new room, the 3rd ;-)

Dear all,

So, how is my life in Copenhagen at the moment? On Sunday with the help of Vicky, my very nice intern-colleague, I moved in typically Danish manner to my new room. That means that we walked our bikes from my old room to the new room and tried to pack as much as possible on the bikes. With a large bag, a big suitcases, laptop bag and several bags with food it wasn’t that easy but we could manage and saved the cost for the bus. The new room is very nice and the landlady as well although she has a problem when not drinking alcohol… Today we will arrange a new mattress so I hopefully can sleep the next nights.

On Sunday afternoon I went to the Copenhagen Film Festival, and saw the German movie called “Komm näher”, which I did not like at all because it was one of these alternative/underground movies showing broken characters having unfulfilled lives and a lot of sex with the wrong partners. I sat there thinking about sexual transmitted diseases and HIV and just did not leave the cinema because I paid 10 €. A big success at this festival was the German movie “Elementarteilchen” and they had to give two extra shows because the others were sold out immediately.

Beside this, I do not know why, but my mood is constantly getting worse: I cannot sleep very well, the office is very loud at the moment (people fighting in the corridor with the copy machine, open-door policy which makes it very hard to concentrate as you hear people walking on the corridor all the time, crowds of Greek visitors at the canteen fighting for the last trays). I catch myself that my coffee-breaks are getting longer but on the other hand last Saturday I came to the office to have time and silence to work on my project (EU Council presidency) because during the week there are often other things to do, e.g. help to prepare the media event on the World Hepatitis Awareness Day on Tuesday (with a video message by Bob Geldof who looked himself as he was a patient) but of course I prefer to get something done on my project.

The sunny side of Copenhagen are the nice interns with whom I do a lot together, mostly sports like going to the gym, swimming or playing badminton or meeting for cooking on the weekends. One of them received a wedding proposal last week and we all are so happy for her and prepared a small celebration.

So, ups and downs in Copenhagen and not much things happened, that's it for the moment. Looking forward escaping one weekend to Germany and going to the gym now.

Take care,
Vera