Ooooopera

Really cool, huge opera house in Copenhagen. It was donated by the owner of Maersk shipping company (yes, THAT Maersk) who was Danish. The guy had it designed, and then changed some of the designs more to his liking, including putting the horizontal lines across the front of it. A lot of Danes weren't a huge fan of some of his changes, but they got a free opera house out of it, so they couldn't complain too much.

Arrival and First Week

August 30th 2012
Well Heya everybody! I’ve been in Denmark now for a week and a half, so I figured it’s quite about time I wrote a blog. So here we go. I arrived in the Copenhagen airport two Sundays ago, exhausted after fully 25 hours in travel. After retrieving my baggage, I followed a group of other DIS students outside to meet several DIS faculty members who guided me to the nearby Hilton hotel. T ... read more

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Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the general political and economic integration of Europe. It joined NATO in 1949 and the EEC (now th... ... read more

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