This spring we'll be bringing you posts from a few Pioneers that are studying abroad this semester. Linebacker Jeremy Wiles '14 is currently in Copenhagen, Denmark and this is his second installation:
The last few weeks have been quite
interesting. Part of this experience has me playing two roles. One is
experiencing Copenhagen as a Tourist and the other is experiencing København as
someone who is living here, aka a Local. I know it’s hard to think that a place
can possible feel at home in matter of months but I am pretty good at getting
comfortable and feeling at home in a new environment. So the adventure
continues…
OHSO Tourist:
During my early March Study break I was
accompanied by my fellow GC Pioneer Footballer , Jayson Campos, to see the
places around Copenhagen that were deemed good for tourists. This meant asking
our American and Dane friends, navigating through tourist maps and getting
immersed/lost in the city but we managed
to see some headliners like: The Little
Mermaid statue, The Botanical Gardens,
The David’s Collection and the National Museum for Art (Stutens Musem for Kunst). I mention these top places because they’re
all worth seeing more than once, except the mermaid. That one is worth the one
great time you check it out, take pictures and look at the other wonder fully
epic statutes around it. The National Museum of Art was all 3 hours spent awe struck
stumbling through Nordic and European art from 1300-1900 some of which were
from my favs Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt. Shout out to Grinnell into to art class for
the refined taste. Another must see is
the The David Collection which does offer some European art but it’s claim to
OHSO fame is the absolutely amazing collection of Islamic Art collection hidden
there. The two places were a good mix and the experience
was even more solid given the scenic walk through the Rosenberg Castle
to get in between the two.
There are plenty of castles but I’ll
save that for a later post. The most memorable experience I had was walking up
the golden steps of a spiral staircase a top the Church of Our Savior located
in Christianhavn ( a district in København). The Church by itself has a
decadent and completely astonishing interior design and two colossal elephants
that seemingly hold up at wooden, super organ. If you don’t know already I got a thing for
elephants. They’re just too cool for school.
Don’t forget the Shawarma and
weinerbro. Most of these places where accompanied with a street hot dog,
pastries filled with love or a fat shawarma from the one and only BURGER HOUSE
located in Amager. They deserve a shout out because they honestly have the
biggest shawarma in Copenhagen, someone please prove me wrong.
Living as a Local:
Of course I’m still a student here and must do student things like study in the
Studenthuset café. Drink a little more coffee than usual and catch the crammed
6a bus every morning. I almost got hit by a bike like 3 times in one day. Tell
me why that is low for some people. I also managed to make friends with a group
of three local guys heading to the part of town called the meat packing
district, Meat City to the locals.The Story goes… the three were walking down
the street making beats with their mouth together and they let my friend Jerry and a OHSO J Wiley freestyle on the corner with them for 20
minutes. I always get extra excited when
I experience music with people. You make it hip hop and add the fresh approach
to jamming out with three random musicians in the streets at 3am and I have
nothing else to call it but an O.H.S.O. experience. So that is what the world
of Jeremy Wiles in København consists of.
Good food, great places and even cooler people.
