Copenhagen free newspaper

Hello everybody,
news from rainy Copenhagen. On the weekend I participated in a dragon boat race with 20 other colleagues. We dressed up like pirates (we were defenetly the best looking team) and more or less successfully, we won one out of four races and in the end got a medal and a bottle of sparkling wine for the team, it was a fun afternoon. Picture left: hard race, look at our faces. Picture right: Priya (my roommate, friend and intern colleague) and me.

Denmark seems to be a very safe country according to the behaviour of many parents who leave their babies outside in the carriage when they do a quick shopping at the supermarket. Another situation was on Sunday when I found shelter (it’s raining since weeks, I mentioned this in other posts) in café of a tourist office. While sitting there reading and coffee drinking I observed a carriage with a sleeping baby right next to the entrance. The parents of this baby where sitting on a table in 15 meter distance and just occasionally had a look. Imagine, the carriage was standing next to the entrance of a tourist office where a lot of people where passing by…. I did not leave before the father came to take the baby with him, Priya, my roommate who left yeaterday, told me that a Danish couple was arrested in New York because they left their baby outside a bar.

Guess how many free newspapers there are in Copenhagen.... seven! Every morning when I cycle to work on my way there are three people handing out different free newspapers to the bikers. Like in a cycle race, just reach out your hand and grap one. Unfortunately I cannot read Danish. Another thing about this free newspapers: a colleague told me that they had difficulties to find people to deliver these newspapers so they hired people from abroad. Like in Germany with the harvest heplers. There is a construction outside the house where I am living now (I will move in some days, woho) where they start every morning at 6.30 am with terrible noise. The men working there are Germans, I was surprised by this. Maybe it is a labour migration? In Denmark the unemployment rate is very low (I think around 3%) and people here get a minimum wage which is around 100 Dkr (I think) which is 14€, great, isn't it? Maybe I should think of working in Denmark.... but to be honest, for now I like it but I cannot imagine to live in Denmark my whole life.

Alright, that's for now,
hej-hej
Vera