Pictures!

Finally! For some reason, I can finally access my webpage from back at the dorm. So i used Baly's computer and uploaded a bunch of pictures. More to come for sure. Check them out
http://www.uncasvet.com/cgi-bin/emAlbum.cgi

What a wicktacular weekend!

(FYI: Wicktacular is my combination of wicked and spectacular. Pretty sweet eh?)

So after a couple of...not so exciting weeks here in Aalborg, this weekend rocked!

This weekend was the football clubs 'Activities Weekend.' So saturday morning we boarded the bus to a little place called Grimstead 45 mins out of town. We ended up at Grinstead hall. There was about 30 of us, about 18 guys and around 12 girls. For the couple hours of the afternoon they rented a 'clown' of sorts. He had us doing all sort of crazy stuff like throwing a bean bag between our legs, over our head and then a partner catching it in their shorts. Then he had us doing some acrobatic routines of balancing on each other... some of them were definitely awkward positions, but that made it all the more funny. And finally he brought out a whole bunch of trick stuff to try. Like juggling, unicycles, spinning a plate on a stick etc... Good stuff!

After that we split up into 6 teams and played a mini tournament in three sports. The first was blind ball, where we were blind folded and crawled around on the floor rolling a big ball that had bells inside to jingle and listen for. The second game was velcro ball. The ball was made of velcro and we wore jersey's that had a velcro patch on the chest and on the butt. So you couldn't catch with your hands. That was cool. And finally the last game was hockey. Some teams thought our team wasn't exactly fair, seeing as they had the lone 'Canadian' on their team :-D So as expected our team went undefeated in hockey and won the overall tournament!! This allowed us first pick of the 'chores' for the weekend. So we chose to set the table for dinner. Piece of cake! Much better then the after dinner clean up another team got.

After that we walked 1km out into the bush to this cool cabin. It had like 5 rooms with bunkbeds everywhere, a big hall and a big kitchen. And after that we just partied the night away! My FIRST party with DANISH people. Hard to believe huh, i've been here almost 3 months, but my kollegium is all international students so i don't get to interact that much with the danish.

We played a lot of card games which were cool. For those who know hoe-down, i played a similar game called Star Wars, same sort of game. LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER! ------- COOOOOOOOOOONECT!! Hahahaha....i'll have to show it you all when i get home.

Then came the only hard part. I went to bed around 4am (others were later) and we had to be up by 9am. Why? Well we had to clean up, eat breakfast and catch the bus back to Aalborg so we could play our football game!!!! Yep, we had an important match Sunday.

There are two teams here at the University. I played most of my time witht the Series 2 team, we finished middle of the pack and now our season is over. But the series 1 team finished first in their division, the fifth division. As such, they are now in a playoffs against the other 31 teams from all of northern Denmark that finished first in division 5. So it's simply one loss and your out, 5 games to win it all!

Well I've been called up to play for the Series 1 team, quite an honor. So Sunday was our first big match. We were all a little tired from the night before, but surprisingly it didn't affect us. I opened the scoring about 10 minutes in, and we quickly built a 2-0 lead. But they came back in the second to tie it up, before we finished them off 4-2! So we're moving on!!! Next Sunday we are travelling about 2hrs north to play another team!

By now your thinking, that is a sweet weekend! Well it wasn't finished.



I decided to bring my long tradition of pumpkin carving to the kollegium. Most there have never carved a pumpkin! So friday, Baly, Liis and I took the shopping cart to the store and bought five pumpkins. So sunday night we carved them!

It went really well, everyone had a great time, and we had some really cool designs. While we were doing the carving I baked the pumpkin seeds for people to try which was also a big hit. And as per usual when i seem to be doing carving, a pumpkin 'innards' fight broke out. So the after clean up of the kitchen....and the hallway....and the stairwell... took a little while. But a great time! I will post pictures of our pumpkins soon!

thats it, thanks again for the comments! It makes my day to come to the site and see people have commented. Lets me know i'm not talking to myself :-D

Logan 'Master Pumpkin Carver' Jones

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Ok, so i don't consider myself a video game geek. The last system I bought was the good ol N64 but then university started and that was about it.

But that hasn't stopped me from getting excited about the new Nintendo Wii! On one hand, you never want to get too excited because nothing ever lives up the hype and yet it's hard to help it, especially when you read articles like this, that virtually says it does indeed live up to the hype. For those of you who haven't heard much about it, the whole point of the wii is to change gaming. The control senses where it is and hence you use the movement of the controller to play the game.

