On my way to school

It's always me and my bike.

The first big things I go by are City West and adventist church - which are also the things that make me happy when I return because I know I'm almost done pedalling.

Than I get to the hills (I only have a photo with the start because I'm too tired or pissed to ever stop and take photos on this part of the road).

And, ta-na the University, actually just the History Department because it's a campus and departments are spread everywhere (maybe when I will have my own camera I'll go around the campus because it's really nice and green).

20th - Discovering

I'm starting to discover a lot of intersting stuff. I guess life is full of surprises when you stay and listen and you don't try to get involved as much as possible. I was saying that I don't feel like socializing and I still have that mood...but to fool it and start living in Aarhus I've decided to substitute socializing with knowing. This week I tried some things I was to afraid to do before...eat stuff, do stuff...and what to you know I feel more relaxed and experienced already :)

Yesterday a classmate (a Danish classmate) invited me over to his house because he was meeting some other old friends too. I was enthusiastic when he told me....but then, as the moment got closer I was becoming sceptical and scared. I was thinking about inventing a good excuse not to go...This isn't my natural state so I was feeling weird to have this inner fight. I decided to go because I was bored of cooking, eating, reading and surfing on the Internet. People and communication can not be substituted in this way. I decide that this was going to be a gathering knowledge moment more than a social one. I'm saying this because the other people invited were from Guatemala and Chile. They were going to speak Spanish (which is good practice for me). So I went there with the idea of becoming more international...but also seeing how people have fun here?!After a vegetarian dinner (everybody here is vegetarian and loves to exercise) = healthy but not extremely tasty food...I was thinking that it will all turn up in a boring where are you from...how is your country...thing. But we started having this movie like evening - games, laughing, drinking. I had a lot of fun...and I loved the games we played. Foolish childish games that relax you but also make you think while having fun. I always liked this but I never did it with my friends at home...everybody (I think) would find this a stupid idea. I don't know, we prefer smoking and talking about people...I felt very international especially because we were speaking in Spanish, Danish and English.

And I found some movies I really want to see when I get home: Network (1976) and Once (a Czech movie Marketa told me about)...I think I should become more open and learn more stuff about different cultures - this whole international experience is overwhelming and I should let my guard down and become more receptive.

Shadowed shapes and colors

A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the light.

Thinking that we are all nothing but shadows in this life, because we disappear once the light put upon us is out, makes me consider more the final part of the shadow's definition - reverse projection of the object blocking the light. This makes a huge difference between what we are and what we seem to be, about what or body movements show and what our mind is actually thinking. Nowadays I think it's difficult to make the difference between these things because people hide their real feelings and try to show the reverse image of what they think just to obtain something. The shadow definition is more that applicable in some cases. I'm not talking only about love and emotional feelings. We project our shadow in the society because we are either afraid of what we actually are or because we just want to protect and seal our true feelings.