tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58185072105548477012024-03-12T19:11:28.276-07:00"At rejse er at leve"- "To travel is to live" - Hans Christian AndersenA Year In DenmarkNina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-3710824727623446372012-07-10T15:58:00.003-07:002012-07-10T15:58:35.623-07:00All good things come to an end.Hej alle,<br />
So I am sitting here and it is now technically the morning of my flight. I can't even believe how fast this year has gone. I have experienced so much and learned a lot about myself, cultures, and so much more. I have done more things than I can imagine in a year, seen more places. This year has been one the the hardest, but also the best year of my life. Denmark has become a second home to me that I know I will be back to visit one day. There is so much I will miss.<br />
I'll miss:<br />
the green landscapes<br />
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Odense<br />
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quiet streets<br />
quaint houses<br />
the exchange students I am so lucky to be friends with<br />
the Danes I can now call my friends<br />
nights out in town<br />
speaking Danish<br />
language school class<br />
bus rides<br />
train rides<br />
the lightness in summer<br />
my freedom here<br />
being asked to say rød grød med fløde<br />
Danish food (frikedella, flæskestej, rugbrød, remoulade, koldskål, and much more)<br />
Danish parties<br />
flags everywhere for celebration<br />
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Danish music<br />
Dancing around the Christmas tree<br />
the golden fields at spring time<br />
being able to travel across the country in less than 6 hours<br />
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going swimming in freezing cold water simply because I don't know when I'll do it again<br />
ridiculously priced Baresso coffee<br />
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my host families<br />
sitting by the water<br />
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being able to call my best friends whenever I wanted because we were all in denmark<br />
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forgetting what time it is because it's so light out<br />
having almost no homework<br />
the good summer day weather<br />
the funny old drunk men at the train station<br />
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running into exchange students everywhere I go<br />
going to preschool<br />
getting so excited over a sunny day<br />
2c (my class)<br />
seeing castles<br />
Rotary<br />
Being an exchange student.<br />
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Those are only some of the many things i will miss. My Danish life has been amazing and I am so sad it is coming to an end. So much has changed this year that I can't even begin to wrap my mind around it. In 32.5 hours I should be back in California. That is the weirdest feeling ever and it still doesn't feel real. This year has been more than I ever wanted and I am so thankful for it. Thank you to everyone who helped me through it and who read my blog throughout the year. Thank you to everyone I've met and I will never forget this year and what it's taught me. I got the best life experiences any 16-17 year old could ask for. I traveled to 11 different countries this year, learned a new language, made best friends, made friends from all over the world, gained family, and learned about myself.<br />
Denmark will always have a place in my heart. <3<br />
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Tusind tak for alt Danmark! Jeg kommer til at savner dig rigtig meget. Tusind tak til alle mennesker jeg har mødt og har hjulpet mig. Det har være den bedste år i mit liv og jeg kan ikke tænke over hvordan det er færdig. Jeg elsker dig, Danmark og du er altid i mit hjerte.<br />
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farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-63930358074176344862012-07-01T09:38:00.003-07:002012-07-01T09:38:27.427-07:00Euro tour and the month of June-so busy I can't remember what I have done half the timeHej alle,<br />
So clearly I did not do well with that one last update promised before euro tour, but just be glad you are getting an update before I travel home because it is insanely busy right now. I mean EVERY single day has one thing planned on it at least and there are so many more things I want to do.<br />
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So I'm just gonna go really quickly over what I have been up to and whatnot since last update.<br />
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Eurotour: summary: 18 days, 8 countries, 50 exchange students in red sweatshirts, 4 adults, 1 bus. So pretty much it was crazy.<br />
We were in Berlin,Germany where we saw the Holocaust memorial, saw the Berlin wall, went on a 6 man bike, and enjoyed the city.<br />
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We stopped at Theresienstadt- a concentration/work camp. It was interesting to see.<br />
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We were in Prague, Czech Republic where we saw the old castle and Royal Palace and saw a water/lights show.<br />
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We went to Vienna, Austria. I ate wiener schnitzel, saw a beautiful colorful church, went to an art museum, broke my camera, and rode on the world's oldest ferris wheel. We saw Schönbrunn Palace and another castle.<br />
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We went to Lido di Jesolo, Italy near Venice. I bought a new camera, we soaked up the sun, swam, got a little tan, walked the streets of Venice, ate pasta, ate pizza, ate gelato, went to Milano and saw glass blowing, went for a long walk on the beach at sunset, met Rotary exchange students on their Euro Tour from Germany, and played sports on the beach.<br />
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We were in San Remo, Italy for one night where we walked on the beach and relaxed.<br />
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We were in Monaco for a few hours where we saw Formula 1/ Grand Prix racing, saw expensive cars, went wading in the beautiful blue water, saw the castle, and overall enjoyed the rich life.<br />
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We were then in Avignon, France. We ate macaroons and croissants, we saw one of the famous bridges in Avignon, went swimming/wading under the bridge, saw St. Pierre Church, and finally did laundry!<br />
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We went to Paris, France. We went on a night time boat tour, I slept in a room with 12 other girls, we saw the Eiffel Tower lit up, Alicia and I climbed the Eiffel Tower (the line was shorter to climb, than to take the elevator-1.5 hour wait for elevator-no wait for climbing), we saw Notre Dame, we took an enormous amount of photos in front of the Eiffel Tower, I kissed 3 of my good friends in front of the Eiffel Tower, we got lost on the Metro and ended up on the outskirts of Paris, we went to the Louvre- saw Mona Lisa and were about as excited as we should have been, got French perfume, we locked 3 locks on the lock bridge between 10 of us close friends, we ate French Onion soup, I ate escargot, we figured out the metro, we sat under the Eiffel tower and just relaxed, and I ran into my aunt and uncle randomly at a cafe IN PARIS- what are the odds, and I an amazing day alone in Paris with one of my best friends.<br />
