Halloween

I'm not a big fan of Halloween... I think I would never get a costume on and go bananas celebrating this american tradition.
But any change to do some cooking and to spend some cosy time with friends is welcomed.

We planned to have a cosy evening with friends, meeting for cooking and having some nice food yesterday night, and just a couple of days before we realized it was actually halloween. So we decided to have something haloweenish for dinner.

It ended up being pumpkin soup for a starter (with coco milk and ginger... yummy!), roast-beef with sweet mashed potatoes (a bit orangy) and a fabulous bat-cake!

The cake came already prepared, in a nice box, but the rest we made it together, with a glass of wine in hand and good company!

The bat-cake is a secret... but here you have the other two recipes... Pumpkin soup with coco milk and Roast-beef with sweet potato mash ... get ready to enjoy some good food :)

peps i pepes

Felicitats a tots els Peps i a totes les Pepes!!!

Especialment a l'àvia Fina! Un petonàs!!!

somriures

quan estàs lluny d'alguns dels teus millors amics, hi ha coses com aquesta que et provoquen un somriure immens als llavis, encara que plogui i faci un temps desastrós!

gràcies guapa!

i'm back :)

no... I'm not back to Barcelona... or I haven't been away from Aarhus to have to come back here... I'm back into studying!
First day of class at Aarhus Universitet done! I'll be studying a Master in Distributed Real-Time Systems some years from now. It would take 2 years, but I will keep working so it will take longer! I made a good deal with my manager to reduce my working hours to 30h/week, and I'll take half of the subjects each semester. Stressed life again! :)
For the ones interested in knowing what's this master about (only danish speakers or readers), you can read about it here. The master is a collaboration between Aarhus Universitetet and the Engineering College of Aarhus. That makes it quite interesting, as it combines university style and more engineering/practical style... I'll learn a lot, I guess!

I'm happy to see some of my colleagues again... and I'm looking forward to meet new ones also!

and x-mas starts... in two days!

Last year, when I discovered this crazy day called J-dag I got a shock... how can christmas start the first friday of november? But this second year... I've been waiting for it! The crazy day is a biiiig party!

Are you doing something special? I'll be in Harrys Kælder... hope to see you there!

Oh... and merry christmas to all!!

ja és nadal a dinamarca!

Increïble... aquest divendres comença el nadal amb l'arribada de la cervesa de nadal! Tota la propaganda que m'arriba a casa està plena de tonteries nadalenques, i les botigues ja comencen a adornar els aparadors... són bojos aquests danesos!!!

Prometo fotos de la super festa de nadal d'aquest divendres! Hi haurà gorros de nadal, adornaments per tot arreu.. i cervesa de nadal en abundància.. i gratis!

sweet

Last week one of my friends said it was very nice I was staying in Denmark because my voice sounds so sweet when I speak danish.. :)

These kind of things make the effort of learning danish worthy!

busy... and enjoying it!

It has been one month since last post... quite a busy month! :)

I've had some visits. First my mum and then Ve.
My mum came to spend a weekend with me, see my new nice tiny apartment and do a bit of tourism around Denmark. We rented a car and drove to the northern point of Jylland, Skagen, where the two seas fight against each other! We had fun, good meals, nice talks and... incredibly good weather!!! Check out the pics to get jealous immediately!

Ve came just two days after my mum left... not in the exact same plan... we partied quite a lot! ;) We also had fun, good talks, good drinks and we can't complaint much about the weather... we went to Copenhagen for the weekend and we didn't get wet!

Well, this month hasn't been only about visits... I have great news: I got a permanent contract in Kamstrup, where I have been working the last months! That means I can stay in Denmark as long as I want, not worrying about contracts... I have a good job, a nice flat... now I only need to speak danish ;) And that is coming soon... next tuesday I have my first exam in the language school. That doesn't mean I'll be speaking danish from next week, but it does mean that I'm trying hard, and that I'm improving!

Oh, and I can't forget about these news... I will go all Christmas holidays home!!! I already have the tickets! From the 23rd of December to the 8th of January! I'm looking forward to these family and friends days!

I hope I can come with good news about my exam next week... vi ses snart!

I can do it!

With this new blog my new life is starting. It's true that I have been here in Denmark for a while, that I moved to my new place more than one month ago, that I already had some danish lessons... But now that I started my own blog, my own pictures gallery it feels more like I am living my own life.
I want to thank all the friends that helped me in the process, some of them helped even without knowing they were doing so.
So.. what now?
I am installed in my place in the centrum of Århus.. I love this apartment! I am still working in Kamstrup, and I'm really happy with that :) And I'm learning danish to be able to understand people around me. In my free time... I go to the marked on saturdays, I cook and enjoy my kitchen, I read, I meet my friends... just a normal and not stressed life! I was looking forward to that! hehe

Now there is a friend from Barcelona here with me. She leaves tomorrow :( I haven't been that happy and enjoying life for a long time! Laughing together, drinking together, talking about everything, and also being together in some bad moments we've been through... Merci per ser-hi!!!
She leaves tomorrow... but my cousin and aunt are coming on sunday for 5 days, and then I'll have my mum visiting on september and also two friends from manresa (spain)... so I won't be bored! It's so nice to have people visiting you!