Arriving back to KBH after a two week break was great, except for staring school back up. It was especially hard going two weeks without having my danish language class. I find it really peaceful to have everybody around you speaking a language you don't understand the majority of. It is lovely sitting on the train in the morning, half asleep, and not having to unintentionally listening to people’s conversations (not that people talk on the trains in Denmark...that's another story). Well, all my friends here were so happy to be back to seeing each other, it's incredible how great of [View Full Entry]

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My plan for this evening was to start on one of the many papers I have due in the next couple weeks. What have I done with my time instead? Watched Whale Wars on Animal Planet, of course. And an interview on BBC's Hard Talk with the Hungarian Foreign Minister. So it was still a totally educational, academic evening. Today my Women, Art, and Identity class took a field trip to two museums. The first one had an exhibit of Edvard Munch (of The Scream) which was ok, but not mind-blowing. Mind-blowing is, however, the adjective I will use to describe [View Full Entry]

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First I was busy, then I was unproductive, but now I'm back. But still fairly unproductive. Saturday, September 26, 2009: The climate is a hot issue in Denmark. Unlike the United States, their available resources and land have always been limited (read: no manifest destiny) so the Danes have developed an acute and sophisticated sense of awareness when it comes to reducing, reusing, and recycling, emphasis on the reduce part. There's an island called Samsø that is entirely self sufficient, as far as energy is concerned. Wind power produces nearly 20% of Denmark's energy. So it makes sense th [View Full Entry]

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I don't mean to disappoint, but this week has been kind of slow. I know, I know, studying abroad is supposed to be glamorous and full of crazy adventures and mis-communications. But I'm the dull exception to that rule for now. I finally started Danish lessons, twice a week, for three hours each day! I'm studying at Studieskolen, which is downtown. The other students are from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Austria, England, Italy, and the USA. I can talk about the weather and deliver a message for you if you're late to work. Good stuff. Since class is three hours long [View Full Entry]

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I would now like to introduce a new section of the blog called TINADAD - Things I've Noticed about Denmark and Danes. (You should pronounce the acronym like Trinidad but without the r.) TINADAD 1: Gas here costs about 9,71 kr/liter. After some simple arithmetic I've discovered that gas costs about 7.25 USD/gallon. Apparently though, the cars are much more fuel-efficient. The other day I read an article in one of the free Danish-language newspapers that I pick up every morning at the S-tog station (the train I take to school, tog meaning train in Danish) about how to max [View Full Entry]

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Chris: Today was our final day at Kernegaarden and the idyllic island of Fejoe. It was also the day of the music festival back on Lolland, which Thomas and Gitte organised. They invited us back when we worked on their new house though we didn't realise we would be staying in Denmark so long! We said goodbye to Anita, Anders and Mathilde, and set off in the car with Kai. It ended up being a mad dash across the islannd to get us to the ferry, and we arried with literally seconds to spare. Kai then drove us to Thomas and [View Full Entry]

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Chris: Moved out of our lovely home at Norregard farm and into one of the nice modern apartments at Kernegaarden. The goats also moved house into their new sparkling clean home. Later we Went for a ride to the beach and fished jellyfish, although the intention was to get crabs perhaps for dinner. Shems had a bike fall but dealt with it very calmly and got straight back on her bike. Spent the evening enjoying internet access. [View Full Entry]

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Chris: Today was very hard work but an incredible workout, better than anything either of us have ever done at the gym. We were asked to clear out the all the accumulated muck from the goat pen. It was really tough as the flooring was mostly straw and that we have discovered is a complete nightmare to lift. You can't use spades or shovels very easily as it is all stringy so forks are the only answer... I guess thats why pitchforks were invented. Shems perhaps discovered this yesterday when we didn't have fork to use and it took her hours [View Full Entry]

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Chris: Another 8:30 am start, this time we helped with moving Kai and Anita's stalls from the mill back to their barn at Norregaard. Then as Kai had promised, I was going to get the chance to drive a tractor myself, so he gave me the keys and gave me an on the job tractor driving lesson. I drove it down the country lanes from our farm to Kernegaarden, which was easy enough. No traffic, wide-ish roads. The harder part was once we had attached a trailer, and then I had to reverse it towards the goats pen. This took some [View Full Entry]

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Shems: A little foggy-headed we met Kai and Anita at Kernegaarden to find out our jobs for the day. Kai told me that 'today we will be sorting the sheep'. Those who know me well will realise this was not a prospect I relished. However I am trying to embrace all new experiences (and it seems, lambs). So it was we had to shepherd them from field to fence. Then somehow the herd got split (I suspect it was my fault) and I spent some time trying to retrieve two sheep from the orchard with Kai, whilst Anita and Chris caught [View Full Entry]

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