Category: Old Blog (Pre-2020)
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Experiencing Time and Home Abroad
The experience of students abroad is a peculiar one. As young adults, I think we have the desire, or I do anyway, to set up our lives permanently, but of course, everything has a half-life when you’re away like this (and in general). For much of the beginning of this year, I thought about what…
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020) : March Travels Part 2: Rome
Welcome, to the second and final late piece on my stint of March travelling with my parents. If you haven’t read the first check it out here, and then come back to this one. Or, if you are just so rebellious, carry on and let your hardened rebel soul influence me and my complacent peers.…
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Copenhagen
Travel writing* seems to have many of the same hangups as autobiographical writing and then some. The key element here, I think, is that good travel writing is a somewhat introspective pursuit since, saying anything of significance about a place one visits for a short period of time may be an empty gesture, and the…
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Traveling for Drama (To England!)
As noted in the blog post discussing bicycling, I didn’t write about my amazing little trip to London, and I should have. So now I’ll recall all I can from a short trip to Copenhagen and treat this as a lesson. At the end of September, I went with an English class to London, and…
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Gord Downie: Being Canadian
Though I promised a blog post on my trip to London (it’s coming), I want to add my thoughts to the Niagara of outpourings in the wake of Gord Downie’s passing. It is deeply strange to be abroad and to hear about the passing of the man who is, in my eye, the definitive Canadian…
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): On Bicycling and Nordic Air
It is a Wednesday evening in my flat in Aarhus when I am writing this. I am lit by two light sources: two candles and the laptop screen. I have just gotten out of my shower, and I don’t feel like going into the world of film at the moment, I am too tired to…