I’m not used to being a foreigner. I like to understand things. By that I mean, I like to know backgrounds, stories, attitudes and environmental factors that shape a place and it’s \u00a0people.<\/p>\n
I like to take time to mull things over and process my feelings and thoughts and impressions. Basically I really like to think things over research places so that I feel like I know them enough to not be a total outsider.<\/p>\n
In Copenhagen, I’m definitely a foreigner, and outsider.<\/p>\n
Today walking around Copenhagen on my own, I saw all the sights, smelled the smells, experienced the colors and watched the people. But I didn’t understand a thing most people on the street were saying. I couldn’t read most of the signs and people who approached me on the street might as well have been speaking gibberish.<\/p>\n
It’s different, I’m not used to feeling like this, but somehow, I was still able to navigate my way home on my own and buy a few supplies.<\/p>\n
Maybe as we spend more time here, I’ll come to understand this place better, but for now I’m just trying to come to terms with feeling like a foreigner for the first time in ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m not used to being a foreigner. I like to understand things. By that I mean, I like to know backgrounds, stories, attitudes and environmental factors that shape a place and it’s \u00a0people. I like to take time to mull things over and process my feelings and thoughts and impressions. Basically I really like to … Continue reading May 29, 2012 – First time foreigner<\/span>