My main destination for the entire travel plan was actually Aarhus whereby I will spend two week on exchange in the university there. Aarhus is a the third city after Copenhagen and Aalborg in Denmark with a population of 300,000 only. A really small pretty and peaceful city. It is 3 and a half hours train ride away from Copenhagen. The Danes are really unique people, probably typical scandinavianish. I stayed in a really cramp hotel with my roomate Carissa, I had hard time adapting to the limited space in the room. I never stayed in such a small room in my entire life before and I had to stay here for two weeks. The toilet was just so cool whereby you can do your business, wash your hand and shower at the same time because everything was just within reach. Imagine that!
My routines for the two weeks was to wake up at 6am get ready by 7 am and walk to uni which is 30 mins walk away from my hotel every day and have 6 hours lecture and attend uni activities after class. Basically I hadn't really seen daylight for that two weeks because it gets dark at 4pm. Despite that, I really enjoyed being a student there and the topics taught was really interesting because I learnt alot about Denmark and the EU, the after school activities was really fun as well. To sum it all, it was a great two weeks of student life there, but I was pretty sure I was prepared to return to Melbourne to continue my student life :P
Overall, Denmark is a really clean, discipline, peaceful and beautiful country. I have gained so much knowledge through my two weeks stay here and knew some great people from different part of the world. One more thing, the Danes are really IT savy people, you won't believe how I sat for my exam. I actually had two exams and both were conducted using my own laptop and we could use internet for searching info for the exams. The Danes really prioritise practicality and have great trust in the students that they won't cheat during exam which explains why Denmark is the country with the lowest corruption in the world. I would love to stay longer in Denmark but unfortunately my study grant won't last long enough for any extended stay.. so I had to move on to my next destination.. DEUTSCHLAND aka GERMANY! Before that I would rate Denmark 3 out of my 4 destination visited maybe.. because I just got too sick of eating rye bread everyday...? :-/ haha
Here are great pictures form my two week stay in Denmark which include Aarhus:
My final destination was Germany. The homeland of my boyfriend. Obviously, there was no escape in visiting Germany. Honestly, I had pretty high bar set from my previous countries so Germany would need to try really hard to impress me. Amazingly, it did! Germany is my ranked no.1 country out of 4. Don't call me biased because my boyfriend is a German. I judged based on my experiences. We basically covered all the major cities in Germany: Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. Luckily we have a good tour guide and organiser to make sure everything is well-planned and work smoothly and who else could he be :p In my opinion. every city is special and unique in its own way and it wasn't boring at all travelling from city to city. Despite the long haul travel journey, I was always anticipating to see what the next city has to offer. Germany never fails to surprise me. Thanks to my so-lala German language it wasn't that hard to understand what's going on there. Well, Hamburg was the first city that we visited, it is a habour city and the second busiest habour in Europe. It was like a city build by a big river or sea. Then, we headed to the capital of Germany, Berlin. Berlin kinda felt like the perfect balance between modern city life and the historic city. I loved the old monuments which are still standing since WW2. We saw the Berlin wall and Brandenburger gate which are iconic to the world. I like the semi multicultural thing going on there, it was a much opened-minded city than I expected. Then on our third day we headed to Munich, one of the most beautiful city I've ever seen in my life. It's like the kind of fairy tale city every small girl read about. The snow covered historical churches and monuments are just mystifying. It feels like the perfect setting for a fairy tale that are always described in story books. The city was anything but modern, busy and hustle.We even went to the Neuschwanstein castle close to the Austria border, the castle was built on the mini Alps mountains. The view from on top the castle was just breath-taking. Since Munich is under the Bavarian territory, we had heaps of pork (pork knuckles & suckling pork) and they just tasted soooooooooo yummy....! I won't mind gaining an extra 5 kg for eating them.
On our last destination, we drove to Frankfurt where I will depart from. Frankfurt is a city like any other financial hub in the world, with high rise everywhere. Big banks mushroomed the entire city. Kinda felt like Singapore to me. Funny thing is while walking to one of the restaurants for dinner we saw bunnies hopping around on the grasses in front of these high rise. I meant everywhere!? It's just so weird.. hmm they are like bats which only come out at night except they hop around. You definitely don't see that in any other modern cities in the world. OooHh AS a Master of Finance student, I can now proudly say I have been to the European Central Bank too!
As you all know, Germany is my top pick among all four countries. Reason? my bf? NO!!! you have to find it out on your own to understand SERIOUSLY! ;) FYI i'm not getting paid for promoting Germany.
I present to you pictures from all over Germany;
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