A Trip to Aarhus

It's 5.41 A.M. and I cannot sleep. I woke up at 3 A.M. and since then I haven't fallen asleep. Therefore, I decided to brush up my blog a little bit, although I've got a feeling that few people are interested in reading it and viewing pictures.
On Tuesday our group of 11 people (me, Vojta, Katka, Viki, Mery, Caroline, Siv Hege, Kari, Ania and her boyfriend and Zeliha) went on a trip to Aarhus, the 2nd largest city of Denmark. We expected a lot but I was a bit disappointed. The weather wasn't very nice and both the Ancient Museum and the Organic Garden we wanted to visit were closed. Also the train and bus tickets were very expensive, there was a long queue at the ticket office and besides the train had a 45-minute-delay. I thought that just Czech trains are delayed constantly. Moreover, we got on a wrong train as there are no signs and you cannot recognize where the train is going and you always have to ask somebody to be 100 % sure.
We bought some pizza in Aarhus and I got sick later so I wonder if it was because of the pizza. I think so..:-(
However, I was glad that we've seen something new. It wasn't a bad day at all, we had fun and hygelige time in one of the Cafés in Aarhus.

A Trip to Legoland

On Saturday 27th March we went to Billund, the town of Legoland. It was the first opening day of the season and therefore tickets' were really cheap (110 DKK). We tried all attractions and had a wonderful time. We arrived home at 20.10, ordered pizza, bught some Chinese food, drank bier and had hyggelige time.:-)

Tuesday 9th, the best day

On Tuesday 9th we had a wonderful physical education class. I think that we all thoroughly enjoyed it as Jakob is probably the best teacher we've had here so far. We played a great number of enjoyable games from different countries. We also sang some national songs and everything was great. After P.E. we had a break for lunch and then Special Needs with Bodil. Although we didn't learn much new in this lesson, I quite liked it as Bodil is a nice teacher and she allowed us to discuss the key points she talked about.
After school we prepared a wonderful lunch - tortillas stuffed with meat and Mexican beans with sunnyside-up eggs and Chinese leaves. Without a doubt, Katka is the best cook in Denmark!
You can see the picture of our lunch and of me typing posts for my webblog.

A New Month - A New Hair Cut

As Czech People are very economical, we decided not to pay 150 DKK for a visit at a hairdresser's and cut our hair themselves. Jesper cut my hair and Katka cut Vojta's. You can view a few pictures and judge how successful we were.:-)

Walking through Haderslev with Vojta and Katka

Week 8 and 9 in Denmark

On Friday 26th there was a costume party at school and I thoroughly enjoyed it! It was a bit complicated to get a costume here but finally I made it and disguised as a devil. We danced until the dawn and I went to bed at 3 A.M.
We had a rest at the weekend and I visited Belgian girls in their residence and I had a delicious dinner there.
In Week Nr. 9 we didn't have any special subjects. We were really disappointed by the optional English lesson as it was not focused on conversation, grammar or vocabulary, as we had expected, but on analysing a poem. Therefore, we decided not to attend this course any more.
Moreover, we had Special Needs but we didn't learn anything new in this lesson.
On Thursday we day a delicious lunch in the canteen. What's more, it was for free! Great.

A Trip to Copenhagen

On Wednesday 17th we left for Copenhagen. We travelled by bus and by train and the journey took about 3 hours and 30 minutes. After our arrival we went to the Danhostel, got installed there and went sightseeing.
On the first day in Copenhagen we took the City Tour Bus and visited the Rundetaarn (built by Christian IV between 1637 and 1642, it used to be an observatory, a library and a library). There was a marvellous view of the whole city, although the weather was a bit cold and windy. We also walked along Stroget (a shopping street number 1 in Copenhaged and the longest shopping street in Europe, 1.1 km long). In the evening we had a delicious dinner in a Chinese restaurant. We paid 100 DKK and could eat anything we wanted. No wonder we spent the rest of the day lying in bed and doing nothing.
On Thursday, Feb 18th we started the day with a delicious breakwast and then went sightseeing. We could see the Royal Library (called The Black Diamond as it shines at night). We wanted to go on a boat trip but the boats didn't sail due to the frozen river. That's why we had to walk for about 40 minutes to see The Little Mermaid. But it was worth-doing as The Little Mermaid is probably the most famous symbol of Copenhagen and is really beautiful. You can also come to her and touch her.
We also went to Amalienborg Castle and watched changing of the guards accompanied by great music. Then we went to the oldest cafe in Copenhagen called Sommersko.
In the evening we went to the Mediterranean Restaurant Riz Raz. The buffet there was flavourful and we kept eating until we got extremely full. To get rid of the energy we gained we went out and searched for a disco. Unfortunately we didn't find the one we were looking for but we discovered an Australian Bar with extremely friendly prices - a bottle of bier for just 10 DKK. So walking back to the hostel was really funny!:-)
On Friday 19th we packed our suitcases and got ready for going back to Haderslev. Before that we wisited the National Museum which is enormous and has a great number of fascinating exhibitions. I especially liked the Children's museum with replicas of toys you could play with, and the Café where I ordered wonderful hot chocolate.
Everything in Copenhagen worked like clockwork except for catching the bus. The train was a little bit delayed and that's why we didn't catch the bus to Haderslev. As the result we had to wait for an hour for another bus. But we did shopping instead to kill the time.
To sum up: Copenhagen is a wonderful city and I really enjoyed staying there. I would like to go there again in spring when everything is green and weather is more suitable for sightseeing!

Happy Valentine's Day

Love is in the air - can you feel it? I sure can...:-)
Sunday was a funny day. Our friend Eliska Skalova came from the Czech Republic to visit her boyfriend and us, too. We were really happy to see her, although she didn't bring Rum we desperately needed.:-)
Then electricity in our house stoped working all of a sudden. Although we tried to exchange the fuses, there was still no light in the kitchen and the fridge, washing machine and freezer did not work. The funny thing was that we had some clothes in the washing machine. We had to get our landlord and meanwhile decided to take out the clothes of the washing machine, squeeze it by hands and put it on the cloatheshorse. We got a bit depressed so we decided to play the piano and sing some songs to release the pressure. No wonder the music band on Titanic played songs until the very end.:-))
Then we went to Vojta's and prepared Vienna's schnitzel with potatosmash. This was without a doubt the best part of the day!

Friday Night Fever

On Friday 12th we didn't stay long at school. We just discussed what we'd experienced so far and evalauated the lessons we'd had. I was quite to surprised to see that Jete is open to criticism. She took down some notes and I'm pretty convinced that she'll do her best to improve the things in the programme we weren't satisfied with. Than we planned our trip to Copenhagen.
After school we, Katka and Vojta went to a pizza restaurant. Then we bought some beer and went to Vojta's place. In the evening we went to Student's Cafe and had a really good time there. We were drank beer, danced, talked a lot and went to bed at 3.30 A.M.:-)) You can see some photos....