rob!

I was robbed.

Yes. Robbed of communications.

My laptop AC adapter has just decided to die on me. It's gone. I have no power to my laptop.

I think it just did a great job. Really. Give me an awesome stunner in Denmark and left me stranded.

The greatest part - my warranty is out! Awesome! I just have to wait till my sister send me one, probably next week. Hence, every minute online is precious.

Well I guess this is part and parcel of the uncertainty in life and out traveling. I shall take it as a good experience.

Apart from that very depressing news (I was desperate for help today), school had started today. I went for my first lesson and as expected, it was very much different from SMU. They held "lecture" in a classroom setting. When I mention "classroom" don't think of SMU classroom, think secondary school classroom. Yes, it's exactly that setting. They use blackboard and there's a OHP projector in the class. How retro! But other than that everything was ok, boring still. I almost doze off.

There was a kitchen meeting later in the evening. It was laid back and very much enjoyable. I had to say I finally had my first good meal in Aarhus. My neighbour made awesome tasting lasagne. Oh my... I am so going to get that recipe (if he had one). I finally had real meat today and a filling stomach. Thanks Aske!

Here are some pictures I took out of boredom on Sunday. We were suppose to meet for dinner and 2 jokers went to the beach. A beach outing on a crazy Sunday weather and kinda cold. And they finally appear so we can finally go inside JJ's dorm.

I need power!

saturday kitchen

It's the second weekend in Aarhus. The Aarhus Festival starts today. We headed town to check out what's happening.

Aarhus Festival logo - pretty cool

Then we headed to the supermarket to buy some things for dinner tonight over at JJ's place. We somehow managed to cooked a big portion of bee hoon for dinner. It tasted quite good for our maiden tryout. I admit it was pretty messy during the whole prodecure but the final product was to our satisfaction.

Hey, not too bad right.

The weather is getting more erratic as summer is ending. The wind is stronger and colder especially at night and rain comes and goes as it pleases. I must bring my jacket out all the time now. Definitely missing the Singapore sun for a moment.

Enjoy the weekend guys...

Skål!

Skål - Cheers! in English, Yam-Seng! for Singapore.

The last day and there were some games being held at the botanical garden across our school.

I did bring my camera but I left my SD card in my computer the previous night. And yeah... no picture again. I just annouce I am an idiot on my blog.

Anyway, the games are pretty much similar to those we played in Singapore - jumping in a sack, relay with egg on spoon, memory game. Still there are a couple of interesting one like trying to put a pen into a bottle with the pen tied around your waist. So you have to squat down, aim and put it in. However, the most "European" game was eating licorice. It's a long strip of licorice and you have to eat it without using your hand. My group was trailing all the way but there was a turn of tide at the end. The last guy in the licorice relay, a big bulky german, sucked it all up and swallowed all in an instance. No chewing. Everyone was dumb-founded. Yeah but I don't recommend licorice. The taste is kinda foul... never again.

And if you are guessing it... yes you are probably right. The night have to end off Danish style - Party. There was a huge meet up along the river. Many exchange students were drinking, socialising and fooling around as usual. I knew more friends and it was never lonely here. And the most common phrase I spoken so far is "Hey, my name is Xu Xian. I am from Singapore. You?"

The party was great and beer was free at certain hours. How cool is that. Free entrance and beer at a club. This is totally unheard of in Singapore. The music great, the people nice and I guess everyone would have enjoyed themselves. Not so for some, if there are having terrible hang over.

An awesome ending for the orientation.

Skål!

a quiet day....

Day 3

Today was kind of boring compared to the first 2 days.

There was some photo taking session with our group and the rest of exchange students.

Then it was lunch before we headed to town as they showed us around abit.

Dinner was at a Mexican restaurant where I had my Burrittos. Not too bad, but not my kind of food.

It feel weird eating tacos and burrittos in Denmark. But this was the more affordable restaurantin Aarhus. My burrittos cost 116Dkk, still expensive though.

Somehow, the night have to end off in a pub or with a party. We went to a place and there were some folk Danish folk dancing going on. No beer, no dancing and no party tonight. Age is catching up as I hang around my foreign friends for some light chit-chats.

Last day of orientation tomorrow. Some sports and games will be held at the botanical garden. Hope it will be fun.

Signing off... Carlsberg and Tuborg from Aarhus!