Hjemmelavet pandekager - Selfmade pancakes

Aalborg

This sunday Klaus invited us to spend the afternoon with him and his family at their house. 

So we took the bus in the morning to enjoy the day in Aalborg and do some sight-seeing as you can see in the pictures.

In the afternoon Klaus picked us up and we drove to his home. We had some kind of traditional Danish lunch, went for a walk and ate dinner together.

They invited me to their church as well. I really enjoyed the time with such a nice family and I'm so looking foward to join their service.

Our "new home"

My room

There are three EVS (European Volunteer Service) Volunteers at Limfjordskolen every year.

This year the volunteers are two girls from Spain and France - and me (from Germany).

Our living room

When I arrived Tania (The Spanish volunteer) had already been here for some days and we are now looking forward to meet our third flatmate on Monday. 

We live in a house in Løgstør close to the school. Every one of us has her own room while we share the living room, bathroom and the kitchen.

The garden

All of our rooms are equipped with a bed, a desk with a chair and a wardrobe. In our garden we even have our own little æbletræ (appletree).

I will try to find some time to record and upload a video of our flat soon.
You can find more pictures of the house on the website of Limfjordskolen as well (Click here): House of the Volunteers (Limfjordskolen)

Løgstør

Danish way of shopping/selling food

Living at the Fjord

A little street in Løgstør

At the fjord

The Church in Løgstør

 

Life on Livø

Livø

The play of the theatre group

The music group practicing their song

This morning Tania, Klaus (our Boss) and I took the ferry to a very small island called „Livø”. Only one family is living on the Island, but there are some houses several groups can rent for holidays, camps or school trips. 

This weekend some of the students from Limfjordskolen take part in a meeting with different groups of people with several difficulties which takes place on Livø.

When we visited them today they were separated in different groups. There was for example the music group which covered a remix of Danish songs. Later in the afternoon every group presented whatever they had practiced during the day. Among other things there was a theatre group which presented a play and the concert of the music group. (Look at the pictures on the left) Being part of it today was a lot of fun! We learned a lot about the history of the island as well, but it would take hours and hours to write it down so this has to be enough for today. :-)

Min første dag - Day 1

Today was my first day at Limfjordskolen. For the first time I met the students and teachers I will work with for ten months from now on. All of them were really kind and friendly.

This morning we went to the fjord - which is pretty close to the school - and had a boat tour on one of the oldest canals in Denmark after we had fished for some crabs.
The students are very open-minded and communicative. The only problem is that I don't speak Danish yet and the students do neither understand German nor English. So they talked to me all the time but I didn't understand. Anyways, it was a lot of fun for me to guess what everything meant.  

I'm glad I picked up some new Danish words and sentences today.

Another thing I learned is that even if it is sunny and warm in the morning you should still carry a warm cagoule with you. The rain in Denmark starts so abruptly (!!) it takes less than thirty seconds for you to be completely drenched with rain.

After work Tania (a Spanish volunteer who also lives with me), me and our boss went to Aalborg to apply for our residence permit. I hope the whole process is not going to take too long so we can attend language school soon.