My presentation to the ESUUC about my exchange year in Denmark ft. a brand new Eurotour map, more sailing tour pictures, and a couple of pictures from my return to the States. Enjoy!
going through customs at a US airport
airport staff: sir, do you have anything to declare today?
me: *starts sweating* uh no.. *trips and falls* *hundreds of Kinder surprise eggs roll out of my pockets, jacket and briefcase*
airport staff: GET ON THE GROUND NOW
me: but i am
*armed guards swarm round and pin me down*
armed guards: WHAT’S IN THE EGGS?
me: i dont know its a surprise!!
(via thesearchforfries)
The Prezi I made back in October to introduce myself to Sindal Rotary club.
A Prezi I made for my English class here in Denmark about just a few of the similarities and differences that stood out to me in just the first few months.
A silly little Prezi I made around Christmas to show my Danish classmates what the holidays look like back home. It’s not especially wordy, but it was really useful to show how different some of our traditions are from theirs.
The final presentation that I gave to my Danish Rotary club as well as my class at the Gymnasium.
Selfies from our trip to Aalborg university
Some photos with James and the Hjørring crew. I’m 80% sure I made this draft around his birthday but never quite got around to posting it, so here it is now. Whoops!
Lindholm Høje (Lindholm Hills) is a major Viking burial site and former village just north of Aalborg outside of
Nørresundby. A large, sloping hill covered in graves,
Lindholm Høje’s southern (lower) part dates back to around 1000 AD (the Viking Age), while the northern (higher) part is significantly earlier, dating back to the 5th century (the Nordic Iron Age).
The Fyrkat Viking Center consists of the historic “ringfort” Fyrkat and the Viking Farmstead, which features nine reconstructed houses that recreate a large Viking property. The Viking Farmstead provides the setting for numerous viking activities such as viking clothing, breadmaking, wool work, forging, archery etc. Both dwelling houses and workshops are built of oak timber with mud-and-wattle walls and thatched roofs.
The Fyrkat ringfort was erected in 980 during the reign of Danish Viking king Harold Bluetooth. The remains of four forts of this type, with circular ramparts surrounding the interior buildings, have been found in Denmark. The Fyrkat fort consisted of 16 bow-sided long houses. Their former locations are today indicated by lines of white stones. One of the houses has been reconstructed outside the rampart, measuring thirty meters long and built exclusively of oak timbers.
April 24th, 2016
It’s been three weeks since I returned to the States, and with each passing day it’s been a little easier to call it my home once again. I’ve spent a large part of my time since I arrived visiting friends and family members I hadn’t seen in far too long, catching up and swapping stories about the year we spent apart. And yet, I left a part of my life behind when I bid my wonderful classmates, friends, host families, and fellow exchange students farewell for the last time. Watching my all-too-temporary home fall away from the climbing plane was one of the saddest moments in my recent memory. All of the wonderful farewell notes, messages, and letters contained in my goodbye books didn’t help to lighten the mood as I fully appreciated what I was leaving behind for possibly the first time.
But, it’s called bittersweet for a reason - you can never have the good without the bad. This past year may be over, but I know I’m more prepared than ever for my future here, as well more eager to return to the homes in Denmark (and elsewhere abroad) that I’ve been assured I’ll always have. I mean it when I say I couldn’t ever thank you all enough for everything.
Anyways, while flipping through some photos today I saw Cecilia Pohlar’s great shot of Sam under the Eiffel Tower from one of the nights we spent together in Paris during Eurotour. While a great picture in its own right, it brings together so many great memories from the year that was that I couldn’t help but play with it a little. I have big plans for my own pictures and videos in the future, but for now I hope you’ll all enjoy this little edit.
Vi ses, Danmark <3
Stone markers in the Sindal forest. I remember trying to translate the inscription with my host family, but the combination of old Danish spellings and esoteric vocabulary made it rather difficult.
State of the Blog
Oh, you thought I forgot about you, dear reader? You thought that simply because this place has been entirely devoid of content over the last several months that I haven’t been taking pictures, writing down stories, recording memories, and generally making an idiot out of myself? Well, you’d be right to think that I forgot about blogging, but I have all of the content to start posting (including, but not limited to; Eurotour, Sailing Tour, my return to the states, and my readjustment to life here) as soon as I can get it edited and out the door.
Expect a handful of videos, a boatload of pictures, a couple of text posts, more than one prezi, and some kind of post wondering what I should do with this blog when I’ve finished all of that. For now, I’ve added all of my draft posts that I had leftover from Denmark to the posting queue to be posted over the next week or so.
Consider this my personal challenge to myself to get on top of all of this before I start at CMU later on in August. Let’s see how I do…
Some unedited GoPro footage from Sailing tour, because I realize I haven’t posted anything from that yet. Well, now I have!
A silly video I made for my farewell party ft. The Hjørring Crew 2016