Clara in København: Core Course Week

It's finally over! And I’m only posting three days late! But to be perfectly honest, last week was actually pretty enjoyable. Basically over the course of the third week of classes, DIS forces you to spend a week with your other core course classmates listening to lectures and going on different excursions. My core course is the European Humanities course known as European Memory and Identity - Germany, but during the week we traveled with the French and Czech tracks as well. Some activities are better than others. For example, going to a lecture at the University of Lund is far less interesting than a beer tasting in Sønderborg. I kid I kid but not really. I fell asleep several times during that lecture. That Swedish guy had not thing on Shaya.

Beer tasting jaaa

Anyways, at the end of the week we took a three day short study tour to Jutland and Northern Germany. Now let me tell you, I was not excited for this trip. I just reread my journal entry right before we left, and I was really not feelin it, but classic me, I ended up having a great time! I became friends with a couple people in my class which will make class and our week long trip to Berlin in October even better. My two favorite excursions were the Emil Nolde Museum in northern Germany and the Duborg-Skolen in Flensburg.

The Emile Nolde Museum literally took my breath away. Everything was so perfect and peaceful. Emil Nolde was a German expressionist known for his use of color and close association to the Die Brücke movement in Germany. Nolde spent his winters in Berlin and summers at this home in Seebüll, northern Germany. The gardens were spectacular. I really wish my mom and dad could have seen them because I know they would have been mesmerized.

LOL I wasn't actually allowed to take the last two pictures ;)

The Duborg-Skolen was also really interesting and kind of spectacular. The Duborg-Skolen is a Danish school in the German town of Flensburg. The Danes are predominately a minority in this area of Northern Germany, so it was interesting to hear a young person’s perspective about growing up in this region. We had three students named Lars, Max, and Julia (pronounced Ulia sooo German) each explain their Danish national identities while living in Germany. We asked them all kinds of questions, like where do you want to go to university, who do you cheer for in Fifa, etc.

School haze

The view of Flensburg from the school was spectacular.

Now I'm not going to bore you with every other little detail which I noticed a lot of people were doing on the DIS public blogs. So I’ll just post some pictures!