I figured out i didn't wrote my cultural article so there it is, a bit late but better late than never!
About the sociocultural activities:
First of all you have to know that class/work days here end really early (14h30-16h) so you have a lot of spare time to do some activities, danish students like staying at the school after class, there is even a friday-bar opened with music bands from the school performing. They do a lot of sport, especially in fitness clubs (there are plenty of ).
Some teacher told us they have a boat and they spend the week-end navigating on the sea.
Oh and i have to tell you about their libraries, it's nothing like in france, first of all there are self-service computers, you can borrow books, dvds, music cd and even VIDEO GAMES! They have a "gaming zone" where you can play with the last game consoles and gaming-dedicated computers! A lot of young peoples come here to play together and it works really well.
dimanche 8 mai 2016
lundi 2 mai 2016
Hi everybody !
I've so much to tell you guys about the lifestyle of Danish people, that I'll organized my demonstration in a few articles.
Before everything, the Danish area total almost 43 000 square kilometers, with a total population of more than 5.5 millions. And actually, why am I telling you that ? To show you that, compared to France, Denmark have less inhabitants for its surface area. And we can see consequences of that in their ressources consuption. I'm talking about all kind of ressources/energy : space, electricity, human ressources...
First of all, space. Contrary to France, it's obvious that Danish utilisation of space was though for a little population. We were in the third town of Denmark in terms of surface area, and there were a few buildings with more than 2 floors. It's noticeable because, when you see one building with like 3, 4 or 5 floors, or a Danish "skycraper", it's a lot bigger than other buildings, and you can't actually miss it. In addition, most of Danish buildings had been built by typically Danish red bricks, and hopefully, this facts give so much charm to Danish cities ! (I'm particularly talking about Ahrrus, Oldense, Copenhagen and Aalborg, which are so original cities). But that's just for vertical space uses.
Overmore, they have a different means to think about road network, particularly in cities. And I can't deal with road network without talking about bike lanes, because this is so Danish. In Denmark, you can actually compare the number of pedestrians and cyclists. Approximately 2/5 of the road is dedicated for bike lanes. There's a little step to protect cyclists from cars, and you can ride side by side with an other bike. Actually, I stoped to count how many time two cyclists arriving from behind and chating feared me.
Traffic lights are adapted to cyclists and pedestrians (and blind pedestrians). There's constantly a little sound advising on which step of the circulation traffic lights are. By the way, traffic lights for cars are a bit more developed. For instance, when you're at the red light, waiting for the green, the orange one start to shine just before to go to the green one. Psychologically, it allows to people to be advise on the traffic light progress. That could prevent people to cross over during the red light.
There're lights for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, and each one have his own stage on the traffic light progress. Typically, when you're at a crossroad, you could get the bike lane and pedestrian lane mixed up, and get surprised by a cyclist coming from behind, because the different lanes bump sometimes into each other. To conclude, I'd say that this is safer to ride a bike in Denmark than in France. Sometimes in France, you just feel the wind generated by a car passing at 10 cm from you.
In Denmark, you just don't care about cars.
Matthias.
I've so much to tell you guys about the lifestyle of Danish people, that I'll organized my demonstration in a few articles.
Before everything, the Danish area total almost 43 000 square kilometers, with a total population of more than 5.5 millions. And actually, why am I telling you that ? To show you that, compared to France, Denmark have less inhabitants for its surface area. And we can see consequences of that in their ressources consuption. I'm talking about all kind of ressources/energy : space, electricity, human ressources...
First of all, space. Contrary to France, it's obvious that Danish utilisation of space was though for a little population. We were in the third town of Denmark in terms of surface area, and there were a few buildings with more than 2 floors. It's noticeable because, when you see one building with like 3, 4 or 5 floors, or a Danish "skycraper", it's a lot bigger than other buildings, and you can't actually miss it. In addition, most of Danish buildings had been built by typically Danish red bricks, and hopefully, this facts give so much charm to Danish cities ! (I'm particularly talking about Ahrrus, Oldense, Copenhagen and Aalborg, which are so original cities). But that's just for vertical space uses.
Overmore, they have a different means to think about road network, particularly in cities. And I can't deal with road network without talking about bike lanes, because this is so Danish. In Denmark, you can actually compare the number of pedestrians and cyclists. Approximately 2/5 of the road is dedicated for bike lanes. There's a little step to protect cyclists from cars, and you can ride side by side with an other bike. Actually, I stoped to count how many time two cyclists arriving from behind and chating feared me.
Traffic lights are adapted to cyclists and pedestrians (and blind pedestrians). There's constantly a little sound advising on which step of the circulation traffic lights are. By the way, traffic lights for cars are a bit more developed. For instance, when you're at the red light, waiting for the green, the orange one start to shine just before to go to the green one. Psychologically, it allows to people to be advise on the traffic light progress. That could prevent people to cross over during the red light.
There're lights for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, and each one have his own stage on the traffic light progress. Typically, when you're at a crossroad, you could get the bike lane and pedestrian lane mixed up, and get surprised by a cyclist coming from behind, because the different lanes bump sometimes into each other. To conclude, I'd say that this is safer to ride a bike in Denmark than in France. Sometimes in France, you just feel the wind generated by a car passing at 10 cm from you.
In Denmark, you just don't care about cars.
Matthias.
mardi 26 avril 2016
hey here i am to present you guys some pictures about my differents trip around Danmark here some pictures of Aalborg :
here some pictures from the Danish beach (North-East coast) :
As you can notice there is a lot of people :p
Now some pictures of differents Fjord :
And finally some pictures of Aarhus :
I took some videos aswell but i finish to work on the pictures not on the films so i will post videos later.
