Happy Birthday Dad! Sorry I didn't get to skype last night...once I was home my internet wasn't working well and I had to go to sleep. But I love you and hope you all had a lovely birthday dinner!
Today is a short week so we only had class on Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday we went to the Lousisiana Museum about 40 minute away. It was a really great museum we had a lot of fun and got to get out of class early. We didn't return to Copenhagen until around 7:30...Leanne and I got some Istanbul and then had a beer at Floss before we went and hung out with Jeff for awhile at his place. And then I headed home early...or so I thought...the bus ride from hell told me different.
It took me 40 minutes almost to get home last night. There were these little Danish shit boys on the bus that kept throwing sunflower seeds or the equivalent at everyone in the bus. I was actually appreciating their immature sense of humor before the bus driver pulled over (Mind you were are only 2 stops of the way home..which is like 1,000 stops) and goes to talk to the kids. He yells at them...tells them to get off the bus. The kids were refusing and laughing and I think it took about 15 minutes to get them off the damn bus. Meanwhile everyone just sat there annoyed. Once the kids were finally gone we kept doing but the bus doors kept opening on their own and every time they did the bus driver had to restart the bus...Thank god for the bus lane.
I got home and was ready to do a birthday skype session but the internet wasn't working. So I made some tea and fell asleep to Tila Tequila. Lovely right?
Today I'll be hitting the gym & then in studio alllll day long. I have no other plans except maybe getting my hair cut. I have to do some serious catch up on my studio work. I am so sick of this project I want to just do the damn thing and be done with it. My goal today is to finalize my plan and start working on my finished model. I'm so over school and next week is our last week of class and I'd really really just like to be finished now so I can enjoy the rest of my time here without stress or homework.
Can't summer come without me being kicked out of the country? : /
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
down $240.00
I'm such a huge bummer. I booked my airline ticket for June 29....which is totally illegal since my visa runs out on the June 1st. As a result I am down $230.00 dollars. You would think after all my traveling and or 21 years of life I would know by now that 6.29.2010 means June...not May. On the upside...my new ticket was cheaper then the last which would be great if I didn't have to pay the ticket change fee. Oh well.
On the upside the sun is shinning today in Copenhagen and I only have two days of class this week. My plans for my days off include shopping, getting a hair cut, visiting the Carlsberg brewery and spending time outside in Kings Garden as well as Nyhavn. While I may not be here for the summer I will surely take advantage of springtime weather.
Again I sit figuring out airline tickets, facebooking and blogging while trying to write a paper that is due later this afternoon. My head is certainly not well suited for the classroom this month. Only 2 weeks left of class...Yikes.
On the upside the sun is shinning today in Copenhagen and I only have two days of class this week. My plans for my days off include shopping, getting a hair cut, visiting the Carlsberg brewery and spending time outside in Kings Garden as well as Nyhavn. While I may not be here for the summer I will surely take advantage of springtime weather.
Again I sit figuring out airline tickets, facebooking and blogging while trying to write a paper that is due later this afternoon. My head is certainly not well suited for the classroom this month. Only 2 weeks left of class...Yikes.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
The sunshines in CPH
I'm starting to grow very nostalgic about going home. After a beautiful weekend in Copenhagen I am more apprehensive about leaving this place. I know I'm surely not ready to say good bye. However after this weekends events I feel far far away from home and wish I could pop in and give some love to my family. I think I forget that while my time goes by here, life is carrying on at home whether I'm ready for it to or not. I'm not home sick but I wish I could be with my family in times of sadness. Life has a funny way of surprising and reminding. At the end of the day I suppose we can be thankful for all the memories we are blessed with. And for those we should celebrate. And to best describe my feelings four British boys...
There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
RIP R.Hill
There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
RIP R.Hill
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
One year
Last year on this day I was recovering from a weekend of Ani & Dead shows, clouds of smoke and pure mayhem. I was certainly on my way to Magnolia to kick of festivities and was certainly seeing in gray. Today I am happy to say that any such shenanigans will be celebrated legally. Happy Birthday Mary Jane! May more people have the opportunity to celebrate legally next year!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Is this growing up?
