Last night’s task was to get out and become acquainted with the ways of the natives and so, I ended up attending my very first official Danish university event. It was the facutly of science’s annual event (watch out, the website is in Danish only) and it was kinda fun… at least more fun than a similar event in my homecountry would have been… especially the mutual singing in between the dinner courses was a whole new experience for me. The lyrics were dealt out and a pianist played along as the people sang old folksongs about summer and butterflies and the like… the secretaries of the department of computer science had even prepared their own lyrics for such a tune and one of the verses goes like this:

PhDér, ræsonnerer,
løber panden mod en mur,
flyder rundt i svømmeveste,
og ser Gud som en filur.

- needless to say that the two PhD students I came with had a good laugh at that. – Skål!