As we are all getting ready to leave Denmark on our individual study trips, Denmark has come out of the blue to say "look how pretty I am, why would you ever want to leave me you fool!?!" The weather has allowed it so that I can wear two layers and be absolutely fine. And then sometimes during the 3 hour span of the midday I can even take my jacket off, what what! This tropical soul of colorful short-sleeved shirts couldn't be happier.
As the weather gets nicer so do the Danes. They come out in hundreds into every and any public space they can find: drinking beer, having picnics, dangling their feet over the water, laying in the grass, mingling by the fountain in the plazas. or just sitting with their friends on a bridge. The sun is here and I like it! It is something so cultural that I can't help feel like I have finally arrived in Denmark. The reason people stay happy around here is because they truly treat public space and the leisurely realm like an absolute asset and commodity. You can just wait next to any office building or store to verify this. At the ring of 4 on the clock flocks of people put work behind and do not head home. Instead they head directly to meet their friends at the water front, or at the nearest public courtyard. Now that the weather is nice, the Danes are even wearing some color. some. Denmark steals my heart because I can get used to this real quick and real well.
If you need me, you can find me outside from 3-5 pm, for now on. No regrets. No shame. No heart no more.
As the weather gets nicer so do the Danes. They come out in hundreds into every and any public space they can find: drinking beer, having picnics, dangling their feet over the water, laying in the grass, mingling by the fountain in the plazas. or just sitting with their friends on a bridge. The sun is here and I like it! It is something so cultural that I can't help feel like I have finally arrived in Denmark. The reason people stay happy around here is because they truly treat public space and the leisurely realm like an absolute asset and commodity. You can just wait next to any office building or store to verify this. At the ring of 4 on the clock flocks of people put work behind and do not head home. Instead they head directly to meet their friends at the water front, or at the nearest public courtyard. Now that the weather is nice, the Danes are even wearing some color. some. Denmark steals my heart because I can get used to this real quick and real well.
If you need me, you can find me outside from 3-5 pm, for now on. No regrets. No shame. No heart no more.