tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82769701280804275372024-02-20T08:44:35.510-08:00Left Handed CompassMy name is Lizzy and I am a student at Northern Arizona University. This year, I am studying abroad in a town called Aalborg in Denmark. Through this blog, I hope to document my adventures along with a few of my great interests, including fashion, music, and movies. Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-29182062831945256232013-09-16T10:30:00.000-07:002013-09-16T10:30:31.804-07:00Je Suis AbandonnéeSeptember 10, 2013<br />
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Je suis abandonnée<br />
I cry into the next room<br />
Lying under some sheets<br />
He probably bought at Ikea<br />
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French and english scramble through my mind<br />
Neither making sense<br />
Or correctly reaching my tongue<br />
Which is goopy with alcohol<br />
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Earlier, it though that<br />
"Why is this happening?"<br />
and "I'm too drunk"<br />
meant no<br />
<br />
Just like it thought<br />
that forming flirts<br />
and crawling into his mouth<br />
meant I don't do one night stands anymore<br />
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My brain was turning to fluid too<br />
Sloshing around the walls of my skull<br />
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Earlier it didn't understand the<br />
equation concerning why clothes come off<br />
until they were gone<br />
along with its strength of will<br />
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And after the pain<br />
It forgot how to stay awake<br />
Sliding me into nothingness<br />
Wilst around me unfolded everything<br />
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Coming back, it is done<br />
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Où sont mes amis?<br />
Ils sont partis<br />
Mais je veux aller chez-moi;<br />
Je suis abandonnéeLizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-45000331036995757842013-09-13T07:36:00.001-07:002013-09-13T07:36:11.530-07:00A Walk Through AalborgI made a video, mostly for my parents, to show a common walk I would take through the city (seems as effective as a million pictures to capture the city).<br />
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<br />Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-21339585697597059792013-09-09T10:30:00.003-07:002013-09-09T10:30:55.960-07:00Life to him Brought MusicAs part of my creative writing class, my professor gave us the task of "word hoard." What we had to do was pick up a random book, point to a random word at a random page, write down the three words before and after, and write a story in five minutes inspired by the phrase. Then we had to read our stories backwards and pick a backwards phrase to then inspire (and be in) another story or poem. My phrase from a book (which turned out to be "American Psycho," one of only two books I brought to Denmark) was:<br />
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"presence became more apparent, and the music"<br />
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The backwards phrase I chose from my silly little short story was:<br />
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"life to him brought music," or, in it's original forwards form "[the] music brought him to life."<br />
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I wrote a poem that I actually quite like:<br />
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Harp was his mother's instrument<br />
And his father the violin<br />
Yet young ole' Parker Jr. knew no notes<br />
Cause life to him brought music<br />
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There was no need for a guitar<br />
when the strum of feet would do<br />
And who the hell needed a woodwind<br />
to make the air sound nice?<br />
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The engines on the street<br />
sputtered some real nice harmony<br />
plus the yaking of the neighbors<br />
served as decent dissonance<br />
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Then the quiet of the night<br />
supplied quite the resolution<br />
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Parker saw no use for a drumset<br />
when Sally Fisher was around<br />
She made sure his chest<br />
gave him a beat, loud and clear<br />
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And so with music in his ears<br />
Parker didn't get<br />
why his parents needed tools<br />
to hear the humming beauty of life.Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-56185721723833978142013-09-09T09:50:00.002-07:002013-09-09T09:50:58.944-07:00We watched a guy pull a mattress into the middle of the street with the giant bench, the one with no historical or cultural significance, on it. He tried to light it on fire but then gave up and went back inside, leaving his mattress for whoever wanted it.<br />
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I stopped looking out the window but continued to lean on it. Then, he kissed me. The kisses continued, right there by the window. I felt like part of the mural in Winslow, Arizona that's part of the Standin' on a Corner park. Right then and there I felt like a painting hanging over the old, beautiful street. A slice of living art for onlookers who weren't even there.<br />
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Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-79793142892009476762013-09-08T08:51:00.001-07:002013-09-08T08:51:47.677-07:00Bicycle!I finally own a bike! One of the main reasons I came to Denmark was because it was a very bike friendly country. However, so far it had seemed that I would never actually get to experience this culture. Today, however, I went to the Skalborg Flea Market and found a bike for 100 kroner (about $17)!<br />
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<br />Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-64635527667492255112013-09-05T13:45:00.000-07:002013-09-05T13:45:32.583-07:00A Walk Through the Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The other day I went to go buy a bike only to find out that the one I was looking into was too big for me. While I was walking to the man's apartment, however, I stumbled upon a park in the middle of the city (it turned out to be </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.1875px;">Østre Anlæg </b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">park). While I didn't have time to fullly appreciate it yesterday, I revisited it today on my classless Thursday. It was perfectly lovely fully </span></span><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">equipped with a pond, swans, gardens, playgrounds (that actually looked really fun), and a fountain (which I couldn't get a picture of because there was a creepy guy circling it over and over).</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"> After exploring the park, I sat down at a bench next to the pond and read "A Sweatshop Romance" by Abraham Cahan in my American Literature textbook, one of only two books I brought with me to Denmark.</span></span></span></div>
