Hello, Kaia and me (Siret) arrived to Naestved, Denmark on March 16th. We have already been here for 1 week so there has been some time to look around and see the town. It is a small and quiet town with about 41.000 residents.
So far we like it here, we live in a small apartment (with kitchen, tiny hall and bedroom in one and the same room, toilet and shower in another room), but we are satisfied with it, this is our home for the next 12 weeks :) In the picture you can see our house, there are several houses wich look the same. Every weekend there is a party in some houses.
We live about 3,6 km away from the hospital, this is about 45 minutes of fast walking. In some weeks we should get bikes from our school, so it will be easier to move around here. The weather here is really nice, it is spring here in Naestved so we have no problem walking to hospital every morning.
The schoolhouse is near our appartment, about 5 minutes of walking. There is a big kitchen, where students can cook, sit down and enjoy their meal. We also cook in the school kitchen as there is better equipment and more space than in our kitchen. In the school there is also 2 gyms, one bigger than the other and the students are free to use them whenever they. One gym is for different ball games, there is also equipment like hockey sticks, balls etc. The other one is full of all kinds of machines to train different muscle types.
Life in Denmark is much more expensive than in Estonia. Food is about 2 times as expensive as in Estonia, but we are getting used to it.
People in Naestved hospital are friendly, they speak english very well so there is no trouble with understanding them.
Our first 2 weeks of practice are in transfusion center. We are learning many new things about blood banking and transfusion and reminding old things that we studied in the automn back in Estonia. Transfusion center laboratory has many expensive maschines so the laboratory staff has less work to do manually, almost all the procedures are automatised.
As mentioned, people are nice around here, even on the streets people just smile to foreigners.
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