Hej! This week has been BUSY. It’s midterm season. Time to buckle down. On Wednesday, I had a field study in the morning and another one in the evening. My Sense of Place in European Literature class had a film screening of The Lives of Others in preparation for our study tour to Berlin. My …
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Felafel, cemeteries, and a hailstorm
Hej! This past week I went to two cemeteries that looked almost identical. One in Nørrebro and one in Roskilde. It is common here to go on a Tinder date in cemeteries, have picnics, walk dogs, LARP (maybe–I made that one up). Cemeteries are for the living and the dead! It’s not much different in …
Race in Denmark Part 1
Race has been on my mind for a long time. Coming from Wooster, Ohio, I’m used to living in white-majority towns; being in the minority is nothing new. However, I’ve found that race is not discussed as much as it is at my college. Going into coffee shops, restaurants, classrooms, and many public spaces, I …
Trip to Fanø
I knew that artists traveled to the small island Fanø to get away from their hectic city lives. That’s all I knew about the island before departing with my Core Course A Sense of Place in European Literature. Yesterday marked the end of Core Course week which began with trips to the West Indian Warehouse, …
Still processing…
So much has happened in this past week. As the title states, I am still processing. I’ve learned so much in my core course week and I want to have enough time to do it justice. Here is my week in pictures. I will post later with my thoughts on my core class and discussions …
Ja Mand!
If you’ve seen the movie Yes Man with Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel then you will know what I’m talking about. In the movie, the Jim Carrey character challenges himself to say “yes” to everything. He goes on some fun adventures and ends up meeting Zooey Deschanel’s character in the process. I’ve been doing the …
Hvordan går det?
There is a blurb in my Danish Language and Culture workshop that explains the meaning of “Hvordan går det?” It means “How are you?” but Danes don’t use it in the same way that Americans do. In Denmark, This phrase is used to start off a conversation with someone you already know. It is not …
What a week!
As I’m writing this blog post, I’m listening to Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” playing outside my window coming from the bright yellow rock museum, RagnaRock, next to my dorm. Nothing is boring here. RagnaRock blasts Motown music of Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and The Supremes daily for most of my waking hours, which is …
Folkehøjskole Living!
Hej everyone! I have so much to talk about. The housing, dining, and the town of Roskilde are so new to me. But first I must make a correction to the last post. My syllabus for A Sense of Place in European Literature changed so that now we are reading German literature instead of Russian …
Preparing for Denmark
July 31, 2019 To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen. Farvel! Tak! Neither of these words mean hello. I just like the sound of them. Farvel is a sweet sendoff and tak …
