Traveling
There are two kinds of travel that one experiences while studying abroad. The first is the itinerary based hopscotch version. In this type, each day is spent jumping between tourist locations and public transportation, trying to check off as many sites as possible while still maintaining a quality visit to each place. I shall call this ‘Type A’ travel. The second is the ‘long-term’ travel style. This ‘Type B’ version is built through an entire semester spent in a city—strolling the streets of an unfamiliar foreign country long enough that they transform into familiar home. I used to get irritated while walking down Copenhagen’s Vestergade 7 (the street where the DIS (Danish Institute for Study Abroad) campus is located), because it felt like every time I heard an American accent in a passing conversation, it was always talking about booking the next flight to Paris, or all the cool places that were on the “To See” bucket list. People studying for an entire year or semest