Denmark, small country with small cars small houses and strange keyboards

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