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We went to Brussels, Belgium- we saw the Einstein atom statue, walked around the town, were disappointed by the peeing boy statue, ate mussels and french fries, ate Belan waffles, ate belgian chocolate sitting in a square in Brussels.<br />
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We went to Amsterdam. We went on a canal tour and walked the streets smelling pot everywhere.<br />
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Euro Tour was the best trip of my life. We took thousands on pictures (I personally took 1,700), played guitar/sang, played cards on the bus, became better friends with each other, ate abnormal amounts of haribo, pringles, and bread, didn't sleep much, and spent lots of money. It is hard to describe something that was so amazing, but it is definitely the best trip of my life and I am so happy I got to share it with the people I did.<br />
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-I went to a class party the day I got back from Euro Tour- so I was exhausted and it was so weird but also nice to speak Danish again.<br />
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-Went to Humlemagasinets gardens and saw all the figures of previous royalty of Denmark.\<br />
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-Took a Spanish years test at school.<br />
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-Met Isabel's (from California) parents and celebrated our friend Francisco's birthday.<br />
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-Saw the Queen of Denmark in Middelfart in the POURING RAIN.<br />
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-Went to our last G2G in Haderslev. It was a great ending. we had a tour of the town, went to a meeting with the mayor, and painted some pictures for the Rotary district conference. We also played sports and enjoyed our last time together.<br />
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-I slept at my friend Iago's (from Brazil) house with Shirley from South Africa and just rested after another weekend of no sleep.<br />
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-Hung out with some Brazilians for the last time.<br />
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-Had a sleepover at our friend Lulu's house since she was leaving soon and ate a whole cake pretty fast.<br />
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-Slept at Nora's house a few times. Enjoying our last few times of us all together sitting in her bed.<br />
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-I went to Copenhagen for a big exchange student goodbye party. So I shopped, met up with lots of people, and saw the last things I wanted to see in Copenhagen.<br />
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-I went to Bakken with Tina, Benjamin, and Jared. It's the world's oldest amusement park and we had a great day with good weather luckily.<br />
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-I went and stayed with Jaz one last time and we went to Frederiksborg castle and watched the Denmark Germany soccer game in the Europe Finals-Denmark lost.<br />
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-I spent the day in Copenhagen with Anthony (from Canada), and Martha (from Mexico), and Pia,and Guadalupe (both from Argentina). Then I met up with Linea (exchange student to California last year).<br />
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-Got together with my class for one last party. They were celebrating being done with school and especially their math exams, so they burned their papers. I also learned some more Danish summer games.<br />
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-Planned a surprise birthday party for Alicia that throughly surprised her and gave her a great day that she will never forget.<br />
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-Went to a 18th birthday party for a girl in my class and had a good time seeing some people from my class and people I have kinda known all year.<br />
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-Went to Mie's 18th birthday party at my 2nd host family's house.<br />
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-Made rice crispies for Tina's work since they thought they were the weirdest thing when they heard about them.<br />
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-Went to a Rotary meeting.<br />
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-Spent the day with Nora, Ruby, Nok Nahm, and Alicia as our last time all together before leaving.<br />
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-Went to Haderslev for our friend Emily's rotary graduation party. And went swimming the next morning with her host mom.<br />
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-Went to Kolding and shopped with Alicia and Martha and saw Koldinghus (a castle).<br />
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-Went to Vejle to visit a bunch of people there and see them for their graduation.<br />
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-Said goodbye to Nora which was hard/weird to do.<br />
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-Went to Jonas' graduation party.<br />
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As you can see it has been simply crazy the last few weeks. Literally every day has something I have/want to do. It's a weird emotional time right now for a lot of reasons and I'm trying to deal with it all. I just want to have a good last 10 days here in Denmark and spend time with the people who mean so much to me.<br />
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I will try and do one more post before I leave, but we'll see.<br />
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farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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Hej!<br />
These months just pass way too fast! Another month has gone by since my last blog post and I don't even know where the time has gone. Last time I wrote I had just moved into my third host family and now I have been here a month and feel fairly settled in. I think being on exchange with multiple families is great because I have learned how to make myself at home easily as the time has gone and just jump into a life I don't know and work my life into it, which is a great thing. I have also definitely become more comfortable faster as I have more host families.<br />
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So since I have lived with my host mom Tina and host brother Benjamin here is what I have been up to:<br />
-1st bike ride in Denmark- quite an accomplishment for me since I haven't ridden a bike for quite a few years back home. it was a bit of a shaky first ride, but it's much better now, also that i have the right size bike helps.<br />
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-Rode a horse with my host mom at her riding club- I haven't ridden in a while, so it was a bit of a change and I had to remember again, but it was fun! I even rode a horse called Hollywood Jac, who was related to a horse from California or something along the lines of that I think.<br />
