Efterår i Danmark

Welcome back, dear readers, to my experience in Nykøbing. I can't believe that I have already been here long enough for a second blog post!❤️

Where did we leave off? Oh, right it was the 🤘METAL🤘concert. It was loud, it was energetic and it was LOUD! The adult, slightly till medium drunk crowd was way more chaotic than our usual audience of children and teens, but still somewhat well behaved 😅Even though metal is really not my usual genre (to repetitive if you ask me), the evening was definitely memorable! 

The morning right after the concert Annezina and I took the train to visit Kopenhagen. We visited a bunch of nerdy stores for costumes, comics and roleplaying and also some very cool vintage and second shops. I however didn't buy anything. Working at Kulturfabtikken and having access to all the materials there has fostered a strong "I will not waste my money, I can make this myself, how hard can it be" mentality in me. Currently I have a loooooooong list of potential future DIY projects, let's see how many I will get done before this project ends! 
We also took a quick detour to Christiania and I finally found some vegan food in Denmark! I am so glad I could enjoy a local delicacy (a hotdog) without compromising💚

Our next week was just as hectic because it was time for our Efterårsferie workshops! Even though we had a lot to do, it still felt quite cozy. Partily due to the smell of Nanas amazing tomato soup 🩷 It was lovely to bring all the crafts we worked out to the visitors. Initially I was worried that sewing and sewing machines would be too scary for our young visitors but eventually there came someone brave enough🧵🪡Luckly our sewing machines were acting unusually well behaved and only snatched the thread a few times. Very enjoyable to make were also the example crafts. We made sooo many months, pumpkins, ghost, mushrooms etc. who now all clutter up our office and our home ✨

Our apartment wasn't the only thing getting ready for fall and Halloween. The rat also got in the spirit. He has fallen victim to a box of colourful googly eyes. Now he is ready to cause season appropriate terror and fear 🤍👻

After a long Efterårsferie week we got our Friday off and a visitor from Roskilde. Our fellow volunteer Emma came along with us to see the medieval centre. While our fellow volunteers from said medieval centre let us very kindly in for free we were immediately enslaved to prepare a trebuchet to launch an attack on our poor inland of Falster 🥲 Afterwards we where let free to explore, learn about medieval craftsmanship and try some juicy apple pie 🥧 To end the day we saw a tournament and were assigned a knight to root for and one to be mean to. Our assigned knight even won!!

The following weeks were calmer with more practical tasks. We also got our paperwork in order and applied for our CPR number (Which we still haven't received, it is both annoying but also strangely  comforting that the Danish bureaucracy is just as efficient as everywhere else). For that we had to travel to Copenhagen again, I have the feeling I will spend a lot of time in the city during my volunteering year. Our workshops were also visited by the medieval centre volunteers who taught us Turkish marble painting and medieval finger weaving. Those pop-up workshops were a lot of fun and I now have some new bracelets. I hope we can do more such workshops in the future 🧵💕

During these weeks I also received a much awaited visitor, my partner finally had time to travel from Sweden and take a look at my current, wonderful life in southern Denmark. The weather sadly was bad, but I still got the chance to show them the town and my volunteering place. Everyone at Kulturfabtikken was very welcoming to them. We carved some pumpkins together and visited a rehearsal at one of the local theatres. Together with Annezina we also did a movie night. My partner has to come back asp (not only) because we have to finish Wicked💚💖
Sadly, this week was over waaaaayyyy to quick 

Usually I am not very interested in sports (besides biking, dancing and hiking) but Annezina convinced me to try both bouldering and attend a local handball game. I don't know if I am hooked just yet, but it was very fun and made me feel a sense of local patriotism to see the Nykøbing team win against Kopenhagen 🌟

For Halloween I left Denmark and visited a close friend in Hamburg who was throwing a Monster High themed Halloween party. I went as Operetta to finally have a reason to wear some of my rockabilly clothes again💕🐦‍⬛To my surprise I met someone at that party who used to live in Nykøbing as well. The world truly is a village!

The party was a lot of fun, unfortunately I caught a cold there and had to spend most of the past week not at Kulturfabrikken but huddled up at our apartment. While taking one day off to rest and recover was relaxing, after the second day it got pretty boring pretty quickly and I am glad to be back! 🦋One small consolation and a fitting end to the spooky season was that on Saturday I had enough energy to finally visit the Museum Obscurum together with Annezina and Sophie. It was quite charming, however I might be haunted by a mirror now 🪞 👻

Next up on the agenda is Kulturfabtikkens Christmas event. But first we will have to make through the hopefully not too cold and dark November. I am looking very much forward to having a very hygge Christmas time here in Denmark and I am very excited to take you, dear readers, along! ❤️❤️

Until next time
Katrin