Handball! 


I didn't know that much about handball before I got here, and honestly I still don't know that much. I do know the most important fact: the Danes won the championship on Sunday. I'm not going to lie - I only watched the last 5 minutes of the game, but the end of the game was still pretty exciting since it came down to the last 90 seconds. Efficiency sports watching is definitely more my speed. When the team came home today about 20,000 people were in City Hall Square to celebrate and welcome them home. Team members came out on the balcony and waved their trophy around while the Danes cheered them on. I have no idea what they were cheering, but I do know that it looked like the team was about to drop the trophy several times.

They're tiny, but that's a few members of the handball team out on the balcony of the City Hall

I'm safe and sound in Copenhagen, and finally over my jet lag. I spent most of the first week adjusting to living in a new city - moving into my host family's house, filling out visa paperwork, and attending orientation events sponsored by DIS. Over the weekend my hosts took us (myself and my roommate) on a tour of some of the sites on Sealand. It was windy and cold, but still beautiful.

Fredricksborg Castle - Used in the 19th Century by several Kings, now a museum

A small model of Kronborg Castle and the surrounding buildings. Kronborg guards the entrance to the Black Sea and was built to exact a tax from merchant ships entering those waters. It's in the small village of Helsingor - Elsinore in English. And yes, that Elsinore, the one in Hamlet.

The Grand Ballroom of Kronborg Castle

The bridge over the second moat surrounding Kronborg

The Queen's Guard marching through the streets. I'm not quite sure why, but it seems to be a fairly regular thing. I asked around, and it wasn't a holiday.

This semester I'm studying abroad in Copenhagen! I can't promise that I'll write pages and pages, but I do intend to regularly update this site with pictures. Enjoy!