Lizapalooza, Day 4

I went with some of my friends to see the royal palace, Amalienborg. We saw the changing of the guards and took our pictures with the guards. You can see that Diana and I are standing very far away from them - they tell you to move away if you get too close!

Lizapalooza, Day 3

Today for Lizapalooza, I took snacks into my Development Economics class and got a package from my aunt. And then I came home and ate frikadeller for dinner. Frikadeller are Danish meatballs. It's pretty much just meatballs except that somehow they are more delicious than meatballs. I will see if I can discover this secret for you guys. . .

Min fødselsdag - Lizapalooza, Day 2

Today was my birthday! I woke up this morning very early so that I could eat breakfast and actually be awake before catching my bus.

In my Danish class, my teacher brought in flødeboller, delicious chocolate covered almost marshmallow+y but really sweeter and softer stuff that alot of Danish kids take to class on their birthdays. They were delicious. We also sang a Danish birthday song, which was more complicated than The Happy Birthday Song, because it has more words that just Happy Birthday. Later today, my host family told me that there are more Danish birthday songs, too!

And now for about half an hour or so before I go to sleep, I have been chilling in my room listening to my Youtube playlist, and I thought maybe you might want to listen to it, too. Because I like it. And it's my birthday. So you'll like it, too. (Does my Liz Logic make sense to you?)

Lizapalooza, Day 1

Today was the first day of Lizapalooza, the week long celebration of my birthday. And I celebrated by moving out of an apartment of American study abroad students. In the apartment, I awoke every morning to this sight of naked Poseidon and naked Hermes:
Now, I can wake up every morning to host parents, two host brothers, and a host dog. And a host bunny. As great as my view of naked Poseidon and naked Hermes was, I think this arrangement is better!

My host family celebrated my birthday today, because my host sister Anna and her boyfriend Lars came over. We had special birthday rolls before dinner. Hakketbøf for dinner (Hamburger patties that we ate with onions, potatoes, and brown sauce). And a delicious raspberry filled cake for dessert! It was a lot of food, and it was really good! Also, they decorated the room and the cake with Danish flags, which looked really cool. . . . Maybe I should add a picture later . . .

But now I have to go to sleep because I have about an hours commute to class in the morning! Cross your fingers I don't miss my bus!

Min familie

Min familie bor i Michigan. Min forældre hedder Mark og Cathy. Min far spiller ukulele. Min mor bager kage. Jeg har en søstre. Hun hedder Heather. Hun går på universitetet og hun studerer kunsthistorie.

That was my Danish assignment. Just so you know I am actually doing my homework! I think that if you know a little bit about me, you might know what it means!

Køge

So this is a post about the weekend before last weekend. A little wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff going on here. DIS has a visiting family program so that students who don't live with Danish people still get to meet Danish people. And so I went to visit my visiting family in Køge. We ate brunch and then we went to a museum in their town. The main attraction in the museum is this room:


These paintings were the designs for a set of tapestries that were made for the Queen Margrethe the Second about twenty years ago. They depict all of Danish history, starting from the viking era (the painting on the right in this picture) and ending with the Queen and her family (direct center of this picture). There are eleven of these paintings in chronological order around this room. What I thought was really cool about this set is that there are really modern things in a tapestry, which you don't see often because tapestries are such an archaic decorating concept. The painting at the left in this picture has people and events from the 1900s: JFK, Ghandi, World War II, and alot of other things that I recognized.

We also went to their library and it was really cool to see. Firstly because I love libraries, and secondly because of this:

Yes, in case you were wondering, that is the oldest house in Denmark. No big deal or anything. It's just a part of the local library. You know, it's just chilling there full of children's literature.


This was also cool: I found my favorite books from middle school. This is the shelf of books by Tamora Pierce. She's pretty cool. If you're looking for good books, this would be the shelf to find. You can probably find a similar shelf in your library that has these books in English, if Danish isn't really your thing.







Once you find the English-language equivalent of this shelf in your local library, you might want to pick up the English-language equivalent of this book. Harry Potter excluded, this was one of my favorites in middle school. (One of my favorites because I actually liked another Tamora Pierce series better.) So you might want to read it. Or recommend it to your favorite middle school-er. Or both. I think maybe both. . .

Danish Reggae

This past weekend, my Memory and Identity class went on a short study tour to Western Denmark. We saw alot of different things, and I will be posting more later this week. I just thought I would embed this video for you now. You know, just a video of Danish reggae music. No big deal.

The band is called Von Du. I have no idea what the name of the song is. It is in Danish, which is a language I do not speak. I think it's really cool how they have a reggae feel in a song that's completely in Danish. Mostly because reggae was not what I was expecting when I came to Denmark. . .




(Enjoy the wonderful quality of a video taken by Jane the point-and-shoot camera. Because it would have been just too convenient to have Cody the video camera in my pocket when I needed him.)