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Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-87282778395105336752013-09-05T04:42:00.001-07:002013-09-09T10:31:06.014-07:00A Poemcould you imagine<br />
a time within the next ten years<br />
where we could see eachother every day<br />
every morning<br />
every night<br />
for like<br />
the forseeable future<br />
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-AnonymousLizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-56725329591778208342013-09-03T07:19:00.001-07:002013-09-03T07:19:18.667-07:00HomesicknessThey say that culture shock sets in about a week into your stay. I've been here for a week.<br />
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I'm not sure if what I'm feeling is exactly culture shock so much as just intense homesickness and a bit of loneliness. I've never lived in an apartment by myself and I don't really know what to do with myself. Yesterday I went to class and then came home and made a collage. Today I went to class, stopped by a bike store and made a fool of myself asking if they had a bike for 600 kroner, and then I came home. I don't really have an excuse to leave the house and, if I did, I'd have to walk there. Getting to school today was already two hours of transportation by foot. (I really fucking want a bike). <br />
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I've made some friends here and I really like them but they just don't feel like my group yet. We are friends because we are Americans and live in the same apartment complex, or friends of someone who fits this criteria.<br />
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I've been thinking a lot about the places in my life where I have really felt like I belonged. Where I didn't have to put a smidgen of effort into being somebody I wasn't and was still accepted and even liked. These places are intermediate dance class my junior year of high school, all of my high school French classes, a group of friends from college that for some reason I didn't choose to be my main group of friends, church, and Chauncey Ranch, the summer camp where I worked this summer. I really just miss that. I've had a week of trying to be the friend strangers will want and I'm just tired of trying. And yet I still want the companionship the effort brings. <br />
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I have met some people that I do feel could be true, effortless friends but I just need to get the nerve to be like "we are kindred spirits. Come hang out with me."<br />
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Maybe someday. I still have a year ahead of me, although it seem that I might be heading either home or to another country after a semester. There just aren't enough English classes here for me to not get behind. Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-46010629841607151222013-09-02T13:01:00.000-07:002013-09-02T13:01:13.799-07:00Resident Tourist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today was my first day of classes! When I woke up this morning, my roof was exploding with a howling rain storm that made me afraid for my prospects of possibly getting to class; I didn't think I had any kroner waiting in my wallet for a bus ride. I just went back to sleep and, when I woke up to leave, it was a perfectly beautiful day-- probably the best of the weekend. Oh, Denmark. I started having brunch with a few friends and then went to Literary Texts and Theory (see, an English major CAN make it by in Denmark) which I kind of sort of slept through. One thing I did catch: it is very strange to hear America referred to in the third person, something that American History, Culture, and Society will surely numb me to. My second class of the day, The Language of Poetry, I almost completely missed because the professor decided on a whim to start an hour early. Since I've been home, the most I've accomplished is making my international phone work (huzzah adulthood!) and making a collage from a Danish music magazine.</div>
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(While cutting this magazine out, I discovered two really good Scandinavian bands: <a href="https://myspace.com/nelsoncanband">Nelson Can</a> and <a href="https://myspace.com/obelmusic">Agnes Obel</a>.)</div>
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This weekend was considerably more exciting, however. Yesterday, a midst the windiest weather I have experienced in all my days, save maybe the plains of Texas, my exchange program and I toured the west coast of Denmark. First, we visited L<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">økken</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">a small town with an ancient </span></span><span style="line-height: 14.53125px;">cemetery</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14.545454025268555px;"> being eaten by the sea. Nearly all the houses were for sale or simply abandoned. </span></span></span></div>
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The band we heard live was called <a href="https://soundcloud.com/densorteskole">Den Sorte Skole</a>. They were very good.</div>
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So last night a couple of my friends just felt like hanging out at the student house and, when we got there, discovered they were hosting a free concert with four bands. We came in on the last few songs of the first band. They were really quite wonderful. Then came a metal band. While I am actually not a big fan of metal (well, any sort of fan at all), I actually really liked it live. It made my whole body and my clothes just squirm with vibrations. It was also really funny to watch the audience who were head banging in synchronization with the band (view video below). It was actually my first concert ever and, while I have nothing really to compare it with, I think it was a pretty good one. </div>
