There is so much I would like to write, I have new ideas every 10 minutes of every day. So many amazing things have happened here over the past 8 months and now I am down to the last month, quite sad really.
I most likely can't write anymore because I will be busy with school and desperately need to enjoy my remaining time here, preferrably next to a canal or in a park with some beer and ice cream por favor. I have been doing field studies--which are like field trips--since 8:30 this morning and have more tonight! Lecture, movie, scavenger hunt, psychiatric ward for elderly and now I am off to a gay and lesibian bar, then a football match. I need to be doing work but I simply cannot focus. Its been a loooong day and its about to only get longer :-)

Sprung

Spring is in the air! I just went for a lovely walk around my neighborhood to stretch my sore muscles and stepped in dog shit (they encourage the dogs to poop everywhere here, its fucked!)

There were so many people outside raking their little yards and working on their cars. Its really nice. I even saw two birds having sex on a chimney outside my window last week. It was kind of violent looking...I had never seen bird intercourse before then and was always curious.

London was a blast and I am going to Bob Dylan tonight! I am still rushing to put the final touches on my Norway trip which, as always, ended up being pricey, but hey thats Scandinavia. I leave tomorrow at the buttcrack of dawn. I don't consider myself high maintenance but this is my first time traveling with only a backpack cool person style and I am excited. Before I have always had a backpack and a smaller bag or two so this feels good. When I get back I have so many pages to write about nothing significant or interesting. 35 just for research and a few other 10+ page papers. I am pretty over school right about now. But I still looooovvveee Denmark :)

13

Two Friday the thirteenths in a row! Another one will happen in November I think. This only happens every 11 years or something. Kind of cool.

School is busy. I have so many pages to write that I don't even know where to start, for all different kinds of analytical essays, research papers, etc.

Some fantastic things:

I am going to London in about a week with my school

Then I am going to see Bob Dylan in concert back here in Copenhagen

Then I am going to take a tour around Norway by myself and it should be beautiful

Then Greta comes to visit!!

Then it is Easter at the summerhouse by the coast with the host family

After that there is only a month left. I am trying to live in the present, but my research instructor has broken the semester down for us to make us get our asses in gear. Bitter sweet, bitter sweet.

Pretty cool if you ask me

Viggo Mortensen's son is in my Danish class! You may recognize Viggo from a little film called Lord of the Rings. His kid was giving a presentation in class just we all had to, and yup, there he is talking about his Xmas vacation in Idaho with his Dad, Mr. Aragorn!

Death by Research

So this semester just might kill me.

Instead of playing with children one day a week and talking about it another, I am doing real hard core academic school now and RESEARCH. I am carrying a lot of negative energy around with me these days because of this research project I am doing unwillingly. There is no way of getting out of it and I need to just embrace it at this point, but hellllooo I would never voluntarily sign up to do research in my whole life, let alone abroad in a cold country where most literature is in Danish and people speak…Danish. I am looking into aggressive fantasy play in children under the age of 10 and how it is perceived and dealt with here in Denmark.
On a lighter note, here are some snippets of my portfolio from last semester when I was working at my preschool. The center is huge on documentation, so they take a lot of pictures and had me make these for the classroom so the parents could see what we did that day. Most of the pictures are from an extended art, music, and movement project I did with them over the course of about a month. I might get to go back and see my kiddies when conducting interviews at the center so that is one good thing that could come from the research :)

OH OH and one of my good friends here is an Alpha Gam. We didn’t even know it until yesterday and it was so exciting to meet another one all the way in Denmark. She goes to school in Illinois. The lifeguard at my camp this summer was an AGD and I sat next to one when flying home from Michigan this summer. Its fun.

This weekend is a thing called “Festilavn” and frankly I don’t know much about it but I will report back after its all said and done. It is sort of combination between Mardi Gras, Carnivale, Halloween, and Mexican birthday parties so can you say SHITSHOW?