<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[draftingdenmark]]></title><description><![CDATA[draftingdenmark]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:40:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[On Goodbyes, and Final Reflections]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every day, I remind myself that I am experiencing “a last”. Sunday was my last time going to La Fontaine; this Wednesday will be my time getting a St. Peter's cinnamon roll.  Last Friday was my last time sitting in the King’s Garden with sunshine beaming on my face in that particular way, at that particular time. It’s a little hard to deal with. Yet, I have an awareness that it is time to go home. The only thing I am truly afraid of is not feeling this alive again.  I mentioned earlier that I...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-goodbyes-and-final-reflections</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0723e8f943bb95ae582612</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:55:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_c35cae0982ac4499b5a7f0278b7ffa80~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Side Quests, and The DIS Festival]]></title><description><![CDATA[The closer it gets to summer, the more alive Copenhagen seems to feel. That is why I’d like to chronicle some of my personal favorite must-dos! when the weather is warm. Kronborg Castle  I’m not sure why I didn’t come here sooner. It was the first thing on my bucket list, and yet one of the last things I ended up doing. My visiting host mom invited me to come, so I went!  It was a lot bigger than I was expecting. I’m a big Hamlet fan, so it was interesting to see the castle that might’ve...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-side-quests-and-the-dis-festival</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0721dcf943bb95ae58255b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:55:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_46ad6b43e7eb4f8cb12c50fd6682d580~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Berlin, and Love at First Sight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Berlin might be my favorite place on Earth. The strange mix of old and new architecture, the heavy atmosphere, and the music. Anything was possible. It reminds me of the first time I went to Copenhagen, yet the connection felt different. I’ve been looking toward my study tour for the entire semester, and it surpassed my expectations in every way.  We departed by train in the morning, which I enjoyed a lot. There was a lot of time to think and to play around with my classmates — eight long...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-berlin-and-love-at-first-sight</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f76a9c7b1c42fb24f83509</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 15:43:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_f77e30cb4a9048e9837e2e8752c99105~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Beginning of the End]]></title><description><![CDATA[I write this on a train before the start of my study tour to Berlin. I’ve been sitting down for the past five hours, and now I'm stuck for the next hour and a half or so. As I check my to-do list of work, I realize more and more that final assignments are in sight. When people tell you the semester will fly by, they really aren’t joking. While you are here, everything feels so infinite. Now, towards the end of it all, I’m being confronted with the reality that my daily routine will be broken...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-the-beginning-of-the-end</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f76426384eb6d61abb8137</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 15:26:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_ae016b7862ff43d0995076726ecb69ac~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Friendship, and the Joy of Connection]]></title><description><![CDATA[On an ordinary Tuesday, I was sitting on a bench near the Caritas fountain, bathing in the sun before class. Then a girl came up and sat next to me. Her name was Fanni, and she was from Finland, only here in Copenhagen for a week. She asked me nervously if I knew any places to visit. I thought long and hard about it before giving her several answers. Little did I know that we’d heartily talk for over an hour, her asking about my life, me asking about hers. Nor did I anticipate meeting her for...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-friendship-and-the-joy-of-connection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ee1a58a376fc1e0ec924ce</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:37:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_5efb2922377240dab643de7f82cfec4c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Kindness, and the Promise of Sunshine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Midway into the semester, it seems that we are finally witnessing the first breaks of spring, and it is oh so nice. A couple of days ago, I was sitting on a park bench in Ørstedsparken , looking out at the water. A woman in a yellow raincoat sat beside me. She began to speak to me in Danish, and when I told her I didn’t understand, she said this, gesturing at the sky: “We have been longing for this.”  It's not the best picture, but imagine how you would feel seeing this after two months of...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-kindness-and-the-promise-of-sunshine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c904de4b5dfe0bfdb1f023</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:28:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_276880f2324446e78a4aa3d7117e5901~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Q&#38;As and Things I Wondered]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had my first person enter their information in my contact me page, and it was so fun to email them back. After answering her though, I realized that I don’t have many blog posts explicitly answering questions about DIS.  I’ve always found those little Ask [Insert Name here] magazine columns charming, so I’ll do a little exercise creating scenarios (slightly schizophrenic maybe) inspired by fears and questions that I had myself, so hopefully they can be helpful to someone else :).  