Last night I got to watching some bluegrass music videos on Youtube and started thinking about how nice it was when my biggest concern was how much time I would have each evening to play my fiddle. In retrospect, my life was much simpler in middle school and high school when I only had about 30 minutes of homework each night and played fiddle for hours on end. Of course in another 4 years I'll look back at this and say how much easier and simpler it all was...so it's all just relative. I know one thing - I'll be happy to get back home and play some music and not be gone all the time. Even in Europe, traveling gets old after a while when you're a homebody, haha.

I do think that if I decide to pursue studying in Denmark for a semester, I will feel much more at home. Having lots of family in Copenhagen helps, and quite frankly it's just a really nice place to be. It's a place where everyone's main concern is enjoying time with friends and family. So much in fact, that virtually all Danes get off work by 4 pm. The idea is that people/workers will be much happier if everyone gets to eat supper with their family instead of working late. That's definitely my kind of culture.

Throwback to 5 weeks ago: a city that is still bright and sunny at 10:30 pm in the summer, has the sleepiest split-timbered buildings, a skyline dominated by church towers and palace towers instead of big business skyscrapers, and when all else fails there is a bridge connecting to Sweden. If you can't tell, I like studying in England very much, but England doesn't feel nearly as nice as Denmark. :-)