- Corona , Student
- 13/03/2020
And how are things in Copenhagen?
During my bachelor’s degree I really wanted to go to Scandinavia. People told me that people from Scandinavia are happier. I’m now a Master student Innovation Management and I got the opportunity to have thirty ECTS as free electives abroad. My top 10 university that I wanted to go were all in Scandinavia, with Copenhagen as my first choice.
How are things in Copenhagen? The question that friends and family are asking me. However, I don’t live in Copenhagen but in Kongens Lyngby, which is 10 kilometers to the north. I live on the Campus of DTU, Denmark Tekniske Universitet. Which was a good choice because the lectures start at 8 o’ clock in the morning and I’m not really a morning person. By the way, starting yesterday, the DTU will be closed for 2 weeks because of the corona virus.
I only have lectures on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They take four hours each and I have two lectures a day. Luckily there is a lot of groupwork during the lectures. That is also a good way to meet new internationals and Danish people.
On Thursday my weekend starts. Due to this I have a lot of time to make trips and visit Copenhagen. Copenhagen has a lot of highlights such as the little mermaid, the colored houses and Tivoli. Tivoli is one of the oldest amusement parks of the world and is in the middle of Copenhagen.
There are a lot of parties here. There is a bar at the campus where we sometimes go for a beer. Every Friday there is a party on campus. A lot of internationals and Danish people are going there. The parties are different than I got used to in Eindhoven, but they are definitely good. I thought that the Dutch people don’t dance when partying, however the Danish people do even less and just drinking beer at a table or playing Beerpong. It’s funny to see that only the international students are dancing.
The beer is not that expensive on campus. You pay 50 Danish Krones (6,60 euro) for three beer. Every month they have 5 Krones Friday or as they call it ‘5’er Fredag’. It’s a party organized by the student association where the beer only costs 5 Danish Krones (60 euro cents).
There are also a lot of opportunities to party in Copenhagen. They are several student associations that organize activities for internationals students from the three different universities in Copenhagen which I try to attend.
Discussion