I'd like to make a public message: ATTENTION! ATTENTION!!
I, Dani Hill, am planning on staying IN on a FRIDAY night a) because I'm waking up tomorrow to hop the boarder to Svveeden and go canoeing and hiking for the weekend and more impressively b) to catch up on homework and work intensely on my senior internship search.
If you aren't impressed I'd like to note that I have yet to stay IN on a FRIDAY since making it to Denmark and cannot recall a FRIDAY at Endicott that I haven't gone to a party and woken up Saturday morning confused. I think this may be growing up. And or I can't afford to procrastinate any long and am entering professional panic mode. Regardless...I'm proud of me. Are you proud too? I hope so.
Tonight it will be just me, the world wide web and a bottle of wine.
I said nothing about drinking...I just said I wasn't going OUT. Cheers!
I, Dani Hill, am planning on staying IN on a FRIDAY night a) because I'm waking up tomorrow to hop the boarder to Svveeden and go canoeing and hiking for the weekend and more impressively b) to catch up on homework and work intensely on my senior internship search.
If you aren't impressed I'd like to note that I have yet to stay IN on a FRIDAY since making it to Denmark and cannot recall a FRIDAY at Endicott that I haven't gone to a party and woken up Saturday morning confused. I think this may be growing up. And or I can't afford to procrastinate any long and am entering professional panic mode. Regardless...I'm proud of me. Are you proud too? I hope so.
Tonight it will be just me, the world wide web and a bottle of wine.
I said nothing about drinking...I just said I wasn't going OUT. Cheers!
Friday, April 9, 2010
We went boating on a pond the other day in Madrid's central park-ish. Yesterday we did some shopping around the city and went to a club Joy last night. We've been relaxing a lot and taking our time which is a lovely change of pace from the first part of our trip. Today I think we'll venture to the zoo! I love Madrid :]
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Beer Wine Wiskey Tequilllllaaaahhh Italy Greece- Dani Hill Of Corfu did.
My adventures thus far this spring break have far lived up to my expectations. I have had a blast so far. Where to start where to start... Italy!
We got to Italy and within minutes were drinking bottles of wine with familiar faces in by the Arno. It was a beautiful day and we became apart of a painting. So Italy. It was a cute very old man painting the river and we were in his painting. It was his 90th birthday. It was a beautiful experience. Our first night it was Lindsey's birthday and we went out to dinner, a bar, a club and got quite drunk. Drunk enough that on the way home I took my shoe off and threw it at a moped driver. I thought it would be funny. The asian man who was victim of my humor did not. We got in a scary fight and after calling him Baby like 100 times he decided I was too drunk to deal with and gave up. This incident was followed by my concussion. Alex's hallway has a mean slant in it so everyone was trying to ride down it on the Razor scooter. I was too drunker after a mixture of alcohols (Title of blog included) and flipped over the handle bars in my skirt and heels and hit Alex's sliding bedroom door with my head hard enough to shut it. I woke up in the morning entirely concussed. My bad. The rest of our days in Florence included eating ice cream by Dome, climbing up to the Michael Angelo and getting drunk while overlooking the city. That was followed by a very drunken run-inn with a North Conway boy Pat whom Jacqui and I work with at Delaney's. We then preceded to have a caricature drawn of Alex Jacqui and I. I was drunk enough to request large breasts. I think the artist was quite entertained by our shenanigans.
Alex lives with 5 other Endicott boys and we had a wonderful time with them. 4 of them were coming with us to Greece. Mikey inspired us to buy team costumes. We had planned on buying fanny packs and straw hats as costumes for the Palace. We were told clothing was optional and nudies drink for free...so that was our attempt...however we failed miserably and only Mikey had a costume.
We went to a hole in the wall Jazz club and listened to incredible music. We made family dinners and had silly silly times. We met a lot of their new friends who are also studying in Florence and saw quite a lot of the city in our three days there. We were quite sad to leave but very ready to see adventure to the Pink Palace in Corfu, Greece.
