The things happened….

I have been living here for more than a month right now and I never talk about what happened to me in the usual days, the funny anecdotes or less funny another, so I’m going to try to sum up what happened since the beginning of my Danish experience.

At Home :

All is OK with my host. She is old (84), and she was married twice (here, divorcing is very common). I talked to her several times about her family, each time I preferred stopping quickly conversation because she is touching so fast. For instance, on last Wednesday, there was such a popular royal event broadcasted (like the final of a football world cup): it was the Queen’s official announcement to confirm her son (the prince) marry Mary, a non-noble of birth Tasmanian girl (here, the royal family is like David Beckham in Japan). We started to speak about the Queen and stuff, and suddenly, she began to cry…I was too much embarrassed!! We help each other. Sometimes she cooks a cake, and I go to send a mail. Others times she make me taste her wines, and I kill mice !! Etc… She looks for bikes that old people don’t want anymore and I distribute them to my friends who need one…it’s like a little business where we don’t make profit.

Sport :

I play sport much less than in UTT (where I regularly played volley, football, running and fitness). Here, I uniquely play inside football 1 hour a week, on Thursdays. It’s a little but it’s true that inside football is much more tiring than outside soccer. Furthermore, I bike almost 1 hour a day to go and back to school (sometimes more) and I’m sure that this practicing and the bit of food I eat, I lost at least 3 Kg…!!! Anyway, I have not come here to do sport, that’s what you have to convince yourself.

Parties and going out :

I do a lot of different parties. I try to vary pleasures as we said in France. The going out in nightclub with Fred and the Bulgarian girls (Tzvetie and Gabie). Crepe-DVD Party. Campus village Party. Backgammon night in Christiania. And others else I can not tell you by the moment. Yet, there is an eternal evening, this is on Tuesday at the cellar bar: TRADITION !! In fact, all parties, I generally did it with French guies, so the Tuesday allows me to speak English. Some of you would say: “Right now, we know where the money we gave to us has been spent.” But it’s not true, since actually I seldom drink a lot during parties. I did a lot of going out. Visits of Copenhagen, week-ends in Sweden, week in Norway…I take advantages at most of my travel in Scandinavia, even if I have to clip into my financial saves. But I know there are a lot of thing that I’d like to do and which are not expansive: Tivoli, cinema, museum, Experimentarium...

Meteo :

Before leaving France, a lot of people joke me about the weather here. Finally, I would have listened to them!!! No, it is not true. To me, it is cold only during the night. The proof is that I came here without coat, and for the moment, I don’t need one. In Copenhagen, it is windy a lot, so clouds pass over and over again, so it’s impossible to foresee which weather it will do the evening or the day after. By the way, I cannot complain about the weather, I have hardly ever used the coat which someone lends me.

The school :

I got used to the courses in English and now I understand a little bit more what teachers say, but the content is still difficult to get. I have to say that I am register in a different specialisation of mine in Troyes (informatics and mathematics whereas at Troyes, it’s Information Technology). Nothing else to add about courses. I spend the most of my time in DTU (a bit to write emails). Small anecdote: maybe have you hear from the power breakdown in Sweden and Denmark (a few days before the one in Italy)? Here, it was the panic in Copenhagen (on the road, in the shops, in the companies, etc.) My school was not stinted. I was going toward my classroom when it happened (12.45), the teacher decided to do the lecture in another room (because the usual one was too dark), we were very oppressed and the external temporary teacher was obliged to explain her speech because she was not able to use the retro projector. The power came back at 6.45 pm during my first Danish lesson.

The food :

Nothing special to say about it. For lunch, I eat either a sandwich prepared the day before (domain in which I begin to be an expert) or a vegetarian salad in the canteen. For breakfast, it does not change from France. For dinner, it depends on my will. On Tuesdays, it’s pizza (when the snack bar has still some ones), sometimes, it’s either pasta, or a Danish prepared meal, or an easy-cooking meal (tomatoes, ham,). In short, nothing can reveal my hidden talent of cook. I never try the typically Danish dishes, if it exist a Danish cuisine… I have bought black bread with spices: awful!! To the contrary, the RedRumRudrodsteuldorod (I don’t know how to spell it, and it is worst to pronounce it) is delicious. It is a kind of jam made of blueberries; you have to taste it without any doubt. Obviously, salmon and shrimp are absolutely not expansive. We can find a lot of French products (wine, cheese, pâté, etc.) but they are not real trademarks. Meat and vegetable are quite expensive and not various. I’m looking forward to go back France.