After the hectic and busy week we had, Monday came around
again all too fast! Thankfully we had Monday off and as we were all aware, we
were in our last month in Denmark, we collectively decided that every spare
minute we had would be spent together, to get the most out of our time.
‘You develop a bond
that comes from spending too much time together.’ – Julie Foudy
After a relatively late start, we arose and all met together
for lunch. The sun and warm weather greeted us yet again so we made the most of
it and laid out on the grass outside my dorm, which seemed to be a popular idea
as there was people scattered all over the area.
Weeks prior, Ana’s had displayed her enthusiasm about the
Eurovision Song Contest along with a few others in the class and what better way to
celebrate our countries than to gather together to watch the semi-finals and
that exactly what we did. Everyone headed over to my dorm and we began
rooting for our countries, sadly however Ireland and Iceland didn’t make the
cut but we had the excuse of our friends to still remain in the competition!
On Wednesday, still determined to spend as much time as we
could together, those who were available came over to my dorm and we sat about
my living room until Ian found, an apparently well-known game called Risk. I’d
never heard tell of Risk before but I was interested to see how the whole thing
panned out. Little did I know that this game was about conquering countries and
that it went on for FIVE hours! With Ian and his ever competitive nature and
with nothing else to do, I agreed to sit on watch the game unfold, after
sometime it actually turned out to quite addictive!
On Friday, our ‘Buddies’ organised a long awaited
get-together at Rune’s house. He originally wanted to cook us some typical Danish
food but because the weather was so nice they decided to host a BBQ. After the
delicious food and typical Danish salads, we all went to the grass to watch a
game of Øl bowling or beer bowling as it translates in English. The idea of the
game is to have two teams made up of two players and a referee. Each player
gets the chance to knock over the beer can that belongs to the other team; if they
are able to do this the losing team has to drink their whole beer. However it’s
not as easy as that, there are a number of rules that cannot be broken and the
referee can hand out punishments wherever and whenever they feel they are due, whether that
be for breaking a rule or simply talking back to the referee!
After the beer bowling we went inside where Rune and the
other buddies served some dessert, they thanked us for coming along and assured
us they were definitely be seeing us again before we left for home!
Not ready to hit the hay yet, we decided to continue the
party downtown! We went to a number of bars but ended up in Álvaro’s favourite;
Kuhstall. Finally willing to call it a night at 5am we headed for the bus and made our
way home.
Saturday brought around the Eurovision final, which Ana was
extremely excited for. I was slightly disheartened due to Nicky Byrne failing
to get through the semi-finals but I was excited to see how it would unfold.
Sadly none of our countries managed to reach the top score but of course
Belgium was top 3 making Ian a very happy man, and being Ian he was getting a
great thrill out of letting us all know it! After the Eurovision ended we
thought of no better place to go than the Skjoldhøj bar and that’s exactly where
we went to finish of the night.
After all the excitement of the Eurovision we decided to
take it easy and have a rest day on Sunday, which was more than happily
welcomed!
References
Julie Foudy - http://www.picturequotes.com/time-together-quotes
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