It was not a quick easy journey. We took a 6 hour bus ride, a 130 minute ferry and a 15 hour cruise ship. Can I just say wow. Greece is a beautiful country. The ocean was beautiful. The cruise ship we were on was wild. There were about 300 kids also headed to the Pink Palace and Easter weekend break was in full swing within minutes of being on the boat. Alex Jacqui and I sprang for a 3 bottles of lovely table wine from the duty free shop, followed by man trips to the various bars and bottles of booze. We were staying in a cabin that had about 100 airline-ish seats. It quickly turned into a dance club- card session- all out booze cruise. Little did we know the real one would be at the Pink Palace.
People drive crazy crazy in Greece. I cannot explain to you the wild driving maneuvers of our Greek bus driver. He cruised up and down mountains and tiny twisty turns like it was the indie 500. For those who are at home, the Fryeburg 500. Corfu is a cute island. We stayed on the back side of the island a 100 feet from the beautiful Mediterranean. The entire Palace was painted Pepto Pink. It was lovely. We had a club, bars, beaches, hot tubs and the ocean. Jacqui and I were paired up with Hana Dinko as a roommate. She turned out to be an awesome girl with a funny last name. Our first day at the Palace was beers and the beach followed by a traditional Greek meal of I don't remember and a Pink Toga Party. I've never seen so much dancing pink. Basically we were give pink silky sheets and had to figure out how to made togas look semi attractive. The toga party was an absolute shit shot and was followed by 60 people in a gigantic hot tub still partying. There were naked chicken fights and lots of friend making. I think the Pink Palace embodies the MTV versions of spring break. It was crazy.
On day two we woke up early to sign up for the booze cruise. The line was too long so we ate breakfast and went back to bed. When we woke up we were disappointing we weren't going so we bought at 1 Euro pen and drew on the stamps. Everyone else payed 25 Euro for the trip. We were crafty stowaways. The booze cruise started with cliff jumping. Due to my earlier in the week concussion I opted out, thankfully. Most jumper ended their 60 ft plunge with bruises, blood and very very cold bodies. It was really fun to watch though and I was glad we were there to experience it. Our next stop was to a private beach where we spotted real live billy goats. So cute! We also played several beach games, drank more beers, contributed to the urination level of the Mediterranean and were off to the bat caves. Unfortunately time did not allow and we had to continue back to the Palace. The ride home consisted of very drunken dancing and many body shots. (I did not participate in body shots by the by.) Our captains nephews worked on the boat. One a bartender and one a 9 year old who drove the boat most of the way. The boat was only 50ft long and had about 60 passengers. It was quite a wild experience and a lot of fun. While some people may have lost a little dignity we just lost some Euro and some pale skin.
Our last day on the island consisted of laying on the beach and trying to nurse our very very sun burnt bodies. We had such a fun time and I'm so glad we made it to the Pink Palace. It is on the list of top 10 hostels in the world...I would like to find number one some day because this place was heaven. It surely wasn't a family destination but was exactly what college students look for on spring break. I can't imagine anyone else having comparable spring breaks. Our trip back to Florence took over 24 hours and was quite miserable. Everyone, tour guides included jumped off the bus in Florence and took a scream of happiness. It was just way to long. Our last night in Florence concluded quite like the last. We had a few bottles of wine and shared stories with some new friends and roommates who went on other trips. I hope someday I look back on my foolish spring break and laugh. The things you do on spring break. No worries mom and dad :] No jaded experiences for me I had a boy waiting for me a home and a good concussed head on my shoulders. Just a lot of booze in my sun burnt belly.
I apologize to grandparents, friends and family if this had tainted your image of little angle Dani. Hehe. No way right? Just doing my spring break thing!!
