying pan with boiled potatoes and a brown gravy)! After dinner I met up with some friends (2 people have friends from home visiting so we wanted to all go out together) and had a hygge night!

Saturday I woke up, chilled with the host fam, had an awesome lunch (fish balls and cod eggs - the best Danish smørrebrøds), went to the gym, and then went to the Royal Ballet with friends! The ballet was awesome, we saw "Shakespeare in Motion" which was the story of Othello for the first half and then I don't know what the second half was but it involved Victorian -era dress, an illegitimate child, and a dancing brown bear! After the ballet we went out for a drink and called it a night pretty early since we were all dressed up.

Today is major homework day. I have 4 term papers due on May 7th (all around 10pgs) and I will be in Prague for most of next week. Sooo, today my goal is 1 and a half papers, but we shall see what happens!

If anyone has any suggestions as to something I can cook for my host fam (main dish or dessert) please let me know. I want to make them one last special dinner before I leave but I'm running out of cooking ideas (yes, I only have about 3 dishes in my repertoire...)