I have never been good with transitioning between lives, and the transition back to life in America is promising to be quite a jarring one. Right now, it feels a little like I’m a kid about to be picked up from summer camp, and I’m probably going to cry on the ride home. With less than four days left here,…
Tag: denmark
A Heart to Heart in Denmark
How do I even begin to wrap up my days in this beautiful, hyggeligt place? Yes, it’s the first of May, and I have officially less than two weeks left in Denmark. I can feel my heart sinking in my throat upon just typing that sentence. Being here has taught me so much. Living in Denmark has brought a degree…
A (Pharmaceutical) Tour of Denmark
Well, I didn’t update you all last week, but in my defense I was in Western Denmark. This is a clever term for Americans who know nothing of Denmark’s geography; the Danes would never call it “Western Denmark”. No, I visited Aarhus and Odense, Denmark’s second and third biggest cities respectively. Essentially, we were on a weeklong field trip, “we”…
Live from the Royal Danish Academy of Music!
There’s a Mozart concerto is floating above my head. Quite literally, I’m sitting in the library of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where I’m taking two classes this semester. Some violinist is playing Mozart 5 and it’s sparkling and everything, weaving its ways through the walls above. The librarian is speaking in rapid Danish. I cannot make out a…
Brussels, Paris, Barcelona
I was in Paris last week. Well I was in Brussels for three days, then Paris for four, then Barcelona for five. It was hands down, one of the best weeks of my life. I saw breath-taking views, ate amazing food, and spent time with some incredible people, but throughout the ten days of traveling I think I did a lot of…
Pregnancy, Birth, and Infancy in Denmark
At Wellesley, I was struggling to keep up with the four classes a semester I was enrolled in. I remember during course registration fall of my first year thinking four classes a semester didn’t seem like enough, just compared to how many classes I had to take in high school. But I quickly learned that college courses are very different…
Riga, Helsinki, København
Once a month, we have a week-long “travel break” here at DIS. We could use these weeks to travel alone, but for one of the travel weeks our core classes schedule a week long trip to other European countries so that we can extend our education not just outside of the classroom, but outside of Denmark as well. I am…
thoughts from a café in cph
I’ve been sitting at this café for over two hours waiting for my next class to start. I started journaling this summer, so I took out my notebook and started to write. and when I was done, I guess I wasn’t really done, because this blog post kind of turned into an extension (or a prologue?) of my journal entry.…
…and now I’m in Copenhagen!
Hi, it’s been a while! The last time I posted, I was at Wellesley finishing up my sophomore year in a whirlwind of assignments and parties and goodbyes – lots of goodbyes. As an international student I’m used to saying bye to friends and hopping on a plane to the other side of the world. It’s a privilege to be…