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-We had a easter day in language school class where we blew eggs and made gækkebreve which are little riddles you make on cut out paper and the person you send it to has to guess who sent it and if they guess you owe them a chocolate egg but if they don't they owe you one. It's usually more for little kids, but we had fun!<br />
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-I went to Ikea for lunch/dinner with Nora, Katharina, and Nok Nahm one day in Odense because Katharina had to go home early from exchange, so we needed one last Ikea time!<br />
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-I had påskeferie (easter vacation) for a week here and it was a very busy week since my host mom was working most of it I just found lots of things to do!<br />
-I went to a young people's place called Walker with nora and ruby, but it was actually fairly awkward because we didn't know many people there and there weren't very many people there, but it was an okay Friday night.<br />
-Alicia slept over at my house the next day and we just hung out. I also went to my friend Sara's (from my class) gymnastic performance in Brenderup and their team was really good! It's different how many people do gymnastics here. I think maybe 6 or 7 from my class do it if not more.<br />
-I went to see a movie called Hvidstens Gruppen with my host mom and her boyfriend. It was a movie about the war with Germany and Denmark and was a sad movie because a lot of Danish people died, but I was quite content after the movie because I understood almost all of it and that is without Danish subtitles for me to read and having to listen to some different accents from all over Denmark, so I was fairly pleased with myself. I may have missed some of the emotion part because I was focusing on understanding, but sometimes I would catch myself not even focusing on it and still understanding. It's the little things like this that make me realize how much i have actually learned here!<br />
- That monday I went to a easter lunch with some friends from my class at Sara's house and it was a nice day with LOTS of food, easter egg hunting (although we couldn't find 2), egg blowing/painting, and then a party later that ended in biking home at 4:30 in the morning, but it was overall very fun!<br />
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-I went to Interwheel (female version of Rotary) and there was a woman speaking on her time in the army and woman in Afghanistan, which was pretty interesting to hear about.<br />
-I woke up early to go to Nora's house (i arrived at 6 or something) because no busses run during the holidays, especially from brenderup, so this was when I could go since my host mom was driving to work. I then went back to sleep at Nora's house and slept soundly for a few more hours. Her best friend from Austria was visiting with her mom so the 4 of us went to odense and showed her friend Paulina around and later Alicia came over. Then I slept at Alicia/ my second host familie's house that night since we were going to Germany the next day.<br />
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<br /> - We took a short trip to Germany to see some tourist spots. First we went to Danevirke which was an old defense system between Denmark and Germany. Then we drove to the town of Schleswig and saw an old viking town and then went out for lunch. At lunch Brian was trying his best to translate the menu for us, but none of us completely understood, so I was not entirely certain what I was getting, but it turned out to be really good. Then we just took a walk through the town and then had some hot chocolate.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-The next day I went to my first host familie's house for a easter lunch with some of their friends and their current exchange student (my newbie-Jared). It was very nice and again lots of delicious food. It was nice to be back at their house since I hadn't been back in awhile. The next day we all went to a aquarium/museum like place- I dont know exactly how to describe it, but it was in Kerteminde and we got to learn a bit more about the water life in the area and then see a performance with the seals. we were going to see a performance with the porpuses but it was too windy and cold to stand outside any longer.</span></td></tr>
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- That evening Benjamin got home from South Africa, so we went and picked him up at the train station. Then Tina drove me to Middelfart to Nora's house for a sleepover with Nora, Katharina, Nok Nahm, and Alicia since it was Katharina's 2nd to last night in Denmark, so it was a bitter sweet night. we had lots of fun and ate LOTS of chips and Austrian/ German chocolate and then watched 2 movies. It just didn't feel real that one of the people I see everyday is going home and I don't know the next time I will see her in person, it's just too weird to imagine and so soon that's gonna be with a lot of people, which I don't even want to think about.<br />
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- On another note, I thought I lost my camera in Germany for awhile and was literally just about to have my mom send me a new one when Alicia found it between the bookcase and bed in her room, so that was really lucky!<br />
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-The next Friday I went and slept at my friend Francisco's house from Ecuador and we went out with some of his friends and had a nice time since we hadn't seen each other in awhile and then we went shopping for a bit in Odense and he was so excited to buy a cardigan which I helped him pick out.<br />
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-The next day Alicia and I worked at Galla for our school, which is the equivalent to prom. It was some hard work and Alicia and I just hid in the bathroom when it was time to pour red wine since we really didn't want to spill on anyone's dresses/clothes. I loved seeing everyone all dressed up and they all arrive in fun ways, like old cars or horse trailers or ATVs and stuff like that. Then we saw them do the lancier dance which is a very formal partner dance and it was very well done. i am glad I got to see Galla since we weren't the right age to participate, then we got to party with the 3rd years for the rest of the night and it was overall just a fun night.<br />
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-The next day I met Alicia's family (uncle and aunt from germany and her aunt from Canada) just briefly before Tina picked me up, but it was so nice to see how happy she was to see them and I thought that's gonna be me in just a few months.<br />
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-I had a delicious and large breakfast at Nora's one day when i went early to her house. We had rundstykker (the round bread-which is so good) and a i had a hindbær snitter which is like shortbread with raspberry jam in the middel and icing and sprinkles on top-one of my favorite pastries here<br />
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-I went to a music performance at our school because Mie (2nd host sister), Nok Nahm, Agne, and Jared were all in it, so Nora, Alicia, and I went. It was fun to see!<br />
