Dinner in Aalborg

After work I took the bus to Aalborg to meet a friend of mine (one of the girls from church). We went for a walk and then had dinner together at a Chinese restaurant. Afterwards we took the bus and went to her connect group. I had to take my bus home very soon so I didn't spend a lot of time with them but anyways it is so nice to get connected to Danish people.


It's so easy in Denmark to get to know people from all over the world - but (in your privat life) you hardly spend any time with Danes (sounds so weird but it's true). So once again I am so happy to become part of their church community.


Although they might not be mentioned in any trip-advisor you seriously have to visit Bethelkirken when you come to Aalborg!

Tour to Vejle

Tania, me and some other Volunteers spent this weekend at Sara's house (the house of her host parents) in Vejle. We were seven girls from Italy, Spain, Austria and Germany.


On Saturday Sara picked all of us up at the train station. She had to drive twice to take us to her home. In the afternoon - after we had talked for hours - we went to buy food and drinks for the weekend. We had some Spanish omlette (made by Tania) for lunch and Italian pasta for dinner. Afterwards we had a good time talking and watched a movie together.


One of the best things about the European Volunteer Service is that you will get to know a lot of other volunteers in the country you go to. Thereby you meet people from all over the world (even if you don't have any roommates). The camps that I also wrote about earlier are mandatory and part of an EVS. It might sound boring to be forced to go on camps, but it is actually a lot of fun and soooo easy to make new friends since all of the people attending have something in common. You're in a foreign country, you may miss your home, you may find certain things strange, you might have some problems in your project or host family and so on....... but I can guarantee you that whatever it might be: you will not be the only one. And the camps are a great opportunity to share and talk about your experiences (and get some advice if needed).


We've had such a nice time during this weekend and I'm sure it's not the last time we visited each other!

(The picture above is a screenshot of a video that we were recording earlier. We were singing "happy birthday" in our different languages at the same time and sent it to Fatou who turned 25 today)

Æbleskiver!

Today the Music class (the class that I work with in the moment) was visiting our apartment. We were making a traditional Danish dish from the old days and ate them before we had to go back to the school.

Æbleskiver are traditional pancakes in a distinctive shape of a sphere. The name literally means apple slices in Danish, although apples are not an ingredient nowadays.  In Denmark it is common to eat them at Christmas and over the days leading up to it. It is easy to make the dough but you need a special pan for their shape. I enjoyed learning how to make them and of course even more to eat them in the end. :-)

Christmas lunch at Bethelkirken

Today I was taking part in the "Julefrokost" (Jul= Christmas ; Frokost = Lunch) of Bethelkirken in Aalborg. We had a lot of awesoom food and fun games. (As I wrote before... The Danes are crayz about Christmas and their Christmas parties haha!)




I  really enjoy to be part of this loving community and I am very thankful for today.

French Food

Today we had some of the students visiting our apartment. Fatou was cooking Ratatouille for us so we could taste some French food. It was awesome!!

On-arrival Camp

Although we've already been in Denmark for almost three months now we had our "on-arrival camp" this week.

The camp took place in a so called "Højskole". Denmark had 76  'folk high school bording schools' by the end of 2009. The concept of these schools was inspired by the need to educate those not fortunate enough to have an education and the poor who could not spare the time or the money to attend a university. It is still very common to attent a "Højskole" e.g. between graduation and university.

During the camp we were allowed to use the gym, fitnesstudio and other rooms of the students.

We talked and learned about a lot of different things. We started presenting our EVS projects to the others and had some time to talk about our experiences so far. But we were also discussing why the Danes are who they are and where their different behaviour comes from. Or we were trying to figure out which of our thoughts were actually limiting to us and how we could use our talents to start our own project in our working place.

But as you can see in the pictures below we also had time to bake Christmas cookies, play games, make some music, visit the city and have a lot of fun. :-)

„MARIEEEEE! IT’S SNOWING!“

Ever since I’ve been living with a French and a Spanish girl I have had a lot of fun discovering the differences. The three of us use to laugh about each other because it’s so amusing to see how much our view on all sorts of things depend on our nationality. 
I’ve had one of ‘those moments‘ yesterday evening and  I thought it would be a good example to write down:
I was sitting at my desk, drinking some coffee and talking to my boyfriend on Skype when suddenly I heard the other two girls talking loudly in the living room. It was easy to hear that they were shocked, excited or angry for some reason. Not even five seconds later I was pulled out of my thoughts by a scream: „MARIIIEEEE! MARIIIIIEEEEEE!“.  I was pretty sure it must be something really important because we usually never call each other when we know the other one is talking on the phone or Skype. Another scream: „MARIEEEEE! IT’S SNOOWIIIING!“. Wait. In the school they talked about snow this weekend. But REALLY?! SNOW?! NOW?! I was running out of my room. It was kind of a surprise to all of us but I was laughing so hard about the tone of Tania’s voice. Well, I didn’t expect it to snow tonight but snow in November is nothing sooo special to me. If you grew up in the South of Spain it is apparently a reason to freak out as soon as you discover the first snowflakes. When I entered the living room the girls were standing outside of the door to the garden, watching snowflakes in the size of a 2-Euro-coin falling down, covering the grass and everything else. You should have seen the excitement in Tania’s eyes sending voice messages to her friends or family to tell them the winter has finally fully arrived in Denmark and we are watching the first snowflakes powdering Løgstør.