I sit here thinking back on my first five weeks in Denmark. I still remember looking out the train window in awe as we pulled into København H after my 11 hour journey from Amsterdam, wondering what life would be like, about my host family, and about the upcoming year. Thus far I have been […]
Author Archives: Josiah
Core Course Week
Last week was Core Course Week. This meant that for the entire week, I was with my core course doing different activities. Monday To start it off, my studio went to our furniture workshop in Amager (pronounced Ama). Here we spent all day learning how to use the machines from table saws to biscuit/domino cutters. […]
Stockholm
The lack of focus on women’s history has been a greater problem than the lack of sources.VasaMuseet Kvindnoord Exhibit Planning This weekend I spent Saturday in Stockholm. After my nine hours of classes on Friday, a group from my homestay-network left, by train, for a day in Stockholm. While planning this trip, the group that […]
Flammen og Citron
I finally know exactly how my DIS semester abroad will feel in terms of classes and workload. This past week was the first full week of classes where I woke up at the awful time of 7:00 am on Tuesday and Friday to go to my 9 hours of class. I start the day with […]
One week of explorations
This past week was full of different explorations throughout the city of København, filled with swimming, laughing, and learning. Last Saturday, the homestay network in Roskilde got together to go swimming in the harbor baths. With about the same temperature as Puget Sound ~50 F, I was a touch skeptical on how long I could […]
Roskilde
On Saturday I finally arrived in København and moved in with my host family living in Roskilde. I found it quite interesting that the rails I traveled on were all electric powered train lines that had an average speed of approximately 120 mph. Having done Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train from San Luis Obispo to Seattle, […]
Regulation and Tolerance
In two days of Amsterdam, nothing was more prevalent than the differences between regulation and tolerance. While researching things to do in Amsterdam prior to leaving, I came across many marijuana cafe’s, magic mushroom stores, and different shops that sold paraphernalia. From this I logically concluded that marijuana was legal in the city. I was […]
Amsterdam!
Well that was an experience. My flight was delayed for push back for almost two hours due to an error in fuel documents. Even the pilot stated that in “his thirty years of working with Delta/KLM, this was the first time he experienced this particular issue.” I felt honored to be part of that history […]
Planning for Abroad
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra My bags are packed, I’m ready to go… In less than 24 hours I will be on a flight to Amsterdam to start my year abroad in Copenhagen. This has been a dream of mine since Junior year of high […]
