I have been officially introduced to the game of Handball. Last night Alaina and I went with Jillian her boyfriends and her Danish buddy, Jesper, to a professional handball game right here in Copenhagen. He happens to a part of the FIF (our women's handball team) fanclub. We met a few of his friends, one of which could be classified as a super fan. He got really into the game and was furious with the refs. I couldn't understand anything he was yelling at the refs seeing as it was all in Danish, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't nice. He also had a drum along with him, at one point he got a bit worked up and ended up chucking the drum stick. It was quite hilarious. Needless to say we were the largest and loudest section of people cheering so we were given free beer by whoever was in charge of the game!
Handball is quite an interesting game. It is one of the most popular sports in Denmark and is said by some to have originated here. It is a bit like basketball, without dribbling and instead of hoops there are goals. I think we might be going to another game this Saturday against Spain!
Another thing worth mentioning is that even the popular sports here in Denmark don't get quite the crowds American sports do (except for maybe futbol). The game we went to felt a lot like a highshcool sporting event, but still so much fun!
After the handball game we all went back to one of Jesper's friends' place and played Keglebillard, a Danish Billiards game. It is played with 2 white balls, one red ball and five pins placed in the middle of the table. You get points for knocking down the pins, getting a white ball into a pocket, hitting both white balls with the red ball or hitting the white balls together. But one of the balls must hit the wall before you get points. You also lost points if you hit pins down with the red ball or get the red ball in a pocket. There are some other rules but that is the basic jist of it all. It was so much fun, and I was actually pretty good. Me and my partner won all 4 games!
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| Alaina struggled with the game at first, but soon caught on. |
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| The billiards set up |
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| Me and Jesper planning out my next shot |
I forgot to mention that Jesper's friend is doing research at Carlsberg and therefore lived in the residences of the Carlsberg Brewery. The place has a fridge stocked with Carlsberg, Tuborg, Cider and (much to my pleasure) coke zero, all free for the taking. The only condition is that you restock the fridge so that there are always cold drinks.
It is Fashion Week here in Copenhagen so this morning the girls and I went to a fashion show! It was a show of the graduating design students at TEKO, the leading Scandanavian design schools. There was a seat open right up front so the lady sitting next to it offered the free seat to me. It was so cool and I even got a gift bag that was under my chair! There were some hair products, a coupon to a salon, tea and coffee. It was really neat to see some of the fashion and people who are really serious about it. There were actually a lot of editors, press and bloggers there all taking notes about the designs they saw. It was AMAZING! Here are some of the pictures of the show:
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| Loved this one, but the model kept tugging on the skirt... |
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| This was one of my favorites |
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| Love the skirt on this! |
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| Me and Alaina with our gift bags! |
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