Arriving in Copenhagen. Day 1 - getting to my accomodation

Getting out of the metro

Well,  I thought, that getting around Copenhagen would be easy, but it didn't seem so, as it turned out. I couldn't really understand many things right then and, besides, there was not anybody for me to ask about something, such as, how to get around the city and stuff like that. And, besides, I didn't think, that anyone would answer me properly, and I don't know, why I thought that. I knew, that people talked about Germans and travelling to Germany and how people didn't like talking in English there, so that I thought, that it would be kind of the same in Copenhagen, too.

Anyways, I went out of the metro station at Frederiksberg metro station with my backpack and baggage, checked out and looked for an exit. There should have been about 10 to 15 minutes walk from there to my accomodation and it would be that way, if I had gone in the right direction. However, I didn't have the Internet and couldn't turn the goodle maps on the mode, where it shows where you are, so that I was there on my own and with my intuition and offline maps.

I saw those stairs going up to the streets and though I looked around, I didn’t see any escalators , so that I had to walk on those stairs with my large baggage. It took me some time, but I still managed to get to the street with my bags and everything. then, when I looked around, I found out, that there were elevators, too, coming up from the metro, so that it turned out, that I carried my heavy bag on the stairs in vain, when I could just use the elevator.

So, I had my google maps turned on in my mobile phone and I could see where  I was and where I had to go, however, I forgot, that it kind of needed to have an internet connection, which I couldn’t get right on that place and I had to move around with my intuition. That was when it started raining, too, and I went nearby some building not to get wet. There was nobody around there, but there were all those bicycles parked in front of me. Well, I decided, that the rain wouldn’t be over just yet and it was already some late afternoon and I wanted to get home and get some rest after that flight and I started walking in the rain towards right. Then I saw some people jogging there in the rain and not caring at all and it was a real surprise for me, because here in Georgia nobody really jogs, especially if it’s raining, of course!

I walked for some time and though I was wearing my raincoat, I could feel, that it was getting cold and I was getting a little wet little by little, so that I stopped there nearby that large shop of Frederiksberg and waited a little and then I decided, that I was going on a wrong direction and I needed to go back, so that I walked all the way back, where I started and went left this time. I didn’t really know where exactly I was going and I couldn’t even see where I was on the google maps, because I didn’t have any internet connection. And everything seemed so confusing, because it was my first time there in those streets and I didn't know anything about them and, besides, I really wanted to get home as soon as possible and rest or sleep or prepare for the following day full of lectures!

After some time of walking , I went to this round thing with a fountain along with houses and there was a car coming towards it. And this lady came out of it and when she saw me with bags and stuff she asked me whether I needed any help and  I was surprised how well she could speak in English, because I didn’t really think, that they could speak in English very well. I told her where I needed to be and she showed me a pathway, with which I could get to the housing foundation accomodations and there I could probably find my place. Well, she was pretty helpful, because going through that pathway finally I came to that street, where my accommodation was located and then I could recognize it easily, because I had seen it on a picture on the Internet web page.

Getting to the accomodation

At last, it was this Gronnegardsvej street and I was very close to my apartment. And there was a card there in that envelope Kathrine gave to me, which was necessary for me to access the building and then I had to use those keys to get inside the dorm and then to my room. Well, I got inside the building and then I went upstairs as it said, that students’ rooms were upstairs and then there was this door, which I couldn’t open with any of those keys. It was pretty odd and nobody was around to ask anything about the keys and stuff and I walked up and down for a long time thinking about how to get iinside.

After some time I went out again and saw this bell beside the door and, well, i didn’t have any other choices, so that I decided to give it a try and rang the bell. It was so loud, that I could hear it ringing outside , too. After a minute or so, I heard some footsteps and someone opened the door. It was Lisa, my dormmate, who was living there for quite some time now and when I told her who I was and how I couldn’t get in the dorm, she helped me and we did even check my keys and they were not working, so that she told me to go to the Housing Foundation office the following day and get the key changed, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to open that door and she wouldn’t always be there to open it for me, of course. And she also helped me with my bags, because the stairs were kind of narrow and pretty difficult to go up there with large bags, if you want to know the truth.

So that, finally I was in my room! It was pretty cozy and large at the same time. I really liked it, however, it looked just like those old rooms in old buildings, that we’ve seen in films of such places, I mean, perhaps you have all seen those countryside cottages and rooms with old furniture inside and when that furniture is wooden and there are some new technologies filling them, which makes a contrast between those two. Imagine that and you will imagine how my room was. It was a blend of old and new style. I guess, the building was pretty old, too, but it didn’t have anything to complain. It all looked new from inside.

There was this small beautiful garden just outside the building and it was like a botanical garden and people just came there and looked at those beautiful flowers and enjoyed a cup of coffee or something in that café in the garden. Everything was pretty nice there and you wouldn’t really want to leave that place and go anywhere else. 

So, Lisa told me, that she could have another door of our dorm kept open somehow, so that if I needed to go out that evening, the door would be open and I could enter the dorm easily, without anyone's bothering and that was a pretty good idea. Of course, I was not really going to go somewhere far away, because it was already getting dark and it was raining and it was pretty cold comparing to the 35 degrees Celsius in Georgia, Tbilisi, so that I just went outside to see the small botanical garden there around and enjoy the blooming flowers in the garden. They all had their name tags in front of them, so that it was pretty easy to see which flowers were planted there in the botanical garden and if you were interested, you could see their names in Latin and in English, too, and you could just search them in the Internet or whatsoever.

Well, everything else around was pretty quiet and you could just sit somewhere on a bench and enjoy the silence in the neighbourhood.

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