Opeyemi Adayemi ’27 talks about navigating the unexpected while on the DIS Copenhagen program.
To be honest, nothing in Copenhagen happened the way that I expected. It started off smooth, the air was fresher and the sky was bluer than in the US and I was finally off my long flight. Everything went downhill when I realized that I had free will. I started to think, if nothing was constraining me to being a certain type of person, who was I? I was spiraling.
As luck would have it, I was taking a psychology of crisis class, helping me put vocabulary to my feelings, and giving me the tools to be able to process my emotions. Even though I was having a crisis, it didn’t really affect my outwardness, and I still really enjoyed my time.
I traveled to Sweden, Prague, and London. I shopped until I dropped and really developed my own sense of style. I learned the importance of managing my money, and I enjoyed smørrebrød! I say all this to say two realities can be true at once, but sometimes it takes a different location to really see the solution to your problems.