Today we made it to Andreas in Madrid. I am amazed at the size of this city and the architecture already. We did some grocery shopping and relaxed this afternoon. We most have just caught up on our semesters and and stories of our travels. We bought a few bottles of wine and will soon made some dinner. We've had such an excellent time in Florence and Greece and I can't wait to explore Madrid. Andrea has class tomorrow so Jacqui and I will be figuring out the Metro and roaming around. A friend who graduated from Fryeburg goes to school with Andrea so we will hopefully see him while we are here. We might visit a zoo, explore some gardens and do some shopping. I have gifts to buy for people and would like a few souvenirs for myself. The only thing I left Florence with was bruises, a slightly concussed head and gray teeth. Oh and lots of laughs, memories and fun times! I love spring break. I love traveling...Of Corfu do. Duh
I miss Copenhagen. I decided after being away for a week that I'm staying for the summer. I will do everything in my power to make it happen. I missed home so much while being away this week and am not ready to return to the states. I think I will stay in Copenhagen until the middle of August and then bring my Danish boy home for everyone to meet. I think I can take the classes I need while in Copenhagen this summer and can find a job. I need to do a lot internship searching and pull a lot of strings before it will be officially set in stone. But yall know Dani Girl. I want something. I go and get it. Sooo my next expedition will be staying in Copenhagen. YAY! I'm excited. Bri's staying officially for the summer so we're going to do a lot of job searching, visa renuing and what not together!
Over and out until I sit down long enough to scribe Madrid.
Cheers!
We got to Italy and within minutes were drinking bottles of wine with familiar faces in by the Arno. It was a beautiful day and we became apart of a painting. So Italy. It was a cute very old man painting the river and we were in his painting. It was his 90th birthday. It was a beautiful experience. Our first night it was Lindsey's birthday and we went out to dinner, a bar, a club and got quite drunk. Drunk enough that on the way home I took my shoe off and threw it at a moped driver. I thought it would be funny. The asian man who was victim of my humor did not. We got in a scary fight and after calling him Baby like 100 times he decided I was too drunk to deal with and gave up. This incident was followed by my concussion. Alex's hallway has a mean slant in it so everyone was trying to ride down it on the Razor scooter. I was too drunker after a mixture of alcohols (Title of blog included) and flipped over the handle bars in my skirt and heels and hit Alex's sliding bedroom door with my head hard enough to shut it. I woke up in the morning entirely concussed. My bad. The rest of our days in Florence included eating ice cream by Dome, climbing up to the Michael Angelo and getting drunk while overlooking the city. That was followed by a very drunken run-inn with a North Conway boy Pat whom Jacqui and I work with at Delaney's. We then preceded to have a caricature drawn of Alex Jacqui and I. I was drunk enough to request large breasts. I think the artist was quite entertained by our shenanigans.
Alex lives with 5 other Endicott boys and we had a wonderful time with them. 4 of them were coming with us to Greece. Mikey inspired us to buy team costumes. We had planned on buying fanny packs and straw hats as costumes for the Palace. We were told clothing was optional and nudies drink for free...so that was our attempt...however we failed miserably and only Mikey had a costume.
We went to a hole in the wall Jazz club and listened to incredible music. We made family dinners and had silly silly times. We met a lot of their new friends who are also studying in Florence and saw quite a lot of the city in our three days there. We were quite sad to leave but very ready to see adventure to the Pink Palace in Corfu, Greece.
It was not a quick easy journey. We took a 6 hour bus ride, a 130 minute ferry and a 15 hour cruise ship. Can I just say wow. Greece is a beautiful country. The ocean was beautiful. The cruise ship we were on was wild. There were about 300 kids also headed to the Pink Palace and Easter weekend break was in full swing within minutes of being on the boat. Alex Jacqui and I sprang for a 3 bottles of lovely table wine from the duty free shop, followed by man trips to the various bars and bottles of booze. We were staying in a cabin that had about 100 airline-ish seats. It quickly turned into a dance club- card session- all out booze cruise. Little did we know the real one would be at the Pink Palace.
