This week I finally switched apartments and left my god awful roommate behind. I now have a guy roommate named Troels. He is 30 and is working on this thesis. I know nothing else about him because I just moved in last night. Except that he expects me to keep his flowers alive. Apparently two boys before me were able to keep flowers alive for a whole year so I'll be surely embarassed if they die on my watch. I told him I wasn't very good at keeping things alive...when I pulled out my fake sunflowers all was explained.
So far so good. I feel more welcome then I ever did at Ahlefeltsgade 29 and don't have to shower in the kitchen anymore. I am now a bus commuter rather then a pedestrian. I have a 20 yard walk to the bus from my new flat and take the entire route of the 6A. First one on-Last one off. It's only a 20 minute ride and will actually give me a little quiet time to read or listen to music. I think I won't mind it at all. I am so happy this week is over and all mid-terms and projects are basically through. It's fantastic.
Well I can't believe it's been another year since Maya turned one. I also can't believe that my spring break starts tomorrow. I am so excited to travel and also quite heartbroken that my time here is now actually half over. I want to cry and crawl under a rock.
Instead I supposed I will go to Florence. Jacqui and I have a fun weekend planned in Kobenhavn... We'll are having sushi dinner and then Ulrik and I will be taking Jacqui to the famous Heidi's beer bar. Tomorrow we'll be accompanying him to a graduation party. I'm happy Jacqui will be able to go to a nice Danish party and hopefully meet a lot of Danes : ]
So we leave Sunday night for Florence and have an over night layover in Germany. We will arrive there on Monday afternoon and will be there until Thursday. Thursday we're taking a cruise to Corfu and will be staying in Corfu at the Pink Palace. The pink palace is a college destination which includes a pink toga party, boating, 4 wheeling, booze cruises etc hopefully all in the warm warm sun. After the pink palace we cruise back to Florance for an additional night and fly to Madrid where Jacqui and I will be staying with Miss Andrea Palumbo!!!!!! yaaaaaaaay!! We'll be staying there until Sunday April 11th when we return to Kobenhavn. Jacqui will finish out her month abroad with two days in Kobenhavn before she returns to the states on the 14th.
I can't believe I have plans through the middle of April. Time if flying by here way too fast. I registered for thesis today and was told I have to register for summer class. Yuck. I don't ever want to think about returning to the real world and doing thesis and school. Yuck.
Again I suppose I'll just go to Florence. Forget about all of that junk having the time of life. I wish I could bring everyone I love with me on this trip and to Kobenhavn. I think that everyone would love it here a lot. I wish my family could experience this city and the people. With the exception of the wicked x roommate of coarse.
Anyways Happy Spring to everyone. I hope warm weather is finding New England and that the sun shines for you as well. I miss and love everyone!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Curve Ball
Life throws you many curve balls.
This week I've had many and am dealing with them quite well. I'll be moving sometime this week before my spring break travels and will also have to go crazy on my homework/midterms/projects so I don't fail. Thankful miss Jacqui is a doll and is making the best of my situation and entertaining herself while enjoying a little life in Copenhagen.
I'm hoping to take a hit on the hip or a walk to first base. Maybe I should go for the double to left field. Hell I'd like to strike out and maybe skip this week right into the 7th inning stretch: Florence, Greece & Madrid. Here I come!!
This week I've had many and am dealing with them quite well. I'll be moving sometime this week before my spring break travels and will also have to go crazy on my homework/midterms/projects so I don't fail. Thankful miss Jacqui is a doll and is making the best of my situation and entertaining herself while enjoying a little life in Copenhagen.
I'm hoping to take a hit on the hip or a walk to first base. Maybe I should go for the double to left field. Hell I'd like to strike out and maybe skip this week right into the 7th inning stretch: Florence, Greece & Madrid. Here I come!!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
no complaints!
Today was uncharacteristically sunny today in Kobenhavn for Kelsey's arrival. Jacqui was greeted by typical cold wet weather yesterday when she arrived. We took advantage of the sunshine and walked about Kobenhavn today and had some lunch. We retreated when the rain came and have been napping since. We're having dinner tonight at home. Corrine is joining us. We'll be meeting up with some Danish friends later at a nearby bar and make it an easy night. Kelsey had a long day today and Jacqui yesterday. We have just enough time for me to show Kelsey around the city before we hit up Amsterdam for four days.
I am so happy to have friends here to visit me. It feels great to have familiar company and have someone enjoy the city I've grown to love. I wish everyone could come here and do the same thing. It's a super blast and I love having them around. We're quite crowded in my tiny room but we'll make do and at least try and see the humor in our "Hygge" situation.
I have no complaints today. I feck. I lost another mitten...and what are the chances another right hand. I can't even configure a miss-match pair. bummmer.
I am so happy to have friends here to visit me. It feels great to have familiar company and have someone enjoy the city I've grown to love. I wish everyone could come here and do the same thing. It's a super blast and I love having them around. We're quite crowded in my tiny room but we'll make do and at least try and see the humor in our "Hygge" situation.
