...And That's Why No One Jaywalks in Copenhagen

Yesterday I did the unthinkable, I acted like a tourist.  I had the day off to do as I pleased, and just this once... I wanted to act like a tourist.  After sufficiently sleeping in I finally looked out my window, and much to my surprise it looked like it was a beautiful day.  The weather was lovely and the sky way blue, so I made my way to the train station.  A train and metro ride later I was back in the King's New Square, but this time I wasn't on a silly scavenger hunt.  I meandered over to Nyhavn Street.  For those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about... just think about all the pretty multi-colored houses on the canal you've seen in pictures of Copenhagen...that's Nyhavn.  After I took enough pictures to prove that I was in fact a tourist, I made my way to Stroget, the longest pedestrian shopping street in Europe, and found a store to go shopping in.  I bought some jeans, a sweater, a skirt, and head band all for around $55 dollars... not bad!

Today was back to school and back to the dreary weather and rain.  Besides the usual monotonous class schedule one thing caught my attention today.  As I was making my way to Norreport station to head home I noticed that there were people jaywalking.  At first I thought they must be tourists, no Dane in their right mind would jaywalk. But then I realized they were in fact rebellious Danes trying to catch their train home. This realization came just before a bicyclist plowed right into one of the culprits. And now you know, that's why no one jaywalks in Copenhagen.  There is much to great a risk of being plowed over by one of the thousands of crazy bicyclists flying by.