Copenhagen with friends

Last weekend was my third trip to the capital and I had a really great time. I got there around noon on Saturday and met up with Melitka. She works for Vibeke, the woman I was originally supposed to work for just outside Copenhagen. So that's how I know her. She is getting her master's degree in business of some sort from the University of Copenhagen. We had coffee and ended up spending a few hours at the cafe just talking about everything. We have loose plans to go to Louisiana which is a modern art museum about a half hour up the coast from Copenhagen.
After our coffee she had to go to Vibeke's to work and so I decided to check out David's Samling on my own. Samling means collection in Danish and this museum was pretty cool and I'm really glad I checked it out. It's in this guy named David's old house, which he donated along with his art and antique furniture collection when he died. The first 2 floors were kind of boring with a lot of fancy furniture, rugs, china, that kind of stuff but the 3rd and 4th floor consisted of his massive collection of Islamic art. A lot of it was really old and there were tons of different things there jewelry, paintings, sketches, plates, doors, mantle pieces... My favorite thing I saw was this silver Persian lock box. It was really intricately decorated and then there were 4 combination dials and each dial had a smaller one within it. This box had over 1 billion possible combinations!
After my museum jaunt I met up with Nelia (Russian au pair friend from Faxe who is leaving soon) and Jonas, her Danish friend who she met through couchsurfers back in April. We got Indian take out and then we went to Christiania aka "The Free City." Christiania is a town within Copenhagen where a couple of thousand people live. It's a former military base that was occupied by hippies back in the 60's and they basically took it over, built their own houses there and established this commune within the city of Copenhagen. When you're walking through, it's like you're in a small village situated on a lake with lots of trees everywhere. It's a really controversial part of town because the people who live there don't pay a lot of Danish taxes and they get to enjoy the benefits of living in Denmark without contributing to society themselves. But on the other hand, it's a really cool and unique part of Copenhagen. It is currently "occupied" so you will see Copenhagen police walking around. There are also lots of dogs and cats that wander around and they belong to everyone in Christiania and they will stay with a different family every night.
After we walked around there I wanted to go out for some drinks but Jonas and Nelia didn't so we just went back to Jonas' place and watched the movie Doubt, and stayed overnight there. Sunday Nelia and I did some sight-seeing and caught the train back to Faxe with some complications. So normally we take a train from Copenhagen to Køge and we switch trains at Køge to Faxe. It's pretty easy. But...on Sunday our train was 3 minutes late leaving Copenhagen so when we got to Køge it was going to be another 2 hours before the next train came. So it's about 8 pm and it's pretty cold and it's a Sunday so nothing was open. We wandered around for a bit and sat inside a kebab shop, ate some falafel until about 9 when they kicked us out. We went back to the train station and a bus driver comes up to us and tells us that there won't be any trains going from Køge to Faxe for the rest of the night. But we can take the bus to Hårlev, which is about 3 train stops closer to Faxe and a train will leave from there in about an hour. So we get on the bus, wait around in Hårlev and eventually catch the train there and we made it home by 11.
It was a really fun weekend despite that and it was nice to make some new friends. Jonas and Melitka have both promised that they would bring me along to some university parties, so that should be fun.