My time in Manchester and England is almost up for this time. Tomorrow morning at some ridiculously early hour, I’ll journey towards Manchester Airport and from there to Copenhagen. Since this afternoon is my last great chance to swoop for souvenirs and what-have-you’s for friends and family, I won’t delve to deeply into the great [...]
I’m writing this in an Internet Cafe just across from Paddington Station, feeling rather exhausted from another day of wandering around London. I’m staying with Martha, a friend from my Hall of Residence in Copenhagen who’re spending this semester here, and it’s been great fun. ..and rather hectic – with lots of people and getting [...]
Wednesday sent me on another field trip. This time to Blackburn via Bolton to experience the high-tempo football and electric crowd intensity of a women’s European Championship match. Going to Blackburn, you’ll most likely switch trains in Bolton, 25 minutes North of Manchester. We (me and my friend Anna, who wanted to go to the [...]
Just for fun, I entered the Guardian’s competition for tickets for the upcoming Football international between Denmark and England tomorrow night. Two pairs of tickets were up for grabs and I won! Sensational! I’ve never won anything in any sort of draw before, and I guess it took something that I’m not desperate to win, [...]
I went to Liverpool some ten days ago, and I completely forgot to put up the few pictures I took from that day. So here goes.. Liverpool is of course mostly famed for its harbour, where much of the trade and goods from the New World arrived, and which was also Manchester’s link to the [...]
It is truly amazing the amount of time and effort some Star Wars fans spend on their computers.
I had Bob Marley’s “Caution” playing in my head as I wrote my final exam on Friday. After two hours of questions on Technological determinism and the Indian Green Revolution, that song might well have been have crossfaded into “Everything’s gonna be alright” – despite having a customary stress crisis after half an hour (realising [...]
Today, I chanced upon an alternative American history text book with the rather provocative title “Lies My Teacher Told Me.” Based on 10 years of research partly spent comparing 12 different common US high school history textbooks with the more or less accepted historical “truth” as it is decided in academic circles, the author, James [...]