Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. -Mark Twain
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”
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”
Last weekend I got a visit by the illustrious Tommy Flanagan, a fellow PLU alum who’s currently teaching English in Germany on a Fulbright.
Continue reading “Being a tourist in my own city (and in Copenhagen, too)”
My classmate Faten put together this awesome video where she interviewed people from our program about their first impressions of Aarhus. Recognize the ugly building in the background??? I wasn’t a part of it, but I thought it was too awesome not to share! If you like it, check out Faten’s blog at http://fatenhbu.wordpress.com.
Following the Wanderlust 