Denmark vs Russia

Hi,

We told you that a great event will happen on April and we were there. We are talking about the game between the Danish national team and the Russian national team in Ice Hockey. It was the first time we saw a Ice Hockey game in a stadium and not on the TV. 

We went to the Gigantium by bus. We arrived at 7:10 pm to find our places (we were sitting in front of the middle line) and unfortunately, it was too late to attend to the warm up so we waited until 7:25pm. At this time, players entered on the ice: Danish players in front of us and Russian players on our left. Then, after greeting the public, each team stand up (forming a line) and both anthem were played: "Der er et yndigt land" which means "There is a lovely country" is the national danish anthem that the whole stadium sang. This protocole finished, the game started at 7:30 pm. Ice Hockey game is composed of 3 periods which each lasts 20 minutes. There is a 15 minutes break between two periods. So we stayed more than 2 hours in the gigantium but it wasn't a bad thing because the game was very awesome and the public was very proud of its team even if the final score wasn't good for Denmark because they lost 0-3. We can say that the result isn't a surprise because Russia is the first hockey team in the world according the IIHF ranking contrary to the Danemark which is the 12th team.

At the end of the game, there were a shop and an autographs session so Thibaut bought a cap and a player sign it and I (Erwan) waited to get all players autographs. It was nice for a first Ice Hockey game

We advise you to go to see a Ice Hockey game for real at least one time in your life.

Enjoy videos and pictures,

Keep an eye on our adventure,

Benoît and Erwan.
Videos (work on Internet Explorer): 

 

 

Pictures :

A week end in Horsens

Hi everybody ! One week ago, erwan and me went to Horsens to see our friends.

We decided to take the train from Aalborg to Horsens, It is pretty expensive in Denmark to use the trains ! It cost us something like 70€ per person. It takes us a little bit more than 2 hours to reach our destination. We arrived friday 5th of april at 18 o'clock. We walk a little bit in the city to reach our friend's accommodations and after to do some sightseeing.

After we've gone to the shop to buy some stuff for the evening. And during the night we've gone in a nightclub to compare their nightclub with ours. The day after, after a good nigt, we've walked into the city to discover the shops and others places to see. After we take some time to say hi to the others esaip students. Unfortunately we had to come back to aalborg to work on our web presentation.
But you can check our friend's blog : "Horsens Erasmus".

It was a good week end, it is always good to see our friends, we hadn't seen them since the end of the 1st semester in France.

But we will see them soon, still less than 1 month to go, it will be fast, because we had some extra lessons and some exams to take.

We are sorry, we had to let you here and say you bye for today because tomorrow we will have our 1st oral exam ! So we have to work a lot to be ready.

Bye !

Erwan & Benoît

Norway Trip

Hello everybody,

At the beginning of March, with Benoit from SEP and one of my friend who came from France, we went for a road trip in Norway.

My friend came with his car which is more a van than a normal car. We spent 6 nights in Norway from Oslo to Stavanger which is on the west coast.

So firstly, we departed from Frederikshavn to Goteborg in Sweden but we didn't stay there and head straight to Oslo. We visit the capital city and also went skiing in Oslo Vinterpark. This station is just 20 minutes far from the downtown and it welcomed the world winter championship in 2008. It's not a huge station but you have a lot of things like : snowpark, half-pipe, ski jump, biathlon, etc..

Otherwise, we went to the biggest ski station in Norway which is 3 hours far away from Oslo. It's called Trysil. This one is huge and we can ski by night due to big lights over the slopes. It was incredible !!

After 3, 4 days in the capital we drove down the coast to Kristiansand first and to Stavanger. We saw so many awesome landscapes and lakes. We stopped for the sunset in a remote area and watched it in a big silence. WONDERFUL !!

The day before leaving, we walked to Preikestolen. It's a massive cliff 604 meters above the fjord. This visit was one of our trip's aim. This was also amazing. We walked aproximately 2 hours to reach the top between snow, ice and forest. It was a bit hard because we had not the gear to climb it so we were so happy to did it finally.

We took the ferry to arrived in Hals, DK and came back to Aalborg. The last ferry took 12 hours so we had booked a little room with 4 beds and a window to have the view on the sea.

Here are some pictures :

Oslo VinterPark

Oslo VinterPark

Trysil

Trysil

Trysil

Skiing by nigth in Trysil

Oslo Opera

Oslo Royal Palace

Sunset in a remote area

Prekeistolen

Prekeistolen

Prekeistolen

 And this is a video we made about our trip. (Skip the beginning if you want, it's about a pre-trip in Amsterdam before going to Aalborg).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gacxi4aaBMU

See you soon guys. ;)

Copenhagen

Hey everybody,

Last weekend, I went to Copenhagen with others students and it was an awesome couple of days. Let me tell you a bit about this trip.

It was organised by I-Life which is a student's association. Some I-life guys came with us and had scheduled lots of activities during the weekend.

We started by taking the bus from Aalborg at 5 AM on friday morning. It was really early and difficult to wake up. But the excitement boosted me and I could sleep during the 6 hours before reaching the capital.

Once we were in the city, we went to our hostel to drop off ours luggages. This hostel (Generator Hostel) was really nice and situated just in the center of the town. I slept in a room with 8 bedrooms with others students from ESAIP.

We did so many things like a canal guided tour, a visit of the Christiansborg Palace which contains the Danish Parliament, the Supreme Court, and the Ministry of State, a visit of Rosenborg Castle where we could see the Danish crown jewels and regalia.

We also visited Christiania, the freetown of Copenhagen which was amazing and interresting to understand how the creation of it happened.  

We walked around the marple church, the Opera House, the little mermaid and reached the top of a tower which was so exciting because the tower was really high and I had a lot of adrenalin.

Here are some photos :

We came back to Aalborg on Sunday evening and I was so exhausted.
See you soon guys for more stories.