School and other stuff

Badass Angry Pig view from my window.

The past few days I have been just getting to classes and trying to get books, etc. Most classes seem pretty doable borderline easy. For example my mediation course meets for 3 hrs every other week and that’s it! I kind of felt like I went back to junior high for those 3 hours what with our constant small group discussions and idea web diagrams that we posted on the wall.

I also managed to go out nearly every night of the week and now I think I’ve gotten sick. =( But it was very worth it. On Tuesday, me and J Fern went out to a pub to watch the Denmark vs. Norway football game and the rivalry was great to see! Everyone was cheering, singing and wearing their team colours and this one dude even tried to pay us off to cheer for Norway. Denmark won 2-0.

Wednesday night we headed out again for the weekly international student night at Studenthuset. It was a good night and we started out at this weird bar called BankeRat where they used doll heads as lighting amongst other oddly inspired furniture.

 Check out the leather-clad deer riding an ostrich

Doll head lamps!

Thursday night I went to the law football team practice. I am so glad I went now but it started off with me crying a little inside and thinking it was the worst possible decision I could have made. I couldn’t get any of the other international girl students to come with so after much agonizing I bought new cleats (which are beautiful btw….they feel like they were meant to be on my foot!) and headed there myself. They had a bus picking us up at the square and everyone I could see was yapping away in Danish. I thought I was the only international student there and started to think why the hell am I here. BUT, once we started playing the girls really opened up and were super nice. I even met a girl who did a high school exchange in Calgary at Crescent Heights High!

Practice was awesome after that. The trainer ran drills and the girls had varying degrees of play experience. In other words, I was far from the best but also not the worst either. =) After practice everyone piled into the showers and this is where there was a striking difference between locker rooms in North America vs. Europe: everyone just stripped down and was very comfortable with their nakedness while communal showering. (I heard later that it was exactly the same in the boys room)

There was free pizza and beer in the law student lounge afterwards but I was debating not going since everyone would once again be speaking Danish. But while piling on the bus I heard these 2 dudes speaking English! It was like music to my ears!! Apparently there were 5 international guys who came to practice while I was the only international girl. So, needless to say, I went and pigged out on free pizza and beer. All in all a great night and I signed up to join the team for training once a week. It was the best way I could think of to work off the chocolate Danish pudge I have been accumulating.

I am pumped for this weekend! Me J Fern and Noora are heading to Aarhus and Skagen to sight-see more Danish cities! More pictures and stories of that to come later.

Oh yes. And please meet Max. Short for Maximilian. He is my pimpin’ ride for the next 4 months.