Wonderful Copenhagen.

Hello everyone!

I love to blog, I have several at the moment, but I thought it would be fun to have a blog just based on my experiences as a Norwegian exchange student here in Copenhagen. And, hopefully, an aspiring student will stumble across my blog on the web pages of the U, and learn something new about the school, the city, me, or whatever:) If you have any questions about Copenhagen, or my field of study (psychology), or the U, just comment and I’ll reply (or send me an e-mail)!

I should perhaps introduce myself: My name is Alexandra (Alex or Alli if you will), I’m 21 years old and have a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which is located in the viking city of Trondheim. I’m on an exchange programme here in Copenhagen until xmas, but I’m hoping to stay on for another six months. Then, hopefully, I’ll start a masters in clinical psychology here at the U.

I have been a bit slow in starting this blog; I’ve been here almost a month already, but this idea was spurred on by a competition that I was thinking about entering. It’s a travel writing-competition, and I was thinking of doing a piece on Copenhagen – seen through the eyes of someone who’s not only here for a holiday, but actually LIVES here – though not indefinetely. One of the people I’ve met here, an Occitan boy named Camille, said to me last week that traveling is dumb because it never shows you the real side of the place you are. He thinks that two weeks is not enough to get to know a place. I believe otherwise, and I love traveling, but he does have a point: How well do we get to know a place when we’re only there for a couple of weeks? Or a week-end trip even?

Well, my answer to that is that it is with places as it is with people. First impressions are the Alfa and Omega. That might be shallow, but psychology has taught me that this is the way our brain works. Now, last summer I was in Moldova for a couple of days. I saw Chi?in?u; the capital, and the self-declared Soviet republic of Transdniestr (as well as the places located between these two, which is basically the whole country – it’s a very small place). I was only there for a couple of days, but I feel like I’ve seen what I need to see, and to be frank, I have no particular desire to return any time soon. No offence to any Moldovians, but there are other countries that I’d like to return to more, so to speak.

But this isn’t a blog about all the other countries I’d like to go to, this is a blog about Denmark, and Copenhagen. So I hope that you’ll continue reading, and I’ll try to be consistent and blog frequently:)

See ya

XOXO Alex