It's always nice to come back from a ruff ragged day out on the town attempting to find an apartment(which in Copenhagen is like trying to find a needle in a haystack) and find a care package waiting for you at the reception desk. Especially when that care package comes from your parents who happen to make the best care packages in the entire world. If you think I'm kidding, I dare you to try to find a care package better, it will be an arduous task that is most probably impossible. All I can say is that today was so worth all its ruggedness after receiving a care package from home. Well anyways, this post will also surmise some interesting observations an expat can make on a foreign country.
1. So, the first observation and I think personally the most hilarious is what parents here use to cart their children around in. Back home it's simply called a stroller, but here it's more like a Hummer of strollers. That's right these things are monstrous, megalithic, gigantic in proportion, unnecessarily large, unless you for some reason need to fit your life in a stroller or Godzilla's babies. Furthermore, the parents here seem to push and prod their children around in these megalithic things until their kids resemble that of being a twelve year old.
2. OK, this next one goes out to all you mocha lovers back in the states. Yes, if you ever find yourself in Copenhagen you will unfortunately not be granted that oh so smooth and delicious necessary taste of a mocha. Which I find odd, because the people here do in fact love their coffee and chocolate, but haven't combined the two, hmmmmm.
3. Expect pretty hip parents. Yep, I just said that. Most of the parents here are pretty hip to this modern culture here and dress very similarly to their youngsters.
4. Despite their love for unnecessarily large strollers, don't expect that with their cars, or automobiles rather.
5. Hair salons here are like Starbucks in America, they are everywhere, every street corner, sometimes several per block. In case you were wondering their version of Starbucks here is called Baresso, which like Starbucks, is everywhere. However, if in the fall like most Americans you crave that delicious fall Pumpkin Spice Latte, don't come to Copenhagen, they don't believe in pumpkin anything, I know it's super sad, we can get through this together, maybe.
6. Lastly, kind of a weird one, but it may be some Danish code that you never pick up after yourself. I honestly have no idea where it comes from, but if you find yourself in a coffee shop or really anywhere for that matter, expect cups, whether it be the establishments cups or paper cups, plates and napkins to be everywhere. I don't know if they expect other people to pick it up for them, or if the workers of said restaurant are supposed to do it. Mom, I promise we will not follow suit with this Danish tradition.
Thanks for following along on our adventures!
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