Amongst all the great people I live with, we also live with an SRA (social resident advisor) named Asbjoin. No one can pronounce correctly, but phonetically is ass-be-on. Thats our trick to help us remember how to say it lol He lives with us in our flat and is responsible for making sure we are culturally immersed and answers our questions. Danes are super sarcastic and if you're not listening for it, it will catch you off guard. At first we didn't think he liked us very much but now whenever he makes a joking comment we call him sassy assy. The nickname definitely sticks. Asbjoin is an incredible cook! like five star restaurant quality- every day for every meal. He makes everything from scratch including pasta sauce and hummus. On our first night here he made us Thai food and I'm not kidding it was the best Thai food I've ever had. So as we all eat our undercooked pasta and cereal he's eating homemade gourmet meals. He and his girlfriend made an incredible cake to celebrate the september birthdays! It was amazing. Im making a list of everything and will definitely be getting the recipes!
Anyways on Saturday the 3 SRAs for our building for together and thought it would be fun if they put us through the traditional Danish hazing experience. There are no sororities of fraternities in Denmark so all the freshman and new students get hazed at the beginning of semester. So Saturday morning everyone for l 3 floors got up and were told to meet outside, we needed a bathing suite and thats it. We weren't allowed to bring our phones, cameras, or anything. We're all in the courtyard and they divide us into two teams, the Vikings and the Royal guards. Each team was given ripped cloth to tie around our heads and arms. The royals (my team!) were red and the vikings were brown. Then we all had to paint out faces and come up with a chant. The 2 teams then had to line up and we had to march all through the city with war paint and headbands as we loudly chanted through the city of Copenhagen. Saturday also happened to be a really popular day to cruise into Copenhagen, we marched through the city square where hundreds of Asian tourists started taking pictures of us. I swear I had more photos taken of me in that morning than I have in had in the last 2 years of my life. We marched straight to the train station and took the train to a very industrial looking area of Denmark. We walked to a dock where they put us in row boats, where we got to row around the city of Denmark in the harbor! It was actually beautiful, I really wished I had my camera. It was tiring but honestly so worth it. I got to see an angle of the city that most will never see. For the last part of the rowing they had us race to the dock. My arms were so tired by that point but we did it and my team won! We were happy, because they told us whichever team won the most challenges wouldn't have to clean up after the party they had planned for us that night.
After we got out of the row boats they have us a traditional Danish candy bar. It was very good, just like toffee. Then we walked to a grassy field and we played a traditional Danish game called round ball. The rules are similar to base ball, or its played with tennis balls and several people are allowed to be on the same base. At first it was hard because they kept telling us more rules that were slightly different than base ball, but we finally got the hang of it and it was really fun. The next thing they had us do was so difficult but hilarious! They cut holes in the bottom of plastic cups and tied two together with rubber bands. We had to wear them over our eyes, which cut off our peripheral vision. Then we were instructed to play soccer. It was so difficult. You couldn't see the ball much less all the people around you, so everyone was running into each other. The video Asbjion got was hilarious. Fortunately only minor injuries. They then gave us more traditionally danish candy, similar to gummy bears, and harbo candies. at that point we were dying for real food. We got to the harbor and they now had us doing eating competitions. In Denmark they are a huge fan of licorice which is hands down my least favorite candy/ flavor ever. Ohmygosh it was disgusting we had to eat handfuls of this licorice flavored candy. I'm not going to lie I did not eat it, I started dropping them on the ground and giving them to other people. Yuck. Then we picked two people from each team to finish a whole tray of Flodebolle each! They are marshmallow like treats dipped in chocolate, and there's about 25 in a tray! The guy on our team was eating 2/3 at a time! I have no idea how he was doing it. We won that competition and then we all changed into our bathing suits and you could jumped into the harbor off a 20 ft ledge. I opted out of this, I thought forsure free falling after the amount of food I had consumed would be the worst idea, and truthfully I've never been a huge fan of jumping off things, so Saturday was not going to be the day I changed my mind lol. We finally were able to go home and make a real meal
Before we had to meet up again for the party at 8.
For the evening we all got dressed up, (the guys had to wear suits) and
they provided us lots of food and drinks. It was quite the event. After, since we were already having so much fun, we decided to out to the bars and continue the night! It was a blast. I am so glad they planned the day for us, and my team won! So we didn't have to clean, which was really nice. All in all it was so much fun!
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