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-Then we had our very last Get together with all the exchange students in Denmark up on Jutland in Ry. There were 160 of us I think and it was fun to get to meet all the newbies since I had really only met jared. The first night we learned some traditional Danish folk dance which was pretty funny with everyone confused about it, and then watched a movie on Danish vikings.<br />
The rest of the night was spent talking until late in the night since a lot of us hadn't seen each other since october.<br />
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The next day we spent around 3 hours making Viking gear and weapons and things like that because the rest of the day was spent Larping (live action role playing-in case you arent familiar) in the forests like vikings, giants, and gods. i was a viking and overall it was pretty interesting and funny to see 160 exchange students all dressed up fighting with duct tape and foam swords. By the end we were all exhausted went back to hang out and talk until dinner. that night we had a disco and again stayed up late talking since who knows when we will see some of these people again. We also had a slideshow of our year here and that was definitely a tear jerker. here's the video, but some people said it doesn't work in the US:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlFKOv0DDg&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlFKOv0DDg&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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and here is a video from the tv station on Jutland of our weekend- they came to film a bit. Start at 7:43 to see our part and watch the background carefully at 8:26-8:29 for a little head to pop up and wave- that's me!<br />
<a href="http://www.tv2oj.dk/arkiv/2012/4/21" target="_blank">Awesome exchange student larping</a><br />
Sunday we went home and I was throughly exhausted and fell asleep on the couch for awhile.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the exchnage students at the get together- Where's Nina?</td></tr>
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Monday and tuesday we didn't have school which was nice, so Monday i went for a little bike ride on my own to practice and it all went well with no crashing!<br />
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This last wedenesday after language school Jared, Alicia, and I were in the bank speaking English together and let's just say we stand out a bit when we are doing this and then a woman came up to us asking where we were from and what not and it turns out she was traveling around Europe with a group of people and we were just doing good small talk and what not and then of course she hits us up to buy a windchime type thing because that's how they pay for their trip and we couldnt just say we don't have money since we were standing 3 feet from an ATM so we bought one between the 3 of us to give to Brian (our shared host dad) for his birthday. Pshh us naive exchange students getting excited about someone actually being interested where we are from with no alterior motives. ;)<br />
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Today was our very last language school class, which is really sad because that was such a fun class for us a Lorea was a great friend to us. We could ask her anything we wanted to know and just tell her anything, which is important to have when in another country. We spent the day eating food (I made funfetti cookies from scratch) and watching a Danish movie called "Italiensk for begynder" and it was a sweet movie. Then after that Tina picked me up and we went to a Gallery to see some paintings and there was one really huge, and extremely detailed painting that was amazing!<br />
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The weather now is not very nice like in my last post, it was pouring rain today, but we have had a few decent days. It's just very different every day.<br />
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I leave for Euro Tour on May 15th for 18 days, so I'll try and do one more post before I leave on that, but no promises since the next weeks are very booked up!<br />
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I got my official return date and now it feels real that this will actually end, which is hard to cope with, but I still have over 2 months that I will make amazing!<br />
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Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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</div>Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-24513921466755586642012-03-25T09:47:00.001-07:002012-03-28T09:24:39.824-07:00Lovin' Life!Hej!<br />
I feel like I just wrote my last blog post and not much has happened since then, but then I went and looked at the date and it's been almost a month since the last one! The months are truly flying by now and it scares me that it will be over so soon.<br />
So far in the month of March (now it's almost over!) I have been a decent amount of busy, but it's been a pleasant business, not hectic.<br />
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I went to my last Gym Party- now all the "lasts" are starting, which is sad, but then I also try to make the best of each last I have! I got ready with Nora and Alicia and we just had an overall nice time. Then Alicia and I headed to Odense because a bunch of exchange students were going to be there to celebrate carnaval, so that was fun even though it was mostly Brazilians and only one other American I think! It was a long, but unforgettable Friday night.<br />
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I had my last birthday party- this time with friends and it was very fun and definitely unforgettable. I had a bunch of exchange students and then a few kids from my class, so overall it was a nice mix of cultures and people.<br />
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Then on Monday night (well really 2:30 am on Tuesday) I met my class at the train station to go to Dublin Ireland!! Each 2nd year class goes on a trip somewhere relating to 2 subjects we have in school and our 2 subjects were English and Religion. At the airport I had my first Starbucks in almost 8 months and that was nice and tasted like at home, but was definitely not the same price! It cost me around 55 kr, which is over $10 for just a grande mocha. We arrived in Dublin and just walked around a bit and saw the sights. That night we went to temple bar, which was fun but was really crowded!<br />
Now I'll just list what we did since I can't remember what we did on what day:<br />
-Guided tour of Dublin<br />
-More pubs- out with the whole class and teachers one night, which was a bit funny.<br />
-Shopping- So much cheaper than Denmark<br />
-Guinness Storehouse tour<br />
-Dance class for traditional Irish dancing<br />
-Visit to the town Dalkey- a nice town on the water with nice, expensive houses<br />
-St. Patrick's Day- Parade, and out at night. An absolutely crazy day! So many people and green everywhere! I also got to meet up with Cyprien (Katie's friend) who was in Dublin with her mom, so that was nice to see someone from home!<br />
