Erasmus meeting - Copenhagen

Sunday morning as we got back from the road trip, I packed a few things then went to sleep, and slept so deep, that I didn't hear my alarm when it was ringing... and around 8 AM, Daniel asked me why I'm still here, and then I checked the time and see, my train departure was an hour ago! So I quickly checked my options how can I get to Copenhagen as soon as possible, and seemed like the cheapest would be to take the bus, since the train had no discounted prices, neither the bus, but it's still just the third of a train ticket! So I bought it and sent a message to Rus that when they can expect me to arrive in Copenhagen instead of the planned 10 AM...

Afterwards I didn't even try to sleep more, to make sure I won't miss the bus, I made some sandwiches for the trip and a pizza as a breakfast then it was time to leave to catch the bus. The ride took 3 hours, so I had some time to rest. Just when I got out from the highway, she texted me that they are already at the meeting point and waiting for me. We arrived to the station within a few minutes and I started to walk there when she was shouting from the other side of the road, she recognized me from my glasses. :)) Then I've just crossed the street to great her and to intrude her friend for me. Afterwards we aimed to get in Christiana and to see some interesting buildings before getting there. At Christiana there was nothing super special architecture, just the green light district where you can legally buy weed, so we just crossed by and then turned back to the city center to get some lunch and to see the main attractions. So we were at the Nyhavn Canal, at the main shopping street, at the Queen's garden, the botanic garden and some others, we didn't have time for everything, but well, they arrived yesterday and will leave tomorrow, so they did/will do the rest without me. We had some time resting in the gardens and talk a lot about what our plans and what are we doing since our Erasmus is over and so... Then we finished the day at Starbucks to get a coffee, rest and talk a little more before I had to leave.

Not much pictures from me, but I'm waiting to get some from them, so I can update the post later on. Till here are some picture, when I'm taking a picture of Olga's taking a picture of Rus' taking a picture of something... :D

Road Trip - Aalborg Karneval

Saturday was a really long day with lot of experiences! With Daniel we started our day with a long walk to the rental where we had to wait around half hour to get our turn in the line. It seemed like I would exceed my monthly limit with the fee for rental and deposit, but luckily they accepted Daniel's card instead and we got a grey Opel Corsa Sport, I wasn't expect to have such extras like auto-lights and cruise control in a small car like that.

At 9 AM we were able to leave the rental station and pick up all the others near to Rema 1000 in the city center to head straight to Aalborg for the Karneval! We got there a bit later then 11 AM, and we were lucky enough to find a free parking lot near to the event and get into it. It was like a huge party on the streets, all the people with customs, trucks with music and dancers and the crowd was following them slowly and dancing. All the danes were well prepared taking racks, baskets or a luggage with full of booze, drinks, chips and some of them even brought ice. As the crowd left a street the cleaners come right after, and it was really necessary, because they left a huge amount of garbage behind... Well, what to expect from thousands of drunk people, right? and they were do it from the morning till the trucks stopped at the finish point round 2-3 PM and more, but they had to wait for the party to begin at Kindeparken. At that time we went back to the car to have our lunch and discuss what to do next, since it wasn't really what we expected and we'd need some drinks for the party and also pay the entrance fee, we decided to pass, and go to the northest city of Denmark, to Skagen and a little further to the sea.

We got there a little bit later than 5 PM, so we didn't have to pay just for 40 minutes of parking. The beach was pretty similar to the one where we were with the Velux trip, but we had luck with the weather this time, no rain at all! We walked to the final point where we could go and we enjoyed the sea and the sand with the nice weather. After a few hours we got a bit hungry, so we went in the city to buy some food and drinks then we went back to eat it and to enjoy the atmosphere and to might see the sunset, but the sun was covered by clouds, so it didn't make sense to wait for it, but we still spent some time there, having fun and enjoying ourselves.

Some time after 9 PM we decided to leave and on the way back we stopped at Aarhus, where we arrived after midnight, we had a break and also we had a small walk in the city, even though we couldn't see much, just a part from the night life. But well, for me driving so long, I needed a little break there, just to move my legs and get some fresh air to not fall asleep in the next and also last 100 kms back to Kolding. :D

Before we reached Kolding, the gas sign turned on when we were around 30+ kms from our final destination. We refilled the car with jut a breath more then 44 liters and we took everyone home before turning back the car with Daniel, I mean to park it at the rental and drop the key in the "post box", and of course we had to walk back home... so we reached our beds sometime around 3.30 AM.

Since my camera is broken I didn't take much pictures with my phone, but hopefully I will get some pictures from the others so I can update it later... ;)

Photos update, credits goes to Daniel, Gintare and Martin. :)

#18 Project Week

Several days on the week, we were working on our project with my team, slowly but we are getting closer to the finish line. During the Danish courses we started to learn some grammar with the verbs and nouns. During the weekdays nothing special happend, most of the fun came during the weekend! With Ágó we went shopping someday and we also spent some time talking about our semester here, how it passed and so, and since we had nice weather in the last days we also had some ice creams! :)) Here are some pictures about the some meals I made:

On Saturday we had a road trip, watch out for a single post about it! and on Sunday I went to Copenhagen to meet a friend from my Erasmus times, more in the upcoming post(s). :)

Here is my weekly spending with the trips included.

