Autumn bike ride in Grimstad

Some weeks ago, Knut told me about a beautiful place he had biked to that he wanted me to see. And when I arrived in Grimstad yesterday, we found out that today would be a good day to go there, as the weather forecast looked very nice (meaning cold, but sunny).

The place we biked to is called Dømmesmoen, which is an old farming school, and has been made into a agricultural museum. The bike ride took about 25 minutes from Knut's apartment. We partly had to walk, as the route also included grass and mud surfaces. On our way there we saw beautiful autumn colors on the trees and the sun was very sharp. The place itself was beautiful. It had a little lake and was surrounded with grass fields. We took some pictures, sat on the bench together and let the sun shine on our faces and then biked back home. Thanks to Knut for taking me on this beautiful bike ride ♥

Autumn has always been my favorite time of year, and the colors are the main reason.

Art hanging between trees. 

Hovedhuset, Dømmesmoen

Being a music student in Copenhagen

Vacation. Not something I was longing for as if there was nothing in the world I wanted more, but now that the week of vacation has started I am happy to get my new life on distance and get my thoughts together. There have been so many things happening the last two months that are worth thinking about. Do I regret moving to a different country to study? Not a second. Am I happy with my choice of education? YES. Do I miss Norway? Sometimes. When I don't know how to get the Danes to understand a word of what I am saying. But I AM GETTING THERE. Hopefully my danish friends agree, but I feel like I have learned some danish, and I can still count on one hand the times that I have said something in English instead of Norwegian to be understood. My danish will be even better within a few more months and I will be teased for the rest of my life back home in Norway for speaking danish. Is it all worth is. Oh yes. 

A mirrorselfie in my room in my old home on Østerbro. What is a blog without a selfie?
In three weeks I will be moving to a new place on Amager, closer to the University. 

The past two months have been filled with exploring, learning and enjoying. I have made a lot of new friends at the University of Copenhagen, and I could not have been happier with my choice of studying musicology. I love everything about it, from music history, to piano class, music theory, musical analyses to the early choir-class at 8 am on Wednesday mornings. I have always thought, and I still think, that there is no better way to make friends than through music. We all have different taste in music and all have different backgrounds when it comes to musical education, but we can all communicate through the music that we sing, play, read about, enjoy, or don't like at all.

Yet another choir-class at 8 am. As it was the last class before vacation,
we made a short concert for our teddy-bears (as seen on the picture, paying good attention to the beautiful music) 

The studying part of my musical life is of course really enjoyable, but I am also really happy that I have joined the University of Copenhagen Funk Big Band. Only a part of the big band members study music, others come from the other different faculties. Also there: the educations we are all doing differ, and the person next to you may belong to a total different faculty. But that does not affect the fact that the big band sounds really good and that we have a very good atmosphere within the band. Music once again, builds bridges.

I like the Danish humor: "Avoid hangovers -Just stay drunk". 

From going all alone to Copenhagen, knowing as good as no one, to being two months into the semester, I feel so lucky to have gotten to know so many, seen so much of the city, and already learned so much about my favorite thing in the world: music. And there is of course more to come. My plans are, as usual, huge and I am ready to try them out in the world's cutest city with all the cute people who live there.

Now it's time to enjoy the vacation, and of course my jetset life never rests. Right now I am in the Netherlands, and on Wednesday I will go to South Norway and stay there for the rest of the week.

-Annlaug