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!

Hej Stéphanie….yeah.I think you have to get used to that funny singing part everywhere around and at any ocassion in DK…..it is part of their life and to us rather funny..

Nice to have you back in DK anyway…..
I\’m still in Holland but I might come over and see you one day soon….
hejhej, wanda

hello Steph

Welcome to blog heaven.

Pip x

@Wanda… thank you so much for signing my blog… please call me when you\’re in Aarhus… would love to see you!

@Pip… you finally made it and find your way to my blog \”congratulation\”!!! If blogging is heaven, what is posting on a certain board on C19

@both… cheers and hugs from London… am tempted to stay here and kiss Denmark goodbye… would have to go back to do that though…

[...] Mikoline arrived on thursday, we met up at the irish pub Tir Na Nog in downtown Århus with some people from the university for the weekly pub quiz. Friday I went to the annual party of the Department of Natural Science along with Martin, Stephanie and Mikoline. Steffen Brandt from the danish band TV-2 performed for about 2 hours with some good music mixed with jokes. There were around 600 guests I think, so the place was quite packed. Initially there were some special lectures and the presentation of a honary price, during this I guess we were among the only people there younger than 35 , luckily there were more ph.d.-students present at the dinner so were not completely “alone”. Marting and I were the only students from the computer science department though Saturday I went to the university for a couple of hours to study sigma protocols with Martin, I then went home and showered and took Mikoline out to eat at Restaurant Lotus, which was very nice. They have this buffet thing were you pick some meat and accessories and hand it over to a bunch of guys frying the food in a wok. Afterwards we went to see The Da Vinci Code, it was not as bad as we had feared. Sunday I went with Christian, Gabi, Mirka, Phillip and Christine to the island of Samsø. We went to the Samsø Maze and spent about two hourse there, before taking a bus to some town for food. It was a very nice, and very hot trip. When we returned in the evening Chris, Philipp, Gabi and I played some ultimate in the university park. It will be nice with a relaxing week now [...]