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Post by n8vdude on Apr 27, 2014 23:02:02 GMT -6
First off, welcome to the forum... secondly, I LOVE DANMARK... Kobenhavn is my absolute favorite city. Though Roskilde was a very close second. I miss being there. So, yay Danes! But aside from that, what I can offer, humbly I might add, is that be open to life. Try not to take the journey the wrong way. I am native american (Haudenosaunee - out of upstate NY although I life in SF, CA now) and we're taught that life is like a walk in the woods. It's scary as it is beautiful, inspiring as it is threatening. People join you on the journey for a time, sometimes they stay, sometimes they go off in another direction in the forest. But it's the journey you keep your eye on. Be open to the experience and try not to spend too much time labeling what it is. It's the experiences that color your journey. The good and the bad. I sort of liken it to a big banquet where everything is all laid out. Some of it you now and its comforting and familiar, others are completely unidentifiable and you aren't sure what it was when it wasn't cooked up or processed. But you're there to sample, to taste, to explore. Find out what appeals to you, what drives you. Not all of it will, it isn't supposed to. It's the variances in life that give us voice, that give us perspective, that give us any reason to go on.
Well, that's my 2 cents worth of welcome and a general shout out to a Dane on the forum!
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Apr 28, 2014 7:32:25 GMT -6
Post by Regitze on Apr 28, 2014 7:32:25 GMT -6
That's so cool that you have been to Denmark, not many have. I live on the same island as roskilde and københavn, the devils island as the other Danes say  Thank you for the amazing advice, I do try to live my life like it's the journey that matters, but it's hard sometimes. |
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Apr 28, 2014 15:43:10 GMT -6
Post by Matt Stout on Apr 28, 2014 15:43:10 GMT -6
I really do not know much about Denmark, but isn't Tivoli Gardens there?!
~Matt
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Post by Regitze on Apr 28, 2014 15:58:50 GMT -6
I really do not know much about Denmark, but isn't Tivoli Gardens there?! ~Matt Yes Tivoli is in Copenhagen (københavn the capital) I pretty much live in there during the summer. if you know that Denmark is a country, and not the capital of Scandinavia or Sweden, you're on the right track and know a bit more than most |
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Post by n8vdude on Apr 28, 2014 18:40:58 GMT -6
Matt - my advice: GO THERE... (I like to think of it as being a secret little place I can sneak away to that most American's don't even consider as a travel destination).
I swear it is one of the most beautiful countries - with Sweden just across the bridge and Norway a ferry ride away you can't beat it. Like Tivoli - just storybook like in its architecture and scope. I can see how Disney was inspired by it.
I just loved every minute there. Tivoli was a hoot. But I have two words about Denmark - SOFT ICE - O M G (well, that can be applied to just about anything in Denmark - the quality of their food/drink is truly spectacular. The cheese, the pastries, the cuts of meat. I took my mom there and she's diabetic - the ENTIRE time she was there her blood sugar never was above normal. It was like a food oasis for her. And she had her fair share of soft ice).
And to my new found Dane friend here: the reason we went there is that I am married to a Dane (descended from Blue Tooth (family of Gormsson) no less - he's got the genealogy records going all the way back (truly amazing stuff if you're into history (which I am))). The Viking museum in Roskilde is still one of my favorite places to visit. I am not an overly sappy kind of guy, but Denmark was the only country I've ever visited that I was actually very sad to leave.
The funniest part of that trip? My mom is Mexican (my dad is American Indian) and the hubby and I took her to Denmark as a thank you for all the sacrifices she and my father had made on my behalf while we were growing up. So here's the funny part (funny as in peculiar): We go to a pastry/bakery in Roskilde after we went to the Domkirke to see that amazing church, so we're coming outside of the bakery and there was an Ecuadorian woman selling woolen hats, sweaters and the like in the square there and my mother had a bit of a giggle because she chatted the woman up and all the while she was marveling that she traveled half way around the globe to a Scandinavian country to speak spanish with someone from Ecuador. She felt very worldly at that moment. For someone who hadn't ever been outside of the US continent before, I was happy to give that to her.
