Trips, tips, and tales of adventures in Copenhagen and beyond
At DIS, Wednesdays are for field studies. It’s a day reserved for faculty to take students around to different areas of Copenhagen that are relevant to course material and can mean guest lectures, showing movies, museum visits, or touring castles. For one of mine, I’m even seeing the Royal Ballet (hype). Last week, however, I …
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Hello. I would like to share now a zoomed-out summary of the emotional rollercoaster that was my first week. (please skip halfway for my great realization if too long to read) Let me tell you, this was not what I expected. I think there’s a lot of pressure that comes with study abroad and the …
It’s always awkward to recognize people from a photo, especially in a sea of strangers, but I saw Karsten, my host father, with his daughters in a sea of people. They seemed to recognize me and I was pretty sure it was them so I just rolled with it. The handshake-or-hug moment was less awkward …
Hello. I am postponing Arrival: Part 2 for the time being because something cool happened today and writing about my arrival as it was happening meant many details and a long, boring post. So, instead I shall share the story of this evening when I joined a Danish basketball club. I think the reason my …
Oh, where to begin. The boring stuff, so I’ll streamline: I had a nice series of flights after an initial delay in Cleveland. It was comforting to fly out over the lake and say a last goodbye to the Cleveland that I love so much. I also got to fly over New York on the …
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” ---Jack Kerouac
My room is a mess. You know the "it has to get better before it gets worse" cyclone that takes over when you're cleaning and end up with more of a disaster than there was when you started, but you're on the brink of an organizational breakthrough? That's about where I'm at. Every time I …
