My typical day in Denmark

Despite the fact that Denmark is still in Europe, my life was a bit different from the one I was living in Italy. First thing in the morning, apart from scratching my eyes and claiming I still needed to sleep, I would shower. Then I would put my moka machine on the cooking ring and prepare my breakfast, which most of the time was pretty sad. As I was basically broke (or at least I convinced myself I was) I would only have some cookies with my coffee, or if I was lucky I would also have some waffles. Milk was the only thing that would not be missing from my fridge. I love milk, no matter what I use it for, plain or with coffee. Even though I would wake up an hour before classes I sometimes would get to school late. My classes, luckily enough, started at 9, but yeah, sometimes I managed to get to class slightly late, oops!

(A coffee I got for free thanks to my University).

My schedule

I only had four classes per semester and usually two per day, even though sometimes I would have a half day (which mean I would only have one class, either in the morning or after lunch), or even a day off! The class I enjoyed the most is Design, because we would have the theory but most likely “practice”, like having to create a poster, logo or something like that. Next, we have Communication, which was interesting but I also knew some of the stuff we have done in class. Then Business, same thing: I knew some of the stuff we did because I studied them in high school back in Italy, but it was a good class because the teacher was very positive, nice and also good at what she was doing. I liked the class because we would also put the theory into practice and have group assignments to better understand what we were talking about and to help one another if needed. Lastly, I had Interaction, which in easier words means programming (or coding, as you wish to call it). I personally thought I liked it, which I do, but I never had the patience to figure out what was wrong with my codes. A dot or even a space sometimes can cause the whole page to crash. Annoying.

(International Business Academy Kolding, Denmark - My University).

My lunch break

Honestly, for lunch, I always brought food from home. Usually, I would prepare more food the day before so that I could have the rest the following day, or if it was something quick like a sandwich I would do it in the morning with my breakfast. At the cafeteria, there is also like a buffet service kind of thing and you can choose how much you want and what you want on the plate, and you pay based on the weight of your plate. But I would eat at school only on special occasions, like a birthday or something like that because I wanted to save money and spend it elsewhere.

My afternoon

If the morning was spent yawning and trying to stay awake while our teachers were talking about something really boring, the afternoon was not spent much differently. I mean, yes sometimes after lunch my classmates and I would feel much better but some other times we would feel still pretty bored or tired, also due to the bad weather that sometimes (or most of the times) would hit Denmark. After school I would normally go home, maybe finish my school work if I had any, or if not I would watch some TV series, prepare my dinner and then spend some time on my laptop before going to bed, maybe catch up with my family back home. Or sometimes I’d stay longer at the University so that I could play some pool with my friends or go somewhere in the city. Sometimes we would even organize dinner together, once it was Italian, another time it was Mexican and another time again Lithuanian.

This picture above was taken at the top of the tower of the Koldinghus, a castle right in the city, on the hill next to the lake. It was December and the city was celebrating Christmas with a Light Festival, and I was there with my friends.

- Cristian

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