Well it's Sunday 10 am and I am in the library (crazy right?!) Still, I need to do this. So much reading I need to do. I feel good here and I hope I will manage to do a lot today. I am sitting here surrounded by books, but I found a window so I can enjoy the beautiful sun today. I might go for a lunchbreak near the lake.
I actually should start reading, but not before I told you guys about my amazing day yesterday. I went on a trip to Skagen (in the very North of Denmark). It was AMAZING!! I have never seen nature so beautiful. I was even in the dessert, a place with sandhills (dunes) created by the wind. On the side not cover with sand you could see the trees and somewhere in the distance you could see water. Try to picture all these things together! And especially don't forget blue sky and sun :D Moreover, our tourguide was telling us these crazy stories about camels and bellydancers in the dessert. That moment he really felt in the Sahara, I guess :)
In the afternoon we visited a museum, a bunker from the second world war and then finally we could go to the main point of the day: Grenen! This point, in the very north of Denmark, is the place where the two parts of the North Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrat, meet. It was very windy over there, but there was sun and a beautiful view. You could really see the two seas bumping into each other, like they were fighting. A special part of nature, created because of the climate change (ice melting) and the wind. It was worth it!
In the evening, we went to the little town of Skagen. Near the harbor I saw the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen! The sun was pink, orange, yellow... And the sky turned light blue and light pink. Amazing, the sky here at night. I could stare a whole evening at it.
So now I should really start studying! Don't feel like it, but I have to. Wish me luck!
It's been too long, I know! I am so sorry. I didn't find the time to write something decent. Tonight I will try, for your sake!
What did I do last week?! I remember a lot and nothing! Times passes by like clouds. Everything goes so fast here and some days I have the feeling I can't enjoy it properly. It's so busy here, or that is what my head tells me. I started stressing out today, like I do every Thursday afternoon, thanks to my dearest teacher of Advances Intellectual Property. He expects so much of us. Sometimes I don't feel I deserve to be a Masterstudent here. On the one hand he is amazing, because he really pushes us to reach a high level. His education technique is similar the system in America, I think. Do your reading, prepare the exercises and cases, we work on the exercises while highlighting the main issues and he highlights the main parts of the articles, the link between substantive and procedural law, claiming, why and who.. Just that, the rest we need to do ourselves. It's different from what I am used to. And then there is the paper we need to write, don't let me start on that! On the other hand it will give me a lot of knowledge and a great challenge where I need to find my way through. SO I am reading a lot here, and need to find some good books to broader my knowledge. You see why I am stressing out a bit. but he, I shouldn't complain. The other courses are a bit better, but also a bit more boring! I have two Italian teachers. I think that says enough: their pronunciation, their way of teaching.. I don't like it! But he, maybe these courses can relax me a bit.
Apart from the stressing this week, my feeling about everything here are confusing. I love it here: great places, great people but I started to miss home again. Just the safe feeling, you know. Just wake up in the morning and know your friend/sister/mother/father will be there at the breakfast table or for dinner. Don't have to stress out about budget, washing, ironing.. just come home and relax! I can do that here though, but not this week. One way I enjoy everything more than I'd do when I was in Ghent, but still at the end of the day you are 'alone' even though after a great movie-evening or party. But maybe that is the same everywhere. The right way to happiness is to learn trust yourself and believe in yourself. Even if so many people believe in you, will be there no matter what, you have to start from within yourself.
Okay enough with the emo-thing. I know I made the right decision to come here. Homesickness is a part of this, but there is so much more. I can feel like a kid again, play games, take crazy walks in the evening, visit museum at night, falling a sleep in a cough somewhere, I don't even know where... Making the drunk Danish guys fall in love (according to them I am cute)..Just being a real student every now and then. It's just the normal way of living as a student, here or at home. But still, there is still something more special studying abroad. You can see that on the smile on my face!
