Local Week

From Denmark II

A few notes on my daily Danish life:
- The holiday home gets 4 TV channels. All are Danish. If the show is produced in another country, they keep the native tongue, just add Danish subtitles. I have gotten re-acquainted w/ Friends, get my news from the John Stewart's The Daily Show, and keep some lady who solves mysteries on the background while I prep din din.
- It has been reasonably warm, or my body has adjusted to the temp. It has been consistently damp and in the 30s.
- Darkness has increased.
- Neighbor deer and pheasant family still living
- Neighbor horses becoming more friendly (ate out of my hand today). They are penned in a huge area next to my grassy parking spot.
- Continually get spoken to in Danish. Have now learned the phrases, "I'm sorry, I don't speak Danish. Do you speak English?"
- Have come across 1 anit-Bush sentiment. Zero anti-American sentiment.
- Wooden stoves are no longer impossible.
- For better or worse, I'm accustomed to being in a big house all by myself in a somewhat remote area.
- Still love the Danish dairy, chocolate and honning (honey).

In addition to those daily life items, I cooked dinner for two coworkers on Wednesday night. The dinner was local kleek & potato wedge baked fries, stuffed mushrooms, vegetable coconut curry, and ginger rice. Dessert was dark chocolate dipped frozen banana with some nutz. We had a great time. Here's a little video we took after the meal.

Tonight (Friday) has been a take-it-easy night. The last few days have been a bit busy, so I'm taking it easy. Was able to get out of work around 3:30pm and had a little light left to take a walk. The beach is a 10 minute walk away from the home! Amazing. Took me too long to find that out!