we went for an exchange briefing in school last Thurs, and i was so glad to meet up with Serene cos she has so much information about Aarhus.
firstly, i am very upset to learn that i don’t have a private toilet attached to my hostel room. i thought i would have because students who’ve been there before and stayed near the ghetto have a private toilet. i know i’ve been whining a lot about it, but i just think it’s incredibly troublesome to have to gather your toothbrush/toothpaste/facial wash every morning and every night, and to have to gather all your bathing stuff every day when you bath. that’s a total of 3 trips per day!! and sometimes i can be quite anal about cleanliness, and if i don’t have my own toilet, i won’t know how clean it is and i’ll be really anal about where i put my stuff inside the toilet/bathroom.
secondly, the good thing about our hostel is that it’s where all the international students would be, so it means we can make more friends and interact a lot more. as opposed to the hostel near school, which would be made up mainly of Danish students. it also means that more parties would be held there. BUT the bad thing is that our hostel is near the ghetto. i so don’t dare to post this on LJ cos i didn’t even dare to tell my family (other than my sis, cos they would be so damn worried for me). the ghetto is very famous in Aarhus, because it’s where the second generation immigrants stay. because they are immigrants there, they cannot assimiliate into the society there and there’s a rift between the Danish and them. as such, the immigrants in turn, discriminate against the minority, such as Asian Chinese. which is us. Serene and HL had a run in with them on the bus. The very same bus that we would have to take everyday to get from our hostel to school and back again. how bad is it gonna be? of course we can walk, which is one hour. or cycle, except that YT doesn’t know how to. and of course the basic thing would be to sit near the bus driver and ignore them. but it’s still scary nonetheless. and with the constant parties, it could be hard to study or do homework if i need to do so.
thirdly, the other scary thing is that because it’s near the ghetto, and we’re Asian Chinese, if we were to walk alone, we could get attacked, which was what happened to one of Serene’s friends. apparently her Danish friends didn’t face the same problem. well it could be a coincidental, one-off thing, but it worries me still.