A blog of an ordinary Dane

For some years former boarding school students in English speaking countries have stepped forward revealing how they became victims of adults who took advantage of children in a vulnerable situation. Several former employees and managers of boarding schools...

Years have passed. Somehow, I survived the pandemic and whatever they claimed to have put inside the vaccines. Both 2022 and 2023 were not good years for me. I see my time in the part of Copenhagen where I live - Sydhavnen - coming to an end. Rich people...

Last year I joined a message board where we Danes discuss our country. It is in both English and Danish so you can participate on: The Danish message board

I have not been in the mood to write on my blog for a long time. Fact is that 2021 was a year spent mostly at home when I was not at work where I could do nothing. Now where the pandemic seems to be converted into ordinary flu like epidemics there could...

With only hours left before we leave 2020 for a hopefully better year, I will put some words down in this blog about my thoughts of the year 2020, which for most Danes have proven to be the year where we realized that no people in any other country on...

It seems that we Danes have been told to pay for Brexit and the rebuilding of Europe which have suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is very bad because you properly will not be able to find any place on the planet which have suffered more that the...

It is 2 years since my last post. I had a lot of things going in my private life and frankly said: When you pay 50 percent of your income in taxes like we do in Denmark, little time is left for yourself and family. So I did not update my blog. What have...

Efterskoler is a special kind of boarding schools. They used to be for dropouts who were tired of schooling after the basic 9 years of schooling but today they are very pricy and tend to focus on something where the students have a special interest in...

Outside our small village there is a boarding school. It is not for children having done crime (for the most part). Of course some case worker smuggle criminal children into the boarding schools and juvenile detention is costly in Denmark. So they hide...

Yesterday in Denmark a large IT-company as well as some small employees were convicted in a case involving bribe of several public servicemen. The company Atea had created a special account where some of the discount the customers should have gotten were...