dance the weekend away. and other random notes.

This weekend was one of dancing. Friday it was swing, Saturday it was...fun dancing.

Evidently Copenhagen and Malmo, Sweden has a lot of swing dancing. I really wish I knew this before hand. But nevertheless I and several other people went dancing on Friday night. Then we went to jazz in Christiania. As far as I’m concerned, it was 1940 on Friday night.

Saturday was Jonathan's (the captain of flying circus) housewarming party. So needless to say there was dancing there. I think if there's one thing I miss most about goucher social life (oxymoron, I know), it’s the copious amounts of dance parties. Except for the newly discovered swing dancing, if you want to dance you can really only go clubbing here - which I abhor. And DIS student's apartments are a) tiny and b) not theirs; so there isn’t much alternative. Luckily, last night satisfied my appetite for making an utter fool of myself and dancing.



Anyway, my travel break is essentially all set.

Week 1: London for my study tour.

I’m not looking forward to this as much as I should, because London is so expensive. But I have epl tickets, and a majority of our stay is paid for (I really love DIS) so it should be fun. Unless my study program drives me crazy, which I’m afraid may occur.

Week 2: trekking all over Ireland for eight days with Mr. Christopher [edited].

This, I am looking VERY forward to. 2 days in Dublin; then 2 more in Dingle (yes, there's a peninsula called dingle. I’m not going to comment any further) and Galway; a day in the isolated northwestern part of the country; before hopping the border into Northern Ireland and visiting the Giants Causeway and Belfast. Expect a large, detailed account of this particular trip in a month or so.

Week 3: jutting across Italy and France with fellow goucher-ite ms. Mariah [edited], and other folks I plan to see along the way.

Okay, I’m really only jutting across France, but I am flying from Dublin to Venice where I will meet ms. [edited] and spend the night there. I wanted to spend a longer time there, but it’s a really expensive city. From there we're going to Nice, France via a train and spending a day and night in that lovely city before heading to Paris! I’m not actually very enthusiastic about going there; only because I plan on going to Bayeux, France on the Normandy peninsula soon after arriving. Yes, I am going to the d-day beaches and everything else. Other than Ireland, it’s the other big thing I am VERY looking forward to. I hoped to go to Mont St Michel (this amazing monastery on an island. wikipedia's got some great info on it) after Bayeux, but I don’t know if I’ll have time. I then plan on returning to Copenhagen via a jet out of Paris.

So starting next weekend, that’s essentially what I plan on doing for the next month. Hopefully I’ll update with brief blurbs when I’m in transit (pun intended), but expect a mammoth, dissertation esque account when I get back from it all. (If I get back.)


Oh yea, my birthday is Tuesday. I’m not sure what I have concocted to celebrate it (I know, I’m vain) but it’s going to be a blast.