Showing posts with label Haderslev. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haderslev. Show all posts

Monday, 9 February 2009

The place where we live...


We - Anja, Canan, Carlos, Gosia, Lilla, Marysia, Marlene and me - live outside of the town in the first floor of a dormitory. There aren't too many things around except some schools, a factory and besides of the building there is a dog-training place. It could be really noisy,when dogs are there but fortunately it happens only in Thursday evening and in Saturday afternoon.
It takes about 30 minutes to get to the College on foot, but only if you know the shortcut. The shortcut is: first you need ot turn left and go along the street, then cross the footbridge and leave the 'social buildings'. Then you have to cross the field and small passageways - up and down between houses - and you will arrive to the Waterhouse. Then you need to go down from the hill, turn left, then cross the ground. Then you will find a shortcut - an institute parking place - , which lead you a crosswalk. You have to cross the road, and go straight. At the second junction turn left. And finally you get to the College. It's easy, isn't it? :)
Everybody has his/her own room - hall, bathroom, bedroom - , which is commodious and comfortable.
We have a big kitchen as well, which is not only for cooking, but parties, meetings, watching movies, paintings, making jigsaw puzzles, karaoke...etc.
We also have a place, where we can wash and dry our clothes. At the beginning we can't wash, because all of the writings on the washing-machine and dryer-machine are Danish. Finally we - Lilla and me - were brave enough to try it and luckily we didn't ruin our clothes. Then I asked my buddy - Christen - for help, so she translated the writings. It was settled...

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

The first days in Haderslev

It was't too easy to find out where is the bedding. First I just looked for it underneath of the bed and after that I found it in the back of the sofa. It was very strange for me, because I hadn't seen this kind of "system" before. So you had to learn how you can make the bed. The steps are the following:


1. You need to lift up the back of the sofa. Undeneath of it you find the bedding.
2. Then you need to roll it down.
3. Afterwards you need to put everything to the right place.
4. Finally you can lie down.
5. And the whole starts again...
6. You need to roll the bedding up.
7. Then you need to squeeze the bedding into the back of the sofa.
8. Finally you need to give a good push to the back.

If you made it in right way you can make yourself very comfortable on the sofa. But it just never happens with me... :)





Our sleep wasn`t so long, because our buddy - Christen - came to take us to the centre of the town. The first shopping was quite funny - I supose is still the same - because we don`t know the Danish coins, and we don`t understand the Danish language (labels on goods) either.
On Saturday - that day when we arrived - we met first wiht Anja - from Belgium - and in the evening Carlos arrived as well from Spain. On Sunday evening we were nearly all together, because Gosia, Mariska and Marlene arrived from Poland. Finally - the following week - Canan - from Turkey - moved our dormitory.