I have no complaints today. I feck. I lost another mitten...and what are the chances another right hand. I can't even configure a miss-match pair. bummmer.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Friendly Faces
Jacqui Bell will be in Kobenhavn tomorrow morning :] Nufff said yo I'm the happiest lady alive. Tonight I am making a meat eating Dane enjoy some vegetarian food. Wish me luck. Fiesta pasta?
Monday, March 8, 2010
Do something Dutch
It's been a day since I got home from our long study tour. Germany and Netherlands were everything and nothing like I assumed they would be. It was an incredibly adventurous trip and while having the time of our lives in funny cities we managed to learn quite a bit about German and Dutch architecture.
We visited countless sites and spent time in many cities. In Germany we went to Cologne and Hamburg and a few other places along our route to Netherlands. In Netherlands we visited Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrech. It was a blast. We visited many many many architectural sites and museums. I can't really even begin to synthesize or summarize the trip. Things I learned while traveling...
The original Cologne can be found in Cologne, Germany. Don't find it. It smells like shit. I still haven't figured out if they city was named after the product, or the product the city. Either way it is not a beautiful scent...the city is Beautiful for sure.
I learned that no matter what the weather is like German tour guides will keep you in the elements until you can't feel a bit of your body. Also very German...when being taken on a tour you absolutely get an ear piece and battery pack thing so that you have to listen to the tour guide.
It is very possible & plausible that you will draw blood and almost get run over by a tram whilst in Amsterdam...the phrase we coined "Slammed by a tram in the Dam." I'll have everyone know that while I had a very close encounter at 1am with a tram slam I did survive and made it out without any serious injury. No worries :]
The Dutch are awesome. Every dutch person I met and city I went to was fabulous. Whether it was the coffee shops, the accents, the brownies, the wet Sunday morning vagina's (Art Exhibit we visited), the architecture or a solid combination of all these factors I'm not sure.
Never under estimate cities who are built on canals. There is a lot of water in the Netherlands and Germany & they use it in the planning of their cities and it really creates a beautiful relaxing atmosphere.
After spending on the Danish Kroner for 2 months it felt fabulous to spend in the single digits. The Kr is about 6-1 do the American dollar. So 1 Dollar is 6 Kroner...so it's hard to not feel like you're spending a ton of money because the numbers on everything is so high. It felt great to spend in Euro.
The Shroder house isn't all that fabulous. While it is considered and architectural feat and also an icon of the Germany De Stijl movement it is quite small and boring. So much for the excitement leading up to it.
Amnesia haze is not for ninnies.
Rather then drinking 8 gallon Dunkin Donut coffees the Europeans drink tiny tiny tiny coffees but put like 50% sugar in them. Nothing like a sugar high from 1 sip of coffee.
Do something Dutch? What does that mean right? We found out it means do whatever the hell you want to do just do it very big. To try and act dutch is not an easy thing...Dutch, Danish vhhat evaaa.
If you want to see pictures of my trip please check them out on facebook. If you are not an FB member I can email you the album :] Just let me know.
After leaving Kobenhavn for a week it felt nice to come home. It is also nice to finally really feel at home in Kobenhavn. Again I don't think that I ever want to leave. I am having such a great time here and am super upset that my time is almost half over. I don't really want to think about it but it's true. Jacqui and Kelsey are coming in less then a week & will be here for quite sometime. Once spring break is over and Jacqui goes home I really only have a month left here in Kobenhavn. I haven't bought my ticket home yet and am currently looking into summer options. I might try and stay here for a few more extra weeks. I don't know if I can stay past June 1st but I am trying to find out. I think I might fly somewhere else for about a week & then come back to Kobenhavn for a few more weeks to enjoy the city before I head back to the states. I truly miss everyone from home, and even miss being at school a little bit but nothing will ever compare to my experiences here. Family...You might have to drag me home :]
I'm finally starting to learn a little Danish and hangout with some Danes on a regular basis. I am continuously butchering this language and am afraid I will come home will just enough phrases to fill a note card. Embarrassing for sure. So here I am again writing a blog entry and really I'm supposed to be applying for internships, catching up on two weeks of reading, cleaning my apartment and doing Danish Design journal entries. I think I have mid-terms coming up this week and next week. I need to get my life together. As I assumed the study tour kicked off my half-way through the semester slump where I really don't want to do work ever. As my time flies by here I feel that homework is getting less and less important. Call me crazy but I'd rather be indulging in the Danish culture then my English-translated danish study books.
My 21st birthday is coming up in just over a week. I will be celebrating it on St. Patrick's day in Amsterdam with Miss Jacqui & Kelsey. Several other Endicott kids will be meeting us there for the weekend. I'm going to have to skip a few days of class but that's okay. I've already forewarned my professors and will be taking several mid-terms early so that I can go.
I wish I could recall more important stories from my study tour. I have so many pictures, notes, drawings & thoughts from the trip that it seems a catastrophic even to write them down. Everything is quite jumbled. So enjoy my picture and feel free do use your imagination. Dani.Germany.Netherlands.So much fun!
