ILA Aarhus

Interns Bram, Vivi, Mario and Daniela

From Vivi's blog:
"The Interns went on another ILA (Intern Learning Activity, formally Trainee Learning Activity) over the past weekend. Even though it was in the same city Aarhus (Århus), we all still had heaps of fun. So a huge thanks must go out to the AIESEC girls and two guys from Aarhus School of Business (ASB)!!!

Pretty much all of the interns went except for a few. So we were:

From Aalborg:
Bram (Belgium)
Sorina (Romania)

From Odense:
Mario (Guatemala)
Daniela (Germany)

From Copenhagen:
Sebastian (Germany)
Rafael (Brazil) + Girlfriend Vera (Russia, studying in Germany)
Michael (Belgium)
me

We also had some non-interns like Anna's friend Agnieszka plus the AIESECers Mette, Christine, Alice and Anna and a few others.

Friday night all of us arrived except for Sorina who came on Sat morning. After dumping our bags in the van we went to an all you can eat buffet which was great because we got to eat more 'expensive' food then the usual student food of pasta and rice . Then we went to a really really cool Jazz club/bar where Sebastian got to practice his Danish with a random guy and some 'talented' individuals.

Saturday morning we joined another student club for a traditional Danish breakfast. You can see the picture but there was some slices of ham, cheese, strawberry jam, soft boiled egg with some bread and Danish brown bread with some coffee. Then while waiting for the bus to Randers, we took a walk through Aarhus University. It was "nap time" on the bus to Randers where there was the Artificial rain-forest/tropical Zoo.

On the train to Aarhus Mario + Rafael say something like: "I came all the way from Guatemala/Brazil to see a rainforest in Denmark! Because i've never seen one before"

But despite our doubts that such a thing could exist in the cold weather of Denmark, we arrived in Randers and had a lot of fun looking at the different rain-forests of the world. Some of the animals freaked us out but it was good to see animals from places that I haven't been to... like South America.

On the bus back to Aarhus, Sebastian to Vivi "What was your favourite animal?"
Vivi "The waitress"

Nap time again on the bus back.

Waiting for the bus to go back to Anna's place, Mario to Sebastian "Aren't you cold?!?"
Sebastian "No, I am a Viking!!"

Nap time again at Anna's while we were supposed to get ready for the dinner.... but we're guys (mostly guys staying at Anna's) so just wore what we were wearing all day while Anna got ready.

Telling Daniela about our decision, Bram to Mario "Tell her the phone was facing down"

The Dinner was great. Had a lot of fun playing Foosball with country teams playing against each other... like Germany vs Belgium... or Germany vs Austramala

One of the great things were that drinks were cheap (a rarity in Denmark) and Daniela brought this sugary powder you can mix with Vodka. So you pour the sugar powder (Aussies: think wizz fizz) onto your toungue, then take a shot of vodka in your mouth, shake your head around and drink it. It was soooo good.

Chatting with Sebastian, Sebastian to me "I've noticed that Australians use 'ish' alot"
Me "yeah we use it like... i'll be there at 8ish, or i'm going to be lateish"
For the rest of the TLA, Sebastian "I'm having in awesomeish time" "That's coolish" "I'm vikingish"

After dinner we first went to the Chocolate Factory and then on to Social Club. Social Club was better because the music was easier to dance to and we all had fun. Michael got really really drunk but was wearing his "magic" jacket that attracts all the girls Mario got a random kiss from some girl... so it was a really good night !!! After the club, Sebastian got to practice his Danish again on one of the McDonald's girls.

Sunday morning after a late brunch we had an external speaker from Australia facilitating a session on Culture Shock.

Discussion about different Cultures, Speaker to the group "Australians are laid back and lazy... Like Brazilians"
Rafael "Thanks, a lot"

Then we all hopped onto our trains for some more "nap time".

On the walk to the train station, Sebastian to me "Dammit, I forgot to forget something"

So thanks to AIESEC ASB!!!! We all had an awesomeish time."

by Vivi
http://spaces.msn.com/chauvivi/



ILA Aarhus Photos!!!

Bram: http://spaces.msn.com/brampauwels123/
Rafael: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_melkor/