Denmark

I am attending DIS (the Danish Institute for Study Abroad) at the Copenhagen campus Spring Semester 2020. This will be my center of operations for the next four months as I study Arctic environmental science and explore Scandinavian culture.

Danish Kroner

Today I used Danish kroner for the first time and received my very first Danish coins. They are more diversely styled and aesthetically pleasing than coins from the USA.

This side shows the denomination.
This is the side that focuses on imagery.
Here in Denmark the wind blows with wild enthusiasm and frolics with my hair.

Stevns Klint

  • Stevns Klint
  • Me touching the fish clay, the layer of sediment where the dinosaurs died.
  • Flint Shard
  • Flint embedded in chalk.
  • Colors of flint.
Stevns Klint where you can see the “fish clay” a thin layer of sediment formed when the dinosaurs died. The white chalk cliffs are embedded with flint. Due to the softness of chalk relative to flint the beaches are primarily composed of flint. I visited with my core course “Glaciers and Human Impact: Icelandic Climate Change Case Study” for our short study tour.

Stevns Klint  

Soft white cliffs of chalk

Glowing with the golden sun

Studded with black shining flint

Curved around the bay of blue

Stretching up towards the sky

Blue whisked with white

Disappearing underground

Leaving dark cobbles

Of sea-smoothed flint

Against the water

An arcing shore

Of black below the bright cliffs.

Flint  

Shards that gleam

With curved grains

With sharp beauty

Scattered on ledges

Or shaped into blades

Spear points, arrowheads, and knives

A stone to slice the fog,

Cobbles, pebbles, rounded, smoothed

Tumbled by the sea

Nestled in my hand

Dark black to gleaming amber

Sea-foam white to sky blue

Shining treasure on the shore

Flint.

Megalithic Tombs

  • Unopened Tomb
  • Entrance to a tomb in Kalundborg
  • Kalundborg
  • Kalundborg
  • Jægerspris
  • Jægerspris
  • Exit to a tomb in Jægerspris.
Three different Megalithic Tombs in Denmark. Built in the Stone Age these relics have remained stable through time.

Clock Tower

Every day on my way to class I walked through Rådhuspladsen and looked up at the clock tower on the city hall. It is a mark of how comfortable I became in this city. The first few days I could barely find my school buildings. Later the clock tower became an old friend as I walked by each day from the train and watched the moods of the Copenhagen sky behind the city hall and the moods of the city below.

  • 1st Day of Class
  • Marine Mammals class was early
  • The end of my first Friday
  • Tuesday night Swing Dance
  • Fieldtrips on Wednesday
  • A typical overcast
  • February
  • March
  • Last Friday in Denmark
City Hall in Copenhagen Spring 2020 in chronological order from January through March.

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