First Week in AARHUS #HogsAbroad

I’ve been in Aarhus for almost a week now & I LOVE IT. The city and campus are absolutely gorgeous. There is still so much in the city to see, but from what we have explored it’s been amazing. The city is very dense so it is easy to walk anywhere we need to go. Most Danes use bikes or the bus here. We have been using the bus to go places as well, which has taken some time to get used to since we don’t use public transportation as much in Texas.  I’ve only gotten lost once.. My roommates and I wanted to go to Ikea to get some stuff for our rooms and we went to the right bus stop, but took the wrong bus. We drove about 20 minutes and realized we weren’t going the right way. We ended up at the last stop of the bus and had to get off in the middle of nowhere since the bus driver was going home. The bus driver said the next bus would be there in about 20 minutes, but we ended up waiting in the freezing cold for an hour. Once we got back home we decided to leave ikea for tomorrow and try again.

   


I live in a house with 12 other people, who are all from different parts of the world like France, Italy, Australia, Norway, Hong Kong, and Canada. It’s a full house, but we have all gotten along with each other well so far.  We still don’t have wifi in the house tho so that makes everything a bit difficult (which is why I haven’t been able to upload this earlier). We are hoping to get wifi here in the next few days though.

 
We are having intro week this week where we are learning more about Aarhus and meeting more people.  We’ve had different events that we go to together like getting a beer at the on campus bar (yes on campus, I will always think this is strange) or going to an international party, which was also on campus (again strange).  I’ve been having a ton of fun though and enjoying not having to worry about school until Monday.

 
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To find out more about the Walton college exchange program in Aarhus, visit http://studyabroad.uark.edu/exchange/wcobaarhus/