We visited countless sites and spent time in many cities. In Germany we went to Cologne and Hamburg and a few other places along our route to Netherlands. In Netherlands we visited Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrech. It was a blast. We visited many many many architectural sites and museums. I can't really even begin to synthesize or summarize the trip. Things I learned while traveling...
The original Cologne can be found in Cologne, Germany. Don't find it. It smells like shit. I still haven't figured out if they city was named after the product, or the product the city. Either way it is not a beautiful scent...the city is Beautiful for sure.
I learned that no matter what the weather is like German tour guides will keep you in the elements until you can't feel a bit of your body. Also very German...when being taken on a tour you absolutely get an ear piece and battery pack thing so that you have to listen to the tour guide.
It is very possible & plausible that you will draw blood and almost get run over by a tram whilst in Amsterdam...the phrase we coined "Slammed by a tram in the Dam." I'll have everyone know that while I had a very close encounter at 1am with a tram slam I did survive and made it out without any serious injury. No worries :]
The Dutch are awesome. Every dutch person I met and city I went to was fabulous. Whether it was the coffee shops, the accents, the brownies, the wet Sunday morning vagina's (Art Exhibit we visited), the architecture or a solid combination of all these factors I'm not sure.
Never under estimate cities who are built on canals. There is a lot of water in the Netherlands and Germany & they use it in the planning of their cities and it really creates a beautiful relaxing atmosphere.
After spending on the Danish Kroner for 2 months it felt fabulous to spend in the single digits. The Kr is about 6-1 do the American dollar. So 1 Dollar is 6 Kroner...so it's hard to not feel like you're spending a ton of money because the numbers on everything is so high. It felt great to spend in Euro.
The Shroder house isn't all that fabulous. While it is considered and architectural feat and also an icon of the Germany De Stijl movement it is quite small and boring. So much for the excitement leading up to it.
Amnesia haze is not for ninnies.
Rather then drinking 8 gallon Dunkin Donut coffees the Europeans drink tiny tiny tiny coffees but put like 50% sugar in them. Nothing like a sugar high from 1 sip of coffee.
Do something Dutch? What does that mean right? We found out it means do whatever the hell you want to do just do it very big. To try and act dutch is not an easy thing...Dutch, Danish vhhat evaaa.
If you want to see pictures of my trip please check them out on facebook. If you are not an FB member I can email you the album :] Just let me know.
After leaving Kobenhavn for a week it felt nice to come home. It is also nice to finally really feel at home in Kobenhavn. Again I don't think that I ever want to leave. I am having such a great time here and am super upset that my time is almost half over. I don't really want to think about it but it's true. Jacqui and Kelsey are coming in less then a week & will be here for quite sometime. Once spring break is over and Jacqui goes home I really only have a month left here in Kobenhavn. I haven't bought my ticket home yet and am currently looking into summer options. I might try and stay here for a few more extra weeks. I don't know if I can stay past June 1st but I am trying to find out. I think I might fly somewhere else for about a week & then come back to Kobenhavn for a few more weeks to enjoy the city before I head back to the states. I truly miss everyone from home, and even miss being at school a little bit but nothing will ever compare to my experiences here. Family...You might have to drag me home :]
I'm finally starting to learn a little Danish and hangout with some Danes on a regular basis. I am continuously butchering this language and am afraid I will come home will just enough phrases to fill a note card. Embarrassing for sure. So here I am again writing a blog entry and really I'm supposed to be applying for internships, catching up on two weeks of reading, cleaning my apartment and doing Danish Design journal entries. I think I have mid-terms coming up this week and next week. I need to get my life together. As I assumed the study tour kicked off my half-way through the semester slump where I really don't want to do work ever. As my time flies by here I feel that homework is getting less and less important. Call me crazy but I'd rather be indulging in the Danish culture then my English-translated danish study books.
My 21st birthday is coming up in just over a week. I will be celebrating it on St. Patrick's day in Amsterdam with Miss Jacqui & Kelsey. Several other Endicott kids will be meeting us there for the weekend. I'm going to have to skip a few days of class but that's okay. I've already forewarned my professors and will be taking several mid-terms early so that I can go.
I wish I could recall more important stories from my study tour. I have so many pictures, notes, drawings & thoughts from the trip that it seems a catastrophic even to write them down. Everything is quite jumbled. So enjoy my picture and feel free do use your imagination. Dani.Germany.Netherlands.So much fun!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Germany Netherlands
Dear Everyone,
For the past 2 days I've been traveling in Germany. We've seen a great deal of architecture and I'm happy to be in Rotterdam for the next two nights. We're going to Amsterdam today & traveling around Rotterdam tomorrow. Last night we explored Rotterdam and had a lovely time. :]
I'll write more after my trip!
For the past 2 days I've been traveling in Germany. We've seen a great deal of architecture and I'm happy to be in Rotterdam for the next two nights. We're going to Amsterdam today & traveling around Rotterdam tomorrow. Last night we explored Rotterdam and had a lovely time. :]
I'll write more after my trip!
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