Introduction Week at ASB

My first week officially on exchange at Aarhus Business School (ASB) was an entire week of orientation kindly arranged for us by the school. I was rather impressed and thankful that they had such a program in place as i thought back to how things were like back home in SMU where exchange students would basically have to live or die with their assigned Singaporean buddy.

The whole exchange program group was really something of a mini United Nations with people from all over Europe, the States, Canada, China and even Kazakhstan! So, yeah, a large part of the week was spent getting to know people and their homelands better and hopefully have a few contacts to count on when i travel later on.

My orientation group! It was a nice friendly group. I liked the fact that there were spanish gals with whom i could practise my limited spanish with. It was also nice that one of them tried to learn a bit of Mandarin from me....lol. Alvin teaching Manadarin...*cough*

The orientation program was pretty fun, with buffets, bowling, pubbing and clubbing all thrown in. I didn't really enjoy the clubbing as the only music they seem to play here is R&B and no matter how hard i tried to get myself drunk or at least a little high, my ass simply did not want to move to the sound of Black Eyed PeaSai. Oh well, Enjoy the photos my friends!

Night out at a local bar...vaxies or something like that...

Hmmm, beeerrrr...

Colourful people, colourful balls

My buddy Alex, from France, buying the group one round!

"The Old Town" - An area of Aarhus where the houses have been preserved and spruced up as so that today's generation can have a rough idea of how their ancestors used to live...

Nice little channel running along the main road of the city...

A semi-frozen pond we passed by on our guided tour of the city...

Just for their toughness in wading on that icy water, those birds deserve to be fed!

Anyways, here's a quick Gong Xi Fa Cai to all whom i have not been able to wish personally so far! Hope the pickings this year are good! I just pray that my pickings will be collected on my behalf and reflected in my bank account statement at the end of this month...