So... The Denmark Today program ended today. We had a nice little morning full of games and performances by each class to show off what they've learned. One of the classes (the advanced class - oooooh!) did a rendition of the Princess and the Pea, it was very funny. We also had a little game where everyone wrote a sentence in Danish and then someone read a story where the characters said "whatever's on the paper." In other words if you had a paper that said, "I like Aarhus!" (in Danish of course) - the story might go something like this: Peter was talking to his sister who had stolen his shoes, he was starting to get angry with her and exclaimed, "I like Aarhus!" As you can see, it doesn't make much sense, but it was entertaining, moreso for the teachers and advanced students I bet.
At the end the Advanced Teacher said something that I'm sure was very nice, but because my Danish isn't that good I was forced to guess. I made up my own version of what she said and she congratulated us for making it through, learning, having a good time and then she thanked us for not driving any of the teachers insane. I'm sure ours would have been pulling his hair out before the end if it had been long enough to do so.
After the long morning of only knowing about half of what was going on.. oh wait, our group? Yeah, we decided to sing a song. In English, Estonian, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Danish. Not kidding. Anyway, after the morning er.. fun, we went to this nice little cafeteria type thing (they call them Kantine - if I've spelled it right) and had a nice meal. It was actually really really good. There was free beer and wine too and that left a lot of really drunk exchange students. As for me I was just drinking Coke - c'mon it was free and I don't get it otherwise. In fact, I drink milk (in hot chocolate) or water (all the time) and not much else because I don't want to pay for it. I know, it's sad.
Let me remember the food... some type of roast beef with a hint of cheese and spices on top, bbq chicken legs, a fish thing wrapped with some vegetables, pastry puff things with salmon and spinach, all kinds of chocolatey deserts, a broccoli salad, and a variety of sliced vegetables. I'm getting hungry just thinking about how good it was. Think of the best meal you've had in the last month, make it 5 times better, now make it free. It was that good.
Afterwards we stumbled out, some of us tripping, some of us leaning on others, some of us singing - badly, and others just trying to make their way down the street. It was decided to go to the teachers bar. We went and were lucky enough to see a live band - they played a bit of music that had a hint of country, but was way more fun and just to see everyone dancing was worth it no matter what the music was. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it to be honest - a cross between line dancing and folk dancing and a mix of I-am-doing-whatever-I-feel-like. I was impressed and I laughed and laughed at everything I saw, and then I joined in.
I doubt the people at the bar were expecting it but they all seemed impressed or drunk or just willing to let everyone have a good time. They ended up moving the front table back so we could all have more room to dance. There wasn't much room to begin with... I would guess maybe less than 10 feet wide and then we had the length of the room. Eventually the band packed up and so did we. I can only imagine that some of the people went on to the next place and others of us went home to relax or maybe to recover. There was no mistaking that we were celebrating something - even if we didn't all learn very much Danish. We did manage to make it through 3.5 weeks of getting up early though.