The Rygaards IPC Guide to Everything



Everything You Need To Know, All In One Place.
This wiki is intended as a living, breathing resource library for Rygaards parents to help you navigate school and everyday life in the Greater Copenhagen area. Just like Rygaards, this wiki is a welcoming and collaborative community with content that everyone is encouraged to read, edit and update in real-time. Have something that you'd like to add to or update with more current information? Click the edit button at the top of any page to get started!

A Centralized Resource of Essential Information for Parents, by Parents.
Everyone here was new once to Rygaards--and Copenhagen. Experience is a great teacher, and we'd like to pass along some of the best lessons we've learned. Don't worry, even though the title is the 'Guide to Everything', we do not solve every mystery. This guide is a starter and a cheat sheet to return to, a resource to take the edge off of your transition to your new life. While most of the information is factual, we do not shrink from giving our candid though subjective opinions of certain aspects of life here as we have experienced it.

But the best part--you can add to it! In fact, we NEED you to add to it. This guide will be kept current by users like you who take the moment to click 'Edit' and correct something that is out of date or add something that you find very useful. And we thank you in advance!

What You Should Know
I. Getting Ready for Rygaards


 * Before You Arrive Checklist
 * Getting Started At Rygaards
 * Month-by-Month School Overview
 * Kid Activities, Clubs & Sports

II. Being Healthy, Safe & Happy


 * Corona / Covid-19
 * Culture Shock & the Stages of Cultural Adjustment
 * Doctors, Hospitals, Food Allergies & Medicine
 * In Case of Emergency (in Copenhagen)
 * Having a Baby & Raising Small Children in Denmark
 * A Taste of Home: Where to Find What You Miss

III. Transportation


 * Cycling in Copenhagen
 * Taking the Bus, Train & Metro
 * Renting, Buying & Leasing a Car

IV. Living in Denmark


 * Renting in a High-demand Market
 * Crime in Copenhagen
 * Everyday Life
 * Danish Digital Life
 * Shopping, Restaurants & Bars
 * Working with Danes
 * Socializing with Danes

V. Leaving Rygaards


 * Before You Leave

About Compiling this Guide
While this a living document, meant to be continually updated year-after-after by the Rygaards community, the original guide was developed and written by the 2019 Rygaards IPC Welcome Committee and first published on May 13, 2019. Many thanks to our contributors who spent many hours compiling the original information found on the pages within: Nicola McNeil, Ger McBride, Alicia Bryhn-Lamb, Anastasia Lazarenko, Gwendolyn Tamminga-Witte, Patricia Floro, Cleo Cavestany Noriega, Rachel Prowse, Lindy Thorburn, Stefanie Meier, Gareth Prowse, and Michael McNamara.

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