Well, I made it to Copenhagen! The flight from Moline, IL to Detroit, MI on 3/11 wasn’t bad, but the 8hr flight from Detroit to Amsterdam, Holland was a bit long. During the flight I watched the movie “Up,” and tried unsuccessfully to get some sleep. Adjusting to the time change was far more difficult than I thought it would be; as I write this it is 2:45AM in Denmark, 8:50PM in Illinois. Luckily the flight from Amsterdam to Copenhagen was short and sweet. The first day in Copenhagen was wonderful! Early afternoon we went to an informational presentation on the [View Full Entry]

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first of my scandanavian adventures on my four off ! The only downside to this trip was that the Tivoli gardens amusement park was shut and doent open til April 15th! doh, should probably have researched it better. on the plus side i loved the carlsberg musuem and the chocolate festival was a bonus although slightly expensive. liked the Rosenborg slot,(palace) and the marble church All in all a cute little city and worth a couple of days. a bit expensive for the old eating and drinking and accomadation but im sure that stockholm in May and Oslo in June wont [View Full Entry]

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This is just a test for uploading pictures. Leaving for AU 3/8 [View Full Entry]

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So it's funny, I started the last blog with "its been hellishly cold" and I was so wrong. That wasn't even close. Snow has been falling for weeks, endless snow storms, snow up so high the car can't drive through it, and more snow on top. Booo! On the plus side we got some really nice wedding photos because the lakes were frozen over! Our wedding was on January 9, bringing in 2010 with a flash of classy fun, as we both wore top hats, mine a mini top hat and Dzl's a custom made proper top hat. Dzl wore his [View Full Entry]

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So classes started today!!! But to rewind, yesterday I caught the train from Copenhagen to Aarhus and Kristine (pronounced as Kristina in dutch!) took us to our AMAZING apartment, u will have to check out my photos when load them up, but its 3 stories, 3 bedroom, with dishwasher, washing and drying machine, tv in each room, leather couch, full kitchen and even a fire place! We also met up with some other students last night staying at Cab Inn, apparently the accommodation is REALLY bad, so haha to them! We had pizza out and it was nice to chat. They [View Full Entry]

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So I've decided to write an entry in here before Christmas and New Year and all that exciting stuff! I see my last entry is from October 30th... On the 31st my friends and I went out to our favorite restaurant (Phoenix Cafe - Yummy and cheap!) to say goodbye to our friend Jess. She's an Australian girl who was working over here as a nanny. It was so sad to say goodbye, but we'll definitely be seeing each other in the future. On the 4th of November Kate stayed the night at my house, and the next day we went [View Full Entry]

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Wow, can't believe that it is December 12th and I have finished all of my traveling within Europe during this fall semester. It has been quite a semester and quite a time in my life. And this last adventure had some key excitements to it that made it totally worth the lack of sleep, going solo to one city, and just getting away from Bodo. Well first off, I should point out kind of a strange coincidence that happened here the night before I left. For most of us international students, we had our Norwegian Language final on Wednesday, December 2nd [View Full Entry]

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Its either all gone terribly wrong or its all making perfect sense. Deciding between the two is the very difficult part. I've gone from devastated to calm tonight. I found a perfect recipe here: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/02/french-lentil-and-portabella-stew.html I love this blog and recommend it to everyone. She's completely incredible. As I was waiting for the soup to simmer I poured myself a glass of red wine, a gift from ITU after I did a presentation there two weeks ago. I lit a candle and went to my window seat. There are 4 window seats in the living room, the first is mine, butterflies, [View Full Entry]

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Oh what a beautiful, fairytale like city! So after spending a night in London, Naomi and I caught an early plane to Copenhagen and we were lucky to spend time with Karin and Jimmy, who were our gracious hosts, tour guides, chefs, baristas, chauffeurs and translators. We were spoilt! We visited the Botanical Gardens and Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Art) before spending the evening at Tivoli Gardens, which was stunning at night, as the photos show... and we had so much fun being sillier than usual, enjoying the christmas markets and playing numerous games- I won a Christmas [View Full Entry]

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After Paree i parted from my fellow travellers and flew on up to Copenhagen. And i would be greeted at the airport by someone whom i had never met but would be staying with for a week. This person was Karen. A dear friend of Tiffany's whom knew her from her stay in England a few years back. I arrived in Copenhagen at the same time as 3 plane loads of soldiers returning from the middle east. So the arrival gates were filled with cheering families waving flags and lots of soldiers. I lingered as i didnt want to walk out [View Full Entry]

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