First week in Denmark

Greetings from Denmark!

I’m Emma Kajuutti, 20 years old horticulture student. This is my last year at Jämsä and I decided that I want to do practical training abroad. So I left to Denmark and arrived last Sunday to Billunds airport. From there I took bus to Aarhus from where I had to continue to Beder by other bus. I am staying in Jordbrugets UddannelsesCenter at Beder. I got my own room from schools dormitory and there is shared kitchen/living room.

Work, work, work

I am doing my practical training in town named Odder. It is about 20 minutes bus ride away from Beder and it is easy to go since I got buscard. My work place is flower shop, Violen. It is big shop compared to places I have worked before, although shop isn’t only all about flowers, there is also all kinds of different liqueurs, sweets, coffee, tea and other delicacies.

Violen from outside

Violen has many danish liqueurs

This week I have been helping out everybody, planting, cleaning cutflowers, drilling holes to horns, watering plants and getting used to way how things work at shop. I got to do few bouquets on friday. On Thursday after work I went with owner and staff to a beer tasting. It was held at local asian restaurant so we also went to eat at the same time. I have never been at such an event but it was very nice and I got to taste danish beers and liked some of them very much. Also got good food so I was happy that they took me with them.

Weekend for relaxing?

I had thought that I’d take it easy on weekend and just go to couple of places, eat and sleep. Well that didn’t happen and on Saturday I explored Aarhus. I went to ARoS art museum, old town (den gamle by), tropical house, Dokk1 and Aarhus cathedral. I also walked many kilometers, just to see what it is like in Aarhus.

Rainbow panorama on top of ARoS
Riverside lane in the old town

On Sunday I went to deer park, just south of Aarhus. There were so many deers that walked around people, begging for treats. After deer park I went to see movie, La la land. Liked it but somehow reminded me of this older movie, singing in the rain.

Some of deer parks residents