I’m in Washington, D.C. I’ve been somewhat out of communication, at least via computer, for the past 2 weeks, because my computer had been getting fixed at the apple store because something was broken with its ability to connect to the internet. But… that now aside, I have working internet and can try my best to summarize the events of the past month, and anything else I left out before then…because I definitely left out a number of things. Let me go back to before I left Copenhagen….
Alright, so the last thing I wrote about was our Trip to Jutland. However, after than (I think, although admittedly it could have been before, but really the order isn’t important) I went to Frankfurt, where I met Jamie, who was on her way back to the states, from India, and had a 4 day layover in Frankfurt.
I admit from arriving in the airport it was a slightly disorganized trip, however disorganized in the sense that we weren’t ENTIRELY certain what our plans were for everyday, but had no worries that we would find some exciting adventures, because we have a tendency to always do that…and we did. Arriving in the airport I somehow managed to exit the airport without going through customs, which I suppose since I was traveling within the EU isn’t that surprising, but it wasn’t such good news as I was trying to blindly meet Jamie, and I had no means of contacting her since she didn’t have a phone that would work in Germany.
She had my number, so if we couldn’t find each other she could contact me, but we were hoping to just meet where my flight was supposed to get out. After about ten minutes of slight panic in not seeing her, I finally found my way to where my flight was supposed to arrive and low and behold she was waiting. Now… I will skip over a few of the details here as it gets somewhat complicated but ultimately we ended up calling a guy who we had talked to via CouchSurfing, and it worked out WONDERFULLY. Iwan was his name and over the course of the weekend he and his roommate Malte, and Malte’s girlfriend (I forget her name) took us in and cooked for us every night, and went to the bakery and bought us breakfast every morning! We explored on our own for some of the time, but both afternoons Iwan and Malte took us to a barbeque they were having with friends in the forest, and the second day we went and did some painting around town.
After returning from Frankfurt, I spent the last few weeks in Copenhagen a) writing my exams b) spending time soaking in the nature and the city and, really most of my energy at least if not time was spent c) just being with the people I loved and cared about most.
I can’t begin to go into many details about the last weeks I was there or else I will probably start to get lost of reminiscing and missing it, but I can say that on a whole it was a wonderful few weeks. The last night I was there Stefan and his girlfriend came over, and Ida came down and the three of them and Martin, Jesper and Daniel all had a really nice dinner and we just all sat around and drank (a fair amount) of wine, and laughed a lot. The next morning Stefan came over again and we had a brunch and then Stefan, Daniel, Jesper, Martin and Ida all helped me bring my things to the airport and came as far as they could, to security, to say goodbye to me.
I know this is probably getting long its late here (in DC) and I need to be getting to bed so I will save the most recent excursions and trips for later. I will say however that though I have left Copenhagen for now, this by no means concludes either the impact of that year on my life, nor does it change the fact that I will make every effort to return. I am immeasurably thankful to my parents for being openminded and trusting enough to support me in my deicion to stay for the entire school year and I hope they know how much it changed and benefited me to do so. I’ll write again, sooner, rahter than later…

Even then she spoke no English, Rebecca and I were able to understand (often with a little bit of help from Inge) most of what she was saying, although our ability to respond extensively was….limited. It was a peaceful weekend, and we got to spend a lot of time just driving around, walking around the country side and the small towns intermixed between them. On Friday, Inge, Rebecca and I drove into a small town to a church yard that Inge was baptised at, which was beautiful. We walked around the town warf, down a lot of small streets, and eventually bought ice cream with some money that Inge’s Bedstemor had generously given us for just that purpose.












