Let's start the experience

Creating a blog is not an easy task. Putting photos online everyone can do, but explaining to each our experience and sharing it is a different story. All this in order to intrigue and help you improve your vision of Denmark and the many opportunities this country has to offer.

Aspect number one

Cultural element : the various festivals in Denmark and museums


During stays we intend to go out numerous times to museums that seem interesting and cultural and artistic events.

Museums :

·         Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

·         National Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen)

·         Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen)

·         Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen)

·         Horsens museum

·         Horsens Kunstmuseum

Events :

·         Festival of comic strip to Horsens where we can meet famous comic strip writers  (April)

·         European Medieval Festival in Horsens, Denmark in May

·         Wondercool Festival in Copenhague (1st to 29 February 2012) festival mode(fashion) and design Scandinavians, concerts of rock and jazz...

·         Vinter Jazz Festival (3 to 19 February 2012)

·         Festival of opera to Aalborg (2 to 15 March 2012)

·         Earth Tour+

·         Easter, the most important Christian party (7 to 8 April 2012)

·         International festival of the movie in Copenhagen (12 to 29^th April 2012)

·         Spot Festival in Århus (May)

·      Crime Festivalin Horsens (every March, Horsens hosts a special Crime Festival. The Crime Festival is an event for literary crime, mysteries and thrillers. The Crime Festival is organized by Horsens Public Library and every year many well known and even famous crimewriters visit Horsens. 

Aspect number two

 Sociocultural activities of the youth : Danish music band

New politics band

We think it would be a good idea to write postings teaching the music of Denmark as well as the various music groups that we'll see and hear during our stay.

The children in Denmark have a lot of free time: the school occupies approximately 5 to 6 hours of their day and the Danish children do not work outside. During their spare time, the Danish children are active. Of course, they can sit on sofa watching TV but generally their spare time is full of activities.

Playing on the computer has become a popular hobby. The most part of Danish children have access to Internet.

It is also current to be a scout or to follow a music class or to learn to play an instrument. In Denmark, 89% of children from 7 to 15 years old, played a sport in the past year. The  popular sports among the Danish children are: football, swimming, gymnastics, handball, badminton and ice skating.

Half of the Danes from 16 and older, practice some sort of sport or physical exercise. The most popular is swimming, among common people but also as a high-level sport. The Danish have some of the best swimmers of the world. And there is also weightlifting, cycling and the Danes jog a lot.

Aspect number three

Work specification in Denmark

What is the legal framework that is applied to work in Denmark? What are their wages, their hours, their pay, their compensation? Can they go on strike?

Do The Danes Have an effective social security system?

For the risk at work and the risk prevention, did the government set up some measures or standards like in France for example?

Aspect number four

Carnival in Denmark

Carnival in Denmark is called Fastelavn, and is held on the Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday. The holiday is sometimes described as a Nordic Halloween, with children dressing in costume and gathering treats for the Fastelavn feast. One popular custom is the fastelavnsris, where children take a whip and use it to hit their parents to wake them up on Fastelavns Sunday.

CASA Arena Horsens

CASA Arena Horsens is a Danish football stadium and the home ground of AC Horsens. It has a capacity between 10,400 of which 7,500 is seated.

Lot of famous rock bands or singers like The Rolling Stone, Madonna or U2 have made big shows.

The stadium during the U2’s concert.

We went in this stadium to see a football match (Horsens vs Nordsjaelland) Sunday, March 25. Although the Horsens football club is a good team. They lost the match 2-0. But the important thing was primarily for us to visit this beautiful stadium and feel the Danish atmosphere during a match (there are lot of family which come together to see football on sunday).

Inside the stadium just before the beginning of the match

Horsens

Horsens is a Danish city in east Jutland. The city's population is 54,450 in 2012 and Horsens is the ninth largest city in Denmark. Horsens is also a part of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which has 1.2 million inhabitants.

Horsens is located at the end of Horsens Fjord in eastern Jutland. The city is surrounded by landscape with low hills and valleys. Horsens is 50 km south of Aarhus (the second largest city and approximately 200 km from Copenhagen.

The history of the city dates back to over a thousand years - the Viking Age. The city was founded in the Middle Ages, around a small harbor nestled in the bottom of the fjord. And the city is surrounded by nature wonderfully beautiful. Indeed, Horsens, like many cities in Denmark, is built around a fjord. 

The city center. One of the best preserved in Denmark.

Entrance to the city center

The Campus Village

Our flat is situated in the Student Village. The residence consists of 4 blocks of apartments with two rooms each, a total of 98 rooms per block. It is fairly new, as completed in September 2009.

The residence is located about 100 meters from the university, which is convenient to go to university when it rains or the temperature can be over -15 ° C in winter. But we are around 2 minutes walking to enter in the warm hall of VIA.

The only negative point is that we are far from the center. One solution consist to have bike, but rent one is expansive and buy one for only three months...
So we have two options to go to the city center: walking 35 minutes or take a bus ( 20 Kr around 3euros).
But it also exist another  Student Campus called Kamtjatka in the city center where about 500 student live.

On the left our block, the main driveway and the university on the right

A nice view of the university and the campus village.

VIA University College

This university was established in January 2008.

VIA University College is the largest university college in Denmark with about 2,000 employees and 20,000 students (half are international students coming from more than 40 different countries).

VIA University College offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in English.

VIA's logo

The university is located near to the fjord of Horsens, it consists of a building divided into several blocks. It is possible to enter the university 24 hours 7 days 24 and 7 with our student card.

We are in VIA for 13 weeks to study the Civil Engineering. This course includes five teachings: Statistics, Water Supply, Waste Water Treatment, Sustainable Energy, Soil Contamination and English class.

The hall of VIA