Easter in the dormitory

On Easter Saturday - 11th of April - we started to paint eggs with Lilla. One hand because it is a tradition in Hungary and the other hand we wanted to prepare something nice to the others. Gosia mentioned it could be nice to have a common breakfast in Sunday morning. So everything came together!
We got up early and Lilla hid the painted eggs in the field behind our dormitory. So the egg-hunting has started... :) During that I set the table and I also went out, because I also had a named-painted egg to find. It was so funny to see the others chasing the eggs. After that we had a nice traditional breakfast together: ham, boiled egg, salad. It was also nice to introduce our tradition to Anja and Canan, because they either do not celebrate Easter or not this way. I had to realise Polish tradition is quite similar to ours.


Although it was really nice to celebrate together, I really missed my mother dishes, the "watering" on Easter Monday, which is a nice tradition in Hungary: when women have to stay at home and men come around to "water" them with parfume (in old times with water). We say "thank you" for this giving painted and chocolate eggs.

All in all it was a nice time together and a beautiful day as well!

Circus, Earth Hour, prediction...

On Saturday - 28 th of March - Anja and me visited the Danish National Circus - Circus Dannebrog. Both of us hadn't seen circus with animals since our childhood. I also had a personal reason: I used to work in circus - The Great Moscow State Circus in England- so I was just simply curious what's the differences and similarities between the two circus. At the beginning of the show there was a short movie about the history of Danneborg Circus and the way to put up the tent was also presented. But the main difference is there are animals in the show: horses, dogs and elephants.
The funny thing is the big top - tent - of this circus is really similar to the circus I used to work. You can see here!
The main attraction was the elephant act: they were kneeing, turned around, stood on their heads,...etc. It was also very nice to see the jumping and swinging dogs. One of them could count as well. The trainer wrote a number onto a small blackboard and the dog barked that much times, what number was on the board.
The act with horses was really beautiful. I was really nervous when a man stayed on the back of the horse and jumped through a lit hoop and he arrived to the back of the horse again.
The show was very different, what I had seen before...You can see some pictures of the show below! : )

After the circus there was a party our dormitory, which was organised by Lilla. By the time most of the people had arrived, the time was nearly 20.30, so we prepared to the Earth Hour by liting candles and tealights and switched off all of the lights, electricity our dormitory. It was really cosy, indeed.
Then we had a small 'seance': Noémi brought her gypsy card with her and she started to predict for those, who asked for it.



It was very exciting and little bit scary in the same time: sitting in the dark and hear your past, present and close future. I was always little bit sceptic about prediction, but what she said, almost everything was right!
I really enjoyed that afternoon and evening! : )

Carnival in the College

On the 20th of February we had a fancy dress party in the College. We made lots of preparation before that. First we tried to rent some costumes from a shop, but there wasn't that much choice - most of them were already taken - , so we had to use our creativity...
One day I went to one of the charity shops and I saw a bag full of teabags. I thougt those are teabags, so I bought them. When I came home, I ralised there aren't any teabags in the bag at all, only just a collection of teabag papers. I bacame very angry, and I wanted to throw them away. I told the story first for Lilla and she suggested to keep them, because they are so colourful and special. After I told the story for the others; everybody laughed at me - of course - , because I bought half a kilo paper for 10 DKK...Then the idea came: the fancy dress party was coming and I haven't have anything to wear. I decided to be a tealady/teabag, but I had to buy a dress as well. So I went back an other charity shop and suprisingly I found a dress, which was suit for me and sewed some of the teabag papers on it. I also bought a teapot, so the fancy dress was completed and it was really cheap!But not only me, everybody was very creative: Cleopatra, bottle opener&bottle, impressionist artist, devil, clown, Zorro, gypsy girl,...etc.
It was really difficult to rode the bike in these costumes and in snowfall, but finally we arrived in safe to the College.
We met there some of our buddies and our teachers and we had fun together. Although the music wasn't best to dance - it was a sort of "concert music" - , we still could enjoy the night!

A really HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

Yesterday evening Lilla forced me to go to the kitchen. I thought she prepared something for me (we wanted to prepare pencakes before, so I thought she just did that for me). It was a very big suprise for me, because all of my Erasmus mates were the kitchen. It wasn't only my birthday, Gosia's as well, but she already had known about what the others planned. They were just standing around, singing the "happy birthday" song, holding the birthday cakes in the decorated kitchen, little tealights everywhere. It was very touching, and I felt myself ashamed, because I hadn't prepared with anything. And I still don't know, how could they organise it such a good way! My wish - almost - came true, because a I got a handmade birthday card with the Danish flag on it also with all of my flatmates wishes and signitures and an other one - an "artificial" one - , all of my Erasmus mates wishes and signitures. Top of this I got a bottle of red wine.
I could say we had a good time together. We were chating each other, dancing, eating and had karaoke as well. We were just hyggeling together. :)
Every birthday is special, because you have it once in your life. But my 27 th birthday was really special because all of you.
Thank you for everybody!

Something smells in Denmark - but it is not rotten...

Ok. I have to make a retrospection, because a haven't done anything on my blog since Monday...Somebody knocked on my door...It was Lilla. She just warned me, it is not allowed to me to go to the kitchen now...Maybe they organise something....I don't know. Today is my birthday, and I wanted to cook or bake something, but I had a long sleep instead. I went to bed around 5 in the morning, because I was chating with my boyfriend on skype. So this is the reason of my laziness. Hmmm...I'm just hearing funny noise from the kitchen and my mates running up and down of the corridor...Something smells as well. But it is very nice, and I became hungry. A hungry Hungarian...
And what is my birthday wish? I wish I got a handmade birthday card the Hungarian flag on it. I was really impressed, when I saw during my practise that one of the pedagogs made a birthday card for her mum and she did the envelope as well. She told me Danish people usually made their own cards with the Danish flag on it. And they also put the Danish flag to the table if somebody has birthday...I like this tradition...
Somebody knocked my door again...I need to go...The retrocpection can wait.