ASK...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-q-as-and-things-i-wondered</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c91595af19906fa179ded8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:20:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_3bc58431b87a415c918912cc9e5743f1~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Møn, and the Fleeting Nature of Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[For our short study tour, my core course, Sense of Place in European Literature, stayed in a writer’s residency called Villa Gress, located in the countryside city of M ø n, Denmark. As we had been reading eco-conscious, experimental literature, it was only “natural” (ha!) to see about all of this ‘nature’ we had been reading about.  A short study tour is the first trip that you take with your core course that’s relevant to the class, whether that be exploring some conceptual element of...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-m%C3%B8n-and-the-fleeting-nature-of-things</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ad8b717eb34e89d6fbfbaa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:57:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_c521113e1abf4f94836022a75e01a9d9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sickness, and the Comfort of Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[It might be the gloom outside or the shocking newness turned into routine, but the rush I’ve felt since the beginning of the semester has dulled. And I feel that this is important to say, because not everything lasts forever.  In such a homogeneous city, it's hard to walk around and not see anyone who looks like you. I mean, it’s much, much harder than I was ever expecting it to be. There’s nothing inherently “wrong,” but it can put a serious toll on you mentally. You feel alien, even when...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-sickness-and-the-comfort-of-art</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ad9151053d59350a115ae3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:40:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_65b8351cfaed429fa9ede010d75d624b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Food, and the Necessity of Treating Yourself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like most people, I’m a sucker for a good meal. Or even better, a carefully placed sweet treat after the post-lunch slump. It’s a good thing I’ve chosen the magical land of Copenhagen, where delicious pastries and hot coffee are abundant. I came here with the iron-clad idea that I would only eat out once a week, that I’d never buy anything too expensive, etc, etc. I’m sure that others had/have similar aspirations. However, as more of those weeks have passed by, this has become much harder...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-budgeting-and-the-necessity-of-treating-yourself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699dffaa8f4f3ef74a9c2aa6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:06:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_e19908bee53c4822bc4ecb22a0d2c5f9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Malmö, Sweden, and the Art of Drifting]]></title><description><![CDATA[When my roommates suggested we take a day trip to Malmö, Sweden, I didn’t really think twice about it. Only a forty-minute train ride from Copenhagen? Let’s go. As days went on, the trip grew from a far-off assumption of something we were going to do, eventually , to a bona fide fact.   Our mighty bunch met at Central Station at 8:00 am, boarded the train at 8:30, and arrived at 9:10. It’s only after arriving that I realized we had no plan. We had tried to come up with an itinerary of things...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-visiting-malm%C3%B6-sweden-and-the-art-of-drifting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69920ca26afbe985b7a074cf</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:37:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_4543619e488643ce9dd36182e5ba25cf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Settling in, and Going at your Own Pace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Copenhagen and I are in our honeymoon phase. It has officially been a little over two weeks since landing, and time is flying by. Everything and everyone hit the ground running, and I’m just trying to keep up. Thank god it’s such a fantastic race.  It’s scary how happy I’ve been. All of my professors - though they don’t like to be called that - seem incredibly passionate and kind, my roommates, clever and funny, the random people I sit next to in the Student Hub when there’s not enough space,...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/on-settling-in-and-going-at-your-own-pace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6980d749889819a51f04c0fd</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:32:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_ff09a75013a445608315fc8919ceac24~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Pre-Departure, and Honoring the Impulse ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unbelievably, when I arrive in Copenhagen on Saturday, it won’t be my first time in the city. I first visited in May, last May (wow! new year, huh?), through a very generous short-term abroad program at my home university, University of Richmond. We were partnered with DIS for this trip, and there was even a day when we visited one of the DIS buildings and heard an incredible lecture from a brilliant professor (whose name I wish I remembered, so I could write it here). Though I was there for...]]></description><link>https://hamlinmakayla4.wixsite.com/draftingden/post/pre-departure-thoughts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69646d8cf5f677155672ab0b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:44:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62b4cb_dc046723186944ecba3d34ee36460bcf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hamlinmakayla4</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>