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Pushing Myself into the Copenhagen Cold
DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad: Copenhagen - Various Programs
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Copenhagen as your home, Europe as your classroom
Enhance your major, engage and immerse, broaden your horizons, and acquire valuable cross-cultural skills with other motivated, curious, and energetic students from American universities.
Academically Challenging Courses Taught in English
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| Provider: | DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad |
| Location(s): | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Website | Take me there! |
Review By:
India K. (Communications, Goucher College) on December 09, 2010
Overall Rating
Personal Information
| * Start Date: | 2010-08-22 |
| * End Date: | 2010-12-19 |
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | None |
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How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
Seeing Copenhagen around Christmas time! |
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Finances
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* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost) |
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| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | Very little on food, maybe 10 dollars at the most. About 30-40 on personal expenses |
| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | Make sure you plan out what you want to buy and make sure your money will last. Clothing and food here is very expensive! |
Language
| How would you rate your language skills at the beginning of the program? | None |
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A Look Back
| * If you could do it all over again, would you choose the same program? | Yes |
| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | Try to meet Danes your own age, they are a fun group! |
| * What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile? | Definitely! I learned a lot about what makes Denmark such a good country and how America could learn from it. I learned about sexuality in Denmark through one of my classes and I got to have siblings for a while (I'm an only child), which made me very happy |