A girl in Denmark

Erasmus student in Denmark for a DD Programme at VIA University

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Day …. no more counting. There is just life and a search for balance and meaning. My professional future is developing like 35mm film. Here are some of the last pictures I took of Copenhagen. I miss it. I do. I miss all the green, the peace, the birds, the relaxed way they live, the children, the friends, the teachers. I miss being the girl in Denmark. But I love being this girl, the girl with stories and warmth in her heart. I learned so much from my year abroad. I wish it for everyone. I got lucky, it brought me closer to myself and my loved ones.

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Day 16 in Romania after 275 days in Denmark! The purpose and meaning for this blog was initially just for myself and a way to show some sort of narrative to my friends back home. I know it became more than that, and that future Erasmus students from my uni and maybe somewhere else know about it and gave it a look. When I first became aware of that I thought “What can I write to help them?” , “What info do they need?”. For me, mostly someone I can talk to and maybe travel/visit/gossip…a lot of gossip!

I am mostly visual so, I stuck to my short diary entries and lots of images. For me, it helps to know the visual to where I am going, it makes me less tense and when I get there I get that feeling of “oh, I know this!” which, believe me, is very comforting to have when moving by yourself in a new country.

Also, what I did lack from my university, and probably other Romanian students lack, is someone you can talk to. A friend back home does not know exactly what’s going on and what you need is mostly non-academic. I am here for anyone with questions or in need of a chat. I had Irina as a roommate. We were from the same place and that helped a lot, but it’s not always the case.

More pics from Tulcea, that funnily enough go with my text. “In need of an umbrella?”, “Don’t be alone in the cold rain, my friend!” And “God damn it, human. Put a freaking net on the window cause cats don’t fly!”

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Day 15 in Romania after 275 days in Denmark! So, Tulcea...when I first arrived I though I came back to Denmark. Rain and bikes and some foreigners. Pelicam (International Film Festival) was on. It was my first event back in Romania and my first even in a while, for that matter. The first day was slow but I love those kids. They were in large numbers (I was unable to photograph anything relevant because it was very dark in the cinema), but I managed to sneak one photo in the back. It was a very calm and quite socially difficult documentary to get , but they were interested. Sure they checked their mobiles sometimes, but I know much worse adults. I dunno why everyone if all about “kids and their phones, omg they never walk outside”. That is such bs.They do far more that most people my generation and older. The problem is not that kids “these days” use more technology , it’s that socially impaired children rely on it and the parents can easily say that’s the problem. Human beings want to be social (in real life) and social media might have digital hugs, but not warm ones.

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Day 14 in Romania after 275 days in Denmark! I will be easy to count because I came back on the 1st of June. :P

Graduation came and went! I really was a day full of meaning and love. Grandma was there and so was someone else very important to me. Without these two people life would be soo much darker. They are the ones I was most sad to leave and the ones most happy to be back with.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but I have a good reason. I did not know on which planet I had landed, apparently I moved to Tulcea (kidding, but sort of), I had a Bachelor’s to write/finish and apparently the entire contents of the luggage from a cruise ship has exploded in my living room. I had to open all of them at some point because I was looking for a book and I forgot in which luggage I had put it. Of course, who had the time to actually unpack them? No one. They are still there. I should open the hallway as an exhibition gallery and call it installation art. :D Erasmus drama. See pics>>>

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Day 275 in Denmark! Here are humans of Odense. They were so happy with the weather everyone was doing something outside. Also, I have to say they used to be so short!!!!! I was in H.C.A.'s birth house and I almost hit my head a few times. And in the "hello world" pic you will meet the beautiful Italian, Manuela, a fellow Erasmus student/ girl in Denmark and Tumblr pen pal I've met because of this blog. She showed me around the cool places :p . Thank you!!! Ps: I had to show you that statue. I felt almost alive.

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Day 274 in Denmark! So I passed my last exam! Hooray!!!!! aaaaa omg omg omg omg! Here are some pics from Odense and the last one is me in Andersen’s childhood home garden :D (about which one of my teachers said is the most boring place in Denmark :))) ) ! It wasn’t :P

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Day 271 in Denmark! Seashells eyes in this polaroid in Grenaa. The scanner at school kinda sucks apparently (and has instructions in Danish!!! raaageeeee) so I will have better versions later. But this pictures is so...me , on a beach, in Denmark. I am going to miss that.

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Day 270 in Denmark! My room is all packed now, but this is how it used to look. I have 6 suitcases and one bag and my laptop backpack, so far. All of my life for a year can be found in those 6 suitcases, a bag and a backpack.

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Day 269 in Denmark! This is Monday. He is so fudging excited tomorrow is Friday. #nevedemjoi #pourlesconnaisseurs

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Day 262 in Denmark! The blooms here are kind of late but they are worth the wait. This is my path to practice at the kindergarten everyday. It's like some little heaven.

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Day 260 in Denmark! Omg, it’s almost a year. So denmark is 4-layered cake: sea, fileds with farms, modern architecture and clouds so low you feel they are passing through your very thoughts. It’s coming… the time I will leave this place and go back to Romania. My feelings are so incredibly mixed I have no words. I am in search for them so Saturday I am going to see Christian, Hans Christian Andersen in Odense.

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Day 259 in Denmark! This past weekend was so lovely. We went to Grenaa and saw the sea again. Some partying, some travelling= best things ever! Oh! Wait! It get's better! I tool some polaroid pics to dies for, if I do say so myself.:)))

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Day 254 in Denmark! So last weekend I realised I love shooting at lifeless targets :))). I really needed that :D Thank you, J.!

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Day 250 in Denmark! Yesterday I participated in the ribbon cutting , speach giving grand opening of the new very cool kindergarten near VIA. It was cool and I got to see the mayor and an actual ribbon cutting. :))

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Day 249 in Denmark! Every kind of bird is out and about, but one in particular holds a mistery. The puffy crow, as we call it, has been a mistery since September of last year. :))) No one can tell us it’s real name. Then I found out we kinda look alike :)))

PS: me and bae wanna raise a baby crow. If anyone knows of such a creature in need of a home, PM me. Our desire to have such a pet (or for it to have us as pets) came from DOR spring 2017 #nevedem , of corso. http://shop.decatorevista.ro/product/DoR27 I must say, I devoured this number. I read it like a book I can’t put down. In fact, I read it all in one sitting and be damned with everything else.

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Day 248 in Denmark! Remembering Aalborg. I love it! It was so viking-y! Yet sweet and home-y. We caught a sunny day in March which was a big deal and everyone was on the streets...but more in another post. It’s strange for me to think of this town as being almost at the end of the map and so isolated. It didn’t feel like that. Maybe because it has been a port in the middle ages...and where trade used to be there is always money and culture. The last photo is a flare-wanted-artsy photo of Budolfi Church, now a cathedral, that dates from the end of the 14th century. Not to shaby. 

The second to last 2 pictures are of Aalborghus Castle. It was made by King Christian (hehe, bf’s name) III, from 1539 to 1555 initially as a fortification. Christian 3 is a great great ancestor of Cristian 9 who, by the by, is the ancestor of our king, Michael I of Romania. Now, of course, it’s a place the state uses for administrative stuff. It’s made in this style of “half timber” that looks cool and again, viking-y.

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Day 244 in Denmark! Here's me wishing I was techno dancing somewhere back home :))) Just a thought. Photo by Irina.