07th - A bit better maybe

The second part of my first week was a bit better. On Thursday I had my first class. It's called International Business Analysis and it's about accounting and organising a company as good as possible so that the profit is big enough to sustain all the expenses  This is a 4 hour course with short 10 min. brakes. It's not really long and boring because it's interactive - power point presentation and questions for the teacher. I thought I wasn't going to like it when I first heard what's about but I think it's pretty interesting...I had a lot of questions and the teacher was really helpful in solving the puzzles in my mind. We have two really big books which of course are extremely expensive. I think I'll just copy them. After that I came home pissed because my internet was still not working. And my entrepreneurial side stepped in. So I just started pushing all the buttons on the modem, switch it off and on, change switches and what do you know at some point it started working. I was like in the 7th heaven...I couldn't believe it. 

I signed up for an elective class on Diasportas and Homelands so even if Friday was my free day I sacrificed it for this course. We have a young German teacher specialised in Indian studies so I guess this is going to be mainly about the Hindu diaspora...but I'll still be going because it's interesting and we have free talks and watch movies and visit places. The day ended really late because I joined the Friday Bar. This is some sort of party every department in the university organises every Friday not only for foreign students. This is for socialising and drinking a beer together. So I integrated in the cultural rituals and attended my department's Friday Bar. It was nice because I got to talk and met a few new people. I even entered a Danish study group. They take the same course as me and it's going to be interesting as I am the only foreigner in the group. They use study groups here to organise exam studies, make projects and answer each others questions. I think it's an interesting way of learning but it will take a lot of my time. I also met a Bulgarian guy and he was extremely excited to met me because he likes Romania  or so he says, and he said, I quote, finely found a person to talk to. He was a bit to enthusiastic but I think he's ok. I left the Friday Bar to join another party - the international students free dinner. Marketa was on Orientation Day and she knew about this and told me and Mara to join. We met at the Math Department and after one week ate a normal dinner. 

I got home barefoot because my boots killed my feet again.

Yesterday I went to buy a new bike. I thought that since I'm staying here longer it's a better idea to buy a new one. But guess what...they gave it to me without paddles, with flat tires and the stare is the other way around. So now I have to wait till Monday to fix it...this was really disappointing because I wasn't expecting this to happen. Maybe I'm just unlucky. But I got over it...I washed some clothes with Mara...and discovered how to use the washing machine in the basement. They have a really interesting system. In the basement there are two old washing machines and a dryer. Every person leaving here has a card. With the card you schedule in advance the day and hours you want to use the washing machine. This is like a credit card so it takes money that are added to your rent - it'a 15 kr/wash. We had a bad experience with the dryer because it didn't dry our clothes - we probably didn't use it right so we paid for nothing and had to hang our clothes in the balcony :( Than after eating a frozen pizza - I will soon die of starvation - we went to the centre to a concert. We had a nice Saturday evening with music and bier. 

This was something like the last evening of the Aarhus yearly festival so we had to go. I'm sorry I don't have a camera and take more pictures of what I see and do. And I also got myself some Kanye West glasses.

Now I should say a few words about the Danes because these days I got a little disappointed  During the weekend - which starts on Friday evening - I saw a part I was afraid to see here. Dirt and lack of civilisation  I was expecting too much from a northern country but it seams that people are the same everywhere. They get really drunk and there is no age limit for this. They throw up and piss on the street, they throw garbage everywhere and they turn into some sort of wild, on the loose rebels. It's just weird for me because I was expecting something else and it's a bit shocking. It's fun because everybody is free but it's scary because anything could happen. They are all just like those foreign business man coming in Terminus, getting wasted and spending a lot of money on a non really that fun activity - getting drunk. It seams like this is their cultural understanding of having fun - getting drunk and wearing weird clothes. And than the thing with the bike - it's lack of organisation...I don't know maybe I'm just expecting too much from the people in the West. I don't want to rush into conclusions so I am just going to wait till December to have a clear straight conclusion on what Danes are like. Maybe they are just like the weather here - you never know what you're going to get in 5 min.