#17 Last study week&buddy meeting

Monday was free, yuhee! On Tuesday one of  the Prime Cargo's manager came to see our presentation about the innovation project for his company. We had the presentations and they choose which one is the best from their point of  view, however they couldn't use the best idea, they managed to schedule a meeting with companies which can be involved in it for the winner team. Wednesday and Thursday we got some feedbacks about the mock exam and also how we should solve the case for each subjects. On Friday we had a buddy meeting for the students who will help the newcomers in the next semester. We got some information about how they can manage to book an apartment and what they need to do to get there in one piece. :) We also had some interesting examples what could be the questions of the newcomers and so, and also we've been invited for pizza and some soft drinks!
On the weekend we started to work on our semester project, and we discovered that the SDU building is open for the public most of the time, and it's really cool to go there and study since it's calm and quiet.... :)

During Saturday night, we had a small movie night with the Lithuanian girls and we watched Zootopia, the new Disney animation movie, it was quite good. :) And that was all the week...
Of course here is my weekly spending.

#16 Long weekend&Eurovision!

This week we had almost all the final classes when we learnt something new, next week we'll get only feedbacks about the mock exam from each teacher. Luckily we had wonderful weather during the weekdays, so we didn't have to put on a jacket, moreover someday we could walk in T-shirts and shorts outside! On Tuesday there was a hungarian evening at IBA, however I had danish class at the same time, and after my danish class I joined to my classmates to have a great party at Melody's place, just to go crazy a little before the exams and projects start since we had a freeday on Wednesday. On our freeday, I tried to study and I also made a pea soup for dinner. Thursday we had our last Logistics class and that was all, during the afternoon I had my danish class as well and afterwards I joined to the Lithuanians to wathc the Eurovision to see who will get in the finals form that group. On Friday the bad weather came back to Denmark, it started to be colder and windy and also the first rain drops arrived. During the day we started to work on one of our group projects, just to get some ideas what to do for the company, to be innovative. Afterwards we made a cake, which was like a sugar bomb! :D and we played some cards as well.

On Saturday I tried to study a little for the next weeks and during the night we watched the Eurosivison Final with the Lithuaninans! :) It was so much fun to watch it together and crossing fingers for the bests! I've also made my top five list, however I could not decide about the order, just those 5 was my favorites: Belgium, France, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Lithuania. And I also liked the Austrian as she was singing in french, it was pretty impressive, while the winner was Ukraine, I think there songs was good, too, it had a nice story, and the 2nd was Australia, well, it was nothing special for me, and the 3rd was Russia, it was just an okay song for me.

On Sunday I started to study a little again, and nothing special happend...

Here you can check my weekly spending.

#15 Almost free week

On Monday we had classes only in the afternoon, we also went to the bank in the morning to hand in our papers to finish the procedure of opening a bank account. On Tuesday we had 4 logistics which was pretty good, first we were talking about the mock exam case and afterwards we had a workshop, where we had to talk with a customer and with different suppliers to build up a tower. The teams were randomly selected, and our team decided to ask the customer about the preferences before going up to the suppliers to buy all the materials we need to build the tower. As long as we know the omst about what the customer want we were able to build the best for her. Our tower was the highest and had a red marshmallow as a top:

From Wednesday we were free, and we had some nice weather, however we were mostly sitting at home and try to study and so... On Thursday we organised a small barbaque party behind our building with the hungarians, it was pretty nice, we had some good time together. :) On Friday and on the weekend I was just resting and studying a little. Here you can take a look at my weekly spending.

#14 Mock exam and Factory visits

This Monday we started with a 6 hour mock exam, which was basically a test exam to see how we can perform on the test what we will have at the end of the semester. It wasn't that hard as it looked like, that 6 hours went fast, probably that you could use any notes and books helped a lot to run the time, as long as looking up the references and searching for the right methood took the most time. Later on the day Nia come over to help me finish one of the cakes for the competition. Next day we had classes from 8 AM to 2 PM, afterwards I got some rest and got ready with the cakes to go to the college for the competition. There we were there with like 12 different cakes, I had 2, so it was pretty fine, even though a Hungarian girl won the judges' part and a slovakian the guests' part, the competition was really nice and we had some amazing cakes! After the competition we played some cards and chitchat with the Lithuanian girls to finish the day.

On Wednesday we had 2 courses only, but afterwards we had a company visit to Prime Cargo with our organization teacher, this visit was an important one, since we have to work on a project afterwards with the company to suggest some innovative ideas for them. 9 of us was taking the bus to get there and unluckily we went further then the company and when we realized it we were way too far already and we should've wait 40 minutes for the next bus, so we called the teacher and told him where we are and he came to pick us up! It was worth it to get lost, so I could sit in the front seat of a Tesla! and enjoy how well an electrical car works. On the next day we had some classes and also I had a speaking with my mentor about my future how I imagine myself in a few years what I would like to do and so, it was quiete helpful. On Friday we had another company visit, this time it was the Velux who gave us the scholarship, so most of the Velux students came here, we took a bus near from our housing and went straight ot the company's place on the west coast. We watched a short movie about the company's history how it formed and became a huge company how it is today. Then we had a tour inside the factory where they manufacture only a few products since most of the production is in other countries. During the presentation we also got some food and beverages for breakfast, and as we finished with the company visit we went to our next stop which was an important spot during the world wars, however that was a place where wasn't much fight. We also went near to the sea on the sandy beach and walked around. Afterwards we went to a lighthouse where we had some cake and hot drinks and we also went up to the lighthouse to look around, then we had some time to walk around the beach again and get back to the bus and back to Kolding.

Then there was an IBA party at night with some Hungarians we went there, but it wasn't a big deal, so we went further to find a good party, then I left quite early. On Saturday there was nothing special we just did some laundry, and on Sunday we did some cleaning and some shopping as we were about to run out of a few things. And as always here is my weekly spending.