Quote of the day from Canada

Those who define you can confine you

Canada - ja, det kan a da!

Hallelujah, I arrived! Holiday, Canada, chilling like there's no tomorrow :) Currently watching hockey play-offs (the right guys are winning apparently), just beat Yasemin in tavli (backgammon) and keep forgetting that it's been 6 months since we saw each other last, nearly a year since we lived together. It's like I just popped in to watch the game... Heureka!

The unavoidable End of an Era

Wednesday I handed in my thesis in the History of Ideas. It carried the title "Who We Are. Researching Ideas of Racism and Difference in Denmark".

I wrote with everything I had in me about the institutionalisation of ethnicism and the injustice that the Danish government is committing against both minorities and majorities in Denmark. I did well and I am proud.

I replied to my calling and went out with a bang. BANG.

Today is Sunday and my first real day off since the event. I'm exhausted and wish I could sleep some more.

With everyday that goes by, I remember little bits and pieces from my history with the History of Ideas. In my thanks for the thesis, I wrote of how I felt like the thesis was a tribute to the people who make the institute what it is today - my supervisor and all the other young people there; a tribtue to a department that has given me room to be me, room for my thoughts about the world - and has applauded me for them and embraced me. I wanted to thank the department for that. I don't think enough people tell them how great they are. I tried to make up for it.

I'm tired. Wish I felt like doing stuff, going places, celebrating my new freedom. But all I wanna do is hang out at my parents' house in comfortable pants and without showering.

Åh Frihed...

Veni, vedi, vinci...

Peace out :-)

a gift

At livet det er livet værd
på trods af tvivl og stort besvær
på trods af det der smerter,
og kærligheden er og blir
og hvad end hele verden si'r,
så har den vore hjerter.

Jens Rosendal