Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. -Mark Twain
For a number of reasons I decided not to go home to Washington for the Christmas holidays. But the prospect of staying in a dorm all Christmas didn’t exactly excite me either, so I decided to go somewhere much closer and cheaper instead: England.
Continue reading “Wasted in Wales, a traditional English Christmas, and Ye Olde Trip to Nottingham”
Since our classes don’t really involve any practical journalism experience, and we’ve got a lot of free time on our hands, some students have taken matters into their own hands and started their own media platforms.
By now I’m settled into a pretty steady routine of studying, socializing, and living. I go to class four times a week – twice to Danish lessons and twice to lecture. I go out on Friday, and sometimes Saturday too, and do all the normal cooking/cleaning/grocery shopping things in between.
Last week there was a break in the routine as the lovely Edwin came to visit me for five days.
Continue reading “Hamburg, hard drives, and assorted observations”
Sometimes you take a trip for the purpose of seeing a city. Other times you do it for the purpose of seeing friends. My most recent trip to London definitely fell into the second category.
Denmark has free, universal health care. One of the perks of paying 37-55% of your income in taxes, I suppose. It’s free to visit a doctor, and you pay a subsidized rate for prescriptions – not unlike the co-pay that many American insurance plans have.
“Free” and “universal,” however, are not necessarily synonymous with “efficient.”
Continue reading “Bureaucracy and birth control: Navigating the Danish health care system”
Following the Wanderlust 