Hold up. That is not the correct name. Yes, yesterday I saw both Judo AND Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. But they are not one. I wish, because that would be amazing and probably cheaper.
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To kick off my Wednesday, I was taken on another fantastic study tour/ field trip through DIS, this time for my Classical and Renaissance Rome course, which will BE TRAVELLING TO ROME later. But anyway. As a teaser, we visited Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, a gigantic museum housing countless statues, portraits, and all-the-moneys from the time of the Roman Empire. Nearly all of the statues were missing noses, arms, hands, or uhm… manly appendages. HA! Poor suckers. There was actually a gigantic case of noses and ears that had fallen off during transport and what have you, but I was running to catch up with my extremely fast-paced professor and failed to take a picture. Instead, here is a portrait of The Great Caligula:
I think he’s pretty cute, but according to my textbook and my professor, he was “raving mad.” Something about *PG-13 ALERT* impregnating his sister and then cutting out the fetus and eating it or something? He was trying to emulate Zeus’ actions during the birth of Athena. So yeah, I guess he was probably raving mad. Or just Roman. Since they, you know, watched men fight to the death for entertainment and all.
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Also, my favorite statue in my favorite room of the museum:
I did not get a chance to figure out what the statue was, but I could definitely chill here for a while.
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Some broken men:
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AND THEN I FOUND THIS GUY:
I had the special, which was schnitzel, which was not a form of sausage as I had thought upon ordering, and the waitress treated us like such Americans it made me sad. “English menu, of course?” Ah, well. She was nice.
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BUT YEAH. Judo followed me here all the way from Seattle. That PNW bond cannot be broken. Fo’ rlz.
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This is Judo standing six stories above the geographical center of Copenhagen, suspended by a plate of plexi-glass. It was terrifying.
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The view from the top of The Round Tower! I also should have gotten a picture with this Irish guy who was trying to point out things on the Swedish coastline from up here, but I didn’t. ‘Twas adorbs.
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Speaking of adorbs, we ended the night in Nyhavn with nougat ice cream and two other flavors I can neither remember nor pronounce, topped with jam and whipped cream. We also got to listen to a group of three super attractive Danish seventeen-ish-looking-year-olds jammin’ on some acoustic hipster music in the middle of the street. WordPress won’t let me share their beauty with you, though, because it doesn’t support the file type. *sigh*
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A spectacularly busy, glorious, and exhausting Wednesday if ever there was one! More adventures are abound this weekend.
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Venlig hilsen/ best regards,
Lizzy-wa