I’m in Ribe right now, in Jylland in Western Denmark. It’s a quaint little provincial town with lots of buildings dating back to the Middle Ages and before. And there are tons of adorable Danish houses.
Anyway, the tour is lead by Carsten, one of the Architecture & Design program professors, and he is an expert …
Hej readers! I have, of course, typically, been terrible about updating my blog. Let me just excuse myself by telling you that I’ve been having way too much fun to write about it. Whenever I have free time, I soak up the relaxation because it comes so rarely. Anyway, it’s late at night and I’m …
One of the things I’ve missed most since coming to live in a foreign country is eavesdropping on people’s conversations. These days, I spend about an hour, sometimes two, on the train every day. I sit next to lots of different people, most of them having conversations in Danish. And for the first few weeks, …
My Danish teacher likes to share popular Danish songs and artists with us each day, and last week her Song of the Day was Thomas Buttenschøn’s “Fantastiske Mandag.” It’s a sweet song, and very oddly optimistic about Mondays. Honestly, who likes Monday? But according to Nina (our Danish teacher), Buttenschøn describes a cold winter day …
It’s snowy today. Yesterday’s happy sun was short-lived.
Wednesdays are field study days, and thus we have no lectures, just trips with our courses. Today at 1pm my core course, Migration & Identity, is meeting with people from a magazine called New Times, published to for asylum seekers to educate and inform about refugees and their …
It’s been over a week since I arrived, and I’m finally starting to really feel at home in Denmark. Right now, I’m watching the handball match between Denmark and Norway with my host family. Handball is like a mixture of basketball and soccer, with the basically gameplay of basketball and soccer-style goals (ach-em, I mean, …
So, I just realized that I haven’t posted anything on here about my classes at DIS yet. It’s the morning of my first day, and I’m pretty excited to get started. Here’s what the day will bring:
Cross-Cultural Encounters A – This is my core course in relation to the “Migration & Identity” track. We have …
Today was an amazing day. I have to admit that the past few days (my first here) have been a bit rocky. It was lonely out here in Denmark, far away from the people and language and culture I know. The differences are more subtle than you might expect. The streets and houses and people …
I’m new to blogging and to journal keeping in general. As a child, I occasionally wrote down my thoughts on the latest middle school drama, only to tear up the pages and throw them away a few months later once I’d changed my mind completely and didn’t care to remember past feelings. I regret doing …
One of the downsides of studying abroad for the next 4 months is the fact that I won’t get to see Eoban, my boyfriend of three years, the whole time. It will be tough being away from him, but hopefully we’ll keep in touch by videochatting and playing online games and sending emails and so …