As I near the tail end (I have about 1.5 months left) of my study abroad experience I have taken tons of interest to look through my notes of observations. It has been a hectic two weeks with lots of random but good discussions that have made my mind difficult to “turn off”.
My human trafficking course had an optional field study (around 8pm) to the Red Light District here in Copenhagen. Only three people showed up, which was interesting in itself, but it allowed for a deeper connection and chance to really bond with our professor. Plus, a cluster of twenty students would have been very obvious and would have made the tour less connectable.
I got back together with some people from my innovation in design thinking class and had intellectual and very random conversations with various classmates and my professor. Four of us ended up helping my professor brainstorm a new course, which is still in development (being part of the Empathize stage in his project).
Today I went in for a Danish language help session and discovered even the most tedious task of memorizing vocabulary and sentence structure to be a rewarding and connectable skill. (Hun=she, as in “hunnie” or sweetheart)
I would say my top buzzwords for this semester would be:
background photo; view from Church of Our Savior