The chilly weather outside is reminding me of Copenhagen. A year ago, I was in that beautiful city just starting out my study abroad adventure. There weren’t pumpkins, but there was a very fairy-tale feeling to the quaint but also architecturally modern city. I miss the mixture, actually, of old and masterfully modern.

Here, there are pumpkins. I just got back from my Saturday routine of buying produce at the Bryn Mawr Farmer’s Market (which is literally just a scatter of stands in the parking lot close to Starbucks and Sunoco selling fresh produce and baked goods). Apple Cider, garlic, green peppers, lavender scones, and tomatoes later… I’m back home trying to catch up on all of my work.  Honestly, I prefer buying produce better than writing essays. I think if I go back and do it all again I should try for culinary school.

Of course, I don’t mean that.

That’s another thing. The closer I get to the end, the less I’m sure what the next beginning is.

Whatever I do and wherever I go it, must have a kind of enchantment of reality to it. That is what I’d say connects me to Bryn Mawr and to Copenhagen.  Bryn Mawr is not Hogwarts and the city of Copenhagen  does not transplant one to fairy-tale days. Real, imperfect, and flawed people live in these places. The magic is the flaws though. The construction amongst the gothic buildings… the moss covered stone next to the glass building…

Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going on about. But there is something special about living in these beautiful surroundings that I think will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Today, there are pumpkins and cold weather. I’m thinking about the past and the future.

Here, on this in-between day, in this in-between place, I’m very happy. I’m happy I found myself here.

Bryn Mawr College has changed me, my life, and everything in both profound and little ways. It’s funny to say since when I was a freshman I was dead set on transferring… that’s another story I’ll be sure to tell another time.

Today I’m simply happy for everything Bryn Mawr College has given me and enchanted by the knowledge that somehow I know everything after will be magical, flaws and all.