Gray and Snowy--but pretty

Another long overdue update, at a time of night where I should be in bed. I am up catching up on emails and readings for my classes. The past few weeks have been, of course it goes without saying, busy. From when I last posted I went on the short-study tour with my core course. We went to Arhus, the second largest city in Denmark to study migration. We left bright and early--not so bright because of the lack of sun here--but quite early from Copenhagen. We stopped at a museum and viewed an exhibit about islands which featured the symbolic kind "man is an island onto himself" but also literal pictures, slide shows of islands. It was a neat show--at the door way was a stuffed parrot hanging himself so I knew it would at least be lively.

The second stop of the day, after lunch, was to a lecture. The professor was suppose to be answering, or attempting to answer, the question: Are Danes racist? Suppose to is the key word. He did not. He instead compared Denmark to the US and said that because Denmark has a different history/political/economic climate than the US it couldn't be considered racist. He was factually flawed to the point that even if some of his subsequent ideas could have been accurate they couldn't be considered so on his basis. He made the "economic" argument that immigration policy should be based on the needs of a country: example if a country needs doctors only let in doctors. He said the all the "blacks in america" would agree with this policy because they don't like immigrants because immigrants take their jobs. Yep, so both factually inaccurate, offensive and ridiculous. I always find it interesting when people try to make "economic arguments" to justify things that go aginst basic principles of economics. But then again me and my facts, simply details...


The second day was great. We went to a school where 85% of its students are not ethnically danes. We went to a bazzar for lunch, got great humus, and then a lecture in the afternoon. That evening we had dinner as a class at a greek place and then went out in the town for a bit. Arhus was very pretty. I went for a run on Friday and saw quite a bit of it, very modern in some places, in others, more historic.

On Saturday we went to another museum(so cool, I'll upload a picture at some point), lunch and back to Copenhagen. It's nice being away but I do love to sleep in my own bed, have my own bathroom.

Last week I just classes all week, nothing to exciting, thus the lack of postings. I have been dealing with internship applications, running a ton( I'm running a half in Copenhagen in April), babysitting. Last weekend I went to fashion night out on Friday, but this weekend I think I'm going to in my room writing numerous essay/working on a project. But on the upside one more week until Turkey!