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Apr 29, 2014 8:01:37 GMT -6
Post by Regitze on Apr 29, 2014 8:01:37 GMT -6
I just loved every minute there. Tivoli was a hoot. But I have two words about Denmark - SOFT ICE - O M G (well, that can be applied to just about anything in Denmark - the quality of their food/drink is truly spectacular. The cheese, the pastries, the cuts of meat. I took my mom there and she's diabetic - the ENTIRE time she was there her blood sugar never was above normal. It was like a food oasis for her. And she had her fair share of soft ice). And to my new found Dane friend here: the reason we went there is that I am married to a Dane (descended from Blue Tooth (family of Gormsson) no less - he's got the genealogy records going all the way back (truly amazing stuff if you're into history (which I am))). The Viking museum in Roskilde is still one of my favorite places to visit. I am not an overly sappy kind of guy, but Denmark was the only country I've ever visited that I was actually very sad to leave You don't have soft ice in America? How do you even live!? When you say blue tooth, do you then mean the second true king of Denmark, harald blåtand (blue tooth) son of gorm den gamle (the old)? Because that would be amazing! If you love the Viking museum in roskilde and are ever planning to come back you need to visit trelleborg in slagelse during the summer, because they have this small Viking fare, a lot of people live there as Vikings and sell Viking food, jewleries and clothing, it's really nice and I go almost every year. |
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Post by n8vdude on Apr 29, 2014 13:09:19 GMT -6
We do have Dairy Queen (which is the closest thing to soft ice - IT'S NOT THE SAME - not by a loooooooong shot! I miss soft ice more than you know. Dream about it sometimes (yeah, that's how boring my dreams can be at times).
I would totally love to go to Trelleborg during the summer (last time I was in Denmark, it was late in August so most everything had passed me by). I bought a really cool bracelet at the Viking Museum. Actually it was made of soft pewter and eventually broke so I ordered another from them and am planning on having it recast in silver using the one I bought as a mold for the new one.
Yeah, that is the bluetooth I am speaking of. The documentation alone is rather interesting to read. He's also got lines to Charlemagne and the Howards/Boelyns of Henry VIII in UK court - but then again once you were in with the courts they all intermarried (or so it seems from the documents he's got). I guess that was how they kept alliances going over the generations. Once you were in you were in - unless of course your "in" was "out" with some other court, I guess. Then you were really OUT... haha!
I should really write a book about his family - the lineage alone is quite amazing. I am simply floored that its all documented and trackable back that far. He's got this genealogy program that is tracking it all for him. There was a book written about one member of his family called "The Winthrop Woman." She was quite the character in history. First woman to not give a damn about what men thought. Very shrewd for her times (mid-to-late 1600's through early 1700's - from England to America). Very interesting and entertaining read. It was written early to mid 1900's by Anya Seton. Kinda cool to read about a headstrong woman that wasn't a bitch but really dead on amazing for her times. She definitely knew how to work the system to her advantage without really screwing anybody in the process. I don't know why I rambled on about her but there ya are.
Anyway, I can't wait to get back to Denmark. I do miss it so... (and as a non-native of that country, that's saying something).
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Post by Regitze on Jun 15, 2014 2:29:29 GMT -6
Hejsa! As the Danes say. yeah I'm from that beautiful little country in the Northern Europe, we are by the way also the happiest country in the world and I think we have been for the last 5 years. Denmark is an amazing country, but we do have our problems. In Denmark we have this unwritten social law called the Jante law and what it basically says is don't promote yourself and don't think your better than anybody else because you're not. Everybody pretty much live by this law even though they hate it. Here almost everybody let you do what you wanna do as long as you don't over step the Jante law to much, that doesn't mean that bullying isn't a thing it is just like any where else. Why is this relevant? You might think. Let me tell you why... Firstly if you understand where I come from and understand that where I come from is very different from places like the US you will be more likely to understand me (even though I don't) and secondly knowing that my first language is Danish might help you bear over with my grammar and sometimes weird phrases. So I should properly get started on my story... It starts quite a few years before I was born, it starts the day my mom found out she had sclerosis. She and my father had to turn their life up site down and just as everything started to get normal I came, I have no idea if I was planned or not it's not something we discus in my family. I learned quite early that I was different from my fellow peeps, the first year of school everything was more or less a bliss I had my guy friends... But the next 7 years was, when I look back, utter hell. I was bullied a lot The first 2-3 years and pretty much ignored the next 5. I had a few friends during this time and found another world in books, so I was alright. I'm surprisingly, not thankful but, this time have made me strong. After these years in hell, I started at a Danish one year boarding school thing and there I met some truly amazing people. I met my best friend, Sara, she is just amazing and even better she thinks I'm amazing too. This year helped me get closer to who I am. It helped me get to terms with who I am as a person, and by finding that out my brain quickly moved on to the next part of the puzzle (me), my sexuality... At first I thought it was a no brainer, I had always