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Overall it was a good trip and I bonded with my class more, which is good!<br />
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Then I came home and was sick with a fever of 102-103 the next 3 days , so I wasn;t at school. Just relaxing and resting at home.<br />
Then we had a presentation in school on Friday related to our trip to Dublin and that went well. I had to make an analysis of and English article, but in Danish, so that took a bit of work.<br />
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This past Friday I went to a Nik & Jay concert with Alicia and Mie, because we had all gotten it as a present for Christmas. It was pretty fun and I saw 2 girls from my class there. There were a lot of parents there also, which was kind of weird since Nik and jay are rappers, but they were all having fun.<br />
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Then Saturday was my last full day with my host family, so I spent the day packing and then we went to mie's gymnastic performance and then had pizza for dinner and played trinomino as a family, plus one of Mie's friends.<br />
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Sunday- I moved all 15 of my different bags and suitcases and what not to my new town of Brenderup. Then I spent the day unpacking and Tina and I took a walk to the store, which is only 10 minutes away. benjamin is in South Africa for the next 2 weeks or so, so it will just be me and Tina for a little while!<br />
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The weather here is so nice! and by so nice I mean we have SUN!!! The temperature is only around 53º F, but to me it feels so warm. I spent a day with Alicia, Nora, and Katharina just laying on a bench by the water after school because it was so nice to us! I guess that's what having freezing the temperatures and no sun for a few months does to you!<br />
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Overall the past few weeks have been really nice and I am onto the last third of my year. It has just gone so fast and I can't believe and don't want to believe that the end point is in sight and I will have to go back to real life of school and speaking English all the time, so soon.<br />
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Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
<span id="goog_722196522"></span><span id="goog_722196523"></span>Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-22882997445265738262012-02-29T13:03:00.001-08:002012-03-28T09:17:13.652-07:00February went too fast!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hej,<br />
So again it has been awhile since my last blog post and my only excuse for that is February was gone before I knew it!<br />
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Now to make this fast I'll just give the event and quick details about it!<br />
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Newbie, Newbie, Newbie! So in case you aren't familiar with the Rotary lingo this means there is a new kid who is also sponsored my rotary club in Denmark, so he is my newbie and I get to just help him with any questions and introduce him to the world of Denmark. He is a 16 year old boy from Australia.<br />
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I went to a hockey game with Jette, Mie, Jonas, Alicia and another family from Gamborg and ti was fun for my first hockey game!<br />
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North Jutland: I was invited to go to a summer house in Skallerup Klit in North Jutland with Alicia and her host family for 4 days. It was a nice 4 days that included finally having snow!!!, swimming lots at the indoor pool, relaxing, and even a quick swim in the literally freezing cold water. Overall it was a good weekend!<br />
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Play in Fredericia: For one of my 24 days presents for Christmas I received a ticket to a play called Changes, which was written by 2 American guys and translated to Danish. It was a good play, what I could understand of it, which was a pretty decent amount! I at first thought they were Danish guys who had written it, so when I heard them talking in American accents to a reporter, I said to Mie: "Wait, they're speaking in English!!", then she explained that they were American.<br />
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I also wrote a large paper called an SRO for school in about half Danish, half english. It combines two subjects, which were English and geography for me. it was definitely not easy, but I hope I did well!<br />
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That weekend I did a 24 hour walkathon with Alicia, Simran (India), and Lily (Alaska) to raise money for FDF (a scouts organization my host dad is part of). We all walked pretty much constantly for the first 6 hours, then started taking breaks 2 at a time just for eating. During the night we walked alone for 1-2 hours at a time. It was much harder than I thought it would be and in the end I walked 42 kilometers and raised around 3,500 kr! It was a good experience, but I was SO tired after!<br />
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The night I finished the walk I went to a Superbowl party at my friend Lulu's house (from New York) with Alicia and Isabel (California). We ate good Superbowl food, but I fell asleep during it since it started at 12:30 in the night and I was functioning on little sleep.<br />
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The next day I left for Oslo, Norway with my host dad. He was going up for work and Imogene (from my home district) is on exchange near Oslo. Imogene showed me Oslo and I got to see her town. We enjoyed some shopping and seeing the sights in Oslo and it was actually not too cold, which was nice! I got to eat dinner at the Opera house with Imogene, someone from her Rotary and his wife and daughter since they were going there that night for the opera. it was very good food and so nice of them to invite me along! Overall it was a really nice trip and I am glad I got the chance to see Oslo! My host dad and I took the ferry there and back (and dad it will make you happy- I went outside on the way back!) I also tried brun ost (brown cheese), which I learned tastes really good, but most Danes can't like it.<br />
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That Friday I had a sleepover with Alicia and Nora (from Austria) at my house and that was fun. Alicia and I went for 2 walks that weekend since it was nice weather and the snow was going to melt soon. We enjoyed sliding on the ice and taking pictures.<br />
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I went to Odense with Katharina (Germany), Nora, and Alicia for a little shopping trip which was nice for something to do after school.<br />
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Friday the 17th of February it was the start of Winter vacation, so I went to Odense again to sleep at an exchange student from Turkey's house with Alicia, Lulu, and Lily. We went out for a bit and overall had a nice "hyggeligt" night!<br />
