I'm sure you're not surprised

We fell in love with Copenhagen. So much so that we've decided to move there despite the fact that there are no job opportunities at the archive at this point in time. We were never planning to stay in the UK permanently and, let's face it, we aren't in love with it. This makes leaving the UK not only obvious but also easy.

Sometime during Kristen's visit to Copenhagen, we decided that we did want to relocate to this city. At that point, it was still a somewhat shapeless idea because we didn't know when, just that it would be this summer. Things have come into sharper contrast now though. Today we decided that we are going to move out of this apartment on June 30th with an arrival in CPH on July 1st.

Kristen will be working at the theatre through that date, so the relocation planning will be mostly my chore this time. Things need to get in motion ASAP because we don't have all the time in the world and there are A LOT of "threads to keep in ol' duders head" (for 10 points, name the film that I'm referencing here).

It's sort of humorous... the time-span between our moves seems to be decreasing: almost exactly a year in Belgium, 10 months in the UK, and ?? in Denmark? No, this time we're going to stick around for a while. I swear we're not on the run from the law or anything, we're just damned indecisive! But it would be nice to settle down for a while. Then again, for us, settling would be staying somewhere more than two years (the longest period of time we've lived in one place since we've been together). Honestly, it's starting to be a little bit of a hassle to have ties to all of these places!

This move might be one of the more challenging. It's not going to be easy to get a residence permit for K and then she's going to have to learn to speak Danish. Speaking of which, I could do with some schooling on that myself! I was really rusty when I arrived on April 4th, but had come a long way by May 7th. Even still, my grammar is quite poor, there are a lot of holes in my vocabulary, and I definitely speak with an accent (both American and, oddly enough, a little Swedish). K has her work cut out for her. Danish is not an easy language, but at least most people over there can speak English quite fluently. I need to send her to the same place Crown-princess Mary went (an Australian who was able to speak fluent Danish within a year).

-RP-