Scandinavia

There's one essential rule for enjoying a city: it always looks better on a full stomach. In Copenhagen, that can be surprisingly difficult to accomplish for students and budget travelers alike. With a minimum wage tha…

(Family Photo, Europe, 1995) There's an old country classic that has always resonated with me.  It's one of my favorites and always touches my soul in a way few songs are able to.  The song, Night Rider's Lament, is a…

Despite these massive surges in the number of students studying abroad, it turns out the majority of western exchange students are women. This has left educators and study abroad students alike asking themselves, "Wh…

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An open question to my Danish friends - do you truly want to emulate Arizona?  Because that's the direction you're heading. The Study Progress Reform Talking Points Fresh off of a recent recession and in the midst o…

With my Master's thesis handed in and the clock ticking down on my time as a student, I finally set aside the funds to return to Arizona. It seemed like a perfect opportunity.  My schedule was largely open, consumed on…

It's delicious, it's distinctly Nordic, it's relatively healthy, and it's surprisingly more complicated than one would think.  What is it?  It's Danish Smørrebrød or "Smorrebrod".  In the past I've written about local …

It has been 22 months since I arrived at Copenhagen Airport lugging three over-sized suitcases and a backpack.  I arrived in Denmark with lots of assumptions and unknowns and very little concrete data.  The sum of my p…