A day in Århus
Yesterday, just before midday, I woke up to a text message saying “we’ll pick you up in 10 minutes”. Off to Århus, to celebrate my grandma’s birthday (free food!) with my dad, his wife and their daughter. It had been a while since I’d seen my grandma and grandpa. My aunt and uncle and their kids where there too, what a reunion! The food was nice and plenty, and since my sister has a DS as well, so was the entertainment (I had gotten Tetris DS earlier that day).
At some point, I figured “hey, I’m in Århus! Might as well visit one of my friends who lives here”. So I text messaged her, and after a few hours, I went to her place to eat dinner with her and her (Bristolian =) boyfriend. More free food (wok noodle spicy thing), oh joy!
They’re some very nice people (there’s only a few of those on this planet, apparently) … Anyway, we stayed up late playing Super Smash Bros. Melee (with two proper and a third-party joypad), it became a Link vs Zelda vs Ganondorf franchise-fest (a girl who’s actually good at a game? What a rarity! =)!
About midnight, it was time to say goodbye; I had to catch a train home. Only when I got to the train station, I found out the train had been cancelled, and the next train would leave in about … two hours!
I didn’t let that get me down though, so I went to the shopping streets of the city (this was after midnight, mind you) to try and enjoy myself with the “Århus Festive Week” (Århus Festuge). Lots and lots and lots of people were drinking, listening to music, walking, talking, dancing and running. And I mean LOTS!
After a while, I found a nice café serving tea, and sat by the small river looking at this nice-smelling youth I’m not a part of. It was very joyful, I just sat there smiling for twenty minutes, thinking to myself how I was the warm little center that the life of this world crowded around.
When I’d finished my tea, I went about the city for a stroll through some of the areas playing music. I’m not sure, but I think I saw Sanne Salomonsen somewhere. Anyway, It was time to head for the train station again.
As I walked through the crowd, I tried to get (and keep) eye-contact with as many people as possible. I find it quite amusing to see people turn their eyes away, perhaps because of fear that you can see into their mind through their eyes. A few people didn’t look away though, but rather smiled or waved or said hi. How nice.
At the train station, I walked around reading a magazine; there wasn’t much else to do. Odd thing is, though, that I met a friend of a friend from where I live. Certainly wasn’t prepared for that, but we said our “hi” anyway.
Also met a guy I was friends with in elementary. He’s become quite the player now, but we still had our 15 minute talk.
When I got to Fredericia, I had to find some way of getting home. As there were no buses at this time of night, I ended up taking a taxi for all but 4 kr. of my remaining money, and there’s three weeks left of this month. Oh well.
I slept for 12 nice hours last night.