Copenhagen

            The Copenhagen experience was an experience to say the least. After another 15-hour travel day, I finally arrived at around 3am. I was going to meet up with Matt Marsh who had some friends in the Loyola Copenhagen abroad program, but I got there and could not get in touch with him. A combination of our phones not working, and me figuring that he had gone out or something, I decided to exhaust that as an option. I walked in the direction of his friend’s apartment in search of a park bench. My stubborn self didn’t want to buy a hotel room only for a few hours. I found a picnic table type situation not far from the apartment, and went to lie down. About 5 minutes later I heard two girls walk over with a dog and were speaking English. I got up and asked them if they were American, perhaps they went to Loyola, I thought. One of them was Swedish and the other from England- no luck. They asked me what I was doing and explained to them that I couldn’t get in touch with my friends etc. etc. They insisted that I stay at their apartment on the couch and I did precisely that.  They were incredibly nice and hospitable, and I figured I really didn’t have anything to lose (besides my life).

            I woke up the next morning and used Emmy’s computer to log onto Facebook and get in touch with Marsh. He was all worried about me and apologized about a hundred times, rightfully so. I gave him the address where I was and he came and met me. I told him the whole story and he couldn’t believe it, neither can I really. We walked around and met up with his friend Meg for lunch. At 4:30 I had a skype interview for an internship at Loyola for next school year. I went into the University’s library and did it and I’m pretty sure I crushed it.

            Marsh and I walked around the city and went and saw the famous mermaid statue. We also discovered a little trampoline park situation, which was fun, and free! Also, in downtown Copenhagen there is this cool wall called the #HappyWall which has different colored flaps which you can fold over to make letters. I wrote my signature #LOCALS on the wall so I was happy to get a picture with that. The two of us ended up staying with the Swedish girl again! Marsh ended up leaving me to go to Rome the next day but I figured I would stay one more night instead of having to take an overnight train. In the end, the best thing I ever did was go to that park bench and meet those two girls, because not only did they save me, but also my wallet big time.