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My Denmark in eleven points

DENMARK | Tuesday, 6 May 2014 | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry

1.Smiley faces: Every morning when going to school, I get to meet many people, strangers that I have never seen before but they can still make my day little bit brighter with a warm smile on their faces. To show them my gratefullness, I have made a habit of greeting them in a homely way: „"Moin!". I always get the answer back. "Moin, moin!"
2.Food quality: FANTASTIC! Every time I buy lunch at the school cafeteria (more like a restaurant) I want to go find the chef and give him the greatest hug ever. It is THAT good! No ordinary meat with rice but baked salmon with walnuts on top, grilled eggplant and other delicacies.
3.Catch it, eat it: People go fishing here, crab hunting, mussle, mushroom, apple picking. You can come with ingredients for a pretty decent dinner from one walk outside. All organic.
4.Bicycle: Everyone has a bike here. At least it seems like that. The ones with bicycles feel sorry for the ones that are walking. I once have not had the bike and people showed me their regret as well. Now I am a lady, riding my almost destroyed kid size bicycle which was totaly overpriced. At least, people are not regreting me anymore, now they are just laughing at me when they see me riding it.
5.Coins: Moneyyyy! Danish students always think that they do not have enough while the foreign students really do not have it sometimes. And the danish money is so beautiful! I call danish coins romantic, because every one of them has an engraved heart on it. Sometimes smaller, sometimes bigger, but the heart is there.
6.Northeners: Really handsome.
7.Weather: Not the best but you can definitely deal with this kind of weather without any problems. Unless there is an hurricane that makes the bicycles and roof tops fly in the air. That is a different story.
8.Drinking like a Dane: Danes drink. They drink a lot. They drink often.
9.No cleaning after pets: This is what shocked me the most when I came. A dog does his "business" and an owner just keeps walking. No one cares that this dog left a big "mark" in the middle of the road, they won't clean it.
10.The size of the pizza: One slice of pizza is bigger than my head! Fast food restaurants are to be noticed almost everywhere..obesity as well.
11.Oh, that English!: Librarian, ticket inspector , cashier in Lidl or even the stranger on the street. Everyone of them (from my experience) is able to have a conversation in English with you, help you or just wish you a good day.
"Thank you, have a good day too!“

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

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