denmark

I apparently arrived one day early.  no one was upset about it.  i have a comfy bed in a nice room i share with two other girls.  the window treatments are tacked up pieces of paper with fantastical erotic drawings on them.  the grounds are beautiful.  the whole place used to be an apple orchard.  the gallery is inside of the old barn.  the studios are inside of the old stables.  the grounds are part of a park for the whole town.  today i went to a bakery and had a strange tasty treat that i can only describe as a fudge-praline filled chocolate burrito.  it was really heavy, and tasted very good.  it kind of looked like a chocolate egg roll.  I also went to the grocery store and did some shopping.  Vegetables and other good things to eat for breakfast.  had to play guess and check with the cheese and the lunch meat.  They have given the residents each a shelf in the closet for dry goods and a basket to place in the refrigerator for our cold food stuffs.  We are responsible for breakfast and lunch and then each of us has to cook once a week (or however it works with the amount of people) for the whole house for dinner.

We had a large dinner tonight of spaghetti and salad with bread.  it was very good.  There was a nice crumble and a cake for desert.  We watched bridesmaids last night, and tonight after dinner, we watched the nightmare before christmas.  It's been a very long day, and i'm pretty tired.  The girls have told me about a couple second hand shops here, and i kinda want to go see if i can find a nice comfy sweater.  the one's i've brought aren't good enough, haha.  nah, but really, i want one that covers my butt while i sit around the house at night.   it gets chilly in here.  It's been moist outside and partially drizzly.  There's mud everywhere.  we have to change our shoes into house slippers when we come in from outside.  i went and got a really cheap pair when i was out shopping today.  i couldn't stand how filthy my socks were getting from walking around the house.  I ended up sweeping the room i'm staying in, the kitchen, and the hallway/entryway area.  i've never seen dust like the dust that came up from that floor-- like the dust from the interior chambers of egyptian tombs.  I really like these house slippers though. the bottoms of them are filthy already.

i guess tomorrow is business time-- ordering stuff, getting studio space assigned, etc.  I'm going to bed now.  i'll amend this later and add pictures or something.


pictures of the whole trip can be viewed on my picasa  account, or if you're a friend on facebook, i've been loading them on there as well.