Tag: Denmark
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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): 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): 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…
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Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): The First Three Days
Hi, As many of you reading are surely aware, and even more of you are vaguely sure of something, I am on a full-year university exchange to Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. I have been here now for a little over two weeks which have felt like a lifetime. Prior to this, I had never…