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On Monday the 20th Mie and I took the train up to her familiy's summer house in North Jutland, near where I was with Alicia before. It was in the town Lønstrup. We spent Monday just relaxing. Tuesday we went for a nice long walk and I got to meet Jette's sister and brother in law. Then we went to my host-grandma's house for dinner. She was so sweet and gave me a nice little cup that was her mother's as a birthday present to me.We also went to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">Børglum Kloster where Ludvig og Julemanden was filmed which was the show we watched around Christmas and it was cool to see the locations they used in the show!</span><br />
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Wedenesday I was woken up by my family singing Happy Birthday to me in Danish and let me tell you that song goes on for awhile, but it was really nice! Then we spent the day at the Aquarium looking at all the fish who live in this area, which was interesting to learn about! Then we went to the Falk station, which is the fire/ambulance/emergency center because Jette's brother in law works there. We got a tour and then got to go up in the big ladder that went up 30 meters (90 feet) up in the air. it was pretty cool, but unfortunately the weather was pretty bad on my birthday; all rainy and windy, which in Denmark means you have been bad haha. Then we had pesto pasta for dinner with Frikadeller (danish meatballs) and watched Far til Fire (an old Danish movie) and I understood the whole thing!<br />
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Thursday we visited a viking museum and climbed up a sand dune. The viking museum was interesting; it's just crazy to think that those things have been there so long! We then visited Aalborg to see one of their friend's daughter and her boyfriend.<br />
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Friday we drove home. It was a nice week of fresh baked break by Jette, relaxing, sight seeing, and reading! Then I went out with Mie that night for awhile with some of her friends, which was fun!<br />
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That Saturday we drove back up to Jutland for Brian's sister's 12.5 year wedding anniversary party. That is a common thing to celebrate in Denmark and they celebrate with half a arch of flower's on the door made by neighbors and friends and family and eat breakfast with the family. We went for the party , which was maybe around 40 people and was fun! we ate good food and people had made up little songs, speeches, and skits. At one point a fairly well known Danish singer, Jacob Sveistrup came out to sing a few songs to us since Brian's sister loves him. After all the women ran over to get photos and signatures, so I went too. When it was my turn, Brian's sister, Winnie, said "She's an exchange student from California and has no idea who you are, but we told her you are famous!", which he laughed at.<br />
It was a fun party!<br />
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Sunday I went to Alicia's and caught up over our breaks and just relax!<br />
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This past Tuesday we had all my families over and my two counselor's families over for cake for my birthday. It was nice to see everyone again since it had been awhile! and the cake all tasted delicious! It was a nice evening!<br />
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So now the weather has changed a lot and it is around 40-50 degrees every day and I actually walked outside on Tuesday when it was around 55 degrees and said "Wow it's warm today, I could almost have shorts on", which shows just how much my perception of weather has changed.<br />
The snow is all gone now and I think it was the perfect amount of time with snow for me, which is good!<br />
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School is going good and I have just been so busy and the next few weeks will be really busy also, what with the last gymnasium party, my birthday party with friends, my trip to Ireland with School and moving!<br />
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Farvel for nu!<br />
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</div>Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-33956616230251235852012-01-22T12:31:00.000-08:002012-01-22T12:39:48.365-08:00All the exciting thingsHej,<br />
Ok so to make this post as short as possible I will just include the exciting or bigger things I have done so far in January and a bit from the end of December.<br />
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Before school ended for winter break I went to a gymnasium party with my class. First I was with Sara and Josephine from my class to get ready, then we went to a pre party with my class and then on to the gym party. After the dance I went to a club, because I was old enough to get in that night, plus it was free admission since I had been at the dance. I was there with Nora and Alicia and I saw my host sister there and some other people from my class. It was a fun night, but we didn't get back too late, only 2:30.<br />
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On The Monday after Christmas All of Brian's family came over and we had another julefrokost. It was very nice and of course we ate more food! We also danced around the tree and this time I got videos and pictures!<br />
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I went to Odense a few times over break with different exchange students to take advantage of the after Christmas sales and just explore the city.<br />
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On the Monday after New Years Jette, Mie, Alicia, Jette's friend and her daughter (who live in Gamborg), and I went for a nice walk in Middelfart. It was nice to get some fresh air and just have a nice walk.<br />
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On the day before school started again Alicia and I went to the Børnehaven for the whole day and played with the kids, which was fun and got the kids more comfortable talking with us. I think they now kind of understand why our Danish sounds funny and why we don't always understand everything they say, but they are good at teaching us new words!<br />
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I went to a last and final julefrokost for the scouts since Brian and Jette are pretty involved in it. Mie and I went and ate lots and then were exhausted when we got home.<br />
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I have now visited Hans Christian Andersen's museum/house, which was something I wanted to do, but just had never found the right time. Jette, Brian, and I went. It was pretty interesting to learn about his life and see all the items they had from it. They even had his dentures there. There was also a really cool library where they had LOTS of HC Andersen books that had been translated into all kinds of languages.It's amazing that I have always known his stories, I just never really knew who they were by.<br />
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In language school we got to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory one day in only Danish, which was fun and I could understand most of it. And of course we ate cake with that.<br />
