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2381 Ibid.
2382 Ibid.
elderly are treated with respect. You‟ll find the same here. In the bus, we always
have a place to sit. Even young girls get up for us. Such courtesy is rare in
Denmark. You also notice that kids are treated with such love and affection here
in Turkey.”
Danish club
Even Asger feels at home in Turkey. “The only thing I regret is being so far away
from my grandchildren, but luckily I do see them regularly. Other than that there
were two things that I missed here: square dancing and playing golf. I‟ve been
playing golf now regularly with friends in Belek and we took the initiative of
setting up a square dance group ourselves. So I no longer miss these two things”
Asger emphases that when you move so far away from your familiar world, it is
important that you find activities to do that provide you with satisfaction. “We‟re
not the kind of people who like to sit in the sun on their balcony all day long.”
It doesn‘t seem to be in the nature of Danish people to do nothing. According to
married couple Bruun-Andersen, every Dane in Denmark is a member of at least
two or three associations or clubs. This played a part in giving Rozilla and Asger,
together with other Danish habitants, the idea of starting up their own club.
Danclub helps with distributing information and in meeting other Danish people
in Alanya But at the same time that Danclub was founded, other people from
Denmark elsewhere in Alanya were also setting up a Danish association. Since
two clubs seemed a bit much, even for the Danes, they recently amalgamated.
Now they continue their work under the name DK Alanya.
Rozilla: “When you live here as a foreigner, it‟s nice to have a place where you
can find something from back „home‟. And where you can meet people who know
how everything works in Alanya so that you don‟t have to figure it all out by
yourself. We also learned everything with the help of friends, including many
Turkish ones.”
This raises the question of whether Rozilla and Asger have come across any
unexpected problems or setbacks over the past two years. After all, they did leave
Denmark rather quickly on an impulse. Rozilla: “This is all in the past now. May
be other people would have researched the country and some other things in
more depth, but we immediately got the feeling that everything would be alright.”
Asger: “In these two years there hasn‟t been a single moment when that feeling
let us down.” Rozilla: “In our opinion we made a decision that was 100%
correct.”
Published in Hello Alanya Magazine May 2007 and in www.helloalanya.com
lever stadig.
Rozila (--?--) lever stadig.
1146 ii. Tove Bruun-Andersen 2381 lever stadig.
1147 iii. Helga Bruun-Andersen 2382 lever stadig.
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