Viva la Danske!

BABE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (How me and Emily address each other now FYI, it's a actually a think we picked up from our British friends #ujelly?) Wow wow wow we have been busy partaking in the Danish culture. we are confused and excited about it! I would say mostly confused but tbh we love and are obsessed with it all!

We will start with Thursday. 

Jens (special mention to JENS. #jensjensjens) invites his mentees (us & Jill) over for a Spanish horror movie, nachos and wine!! A classic combo obviously!

Jens gets a special mention because he helps us a lot with understanding Danish things and has really embraced #bless 

#jensjensjens

- Spanish horror movie was scary

- not as scary as you would think though

- we made our Danish debut on the piano, and you could say it was success

- the apartment was so nice and had major hygge 

- we brought wine and then took back the leftovers because we assumed boys don't like white wine and wouldn't want it but Emily is really regretting this? What do you guys think? Maybe comment your thoughts and/or responses? 

- a Classic Danish night maybe!

FRIDAY!! (Aka valentines day)

Special shoutout to Gray Norman who got emily flowers and surprised her!!

#graynorman

We went to class on Friday and cathryn made a presentation (dont worry guys it went well!) and Emily got breakfast by herself lol #lonerloser

No joking she's cool and hip!

THEN we got Starbucks and went shopping with Becky and Vicky!!! Love it 

Tbh we don't think anyone is ever going to spell our names correctly

And THEN we got invited last minute to a costume party because the Danish version of Halloween is approaching! (And we can't say no to any invitation) 

Things to know about Danish Halloween:

- kids dress up and trick or treat

- instead of candy they want MONEY 

- they bring tins around and ask for coins and stuff. Sneaky Danes!

We decided to dress as cats which some may is lame but tbh those people are our haters. W/e we love our haters, they build us up and make us better so THANK YOU HATERS!

No but tbh we had no time or supplies or really any money to buy supplies so like what are a couple of the cutest girls to do??

CATZ!

- we started by making cute and realistic ears (#ripears #wheredidtheygo?)

- jäger 

- debated for a while how you say the name "Jonas" in Danish because that's the guy that invited us to the party

- finally left

- trusted google maps to get us there

- honestly google maps is the worst! You don't help at all google maps!  

- w/e at this point you could say we are natives so not a problem 

- we arrived #cats

- meet a pirate and some monks!

- wow! $2 jäger bombs! OK SURE

- lol uh oh someone is a bit drunk now (Emily) 

- FYI Jonas in Danish is pronounced "yonus"

- Cathryn's asked Jonas if she could call him "yoyo" and he said no.... K Jonus we just want to have some fun!

- someone came dressed as VOLDEMORT. Honestly the best costume we have ever seen in our life, he had painted his whole head white and was wearing black robes and stuff. Good for voldemort!

- dancing starts 

- people in Denmark genuinely love to dance and enjoy music. There is no dirty gross dancing or slutty costumes! People just want to partake in the spirit of Danish Halloween. We love it!! 

- the party play list was new and different. Hits included: the Macarena, spice girls, YMCA, a lot of songs on guitar hero, 99 red balloons. I would say the djs playlist was comparable to a bad grade 7 dance

- we don't care though 

- new pre playlist

- made a friend name sidsel (you pronounce it seesal) and we invited her to the party tonight!!!

The cats are off! I think we were only minimally judged by people who saw us

A lil shot a lil pre

Cats 

A lil bathroom pep talk

Cultural note: there used to be a tradition in Denmark where people would put a live cat in a barrel and then take turns swinging a bat at it until it broke. When it eventually did break they would chase and the cat and then kill it. No one could explain WHY they did this though???? I don't think they do this anymore though...

They had a barrel at the party that you could swing a bat at but this one was just filled with candy (unfortunately?). So Danish! It's just the Danish way

Cultural note #2: when the song "born to to be wild" comes on EVERY person sits down in lines and pretends to ride motorcycles.... It is SO weird. It's a thing that they do everywhere apparently. They also do it for the entire song, another thing nobody could explain to us, so yeah. I just wish we could actually explain how strange it was to see 80 people immediately sit down. Anyways, maybe you guys can start it in Canada,

Special mention to ALISON PIASETZKI who inspired this pic. Pia maybe you should bring this costume back??????????

Obviously had to stop for a quick burger on the way home and we thought we would share the menu with you

"Big tasty"

"Mcfeast"

What do you guys think FESTIVE beef and chicken means?

Editors note: it's festive because their Halloween is called "festival", but the concept of marketing beef and chicken and festive is still ridiculous 

The night ends with us really embracing viva la Danske which is not a thing currently but I think it will be soon (if things go well obviously) so we will keep you updated!

Finally just in other news:

"Mm see you in your burger" lol kk you crazy Danes 

Cathryn bought a cupcake which was unsatisfying and not even that good

In our attempt to be hipster/cool/Danish we have made his jäger candle 

ALRIGHT I think that's all for now. Tonight we have a ski themed party and tomorrow we have cake and tea with our really cute and lovely neighbour, Louise!

Xoxo FARVELFOLLOWERS 

Ps: this country roads remix was a highlight and a special moment of the night. We actually thought it was Danish but dj excellence is from mtl loll lol OKOK

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LtNnODgACkc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLtNnODgACkc

Check it out and maybe add it to everyone of your playlists!,