Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Øster Farimagsgade Farewell

There were five choices of housing in Denmark and DIS arranges you according to your preference: Host family, Danish Roommate, Folkehøjskole (super far away, super awesome Danish school), Kollegium(Danish dorm), or DIS shared housing.

It's funny. When we were choosing housing for Denmark, I didn't want anything to do with DIS shared housing. It meant living with all Americans and I wanted a more cultural experience. So I made it dead last on my list of housing preferences.

So imagine how bummed out I was when DIS assigned me to shared housing this semester. PRETTY BUMMED...But over the course of semester, I have come to love my dorm at Øster Farimagsgade. It's in the most beautiful(between botanical gardens and the lakes) and convenient(so close to DIS and Nørreport) location and I met some absolutely wonderful people here.

I'm actually changing my housing next semester and I'm going to live with a Danish roommate. Variety is the spice of life, you know? But I'm REALLY going to miss Øster Farimagsgade, despite all the glitches.

On one of my final days here, Julia and I had the entire dorm complex to ourselves. We had the most ridiculous/FUN photoshoot where we took pictures with every aspect of the dorm possible as a farewell/goodbye.

"Oh I want a picture with the SQUEEGEE BROOM"

"OOO, one next to the refrigerator!!" "Cupboard!" "Door!"

etc...etc... that literally went on for hours...

Good bye shared housing. It's been a blast.

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