People drive crazy crazy in Greece. I cannot explain to you the wild driving maneuvers of our Greek bus driver. He cruised up and down mountains and tiny twisty turns like it was the indie 500. For those who are at home, the Fryeburg 500. Corfu is a cute island. We stayed on the back side of the island a 100 feet from the beautiful Mediterranean. The entire Palace was painted Pepto Pink. It was lovely. We had a club, bars, beaches, hot tubs and the ocean. Jacqui and I were paired up with Hana Dinko as a roommate. She turned out to be an awesome girl with a funny last name. Our first day at the Palace was beers and the beach followed by a traditional Greek meal of I don't remember and a Pink Toga Party. I've never seen so much dancing pink. Basically we were give pink silky sheets and had to figure out how to made togas look semi attractive. The toga party was an absolute shit shot and was followed by 60 people in a gigantic hot tub still partying. There were naked chicken fights and lots of friend making. I think the Pink Palace embodies the MTV versions of spring break. It was crazy.
On day two we woke up early to sign up for the booze cruise. The line was too long so we ate breakfast and went back to bed. When we woke up we were disappointing we weren't going so we bought at 1 Euro pen and drew on the stamps. Everyone else payed 25 Euro for the trip. We were crafty stowaways. The booze cruise started with cliff jumping. Due to my earlier in the week concussion I opted out, thankfully. Most jumper ended their 60 ft plunge with bruises, blood and very very cold bodies. It was really fun to watch though and I was glad we were there to experience it. Our next stop was to a private beach where we spotted real live billy goats. So cute! We also played several beach games, drank more beers, contributed to the urination level of the Mediterranean and were off to the bat caves. Unfortunately time did not allow and we had to continue back to the Palace. The ride home consisted of very drunken dancing and many body shots. (I did not participate in body shots by the by.) Our captains nephews worked on the boat. One a bartender and one a 9 year old who drove the boat most of the way. The boat was only 50ft long and had about 60 passengers. It was quite a wild experience and a lot of fun. While some people may have lost a little dignity we just lost some Euro and some pale skin.
Our last day on the island consisted of laying on the beach and trying to nurse our very very sun burnt bodies. We had such a fun time and I'm so glad we made it to the Pink Palace. It is on the list of top 10 hostels in the world...I would like to find number one some day because this place was heaven. It surely wasn't a family destination but was exactly what college students look for on spring break. I can't imagine anyone else having comparable spring breaks. Our trip back to Florence took over 24 hours and was quite miserable. Everyone, tour guides included jumped off the bus in Florence and took a scream of happiness. It was just way to long. Our last night in Florence concluded quite like the last. We had a few bottles of wine and shared stories with some new friends and roommates who went on other trips. I hope someday I look back on my foolish spring break and laugh. The things you do on spring break. No worries mom and dad :] No jaded experiences for me I had a boy waiting for me a home and a good concussed head on my shoulders. Just a lot of booze in my sun burnt belly.
I apologize to grandparents, friends and family if this had tainted your image of little angle Dani. Hehe. No way right? Just doing my spring break thing!!
Today we made it to Andreas in Madrid. I am amazed at the size of this city and the architecture already. We did some grocery shopping and relaxed this afternoon. We most have just caught up on our semesters and and stories of our travels. We bought a few bottles of wine and will soon made some dinner. We've had such an excellent time in Florence and Greece and I can't wait to explore Madrid. Andrea has class tomorrow so Jacqui and I will be figuring out the Metro and roaming around. A friend who graduated from Fryeburg goes to school with Andrea so we will hopefully see him while we are here. We might visit a zoo, explore some gardens and do some shopping. I have gifts to buy for people and would like a few souvenirs for myself. The only thing I left Florence with was bruises, a slightly concussed head and gray teeth. Oh and lots of laughs, memories and fun times! I love spring break. I love traveling...Of Corfu do. Duh
I miss Copenhagen. I decided after being away for a week that I'm staying for the summer. I will do everything in my power to make it happen. I missed home so much while being away this week and am not ready to return to the states. I think I will stay in Copenhagen until the middle of August and then bring my Danish boy home for everyone to meet. I think I can take the classes I need while in Copenhagen this summer and can find a job. I need to do a lot internship searching and pull a lot of strings before it will be officially set in stone. But yall know Dani Girl. I want something. I go and get it. Sooo my next expedition will be staying in Copenhagen. YAY! I'm excited. Bri's staying officially for the summer so we're going to do a lot of job searching, visa renuing and what not together!
Over and out until I sit down long enough to scribe Madrid.
Cheers!
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