Being in Europe for an entire year is a long separation from friends back home. I have luckily not felt extremely homesick during my stay in Denmark so far, but have felt that it would be nice to meet old friends. Quite a few of my peers from Cal Poly have invited other friends to …
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Vienna
First part of the trip can be viewed here. We woke early the next morning and caught a 6 am train towards Vienna. We got exceedingly lucky and got an entire 6 person cabin to ourselves. What do you do on a three hour train ride, with three seats to yourself? Put up the armrests …
Colonial Past
Denmark was the seventh-largest participant in the trans-Atlantic Slave trade by number of slaves transported. Many people do not realize that the US bought the Virgin Islands: St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas, from Denmark in 1917. Prior to this, all three islands were part of the Danish colonial empire that included Greenland, Iceland, …
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 …
My year abroad in Europe 