HELLO Everyone!
sorry I haven't posted in a while I haven't had a lot of time to get on the computer. I have been crazy busy anyway....
I arrived safely in Denmark after several flights. My first one from Harrisburg to Detroit was cancelled so I ended up going from Harrisburg to Ronald Reagan to Detroit with a stop in Philly. When i got to Detroit I finally saw
some other Rotary Kids going to Denmark which was nice I don't think I could have made it
thru customs and stuff in Amsterdam out
at least one other native
English speaker. (side note: Believe those people who tell you that people from
Holland won't speak
english to
foreigners. its so true) I got to airport in
Århus and waited and waited with 5 other exchangers for our luggage
which never came and then was greeted by a mob of people waving Danish Flags. It was
a little strange but I was so tired that I was like yea people who know my name yea! lets go to
Tage's house(my Rotary
counselor) so I can sleep. I was taken to
Tage's house where I stayed the next 3 days. When I got there we ate pancakes but they aren't like pancakes in the US they are flat and you eat them with jam and a little sugar as a desert; and then I slept for 17 hours. the next day
Tage took me on a tour of the area and to my host homes. I got to meet Pedro the
Brazilian exchange student hosted by the same club and my second host mom. I also met
Yetta(
sp?) Pedro's host mom and one of his host sisters. That evening I went to my very first rotary meeting and go to see some drunken
Rotarians sing danish drinking songs it was really funny. I spent some more time at
Tage's house and then I finally moved in with my first host family.
The first week with my host family was very interesting to say the least. The day after moving in my host sister
Katrin took me shopping with her friend Camilla. we went to the
Storcenter its like a mall but smaller. I had a lot of fun shopping with them,
Camilla is very funny. The day after
Katrin took me to the pool because we were having some really nice weather. We went with Camilla and her other friend
Amellia. Going to the pool here is
different than in the US, like the pool is the same but before you enter the pool you have to shower and before you leave you have to shower..... but wait for it .... the showers aren't like
individual shower stalls with curtains NO it is a room with showers. so you end up taking a shower in front of a bunch of random strangers I did not enjoy this part of the pool. any
hu later in the week we were still
experiencing really nice weather so my host parents took my host grandfather, my host brother
tobias, and I up to
skagen, the northern most part of Denmark its about a 2 hour trip. I walked on the sand bar all the way to the top. I took along a bathing suit with me on our trip figuring that it is a beach I would be able to swim
haha no you can't swim in
skagen because 3 bodies of water meet there its to dangerous. On our way home we
stopped at another beach but no one was swimming there either because the water was to cold. We also stopped at the Dessert and a
Church that is
completely covered with sand you can only see the very top.
The next week I was very busy again. I had 2 interviews with 2 local papers. The first one was with the paper from
Langå. It was with Pedro, Emil, my host brother from my third family who just got back from
Brazil and is in my class at school, and another Emil who just left for the US. Afterward Pedro and I went in to
Randers and met with 2 other
Brazilian exchangers. The next day Pedro and I had another interview with the paper from
Randers. And then school started. I will post later about school.
I will be setting up a video chat
account soon and if you want you can email me for the name thing and we can chat, just know that I am 6 hours ahead of people who live in Eastern
Standard time so when is 6 pm there its 00 or 12 am here.
thanks for reading this
lenghty post and use the comment box for any questions or comments