looked at boys so I said to myself I'm straight but a few month later I met my former boyfriend and it was nice kissing him, but it was only nice! So I started thinking that maybe I was into girls, a month later I came to the conclusion that I was gay and broke up with him. Not liking my boyfriend enough wasn't my only reason to think this, I have always ( at least I think always) been questioning my sexuality but it wasn't something I really thought about until a year or so ago. So right now I'm just really confused and my brain don't seem to be able to find the answer, which is a first, and it's really frustrating not to be able to really talk to anybody about it. and just to make every thing a little bit worse I started at a new school almost a year ago, the school is great and filled with a lot of great people, but Sara now lives 2 hours away so we barely get to see each other and she is normally the person I would talk to about this stuff but she has her own problems and I don't want to burden her with mine too. the doctors also think I might have sclerosis too like my mother so I also have to deal with that, which is just great (watch out for sarcasm)
but anyway I'm Regitze, I'm 18 and I'm looking forward to talking with you guys... I can't believe how much have happened since I wrote this... I told Sara that I think I'm bisexual, which I'm leaning towards at the moment. I found out that I'm definitely into girls since I've now been to two parties where I wanted to kiss a girl (two different girls) so now I only need to find out whenever I'm into boys too, but that will come. Oh and maybe actually get the courage to flirt with someone. And I think I might actually tell another friend of mine  - Regitze |
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Post by Racheal Acuff on Jun 15, 2014 13:14:42 GMT -6
Hejsa! As the Danes say. yeah I'm from that beautiful little country in the Northern Europe, we are by the way also the happiest country in the world and I think we have been for the last 5 years. Denmark is an amazing country, but we do have our problems. In Denmark we have this unwritten social law called the Jante law and what it basically says is don't promote yourself and don't think your better than anybody else because you're not. Everybody pretty much live by this law even though they hate it. Here almost everybody let you do what you wanna do as long as you don't over step the Jante law to much, that doesn't mean that bullying isn't a thing it is just like any where else. Why is this relevant? You might think. Let me tell you why... Firstly if you understand where I come from and understand that where I come from is very different from places like the US you will be more likely to understand me (even though I don't) and secondly knowing that my first language is Danish might help you bear over with my grammar and sometimes weird phrases. So I should properly get started on my story... It starts quite a few years before I was born, it starts the day my mom found out she had sclerosis. She and my father had to turn their life up site down and just as everything started to get normal I came, I have no idea if I was planned or not it's not something we discus in my family. I learned quite early that I was different from my fellow peeps, the first year of school everything was more or less a bliss I had my guy friends... But the next 7 years was, when I look back, utter hell. I was bullied a lot The first 2-3 years and pretty much ignored the next 5. I had a few friends during this time and found another world in books, so I was alright. I'm surprisingly, not thankful but, this time have made me strong. After these years in hell, I started at a Danish one year boarding school thing and there I met some truly amazing people. I met my best friend, Sara, she is just amazing and even better she thinks I'm amazing too. This year helped me get closer to who I am. It helped me get to terms with who I am as a person, and by finding that out my brain quickly moved on to the next part of the puzzle (me), my sexuality... At first I thought it was a no brainer, I had always looked at boys so I said to myself I'm straight but a few month later I met my former boyfriend and it was nice kissing him, but it was only nice! So I started thinking that maybe I was into girls, a month later I came to the conclusion that I was gay and broke up with him. Not liking my boyfriend enough wasn't my only reason to think this, I have always ( at least I think always) been questioning my sexuality but it wasn't something I really thought about until a year or so ago. So right now I'm just really confused and my brain don't seem to be able to find the answer, which is a first, and it's really frustrating not to be able to really talk to anybody about it. and just to make every thing a little bit worse I started at a new school almost a year ago, the school is great and filled with a lot of great people, but Sara now lives 2 hours away so we barely get to see each other and she is normally the person I would talk to about this stuff but she has her own problems and I don't want to burden her with mine too. the doctors also think I might have sclerosis too like my mother so I also have to deal with that, which is just great (watch out for sarcasm)
but anyway I'm Regitze, I'm 18 and I'm looking forward to talking with you guys... I can't believe how much have happened since I wrote this... I told Sara that I think I'm bisexual, which I'm leaning towards at the moment. I found out that I'm definitely into girls since I've now been to two parties where I wanted to kiss a girl (two different girls) so now I only need to find out whenever I'm into boys too, but that will come. Oh and maybe actually get the courage to flirt with someone. And I think I might actually tell another friend of mine - Regitze That's so awesome that you think your ready to open up to someone else! That shows that your gaining self confidence in who you are and that is so awesome!! Keep up the great work and as always continue to let us know how it's going for you! Much Love, Rae** |
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