Performans

På gaden var der ofte forskellige former for performans. Her en gruppe unge som dansede til intense trommerytmer i flere timer. De havde en hund med, som var malet i ansigtet som dem. Den for rundt og nappede dem i haserne. Den var desværre for hurtig til, at jeg fik den fanget på et foto.

Guided tour

Oh… I was so tired after walking around in the shopping area at the centre visiting a lot of shops and shores. So I went to a guided tour by bus.



Relaxed on a good place, I saw a lot of places I already have been at. However, I got the story off the places and the most important of all, I saw how the different streets where connected. I was unfortunately also aware off my circle walking yesterday.

I dont think I will get lost any longer - Edinburgh are gone to be like my own pocket :-))

Weekend Plans

I have a lot of plans for this weekend. All historic museums are free this Saturday and Sunday. One of our teachers has suggested that we visit Edinburgh Castel, other times it will cost 11 pound.
I have also planned to visit National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street to see the exhibition Pixar: 20 Years of Animation

Students in Edinburgh

Many students in Edinburgh are from other countries, perhaps most of them are from Asia. Some of them are using Flickr too, I haven’t met this girl and maybe she not a student, but her pictures tell a history about the city and the countryside.

Hard work

It have been some interesting days at university we have worked with reading, writing and listening. I have had the opportunity to work together with students from so different countries as Liberia, Taiwan and Japan and Spain. Today our group, Yi-Hsin, Keisuke and me, got a picture of an volcano and the task to write a history about it.
It was not easy and take some time, we have to discuss the history, the words and their pronunciation. Ohh... we was discussing grammar too :-((

Brothers and sisters

I went this afternoon to Jehovas Witten’s Kingdom Hall at Edinburgh (one of them I have been toll there are nine). There were brothers and sisters from many different countries and some of them were very difficult to understand. There was others visitors; Rathi was on visit too from Chennai (Madras). She is on a congress for second languages teachers and has given her e-mail address to me, if I should need help with my English studies – not bad. Christie and family were so polite giving a lift too my accommodation.

Indian food

Salem suggests an Indian restaurant for lunch today, he told it was cheap. The food was fine but the place was a little bit different from a restaurant.

Brosten

De er bestemt noget anderledes end dem der bliver lagt i Danmark. Jeg tror ikke, at jeg kunne tage blot en af dem op selv om jeg brugte begge haender.

Logi

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Mit rum med en dejlig seng, skrivebord og en fantasitisk udsigt til smukke engelske haver.

First night in Edinburgh

Bagefter spadserede jeg igen byen tynd, kikkede vinduer, fik kaffe og fandt Jehovas Vidners Rigssal, hvor jeg blev inviteret indenfor til en polsk menighed! Men jeg talte dog med en engelsk bror og hans kone. Han arbejder paa universitet og vi har aftalt, at vi skal drikke kaffe en af dagene i middagspausen.

Og som I kan se har jeg fundet en super internetcafe (universitets lukker kl. 18:30), men jeg har glemt kablet til kameraet paa mit logi. Billederne oploader jeg i morgen i stedet. Det er kulsort udenfor nu og jeg vil se om, jeg kan finde hjem.

First day in Edinburgh

Det tog ca. 20 min. at spadsere fra mit logi til universitet, hvor jeg skulle checke ind kl. 9. Men igen kunne jeg ikke finde stedet, selvom Sharon og jeg var forbi i aftes. En flink parkeringsvagt fulgte mig derhen - det er utroligt, mit lokaliseringsgen er totalt lost.
Jeg fik en fin modtagelse og blev fulgt op til en slags informationsrum med masser af japanske og korenske studerende og en enkelt rusisk pige, Nada, som jeg faldt i snak med. Vi var de eneste to nye og skulle begynde med en skriftlig og mundtlig test. Min rusiske veninde have valgt et andet engelskkursus end mig, da hun kom fra en bank og havde planer om at tage en IBM i England.

Efter testen, placering af niveau og udlevering af skema, gik jeg til 1.lektion - mundtlig og skriftlig engelsk (2 lektioner). Derefter frokost og igen 2 lektioner. Jeg deltager i to forskellige klasser og der er studerende fra Spanien, Korea, Japan, Libien og Saudi Arabien.

Vi sluttede kl. 15:40. Jeg fik et access kort til computerne og fik skrevet lidt i bloggen og lavet nogle lektier!

A long trip

I have choosen a fly from Billund to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Edinburgh. It's not the easy way but I was a little bit slow too ordering fly tickets to Edinburgh and then the prices for direct flying to Edinburgh have been too high. My budget allows me only to spend 3000 d.kr. for a ticket out and home - it was possible when I made the budget in December last year.
The flying was going well and it was easy to find the gate in Amsterdam. Edinburgh airport was a lot different from Amsterdam or Billund for that case. The sun was shinning in both places and I was sorry not taking my summer dress with me. At the airport in Edinburgh a very friendly tourist guide tell me how to get to town - bus and then taxi - and she shown the locality of the university at a map and gave a lot off other information’s.
Getting to my host - Sharon, a woman in my age - was not difficult, but nobody was at home. I sad down on the stairs waiting and reading a good book, until an older man came out and asked what I was doing. He tolls me to go round the corner. I went back to the mean road looking for a different road with the same name. But he meant round the corner off the house! It took me a half hour, a short walk and a call to Denmark to find out – tanks to Matti.
After showing the flat and my nice room Sharon took me to trip round in the neighborhood showing all the good places - bars, restaurants, cinemas’, supermarkets and an old fazing swimming hall.
After a rest and packing out I went out for a walk trying to find the swimming hall, I want to check the opening times. I got something to eat and taste a whisky - sorry I cant remember the name, they have a lot of sorts I even have seen or hear about before.

Prepared

Saturday I have clean my cloths, check my camera, telephone, pas, accommodation and a lot of other things. I have tried to check in at the airport via the internet but it I haven’t been able to so I have to be at the airport Sunday between one and half hours before departing. I have a lot of problems with my package - the suitcase was too small and I have taken all the summer cloths out and some of the books and toilet stuff. I have desired to take the suitcase as hand baggage but it was also too heavy even when I have take a lot of stuff out so I desired to take a big back with me as hand baggage and the suitcase! And then I have begun from the beginning and now it is two a.m. Sunday morning…