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I went to Odense this past weekend with Anna (from New York) and Alicia. We just spent the day shopping and hanging out and overall it was a nice day.<br />
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This past Sunday I went Anders' house (my counselor) and had lunch with his wife, son, and their son's girlfriend and her kids. It was a nice lunch and good to catch up with my counselor again. I did get a bit lost in Nørre Aaby again, which is crazy because of how small of a town it is, but to my credit I had never come from the train station before and it took me awhile to figure out how to get to the right side of the train tracks and what not, but I figured it all out eventually.<br />
That evening when I got home Brian had heated up the hot tub they have, which is nice and wooden and heated with fire. Mie, Jette, Brian, 2 neighbors from Gamborg, and I all went in and it was nice, but very hot!<br />
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On this past Monday I was in Århus with Alicia and Brian because Brian had meetings there. We just spent the day exploring Århus a bit more and then of course getting a bit lost when trying to find the train station, but we got it all figured out eventually and overall it was a good day. Then Brian took us to the Gamle By in Århus where they brought old houses from all over Denmark to Århus and recreated what towns looked like and the houses. They actually take the houses apart one by one and label the bricks and then put it all back together, which must take forever. I love all the old houses and seeing what Denmark used to look like. There was one radio shop from the 60s or 70s that has all these old radios and different music devices that had been found in some store somewhere and had just been closed in the store with some old man who lived their still. it was all kind of a funny story. Then we saw the University where Brian and Jette both went and saw the outside of the apartment they lived in. Then we went back to the center of Århus and went under this bank where there is a museum of things from Viking times that they found down there. It was crazy to think that all those old things were just found down there. Then we drove home and I slept most of the way.<br />
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I cooked Mexican food for my family this past week and it all turned out well. I made burritos and made refried beans since they don't sell them here, Mexican rice, guacamole, and fresh salsa all from scratch.<br />
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I went to a karate class in Odense last Thursday because that is what I am doing in gym class now. All the people who are doing karate/yoga had to go to Odense and take a class. It was interesting and a little weird. It was some good bonding time with the kids in my class though.<br />
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That is the quick update of what I have done recently! I'm hoping I didn't forget anything important!<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-65301014455596935062012-01-17T01:44:00.000-08:002012-01-17T01:45:41.435-08:00Nu det jul igen og nytår!Hej alle,<br />
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So the Holiday season is now all over and while it was a great few weeks of festivities and hygge it is sad to know that one of the holidays I was looking forward to most in Denmark is over and therefore my year is just that much closer to the end.<br />
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The Danish Christmas is just such a special time of the year filled with so much happiness, family time, and jolliness.<br />
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Starting the first of December was the Advent and for me that included me getting a doll calendar with 24 little presents tied to it. I opened one a day and these ranged from candy to a ticket to a play to Danish books and so on. It was such a fun little thing to get to open every day and a nice thing in the Christmas season. My windowsill became full of all of the little presents quickly, but it brought the Christmas season into my room for sure!<br />
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Another thing we had for Christmas was the Advent candle, which changes for each family, but my family had a nice wreath with 4 candles in it and it all looked very nice since my host mom is a florist. The way you do it is you start with just one candle lit for a week and then on the next Sunday you light 2 and so on. In my time here I have noticed how much Danish people love candles. They just think it's so cozy and some have candles with dinner every night or just have them lit a lot. Even the day care I volunteer at has candles lit and it amazes me how no kids light themselves on fire or mess with them at all. I guess that's my paranoid, protected American in me.<br />
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We also made lots of Christmas cookies and sweets. I helped with these a lot and it was fun learning how to make some Danish desserts! and I will definitely be making them next Christmas!<br />
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The month of December was also filled with MANY Julefrokosts (Christmas lunches/dinners). I think by the end I have had 4 and each time the food was delicious and I ate way too much.<br />
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In Denmark Christmas is celebrated on the 24th, so that was a bit different for me. We ate pizza at a Gamborg family's house the 23rd (so pretty much like Christmas Eve). Jette's mom was staying with us for 3 days and she comes from Northern Jutland and therefore has a very different accent that was tough for me to understand. The 24th was filled with just preparation for that night. We went to church in the afternoon, which was a new experience for me and it was not too boring especially because we kept getting up and singing different songs. Overall it was a good experience going to church for Christmas once in my life. Then we headed home and watched the last Ludvig og Julemanden, which is a Danish Christmas tv show. Each year there is a new series made and it starts on the 1st and one new episode is shown every day until Christmas in which the story is resolved. There is also a show from Greenland, which I only saw once or twice and then another one, which is the Christmas Kalendar and is really funny for me because it is a mix of English and Danish. The last one has been shown for a long time and is just replayed every year. I watched them as much as I could and could surprisingly follow most of it, which felt great. I mean we do have to put on Danish subtitles, so I can read along, but it feels so good to be able to keep up with it.<br />
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Then we finished preparing dinner. The dinner was really delicious and included regular boiled potatoes, brunede kartofler (like caramelized potatoes), turkey stuffed with pork and grapes and nuts, a salad made of apples, grapes, celery, and a creme fraiche dressing, and of course brun sauce (gravy), with it. It was all so good and filling.<br />
