23/2 - Winter Wonderland...

... Okay, maybe there aren't that much wonderland over the landscape in Aalborg, but it sure is winter! In the morning (around 10.30) I actually decided to walk over to the university despite of the amount of snow, but it was mostly to use a PC. The walk to the university took a little bit longer than usual because of the amount of snow in some parts of the bike path, but eventually I arrived there. And there were actually 4-5 other people in the the computer room at Fib. 4, so I wasn't the only person to defy the snow. A couple of hours later I decided to go home, and on the way home I took some pictures like this one:

Well, this doesn't happen every day

After coming home, nothing really important happened, but our new friend Jorge was fascinated by the snow since he comes from a part of Europe, where snow is pretty rare. It also seems that Greg loves to throw snow after people's heads - especially inside the kitchen!! Then it was evening and me and the foreign threesome decided to head for the Friday Bar at the C.W. Obel Collegium, so we used the road since there weren't that many cars that evening. After some while we finally arrived, but we found out that there were some party, so we had to wait. So we decided to go to Chris' place, which actually was pretty close to the Friday Bar!! There we met our little American girl Audrey, the girl I can't remember what her name is (yeah I know... pretty unfortunate), 2 Danish guys (Mads & Simon) I know from the University, and another Danish guy (whose name I can't remember), and we were there until around 23.30, where we went into the Friday Bar, where I met my group mate Bjarke and his girlfriend (along with his sister). Along the way I also met some other persons, who live there, I experienced Greg's dancing abilities, and Jorge became much more friendlier than usual (he is a nice guy in general, but his mood that night was probably because of that I wore a Spanish national jersey), and he even kissed me (thankfully only on my cheek). Actually I outlasted the flatmates (Martin went to another party before going home, and the two others went home at 3 o' clock) and the other international students, so I left at 6.15 (I was one of the few persons left at the bar) and came home almost 30 minutes later with some wierd hat...

Yeah, some Spaniards surely gave me some love(?!) because of one certain jersey...

21/2 - Snow is falling...

... all around me, children playing, having fun...

No, no, no, no and NO!! It's not that scenario from that famous Shakin' Stevens Christmas song, that I'm looking at!! Here in Aalborg it has snowed (probably) since last night, and already in the morning there were delayments with the bus, but luckily I only live around 30 minutes of walk from the university, so I decided to do just that. When I arrived, we were only 4 people, but eventually more people came, so the lecture wasn't cancelled.

After the lecture I met my Scotish friend Chris at the cantine, where we talked for a while before going to a computer room. At 15.00 I decided to go back home, but it was a LONG walk because of the wind most of the time blew in my face with snow... great!!

By the way... just to go at bit off topic... Yesterday a new guy moved in the house. His name is Jorge and comes (as some of you maybe have figured out) from Spain. He seems to be nice, but his English needs to be polished...

Finally back in the house I ate some lunch and then prepared myself to go to the Student House, but the snow were still causing problems for the busses, so they were cancelled for the rest of the evening. So no Student House tonight, but at least I can watch some Champions League... go Liverpool!!

10/2 - Arrivederci!!

I woke up at around 8.30 after getting only almost 3 hours of sleep!! Eventually I made some breakfast (yup, rye bread and herring) and went to some part of Sohngårdsholmsvej at 9.45, where I had promised to some from the revue group to help them setting some stuff up. I was supposed to leave at 12-12.30 to watch some bowling, but I delayed it by several hours, so I finally left at 16.10. I went to the bowling center to get some balls and went back home.

After coming home, I found out that Damiano was cooking a farewell dinner for us (except for Lars, who were at his parents, and our Greenlander, who isn't exactly the most popular guy in the house these days...). Later in the evening we were about to go to a party at Lena's place, but Christian was tired and so were Greg & Martin, so Damiano and I were the only ones who went.

The party was nice and uneventful, but Damiano got a farewell present from Lena (and the others)... Eventually Damiano and I took the last bus home around 0.45, and after coming home, I said goodbye because that I had to leave early the next morning, so I couldn't do it there.

So thanks Damiano for staying here at Hvidkildevej the last 6 months, and I hope that you will enjoy the next few days in London (especially Soho) before going back to Italy - and Nephew ;-)

Thanks for everything!!

