Studying Abroad in general and Denmark
1st I would like to copy and paste part of an entry I wrote a few days after I was back from studying abroad. I think it gives you the idea of how much fun studying abroad can be. While my experiences were very oriented to Denmark and what I like to do, most everyone seems to say, where ever they went, that their time abroad was the time of their lives…so I think while you are away you pretty much easily find these amazing times just through all the opportunities there are to explore and have fun with all these other people who crave to explore and have fun as well.
2nd I’ll mention a few thinks about Denmark in particular after the quoted part.
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danced with ida too, maybe more people too but im not sure i was dancin a lot tho and loving it out there. not always feeling the dancing but how i could i not with a night as alive as this, also being drunk, and also all knowing that we had only 1 more day left of our crazy times in denmark. some of the best 4 months of any of our lives. traveling all over europe with these people, partying every weekend, commuting 2 hours a day, going to class, exploring copenhagen and hillerod, talking, dancing, making music, drinking at bars in the city and hillerod, smoking in marc’s loft or craig’s room or outside or just in the building entrance or christiania, eating dinner with them every night and talking about the most ridiculous hilarious things…such as the conversation that led to the start of rainbow water band 2000, BRUNCH on the weekends… denmark’s version of ‘drunk breakfast’ i was used to back home at rowan last year, meeting each other that 1st day and not having a clue what people were like or what to expect.
and then saying goodbye. saturday at dinner, jakob, the principal of the school, announced that we were leaving. he thanked us for contributing to the great atmosphere at grundtvigs. he hadnt really spoken to us much before, but his speech seemed so genuine that some of us started to get teary eyed. they had passed out music books and had been singing danish songs to someone playing the piano. jakob announced that the next song would be the beatles’ “in my life.” we all sang. tears swelled up in my eyes, as they are right now thinking back just a few days ago when i was on the other side of the world. next we sang “winds of change.” the moments jakob made his speech and the songs were played, everything changed. suddenly i knew it was over. i kept walking around slowly, everyone kept walking with their arms around one another. i didnt walk back and forth between my room and the lounge when i felt i should be packing up my room…instead i ran the short distance so i could be with these people. while packing, i started crying very suddenly listening to “on a joyride,” saying to myself “no..no..”
that night we signed each other’s yearbooks, which helene and signe had so beautifully made for us. i danced with leah and ida and tine. leah i loved dancing with cause shes crazy like i said, and we were both imitating each other it was great. we also did the circle dance again when the song came on, hitting our hands against the ground. i said goodbye to some people…tove, siri, anders, claudia, and a few others….. didnt get a chance to say bye to others. i kissed gry goodbye. went outside to our last bonfire, this one though lasting til long after sunrise.
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Denmark is a really laid back, pretty open-minded and liberal, environmentally-friendly (tons of windmills and individually not nearly as wasteful as Americans), socialist place. I went there with DIS (www.dis.dk). It’s very easy to get along there because the school sets up a lot of activities for you (orientations, sports, volunteer opportunities, a party here and there), and also although their language is Danish, almost every person is fluent in English.
Copenhagen is a great city…1/3 of the people working there use bicycles to commute. Christiania was my favorite part of the city…you can look it up but basically it is a chilled out place that hippies took over in the 60’s… and the people that live there have their own rules outside of the Danish government, although this has changed a bit over time and the government wants it back (there have even been riots when the government has stepped in on some occasions). Basically there is just a chilled out subculture here…some vegetarian places, some music venues, some art galleries. People built there houses here however they wanted in these artsy ways.
DIS also has several different options for living arrangements. I chose the folkehojskole option. Although this option is an hour commute away from Copenhagen, I was very glad I chose it. It gave me a good opportunity to hang out with Danes and Americans. But I guess chose whatever seems best for you.
I think you’ll have a good time no matter where you go but I had a great time in Denmark. If you have any questions about Denmark or even studying abroad in general, feel very free to contact me! at…
partyk75 ( at ) students.rowan.edu
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