CX and The Street

Went out to the street with friends both friday and saturday. Friday after a birthday party for some of the international students, which turned out to be really fun. Left and went to the street as I had biked and met up with a bunch of the other international students and danced on the floor with them. One of the girls from norway invited me to watch her futbol game. Left the street at 4 am, watched the game at noon, it was hard enough for me to get up myself in the morning, I'm impressed by the girls who showed up.

Watched the women's futbol game for aalborg university, the team is small, they only had enough players to field a team. But these girls still have more talent in their feet than I have in my entire body.

Saturday started out at my place with my "Buddy" and a few other friends, played some american card games and a danish game called "god" it highly resembles kings cup but any time a king is drawn, they become god and can create any rule at any time. Rules generally include, all the guys drink. (Repeat) Made my way to the street but refused to accept that I was tired, the music was too loud to talk and the dance floor was too crowded to move. Made my way back as I was training with Anders at 9 am.

Went on a cx training course with Anders and Thomas, I learned I need to learn how to corner at slow speeds. Power needs improvement too. Well just about everything needs improvement. Managed to dismount improperly before a log and slammed my leg into it, (Slipped in the mud) ending my training for the day. But for only about 1 hour of actual training time I burned 1000 calories.

Oh, and last monday I had a great danish dinner made by my buddy and her friend. Lots of pork products, danish meatballs, sausage, liverpate, herring. Everything is eaten on bread too, it is considered rude to eat anything without it being ontop of bread.

What a month

Yea, yea, this has been updates so infrequently I can't talk about everything.

Recently visited copenhagen and watched the world championships for the Road Race and Time Trials, saw the Pro men for the Time trials and almost all of the road races. Found an awesome spot for the road race, about 200 meters from the finish for every race except the pro men, had a tv screen with commentary behind us.

In Copenhagen I visited the Icebar, very small with a friend I had met the night before in the hostel bar. We also went and visited a live Jazz bar right after. The room was filled with smoke but the music was spectacular.

The weather has turned around, my Garmin was reading 24 degrees centigrade today. Sunny, beautiful. I have a route right next to my house that is gravel and dirt roads so it allows for superb training as it is flat. There are tons of bends to the course that I get to take at high speeds and work on my cornering, I am turning into a nascar driver though, I can only turn left.

Classes have been a lot of fun too, wrote one paper about Arla, the milk company here in denmark and the challenges it faces marketing across foreign cultures. I have a class about globalization which almost always has a ridiculously good conversation. Material is easy but that allows for further exploration in class. Allows for a foreign view mostly on american policies as America has a huge role in the globalization of the world.

Otherwise I have the danish language course, don't like the teacher that much but I am determined to learn the language through practice and scrabble. I have an intro to Scandinavian culture which is hit and miss based on the teacher that are lecturing and the topics.

I will have two psychology courses that on memory and thinking come november/december.

House?

Well I arrived in denmark without a house. I am crashing with a guy named Hasier, who happened to be in my buddy group. Basically an OD group to all the Willamette people.

I have been to many bars, but I arrived on a sunday, not exactly a party day. I have been around downtown, built up my bike, broke a spoke on said bike, registered for classes, two psychology classes, a business class, a politics class.

Things are super expensive here, take american prices and double them, pretty much for everything here. Minimum wage is roughly about 20 usdollars an hour though.

From the Plane

Reading books, learning danish. I arrive in Denmark in about 12 hours.

Have a place to crash while I search for an apartment.

Visa being processed.