The improvised fridge!

What do you do when you don't have a fridge in your room and you need to store some salami in a cold place overnight? You hang it out your window on a belt right? WRONG! I woke up this morning with this screeching noise in my ear so I looked out the window and saw about ten birds fighting it out for the salami. The people in the room next door to me must have thought I was feeding the birds at 6:30am. 'Stupid Australian'.

So I made a mental note to never do that again and tried to get back to sleep. But my body clock is a little bit fucked, I can't seem to sleep past 7-8am now, whereas I used to sleep in till like 1pm+.

Two hours later I woke up and went and did the daily breakfast, I was hoping there would be someone else in there today... No joy. The sun was out, a rare sight for Denmark so I decided to go for a big walk. It was about two kilometres to the outskirts of Aalborg from the hostel where I was staying. I decided to give the bus a miss, it is a fucking rip-off anyway. Once your in the outskirts you can literally walk from one side of the city to the other in like twenty minutes, maybe less. Of course the university is about 4-5km out of the city itself, but still within walking/riding distance.

Some of the streets were already familiar to me, but being a Sunday all the shops were closed (except for some cafes/supermarkets). I chose a street at random and walked down it, I figured it would be hard to get lost. I was right. However, it is hard to find specific places on the map, especially since the whole thing is in Danish. 'Skole' I knew as school and 'Universitet' as university. However for some stupid reason, the Danes decided to mix up the two, hence skole can also mean university which kind of screwed me up a bit.

About one hour later after walking up this massive hill and not expecting much, I saw a sign that said 'Aalborg universitet'. I was happy for about ten seconds until I realised that it was the wrong campus. All of a sudden it clicked, on the universities website they show the university as one campus in one area, but in reality the campus is split up into about five different locations! Whoever decided to do it like that is a wanker. I was at the wrong campus of course (couldn't give me a break could you you Danish motherfuckers lol).

The reason I had made the trip was because a guy from the university said we need to meet up to discuss my subjects (probably bad news), on monday/tuesday. I figured that as I had a general idea of where all the campus's were located that it would be safe to head back to the centre of Aalborg.

I decided to go and check out my apartment (moving in on the 31st January). It is right in the centre of the city, next to the bus-terminal and the train station. If it were in Melbourne, Australia it would be on Flinders street. Fortunetely Prinsengade (street name) does not look like the shithole that Flinders street is.

After all the walking I was pretty screwed and I decided to head into the first bar that looked decent. I found one called 'cafe ministeriet' that looked damn warm and full of people. I ordered what I was told was a local beer from a microbrewery, it was bloody good. In Denmark for only four days and already it made Australia look like a piece of shit in the beer department.

So I was sitting there trying to look not worried that I was completely by myself, which is kind of hard to do, when this random guy about my age asks me where I'm from. He was a local and after a few beers I mentioned that I needed a bike and he told me that he knew where one was that he was sure wasn't owned by anyone. The guy didn't look dodgy so we went a few streets away and true to his word there was a bike lying on the side of the road half hidden by some bushes. Surprisingly everything worked, I got the guys mobile number and then headed back to the hostel.

It was a good day. Found the university, drank some beer and made a friend.

P.S This would have been up earlier but the hostel people locked up the computer room, this shops shut on sunday bullshit is going to piss me off I can tell you now.