I started this last blog post as the sun was setting over my kollgium at 3:30 PM. That was a month ago, to the exact day–I left Copenhagen exactly a month ago. It’s safe to […]
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Tess
January 19, 2022
I have always loved bees. Ever since I was a child, helping my mother in the garden, I would watch the bees fly gracefully from flower to flower. Then in high school, I was a […]
Over one weekend in October, I went, with one of my friends from the lab, Jana, to go and tour Christiansborg, aka the Parliament building. Now we didn’t go into the area they use for […]
As much as I love Denmark, one of my bucket list places to visit has always been Sweden, or more specifically, Stockholm. So when a friend of mine, Alex, from my home university of Lafayette […]
I think I went through three phases while studying abroad. In the beginning, I did a lot of tourist activities in Copenhagen and tested the waters. Then in the middle, I traveled Europe, expanded my […]
Volunteering at YouPeople has hands down been one of my favorite parts of studying abroad. To volunteer, I wake up with my alarm at 6:15 AM, get dressed, brush my teeth, and head out for […]
Hygge (n.) – a Danish cultural concept of warmth, happy coziness, and togetherness When you search up the word “hygge” on the Internet, there is no concrete, singular definition that appears. Rather, you see hundreds […]
There are three main housing options for DIS: homestay, Kollegium, and residential community. When I was initially filling out the housing application back in June, I struggled to decide where I wanted to live. I […]
I would like to start out by clarifying that I had so much fun on my trip to Brussels. But SO many things went wrong. I’m an extremely cheap person–but because of this trip, I’ve […]
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Tess
December 7, 2021
