I’m currently sitting at the Yawkey train station, watching the entire city of Boston go by. For some reason, even though it’s 5:30 pm, the traffic into the city is heavier than the traffic going out. The last few stragglers are wandering into the Red Sox game. Fenway park is right across the street, and I had to dodge the…
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A Series of Surprises: I update you on five months of my life
Long time, no see, my dear readers! So much has happened since I last wrote to you from Copenhagen. Things have fallen back into place, into new formations, and I’m starting my senior year with kind of clarity that earlier in my Wellesley career I would never have expected. I’ll just run through the last few months of my life,…
Back for Round 2
It feels like I never left. Though it has been 3 months since my last time on campus, I do not feel like much has changed, besides new buildings and a new cool Bates dining hall. It’s sort of like returning home. However, before coming, I was a little nervous about the changes. Would people remember me? How would professors…
Vi ses, Denmark
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,…
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…
Class Trip 2.0
This past Saturday, my peace and justice class took a trip to a community organization in Boston called DSNI. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is an organization that we had been studying in our class. The organization serves to advocate for the people of the Dudley Street neighborhood in Boston. The people in that community are mostly immigrants, people…
Castles in the Sky
Hello again! Lots has happened since I last wrote, but not a lot that I can tell you officially right now. Let’s just say that I’ve been interviewing for research positions where I can do my senior thesis this summer and the upcoming academic year. One of the benefits of being abroad this semester was that I actually had a…
Solo Travels in Italy
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…
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…