9/2 - Party at Luna

My day really started at 12, when I met with my two group mates Bjarke and Mads to finish an assignment for Wednesday, that we had to send via email. After this was done, we went to the Friday Bar at the cantine to have a beer. I stayed there until 16.00, where I decided to go home. After coming home, Christian asked me if I could come with him to a place, where a farewell party for Damiano was being held, so I said "Sure". After Damiano left, we signed a note for the farewell present that Christian had bought for Damiano. Then Christian, Martin and I went to Danmarksgade, where the party was being held. There I met some new friends (who I actually had seen before at the Christmas party at Hvidkildevej) like Allan from Australia and Leanne from Canada, but there were also familiar faces like the energetic Lena....After having dinner and a dessert, we went to the Luna Collegium at Ny Kastetvej, where there was a party for international students. There I met new faces and familiar ones like Luis (who came to preach and was in character the entire night!), the guys from the French House at Thorsgade and Matthieu, who I haven't seen for some time. But one thing that some of us were talking about most of the evening was: "Where is Greg??" At one point Jimmy wrote to Christian that Greg would come soon, but something obviously went wrong. More on that later...
There were also a few surprises. The most surprising part was that my self-proclaimed little sister from Austria Verena was at the party (she went back to Austria in the middle of December). I found out that she was back in Aalborg for the weekend, which was pretty nice!
At 1.30, a lot of people went to town, and eventually Christian, Damiano and I did the same at 2. Eventually we settled down at the bar known as "Spirit of America", where we met many of the international students (and of course my "little sister" was there), and enjoyed ourselves until around 5, where we had to go home (not before having a little snack). We came home around 5.30, where we talked at bit before finally going to bed.

Oh yeah, I forgot one thing. I found out the next day that Greg actually went to Danmarksgade, but somehow he got the wrong address and eventually gave up and went home. Speaking about bad luck!

7/2 - At the Student House again...

The day started with a lecture in theory and methods, where me and two others were doing a little presentation along with two other groups. Unfortunately one of the guys couldn't come because of he was sick. Maybe he just feigned illness because he was scared ;-). It went OK, but it was nothing special...

In the afternoon I went to the Student House for a meeting with some guys, where we made a sketch for the upcoming revue. At 21.30 I went to the cinema to meet a friend and his cousin, but I found out that they weren't there, and after some time I decided not to wait anymore and went back to the Student House, where there were a lot of new international students. Eventually I found Damiano, Greg and Martin and greeted them. On the way home I also met two other international students, who were studying with Greg: a guy from Scotland, whose name I can't remember and Audrey from the USA. After coming home, Greg wasn't quick enough to get in the house, so we locked him out for a few minutes before going to bed.

4/2 - Super Bowl XLI

Most of the day was used for watcing the Jutland Youth Championships semi finals and finals in the bowling center, and after being at the local supermarket, I came home arround 17.30, where Christian asked me if I would join him and Jimmy for Super Bowl XLI arround midnight, and I said "Sure!". Later (almost) all the flatmates had a common dinner, which always is enjoyable. After the dinner I had to read some stuff for the presentation on Wednesday.

Then at midnight we watched Super Bowl XLI. In the middle of the second quarter Lars joined us and asked a lot of questions regarding American football. That's what you get for using too much time playing World Of Warcraft and not watching sports.

During the half time break, we went down to the kitchen to make some burgers, which we ate along some french fries during the second half. After the game ended, I went straight to bed.

The match was great, especially the first quarter. Man, that was sick!! But eventually the Colts won the match to my big disappointment (you can guess who I cheered for). Thanks a lot Rex!!

1/2 - Welcome!!

A new day, a new semester at the university - and most of all - new flatmates. Those were the headlines of the day.

After a quick breakfast, I went to the university, where a new semester started with a lecture in theory and methods. I came in a group, who volunteered to make a little presentation for the lecture the next week. Other than that there was nothing new - except the books. It wasn't surprising that the book, we have to use did cost ca. 250 DKR, but I was surprised to find out that the compendium did cost 271 DKR(!!!), which annoyed me. But it was one BIG compendium.

The other big subject of the day was the new flatmates: were they girls or boys, from Europe or somewhere else in the world etc., etc... I already knew their surnames when I came back from my parents the day before, but I wanted to know... After the lecture I went to the cantine with some of the guys to chat at bit. On the way I got a message from Christian that one of them was already at our house. That guys name was Martin and was from the Czech Republic. Now one half of the mystery was solved, and the other was solved in the evening. More about that later...

I was supposed to go to a party with most of the guys and girls from the fourth semester in the evening, but then I got a message in the cantine that it was canceled because of the semi final against Poland, which was very dissapponting!

So I used the evening to train, but it was a bit difficult because that many people watched the handball match on the big screen in the bowling center. After coming home, I met the last of the new guys. He was from Hungary and his name was Greg (he said it would be easier than his real name, that I can't remember). After a short chat, I went to bed...

To wrap it up: two guys from Eastern Europe has moved in the house at Hvidkildevej 6, which broke the trend of having French guys in the house since April last year (another French guy was in the house from April to the middle of September)... hehe ;-)