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, b [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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Woah, ok, I kind of fell off the radar a bit there... There is no way that I could condense all of the things I've been doing down into one entry so instead I present to you a picture dump. [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday I went for a bit of an explore from Christianshavn Metro station to the Opera House (Operaen). Found this really weird abandon piece of land not too far from the station. Saw some woman come out of the gates and thought that it might be a cut through. It had a piano that had been painted, complete with keys and lid. Lots of things that had been abandoned. Think it might have had some minature railway set up as soon the markings of tracks and some controls. Got some cool pictures, even better that I now have my DSLR with [View Full Entry]

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Had my first full week at work and really enjoying it. Lunch is taken about 11.30am, some people in my department have gone down at 11.15am. As you can imagine by 4pm I’m starving! There’s a system for going around the canteen, which I didn’t really get. But luckily I found the colour coded map to assist me in future lunchings. Im using the the menu to try and add some more words to my very limited vocabulary. Loving the fact that I have a desk that I can raise to standing level, always gives a nice change to seating down, [View Full Entry]

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Day 5, September 5 The forecast for the day, Rain, and it did. We walked to the convenience store and retrieved our bottle deposit. The clerk had to run a price check for the customer in front of me by calling on his cell phone. To check out and pay for 6 items took 5 minutes while I nervously looked out the window hoping our every 10 minute bus did not pass. It didn't. At the stop 8 other people waited, so we walked the extra 2 blocks to the National Museum. After going through 10,000 years of early man, my [View Full Entry]

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The usual tea, granola bar, banana breakfast got us out the door by 8:30. Bus 5A picked us up outside the CabInn and the driver told us he would show us where to get off for Assistens Cemetery, present home of Hans Christian Andersen. Kind of a scruffy recent immigrant end of town the cemetery looked like a well kept park. Really interesting stones, usually in family groups, open spaces, trees, and many interesting plants made for a relaxing stroll in a tranquil setting. Signs pointed to HCA and other notable Danes we did not recognize. Bright red squirrels darted [View Full Entry]

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