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Today was my first full day in Denmark and I tried to look as Scandinavian as I could for the occasion with cooler colors and simple shapes. I'm finding my new environment of people caring what they wear to be extrermely inspirational to me when getting dressed in the morning and throughout the day. I already have a number of outfits in mind for future days, all very Scandinavian in general.</div>
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Otherwise, today has been quite an adventure. When I got up in the morning I still didn't have any kroner or food and I hadn't eaten in maybe a day or two. So I Google mapped an ATM near my apartment that was 20 minutes walking away. I got lost however, and ended up looking for maybe an hour to only find that the said ATM was actually boarded up and not available anymore. Incredibly beyond discouraged, hungry, and moneyless, I walked back to my apartment and skyped one of my friends from America about it. </div>
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Then I went to a "Meet a Danish Student" event at Aalborg University's <i>studenterhuset</i>, meaning the student house. I met up with one of the girls from my apartment complex who's also from America and we ran into a guy she'd met on Facebook from Belgium and another guy from our apartment complex from Germany. </div>
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After the lecutre, they gave us sandwiches and I talked to the three of them in the studenterhuset for a while. Afterwhich, we went to go get visas (I forgot my passport so another day for me), got beer (first legal time for me!), drank it by the river, and took a tour of the city. </div>
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Here are some pictures I took throughout the day.<br />
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I just got back from an International night at the student house. I was rather surprised by the frat party atmosphere, expecting something a little calmer. I might go back next week with more success, having simply crawled into my shell this time out of ill preparation.<br />
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Dead, tired, asleep, smelling like cabbage, and nervous enough to throw up, we loaded up over a hundred pounds of luggage into our car and left for Sky Harbor. There, I said goodbye to my parents, crying a little, and manage to tote two carry-ons, weighing between them probably fifty pounds, through security and to my gate. </div>
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All of a sudden I saw this city on the ground and was just thinking, "man I guess this is the down town of some New Jersey city." And then I realized what I was looking at was Manhattan. It was one of those things where you always knew that something existed but never really considered part of your reality. And then all of a sudden, there it is: existing right in front of you, shockingly nonchalant about its own magnitude.The Statue of Liberty especially. </div>
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Then I took some flight that I think was nine hours but was pretty much just a plain long time to Copenhagen. I sat in front of a toddler who screamed and cried for a good portion of the hours because her ears hurt. She made me tear up a couple times too when she started screaming for her mommy, because, really, I wanted mine too. Next to me though, was quite the cherry on top. He was an old man with an Greek accent from New Jersey. He was going to Sweden with his grown son and was hilarious. The whole flight he would turn around to the crying toddler and say something like "oh, the life of a toddler is quite trying" in his deep, accented voice. While we were landing, he asked me if I was Irish. I told him a little and he said that the Irish get their beauty from pots of gold at the end of rainbows guarded by leprechauns, but I was prettier. Then he advised me to always do what makes me happy. "It's about the journey," he told me, "don't worry about the destination." He said to always choose the path that will create the most happiness, because when I lead a happy life, I can then spread it to everybody around me and just make the world a better place. </div>
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Once at the apartment, the land lord showed me and three other foreign exchange students the amenities. My apartment complex is very much focused on communal living. I live, for example, right next door to my blocks common area where people donate a certain amount of money a month to buy things for the whole building to enjoy. We have block meetings to decide. There was also a free stuff, take it if you need it, bring it if you don't pile where I got a pair of hot rollers to replace the ones that were too heavy for my suitcase. Although feeling slightly glutinous, I'm quite pleased.</div>
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Then, I decorated my apartment. This I have pictures for. As part of that whole community living thing, at lot of my stuff came with the apartment. Fun things you'd never simply find in an apartment in America, like that futon!</div>
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This is my first place I've ever had completely to myself. It's so strange and yet so wonderful at the same time.</div>
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Overall, I can't wait for, as the old man on the plane would put it, the journey ahead, regardless of where my destination may be. </div>
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<br />Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-35558687521091611372013-08-22T22:07:00.001-07:002013-08-22T22:07:14.909-07:00Also, I am Fes for the next year.<br />
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Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276970128080427537.post-36685674386618565922013-08-22T21:51:00.000-07:002013-08-22T21:51:47.981-07:00Venturing Away After fiddling around with pictures and templates and backgrounds in the still, muggy heat of my broken air conditioner summer, I have come to possess a real, new blog. I have created this space to accommodate a past that waits in my future. Three days from now, I am studying abroad in Aalborg, Denmark, a location whose arctic circle membership plays polar opposite to my desert home of Arizona. I can't wait to see what adventures will decorate the posts of this blog when I leave my western home for Europe, and venture away from the left handed side of the compass.Lizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06783136609010339115noreply@blogger.com0