Hello everyone! Thanks to the contribution of a very special someone, I now have this way of updating you all!
Things have been going well for the past two weeks! I've been keeping a journal to myself, I'll try to get around to posting a summery of everything thats been happening so far. But until then...
Today wasn't the best day. Wasn't feeling to good last night and this morning I woke up with some pretty hardcore illness. Fell back asleep, drank plenty of water... to be honest I've feeling alright now. I spent most of the day working on makeup homework, I want to get everything done so that I can go in my short study tour without having to worry about work.
The study tour is basically a 4-5 day trip around denmark, visiting major sites that are relevent to your core field of study at DIS. Since mine is Internation Human Rights Law, were going to be going to a torture rehabilitation center tomorrow -to go with our case studies on what constitutes torture. Then, from thursday to sunday, I'm going on a bus tour of northern denmark to two universities and a naval base -to speak with sailors who captured pirates in the gulf of adan, and a few other places. Looks to be a very educational trip.
My day had one hightlight though! I partook in a little piece of danish folklore today... Kirn just finished harvesting the last of the grass seed, so we had a special harvest dessert. Long ago, a farm even as small as the one were on would have at least ten people, half men and half woman. The men would work the fields and tend the animals, while the women cooked, cleaned, and gathered. In the fall, the moment the men had finished harvesting that year's crop, it was tradition to go to the woman and demand pancakes. And if the woman refused, they would threaten to destroy that year's cabbage crop and starve the entire family for the winter. So to this day, when Danish farmers finish their harvest and shut down their combines and tractors, the women of the house still make this same dessert. Its like a puffy pancake in the shape of a donut hole, served with blackberries and powdered sugar. I tried some and, to be honest, it was delicious. Well worth a years crop of cabbage...
Right now I'm just finishing up some paperwork and getting ready for my field study tomorrow downtown. Its been a slow day, a break from two weeks worth of excitement. Its been a great stay so far, and I'll write another update as soon as I can.
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