Whee!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Youth Hostel in Nuuk, Greenland, 1:10 PM EST+2
Turns out there are only two other people staying here with us. A woman from Greenland and a guy from California who’s apparently doing the same thing Dad and I are doing but on a larger scale. He’s going to be here for ten weeks and is going to about 20 different places in Greenland. Ok, here’s the weird part… He’s pretty tall, a little husky, wears glasses, and has short curly brown hair with the same color beard. He looks like he could be the older brother of Pierce Phillips. It was even creepier when he was like “Yeah I’m studying music in Greenland. My plan is to visit every organ in Greenland. I’m an organist myself”. My jaw dropped and I was like “Ah shit, don’t tell me you collect ceiling fans…” and luckily he doesn’t. Haha it was really weird though. I showed him a picture of Pierce and even he agreed that it looked like him.
I went to sleep around 10:30 after walking around the city a bit. I didn’t wake up once during the night and don’t remember any dreams and slept til 8:30. That’s the second night in a row I’ve slept ten hours. Apparently Dad had woken up at like 4:30 and taken a walk through the city, but he was in bed still when I got up so he must have gone back to sleep.
We’d read in our travel book about a swimming pool near here, so I stood at the bus stop waiting for a bus that I was pretty sure would take me there. At the bus stop were a huge Greenlandic guy and an older Danish woman. Hah the Greenlandic guy was carrying a bag of like ten or so beers and he gave me one. It was 10 AM, but whatever figured it was 5:00 somewhere. Plus beers are like $3-5 each here, so I’ll take what I can get. Haha our conversation went something like this:
“You from America?”
“Yes”
“Fuck you!” (He was a jolly guy wand it was clear he was kidding)
“Haha ok then”
“Well, for now it’s ‘fuck you’ until Obama is President. Then it’s not ‘fuck you”
“Hah yes! Obama, my main man!” (Showed him my Bush/Cheny “I’m with Stupid” shirt)
“Oh yeah! You know what? I want to give you a beer, my friend. You want a beer?”
Hah yeah it was funny, he was a nice guy. Single Serving Friends ftw.
The bus driver told me I had to take the other bus going the opposite direction, which I knew was wrong, but I didn’t take the bus. I walked and somehow ended up at the pool without any directions whatsoever. I just followed my intuition.
The pool kinda sucked. It was a pretty bug Olympic pool but it was filled with like 200 five-to-eight-year-old kids. I got yelled at for having my watch and my necklace on and had to take them back. I only ended p staying about 45 minutes.
I took the bus back and came back to the hostel and made myself a microwave pizza in the oven.
I’ve been feeling kinda lonely today. It’s hard with no one here but Dad. I miss everyone, but we’re a little less than halfway through the trip and I’m counting down the days. Not that I’m having a bad time, but I’m still looking forward to coming home. I think I might go to Block Island with Rose, but I’m not sure how I’m going to go about getting us there.
Anyway, that’s about it for today. I’ll go and post this later if I feel like making the walk. Apparently there’s a cheaper internet café somewhere. I’ve been paying $22/hour which is ridiculous. We’ll see. Later!