Sports

Because sport is one of my main activities here on the Campus, I'll try to expose you his importance in a danish student life.

First of all, about the organisation, I would like to say that I'm really impressed by their professionalism though that's a student organization. In order to be as efficient as possible about the schedule, they provide us an online time table. Then we have to register for each sport session we went to attend, the bad point is that we have to be quick because places are limited, especially for badminton.

There is a lot of different sport such as volleyball, badminton, MMA, latin dances, yoga, basketball, Hip-Hop, Insanity which a sort of hard stretching and handball. This plenty of sport is spread all over the week from monday to sunday! This allow us to practice sport even the week-end to make a break in our studies for a couple of hours.

Otherwise, there are a lot of other sports in the city but you have to get there by yourself. You can also run around the Fjord for example, play football on the campus field or go to the aquaforum for a little swim (completed by sauna, hammam etc..). Moreover, as explained in a previous article, student can get free entrance for a lot of event such as basketball match in order to support the local team.

Nicolas

Sunset on the Fjord

Odense

On Saturday March 2nd, we started exploring the city of Odense, on the island of Funen.

Odense is the third biggest city in Denmark, after Copenhagen and Aarhus, with around 188 000 habitants.

This city was the birthplace of H. C. Andersen, a famous writer of the nineteenth century. Indeed, he has written, among other "The Little Matchgirl", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Princess and the Pea," and many others.
Their is also a museum around his personnal life, his period and obviously all forms of art he had tried in his life. This tall man has spent most of his time alone, that's why he was used to practice carving, writting, drawing etc..

Juliette and me came here by car: 1h20 from Horsens. And, in the city, we found free parking all day! It's cheaper and faster than train, Nicolas would agree.

On this day, we visited :

- A cathedral and a church

The Church Saint Albani

The Cathedral Saint Knud 

- The museum dedicated to H. C. Andersen

- Two parks

Andersen Haven

Andersen Haven

Munke Mose

Munke Mose

- the alleyways

Throughout the city, you can find statues, plates, etc.. the effigy of H. C. Andersen! Because of his freaky "overflowing" imagination, people just avoided him but now his art is spread all over the city.

"Hans Christian Andersen is confirmed in this church on April 18th 1819"

Clémence, Juliette & Nicolas

Aarhus

Last weekend, all of us went to Aarhus. It is a town of about 243 000 people which only is at 30 minutes by train from Horsens. We took the decision to arrive at the beginning of the afternoon in order to visit.

The first thing on our way was the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. This is one of the largest art museums in northern Europe. There were lots of beautiful paintings and attractive creations from modern art and golden age. However, the museum closed at 17 p.m; that was the bad point of the visit.

Thus, after the museum we tried to visit the city just walking in the street without precise goal. But all of the shops were closed too. Indeed in Denmark, Saturday isn't the better day to visit because everything shut relatively earlier compared to France.

This town is really bigger than Horsens and I thing we will go back there because we just visited the quarter.

Next destination should be Odense!

The Sun in Horsens's Fjord !