2009 31.12.2009
Posted by TabitaW in in general, people, thoughts, uni.Tags: denmark, list, Martin, new year, photos, scotland
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- January: Moved to Viborg, started classical drawing at The Drawing Academy
- February: The Drawing Academy
- March: The Drawing Academy
- April: The Drawing Academy, Martin came to visit at Easter and we had a road-trip round Jutland
- May: The Drawing Academy
- June: Finished The Drawing Academy, moved back home, went to Holland with my family
- July: Went to Scotland, went home, turned 21, Dutch family visited
- August: Worked as a temp receptionist, dad turned 50, went to Jutland with the family
- September: Moved to Scotland, parents visited, moved into halls, started uni
- October: Uni
- November: Uni, Blackpool weekend with Martin
- December: Uni, Cardiff weekend with Martin, finished first semester, went to Denmark for Christmas
Here’s some photos from this year:
Christmas 29.12.2009
Posted by TabitaW in people.Tags: christmas, denmark, family, friends, Martin, see me, sherlock holmes, snow, theatre
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Since the last post, we’ve been busy with all kinds of things. We visited friends on the 20th, made biscuits the 21st, went to the theatre with my parents to see Les Misrables on the 22nd and visited Louise and Mikael on the 23rd. Actually we were baking for days as we made about six different kinds of biscuits plus a lot of other Christmas sweets. The kitchen is still full of biscuit tins.
Christmas Eve we were just me, Martin and my family. Oh, and the guinea pig of course. Went to church, put the presents under the tree while watching the usual Christmas Disney Show on tv, had roast pork for dinner and walked round the Christmas tree singing before opening the presents. Plenty of biscuits on the table, of course. Lovely Danish Christmas.
On Christmas Day Martin and I went to the Anglican church in town so he could have at least something that was a bit more like home (actually we had Christmas crackers at dinner, with hats and jokes and everything). After that we decided to go see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema. Not very traditional for Christmas, but a great film.
We went to Jutland on Boxing Day to see my mum’s side of the family. Big dinner at my gran’s house, then lots of games, sweets and playing in the snow. At night my parents drove Martin and I to the train so we could sleep over at my aunt and uncle’s place. The rest of my family stayed at my gran’s house.
The next day we spent playing Bob and eating biscuits indoors even though we’d actually planned to go for a walk down to the frozen fjord. It was raining too much though, so we didn’t go outside till we had to catch our train back to Copenhagen.
Martin had to go home on Monday so we got his stuff packed and him driven to the airport. Still not a huge fan of airport goodbyes but it’s getting better.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t win the See Me photography competition. Not that I’d expected to but it would have been cool. Thanks to those of you who voted for me anyway.
Also, I don’t usually encourage reading my Danish blog on Google Translate as it makes much more sense translated by me but seriously, this one has some hilarious nonsense in it.
Snow 19.12.2009
Posted by MartinH in in general, people, uni.Tags: centrestage, christmas, denmark, guest author, Martin, snow, sweden
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While Tabi wraps Christmas presents of varying sizes, I’ll update you on what has been going on since her last post on our weekend in Cardiff.
After many hours of work, Tabi finally completed all of her various University assignments, managed to get them printed, attached ‘pink slips’ and handed them in all in. This left her a few hours to pack her suitcases before we had to drive to Glasgow to see the musical “Beauty and the Beast” live on stage at the Clyde Auditorium. The trip was organized by my theatre group, Centrestage, as we are mounting our own production of it in March. We came away having enjoyed the performance but confident that we can do even better ourselves.
The very next morning (Thursday) we were up early and back to Glasgow to catch our plane to Denmark. When we arrived at Kastrup Airport we found the ground was thick with snow. The runway where our plane would normally have landed was one of those reserved for bringing world leaders to the Climate Change Summit (COP15). This meant that we had to land at the other end of the airport and taxi, then finally take a bus, to the terminal building. It was lovely to see Tabi’s family again and I know that she enjoyed having a proper Danish lunch: rye bread and warm liver paté.
On Friday, we ventured into Copenhagen to visit the Climate Change Exhibition which showed the various ways people are trying to save energy and preserve the planet for future generations. I contributed by pedaling a bicycle for a few minutes to help power the Christmas tree lights. Tabi, in tourist mode, took a photograph of me doing it.
Today, we went with Bodil and Rob (Tabi’s parents) on the train to snowy Sweden to visit the Julmarknad (Christmas Market) in Malmö. We took a ride on the Wheel of Malmö which gave us lovely views of the city from high above it. It snowed all day and it was very cold but it was good fun to walk around the Christmas Market and town looking at the various festive things on sale while drinking our hot chocolate. Our favourite tourist attraction would have to be the bike stand which an exercise bike was chained to!
Tabi and I recorded the trip on a mini digital video camera my parents gave us for Christmas so some of you may be fortunate enough to see the edited highlights of our trip, if we ever find the time to select the highlights and edit them into some sort of coherent narrative with high production values, naturally.
Martin
Four weeks 23.11.2009
Posted by TabitaW in in general, people.Tags: christmas, denmark, Martin
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Spent the weekend at Martin’s, mostly cuddling up on the sofa watching tv or drinking hot chocolate and playing Pictionary. The world outside has been miserably grey and wet for so long I can’t remember when it started, so there wasn’t really much else to do that stay inside keeping warm. Friday we went to Martin’s cousin’s 4th birthday party which had cake and party games and was quite fun in general.
The other day I was told that I’ll actually be in Denmark in four weeks. Really it’s more about three and a half weeks, and it’s feeling rather weird. To me it doesn’t seem like I’ve been gone for all that long, even if it’s the longest I’ve ever been away from home. Will be most interesting to see what’s been going on in Denmark.
