Copenhagen & Tisvilde .. freshly arrived

Hi everyone, welcome here !! it's the first time I make a blog so I hope I will manage to draw your attention & nourish your interest.

Well I'm just gonna say a few words, it's quite early - 1 am- in Tisvilde (wonderin' where this is ?? I'm gonna tell you right away). I've just started the HIA, Humanity in Action, program 2008 so we're in our opening session in Denmark. Yesterday we landed in Copenhagen at about 9, so yeah you make the count, we flew off from Paris at 7:25 in the morning and of course, had to be there an hour before...

I've already made acquaintance with the other French fellows (or home fellows as Martin, our "internator" -intern/coordinator says). It's amazing how you feel like you have been knowing some people for weeks and that in fact, you just met 2 days earlier !! So yesterday, we had the chance to make a quick visit into town, Copenhagen really is a nice city, lovely and charming with lots of alley walks and everyone has his/her own bike ! Then we took a bus to come to Tisvilde, a small town in the north west of CPH. There, fellows from other countries (Poland, Germany, Bosnia, Denmark) arrived one after another, we slowly started to get to know each other.

In the afternoon, we had spare time so with my French team fellows we went to see the beach... we kind of got lost... well mmm not really, but it's just that it probably took us more time than usual to get there. But finally we did it and were so happy to see the North Sea... and of course I couldn't not taste the water !! It was a bit cold but I mean we're in the Scandinavian countries, it's normal, nope ? Cold and very not salty at all !!! The weather is just so nice in here, I almost felt like at home, in Tahiti.

As for today, we had quite a busy first day, but extremely interesting. The day was dedicated to the myths and realities about the Rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943. You see, I knew nothing of that, so it was very interesting. The speakers knew how to catch our attention and there was also a moving intervention from Dr Jorgen Kieler, a former member of Danish Resistance group "Holger Danske". The American fellows arrived in the morning, they spent 3 days in Washington DC -visiting the Holocaust memorial museum- before arriving, they're so lucky !!

Just before dinner we finally met The foundator of HIA, Judy Goldstein ! We were also introduced to the programs directors and staff... so yeah this was a quite busy day and we finished it by going to the sea (again) to watch the sunset... It was almost 11pm when we left the seaside and there was still daylight (well it was almost dark but still). It was so beautiful, just as all the landscapes here. Denmark is quite a flat country, but it's surrounded by water, and it's just an amazing country... I would have never imagined it would be so nice. I guess the sunny weather also has something to do with it.

Well, that's all for today !!!