This past week was so eventful! After coming back from the Sweden trip I had a chance to go on a cultural study tour with my Danish class to Christiana and Roskilde! It was really interesting, and I feel like I learned so much more about the Danes.
Christiana is a small part of Copenhagen that has created something like an anarchy/ co-op society. The mentality is you can do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t impede your neighbors from doing what they want. (That includes marijuana, hash, and alcohol). But it is a great place for personal freedom. For example, the citizens are allowed to make their houses in any way. So on one side of the side walk (no cars allowed here) you might have a German house that’s shaped like a banana, and on the other side you might have a lean-to, and right next store you might have a “mansion.” All the citizens have to do is pay a small fee per month and their plot of land is theirs for whatever they like. This area was such a stark contrast from just outside its walls that it was hard to tell that I was still in the same country. There is so much controversy and political disputes about this community, and I would really like to explore it a little more.
Roskilde was a very sharp contrast. Roskilde is a small village outside of Copenhagen where the Danish royalty and nobility is buried. Most are all buried within the large cathedral there and their tombs are humongous. I think the most interesting part of the area was to see how the King’s sarcophaguses changed throughout time. Some were extraordinary and some were very simple and small, but all were very beautiful. This was definitely a trip that I don’t think I would have gone to see by myself, so I was glad that I had the opportunity to go with my class.
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