Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Kiss the Cook

I never cooked before coming to Aarhus, anything...maybe fried eggs a few times and sandwiches and salads if those count as cooking. But, since I am here I somehow had to cook if I wanted to eat something warm and tasty (the food from the cantina doesn't have salt and spices, so I don't really like it). This is how I turned cooking and eating into a pleasure...and it's even visible...stains on my cloths and fat around my belly :D. I'm not the only one getting fat here, so I don't feel so bad, actually I'm one of the "not so bad" ones. Still we are lucky to have the Turkish Bazar close and eat lots of fresh vegetables and fruits.

I learned to cook sour soup. It was my first cooking and a major success, the girls loved it at least and of course I liked it.

Some of my cooking and other stuff I am eating in Aarhus:

1. Meetballs in cabbage (sarmale :)

2. Kaernemelk and cornflakes (fall semester's breakfast)

3. Pancakes (tones of pancakes with marmalade, nutella, cheese, yoghurt, fruits, sugar)

4. Fried vegetables with meat

5. Kasia's dinner (French fries, meat, crème and dill)

6. Rice with vegetables

7. Pasta with vegetables

8. Backed potatoes with chicken and lots of spices

9. Pasta with meat

10. Boiled red cabbage with tomato sauce (it was a bit too salty)

11. Mucenici

12. Beouf salad (for Easter with Laura and Cata)

13. Backed aubergine with vegetables (lots of them) and moulded cheese

14. Spanish Omelette (Spanish tortilla)

15. Pasta with champignons and liquid whipped cream (our special piskeflode) and cucumbers, garlic and piskeflode salad

16. Pasta with
       a) tuna, tomato sauce, paprika, olives and corn (Marketa's recipe)
       b) bacon, tomato sauce and sun flower seeds (Laura's recipe)

17.Baclava and Turkish sweets
18.Oat, sunflower seeds and raisins (spring semester's 4 am breakfast)

19. My favourite Danish cheese

20. Karry fish salad

21. Pesto with sesame dried bread

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Last month

I sadly have to introduce May, my last month in Aarhus. It's not going to be my last month this year, as I will probably return in October, but it's going to be my last Erasmus month. Even though I am not an Erasmus student here, my whole year was spent with Erasmus people, people who will leave in June and never come back, except maybe to visit me. It's funny how, again, towards the end we are getting closer and closer. I love this type of ending, because it makes the friendship continue even after. We are making plans about where we can all meet next year in Europe and make a big trip together, about how the girls can come and visit me this summer in Madrid, about how we can all come to each others homes in our own countries and live for a while and even about how we will all attend each others weddings and make them international. I decided with Edita that I will plan her wedding and she will make my wedding dress as payment :). Though we are laughing and enjoying, there is a slight feeling of sadness in everything, because at the end of every event we think about the fact that it's the last one. I really hope the knots are tight enough and we will really maintain a long lasting friendship, even if it's going to be a thousands kilometres apart friendship.

This is such a bummer because things are getting settled. Marketa started dating Diego, our apartment looks like a house finally (we made it hugelig and we even found mirrors yesterday in the basement...and now someone else will enjoy it).

Kamilla was here this week and she is a proof that people are really related to this city and we will for sure meet each other here again. It was a good week with Spanish dinner at Lina's place.

Friday it was the 1st of May, Labour Day of course, a day that is work free in most of the countries, except of course for Denmark. On the 1st of May in Denmark you have to work at least half of the day or work the whole day but get paid as if you worked a day and a half. Those are the rules and since I am a member of the Danish working class I have to obey them. This is how I worked for the first time in my working life on the 1st of May and how I missed a great trip to Samso (a beautiful island in Denmark which I have on my list for next year now). At least we went to a good, yes good, Romanian party in the kolegiet on Friday night.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Internship

After a long and stressful waiting period for an answer on my internship, today I got a surprise. I stopped checking my e-mail obsessively to see if I have a positive answer for any of my application, so today I just went to sleep after work, did my laundry and before eating something I decided to check my e-mail. And...a good idea that was...I got accepted at the Romanian Embassy in Madrid and the people from PETA USA asked me to write them something extra to an opinion I had, because they liked my application. This was a super hysteria moment for me as I went screaming in the house and woke up Marketa to share the news...she was happy for me, I could feel it...and maybe she will visit me. So, I basically have now two internships...two great ones...I thought my travelling luck was over after Aarhus, but it seams I was wrong and have to keep on moving every summer, every year. I love this...I love it now and I am super excited. I will most likely go for the internship in Madrid, because it's closer and it some how keeps me related to my country. I am currently looking for a place to stay for 12 weeks in Madrid...I hope my Spanish friends will help me find something cheep, because Madrid is not the cheapest place when it comes to rent.

So, now that things are settled I will come home on the 4th of June. I will buy my plane ticket tomorrow as I get my salary. I have a huge luggage again and I will soon have to send some things home again...and I should stop buying and start raising money. I am super happy and looking forward for my summer in Madrid...2 and a half months of Spanish weather, Spanish music and Spanish food :D...and Lina's Spanish dinner from yesterday gave me a taste of it.

I will have new places and new stories to write about on my never ending traveling blog.

Happy birthday Persi!