While this space is usually a place for my personal thoughts and reflections, it is important to use the spaces and platforms you have access to in order to promote important stories. Seyda and Seda display a passion, courage, and perseverance that is an example to all, and their story should be heard. It was […]
Read more "Immigrant, Fabulous, and Proud of It"Endings are funny things. Three days ago, I felt pretty ready to go home. I haven’t seen my family since May, and with final projects piling up, it’s easy to think that things could be better. But today? I’m really going to miss this place and people. A wonderful belated Thanksgiving with my host family […]
Read more "Transitions"I admit it, my last few posts have been very serious and long, so I’m going to turn the tables on that a little bit. I’ve now been in Copenhagen for almost exactly two months, and what’s standing out to me is that it’s really feeling like home. When I came back from Berlin, I […]
Read more "Home away from home"To anyone who knows me personally, it is probably no surprise that I hate being seen as a tourist. On the first day of DIS, being part of the pack of over a thousand Americans flooding out of the Royal Academy of Music after the opening ceremonies was the stuff of nightmares. Maybe it’s a […]
Read more "Let’s Be Tourists!"
4973 to the east 