Hello again everyone! I am back in Denmark, after my first time traveling all by myself in a foreign country: Italy, specifically Rome and Bologna. It was definitely an experience that pushed me out of my comfort zone. One of the things I realized about traveling alone is that you can be your own worst companion, or your own best…
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Sculpture and Sunshine
Daylight’s savings time has now arrived in Denmark, bringing with it ridiculously long days to contrast with the fleetingly short days of my arrival. It’s already 8:30pm as I write this, and the sun has yet to completely disappear below the horizon. Today felt like full on summer. I brought my book out into the sun on the front porch…
Barcelona y La Costa Brava!
I just got back from a surreal, “pinch me is this actually real” week of travel in Spain. It was so beautiful, and we did so much, that I don’t really know where to start. I was lucky enough to have my parents fly all the way to Europe to meet me, which merits a whole paragraph of gratitude and…
Looking forwards
The two weeks in between London and Barcelona have been decidedly down to business. For starters, given that there are only two classroom weeks in March, this means that I have a test in every class. In the case of my medical biotechnology class, I have a test accompanied by two papers, a reflection, a presentation, and an interview with…
A Very Nerdy Holiday
I got back to Copenhagen late Friday night. Right before we left London, our entire class sat down to high tea. I had never been to high tea before, and I was more than a little confused about what exactly it entailed. My American ways consider it a deluxe tea experience if I heat the water in a kettle rather…
Live from LONDON!!!
This blog is coming to you from a London hotel room, where I lie on my bed in a semi-ridiculous state of soreness after my first bike ride in five years. It happened to be a three hour bike tour around the entirety of London- quite the introduction back! It was full of ups and downs. Metaphorically speaking, I didn’t…
Copenhagen Celebrations
It has been a week of celebrations. For starters, I’m officially 21 years old as of last Wednesday. I planned myself a beautiful birthday, if I do say so myself. Since I take half my classes at the Royal Academy of Music, I have fewer Wednesday field studies than most of my friends here…which meant that I had my birthday…
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”…
A “Very Danish” Week
Five things I did this week, here in Denmark: I didn’t have class last Wednesday, of all things, so I tried to go to an art museum that didn’t exist. Well, it did exist but not at the place where CityMapper, my trusty navigation app promised. I tried to walk there on a dodgy ankle but ended up in front…
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…