Cya guys !
here some pictures from the Danish beach (North-East coast) :
As you can notice there is a lot of people :p
Now some pictures of differents Fjord :
And finally some pictures of Aarhus :
I took some videos aswell but i finish to work on the pictures not on the films so i will post videos later.
Cya guys !
dimanche 24 avril 2016
24/04 Update
Hi everyone,
Thibaut parents decided to visit him for 4 days and they offered me to come with them to visit the lands, it's been pretty cool, we visited the very end of denmark "la pointe" in french, we also visited Aarhus which is a city equivalent of "Lion" for france there is a big botanical garden full of strange and beautiful plants, we checked some fjords and we took a ferry with the car to cross one of them!
It's been a great week-end and i am very happy and thanksful to them. Too bad the Gopro is still lost, i would have liked to take pictures to show you how beautiful denmark is..
Thibaut parents decided to visit him for 4 days and they offered me to come with them to visit the lands, it's been pretty cool, we visited the very end of denmark "la pointe" in french, we also visited Aarhus which is a city equivalent of "Lion" for france there is a big botanical garden full of strange and beautiful plants, we checked some fjords and we took a ferry with the car to cross one of them!
It's been a great week-end and i am very happy and thanksful to them. Too bad the Gopro is still lost, i would have liked to take pictures to show you how beautiful denmark is..
jeudi 14 avril 2016
hey guys today i'll talk about Danish economic model.
First of all the life cost is quite expensive i mean about 3 euros for crisp or candy or 50 euros for 30 days bus card its kinda expensive.
But its easy to understand when you know that the average salary is around 2000 euros. One thing that surprise me is that student at university can earn aroud 1000 euros per month just by studying and going to school. I ask a student about danish economy and he told me that danish people earn lot of money compare to France but they have a different life style for example they borrows lot of money and they live beyond their means.
Another thing Danish people pay a lot of taxes (between 50 and 60 %) but in return public srvice are really amazing. Most of the health service are free , most of the studies are free , pre-retirement are common and it is used to avoid unemployment. And retirees still earn a lot of money.
I notice that Danish people don't buy expensive car, they prefer long car more practical.
Even if this model look amazing i'm not convince that every country can apply it. In fact i think this model works because there is not a lot of people in this country around 5.5 millions to compare paris is like 2.2 millions so its like 2 paris but for a country !
And the major part is that Danish people are very honnest for example half of the bike on the street are without security same for supermarket in France this is not possible.
that was what i learn from Danish economy i hope you enjoy it and see you later guys !
First of all the life cost is quite expensive i mean about 3 euros for crisp or candy or 50 euros for 30 days bus card its kinda expensive.
But its easy to understand when you know that the average salary is around 2000 euros. One thing that surprise me is that student at university can earn aroud 1000 euros per month just by studying and going to school. I ask a student about danish economy and he told me that danish people earn lot of money compare to France but they have a different life style for example they borrows lot of money and they live beyond their means.
Another thing Danish people pay a lot of taxes (between 50 and 60 %) but in return public srvice are really amazing. Most of the health service are free , most of the studies are free , pre-retirement are common and it is used to avoid unemployment. And retirees still earn a lot of money.
I notice that Danish people don't buy expensive car, they prefer long car more practical.
Even if this model look amazing i'm not convince that every country can apply it. In fact i think this model works because there is not a lot of people in this country around 5.5 millions to compare paris is like 2.2 millions so its like 2 paris but for a country !
And the major part is that Danish people are very honnest for example half of the bike on the street are without security same for supermarket in France this is not possible.
that was what i learn from Danish economy i hope you enjoy it and see you later guys !
dimanche 10 avril 2016
10/04 Update
Hey there,
I'm so sad, we (me and some french friends) decided to go to the aalborg's zoo, this was a great day, we've seen a lot of animals, i took a lot of pictures with my Gopro so i could show you how cool it is up here but then, something terrible happened, on my way back to home i noticed that my gopro wasn't in my pocket anymore, saturday evening, 8:00 P.M. , stress-mode:on but i can't do shit, i have to wait until monday to ask everybody where my Gopro is. Fast forward, Monday, 8:00 A.M. on the phone with someone from the zoo, he say he found nothing, too bad, i don't give up, i call the police station to know if someone bringed it, nope, maybe at the supermarket! I go to their information point, nice lady check in a closet behind her, nothing. So now, someone have my Gopro and i'm so mad because i took the coolest facebook profil picture with an ostrich next to me and no one will ever see that :-( . Next time i have a camera, i wont forget to take a picture of my address, phone number and name to make sure that someone can return it to me..
I'm so sad, we (me and some french friends) decided to go to the aalborg's zoo, this was a great day, we've seen a lot of animals, i took a lot of pictures with my Gopro so i could show you how cool it is up here but then, something terrible happened, on my way back to home i noticed that my gopro wasn't in my pocket anymore, saturday evening, 8:00 P.M. , stress-mode:on but i can't do shit, i have to wait until monday to ask everybody where my Gopro is. Fast forward, Monday, 8:00 A.M. on the phone with someone from the zoo, he say he found nothing, too bad, i don't give up, i call the police station to know if someone bringed it, nope, maybe at the supermarket! I go to their information point, nice lady check in a closet behind her, nothing. So now, someone have my Gopro and i'm so mad because i took the coolest facebook profil picture with an ostrich next to me and no one will ever see that :-( . Next time i have a camera, i wont forget to take a picture of my address, phone number and name to make sure that someone can return it to me..
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