First week of lesson and random stuff

My first porridge. It dried up after a while and my friend thought it was rice.

First week of lesson was pretty ok. The professors, all of them, were really nice and engaging, albeit boring ( a little). Some of the courses are quite heavy but I guess I'll manage, cos nothing can beat NUS's workload. I have lessons on all 5 days, which is NOT the norm because I'm taking 6 courses. The day is divided into 2 slots, which means in 1 week there are 10 slots to choose from. So I have 4 half days and 1 full day. Full days are really mad. but 4 morning classes at 8am is also mad. Thank god it's Saturday tomorrow.

One peculiar stuff I observed is that projects are graded on an individual basis(some only)! Which means that we have to state what we have done for the project and the lecturer will grade us according to how much we have contributed. So even if your project gets an A, and if you have done nothing, you'll fail. 

As much as people have said that danes are quiet and unfriendly, I would think otherwise. Maybe they are quiet but certainly they are not unfriendly. I've never met any Danish classmate who has been unkind or rude or anything. Not one yet. Maybe I'm just lucky? I heard complains and bad stuff( alittle racism) from other friends in other unis in other countries, but so far I've only good stuff to share. Most of the bad stuff I heard came from business schools? haha new stereotypes i guess? Engineering students are nice people.

The classes have like 6 blackboards, I dont really know for what reason. And printing is FREE. Finally something worth mentioning about! The lecture-student relationship here is really relaxed, u can call the lecturer by his first name, and sometimes he puts his leg on the table while chatting(discussing) with the other students. So stress free. I love it.

Each week we will have approximately 4 hours of lessons for each course, the first hour or so will be taught by the lecturer, while the remaining 2 to 3 hours will be exercises. Normally I did my work fast so i left early, and they are not graded anyway. It's all independent work so if you are really unclear about something you have to ask the lecturer. I met some people I knew beforehand in my classes, which is really nice because we tend to discuss our problems and lack of expertise in certain areas because we were all educated in different universities and are from different backgrounds. And there's a lot of group work so I get to meet other students and Danes.

I'm beginning to get used to the weather, nowadays i try not to wear the brown scarf because it's like 2 metres long and it itches my neck a lot. It's not really as cold as the time I arrived, either because it is getting warmer(which i doubt so because feb is the coldest month) or I'm just getting plain used to it. Nowadays its just a T shirt and a jacket. 

And I found chilli padi, amazingly. I found it at Fakta, it came at a price of course. 19 DKK. That's like SGD 5 for 1 packet. But the value addedness to my mental sanity is way more than that. Garlic, soya sauce and Chilli padi --> Heaven. I'm going to copenhagen tomorrow to search for Sesame oil. Might need it to make meatballs and porridge.

It finally SNOWED! LOOK at the blue sky!