KISS (Københavns Intensive Sprogskole)
If you happen to attend the KISS program as I do this might be helpful. I record the famous 15 sentences and wordlists during the classes.
You can find them
here as mp3 files. The directory will be unregularly updated...
Danish craftsmen
They work from 6.45 hrs to 7.30 in the morning, that's when they do they do the noisy things. Then they disappear. In the afternoon they put a letter in your letterbox telling you that they need your key the next day. The next day of course there is nobody, not even at 7.30.
It's like Heinzelmaennchen, you can only hear them, never see them. And you hear them at a time of the day when you definitely don't want to hear them.
Football II
Somewhere close to Sankt Hans Torv here in CPH there used to be the best German flag of the World Cup (and there are many, really many!) The people there have three windows, and out of each was a T-shirt hanging: the first one black, the second one red and the third one yellow. Unfortunately they changed it to a normal boring flag now.
Football I
Whenever I am reluctant to work, I write some silly entries and as I try to be very up to date, I have to write about football. Honestly a better reason is that I lived 7 years in Germany and I got infected there with the football virus. I do not follow the national leagues but if there is something special around like a world cup or
FC Thun in the Champions League, then I like to watch it.
And I believe it is a social event. There is no point in watching it at home in front of your TV, since a big part of why it is interesting and fun, is that it moves the masses all over the world.
Or should I say I liked to watch it back in Berlin? There, during a big tournament it is hard to find a bar which does not show a soccer game. Not only now that the World Cup takes place in Germany, it used to be like this already 4 and 2 years ago. There are some very nice spots where you can watch football in a very relaxed way, with a lot of other people, mixed sexes, mixed appearance and easy going atmosphere. I must admit that I miss this here in Copenhagen. Most places that show the games are these dark, sticky-old-beer-in-the-corner Irish or English pubs where you would never set your foot on a normal day. And if you find another place, then it's empty and you feel a bit silly sitting there alone watching TV. If you are lucky there are 4 others and all of them are ... men. Stimmung? Nicht die Bohne! Everybody is silent and on his own. You can as well stay at home.
Maybe I haven't found the right place yet?