So instead of hitting A to hit the tennis ball, you actually swing your arm like a tennis racket. Or you can yield the wii-mote like a sword and sword fight, or swing it in boxing, or hold it like a steering wheel and turn when racing. The possibilites are endless.

I gotta admit when I watch the demo's, the thrill of 'actually' throwing the winning touchdown will far surpass the old button mashing of the past. Leave it to good ol Nintendo to re-shape video gaming.

And of course it helps that the wii will cost less than half the PS3. So all this has me excited! I'm hoping i can get one preordered and by the time i get home on the 6th, there will be one waiting for me :-)

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Logan

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

So it was a weekend of ups and downs.

Friday was a good day. It was my roomate Baly's birthday so Nori and I went out and bought him a birthday cake, candles and a cheese grater as a present (he didn't have one). So Friday night we celebrated his birthday and had a really good time. Then we heard about a party at the international kollegium so off we went and had a good time there. However that walk home was nearly an hour, as such I was home pretty late. Usually not a problem but I had a football game the next morning.

As such the football game was pretty disappointing. We lost to a team we should not have lost against, and I just seemed a step behind the play all day. Frustrating. To top it off, I got taken down on a breakaway and somehow my thumb got caught on something and wrenched the wrong way. So I ended up ripping off part of the nail on my thumb and now I cannot really bend it or hold anything (it'll be fine in a couple days I figure). More frustration!

Sunday was just overall boring. Couple that with the fact that while I ate my noodles and hotdogs I was thinking of everyone back in Canada sitting down to turkey and stuffing and potatoes and gravy and pumpkin pie. *Sigh* I could really use some homemade Megan Pumpkin Pie. (for those of you not Canadian, this weekend is Thanksgiving where we sit down for a big feast and give Thanks to everything in our life)
http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/thanksgiving/history.htm

But nevertheless I am of course Thankfull
I am thankfull for my parents, my family, my friends. I contribute who I am and where I am today to them. I'm thankfull I have had an oppurtunity to travel the world, experience culture, meet people from other countries and gain new friends. I'm thankfull I have a job here that is interesting and will further help me in my field. And I'm thankfull that this is only the beginning, there is so much more in life I'm looking forward to.

So HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! I hope your having a wonderfull time!

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992

(and now I'm looking forward to Christmas turkey just that much more!!! )

Logan

I need the Oilers!

Well that is a good way to start the season! Good ol fashioned whoopin of our biggest rivals. Only one problem,

I DIDN'T GET TO WATCH IT!

i've searched the internet hi and dry to see if anyone is streaming NHL games. No luck. Even the CFL has signed a deal so that I can watch their games, either live for $9.95 or anytime for $6.95. Too bad the Eskimo's suck too much to bother paying. Anyways...

So if ANYONE know if ANYWAY i can watch the games, it would be most appreciated. Maybe, somebody has TVO and can record the game on their computer and then we can exchange them through a network. That would be grand!!! Not everygame of course. But i'd like to see one, once in awhile!

GO OILERS!!

A Visit from Home

So it was a good weekend. After a missed ferry ride and a missed train ride, my parents finally arrive at 12:15am Friday night (Saturday morning). The bed and breakfast I found turned out to be really nice. The hosts were great and at 325Kr a night, it's a steal compared to the hotels around here.

Saturday morning they came and watched my football game. It was against the undefeated team (the same that beat us 16-0 the first time) but overall it was a good game. We lost 4-2 but it was well played and I ended up scoring twice. My mom also tried out the new SLR camera on some action shots of me playing!

Saturday afternoon I showed them around the metropolis of Aalborg. It rained intermittently throughout the day so we basically just toured the downtown core and some of the parks.

Sunday we took the train to Copenhagen. Unfortunately there were limited seats and we got stuck in the smoking cabin. It was disgusting. After 5hrs my eyes were watering and everything smelled. This is where Europe lacks far behind Canada and USA, with their smoking laws and prices. Bahhhhh

Copenhagen was a nice city although it also rained intermittently all day. Trying to see a big city like Copenhagen in one day isn't ideal. There's so much to see, it can lead to frustration trying to fit everything in while dealing with early closing time and monday closing times. But we took a boat tour through the canals, climbed the 440 stairs to the top of an old church and visited the Hans Christian Anderson museum. So all in all it was a great weekend. Now my parents are back in Canada and back to work after their 24 day excursion through Europe.

Thats all for now!

Logan