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Then once we could eat a bit more we broke out the risalamande, which is rice pudding (the same as risengrød, which I mentioned in my previous post, but mixed with cream and sugar, and vanilla. A whole almond was hidden in one of the plates and we all devoured our risalamande with warm strawberry sauce on top to see who had won. Jonas ended up winning and he got a box of chocolates and a movie.<br />
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Then Mie and I lit the candles and sparklers on the tree (yeah you read that right we put candles and sparklers on the tree!) and then it was time for the tradition I have been excited to see ever since I found out it happened, and that is dancing around the Christmas tree! We all joined hands and didn't exactly dance around it, it is actually more of just a walk around the tree while holding hands and singing different songs. We sang maybe 6 songs and then went on to the final song, which is Nu det jul igen and involved going much faster around the tree and singing the 6 line song over and over while continuously switching directions.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then we ran around the house holding hands still and singing the song. We ran through a bunch of rooms and it was very fun and exactly how I wanted it. ( a video/ pictures will come in the next post)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then we sat down to open presents. The way we did was whoever got the last present would go a pick another one for someone else to open. From my family I got a very nice charm bracelet that is popular in Denmark and tickets to go see a band called Nik og Jay with Alicia, Mie, and Jonas, which should be fun! Then I got 2 more charms from my host grandma. The presents are all perfect. I really enjoyed watching everyone else open the presents from me and I am glad they liked some California swag.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New Years was pretty fun and definitely different than what I am used to. It started with a party with my host family and all their friends and some of their kids and we just ate dinner and watched the Queen give her annual New Year's Eve speech on tv, then I went with Mie (my host sister) up to pick up Alicia and Mie's friend from where they were in Gamborg. Then we went to a party at Mie's friend's house (also in Gamborg) with all the Gamborg teenagers and then a few other people. It was a little awkward at first since I don't really know any of them, while they have all known each other a LONG time, but it got better and ended up being a fun night/morning considering we didn't get home until 5 am, right when Jetter and Brian were also getting ready for bed. At midnight everyone went outside and lit fireworks off. Dad, you would have loved the fireworks here since there don't really seem to be many regulations and they have some pretty big ones that shoot up into the sky fairly high. Overall it was a nice New Years Eve that I will never forget. The next day though was spent helping clean up from the parties and then Mie and me relaxing on the couch for hours. </span><br />
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</div>Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-71088589859079124042011-12-14T02:22:00.000-08:002011-12-19T01:52:35.588-08:00My mom told me I needed to update everyone....Hej alle,<br />
It seems to have become somewhat of a habit now for the last few posts that I have been apologizing for not writing for awhile, but here it is again, sorry, but this month has been so busy so far!<br />
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I have lots to write about, so let me try and make it as short as possible, which we all know won't be very short!<br />
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On November 27th I moved to my new family, which is in a town called Gamborg, but technically I live on a small island named Svinø. The town has around 170 people and my island has I think around 6 houses, so I'm in an even smaller town than Morud! I am definitely getting a different idea of what a small town is considering I used to think of Petaluma as a small town! Oh before I forget here's a bit about my family: I live with the Vrængmose Vangsted family. There is the dad, Brian, mom, Jette, and my 2 siblings, Mie (17) and Jonas (20). We have 2 cats, one which has taken to me quite well which can be a tad annoying when it crawls on my lap while I'm doing homework or writing letters.<br />
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It was pretty sad for me moving for a variety of reasons. First of all I really enjoyed living with the Jørgensens and I will miss them since I won't be able to see them as much. I want to thank them again so much for all that they did for me and how much they helped during my first few months here. I know and hope we will stay in contact long after I leave Denmark!<br />
Another reason it was sad was it just makes me realize how fast this year is going. I mean I have been gone from home for 130 days, which is really hard to believe. I have been here more than 4 months. I have met so many people and been to a lot of new places. It is just hard to grasp and with moving it just made me have to confront and actually realize that 1/3 of my year is done.<br />
What really got me emotional was when Jytte said that is must be hard moving all the time and for me having lived in the same house all my life and gone to the same schools, it is definitely something difficult to get used to. Just packing up everything you own to go to an unknown place. It also just makes me realize if it's this hard moving 20 minutes away after 4 months here, just how hard it will be moving back to Petaluma after a year here.<br />
Well let's get this back to a happier place now! So I moved all my many bags and suitcases of belongings ( I figured why try and pack it all small when I'm going to just unpack it again), so I had quite a few bags and what not.<br />
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That day I worked on unpacking mostly and then we went into Middelfart (10 minute drive away) and saw the Christmas decorations since it was the first day of advent (advent here is you get a present either every day of December until the 24th or some families do it that when the kids are older they get one larger present every Sunday of Advent. My first family was very nice and gave me 4 for the weeks I wouldn't be with them. The first day I got a nice owl necklace, some candy, and a book on how to make these Danish heart decorations.<br />
We walked on the shopping street and then went to Hindsgavl castle, also in Middelfart, to see the flower decorations since my host mom is a florist and used to work there. We ate some Christmas desserts and drank gløgg, which is warm, mulled with some raisins and nuts in it.<br />
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Then we went home and I finished unpacking the rest.<br />
Here are the rest of the highlights from the end of November/beginning of December:<br />
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That Monday (11/28) was just a normal school day. I now take a different bus to school, which only takes 20 minutes and is a 10 minute walk from my house.<br />
After school Alicia, Paulina (Chilean exchange student in my class), and 3 other girls practiced our African dance for gym class because we need to perform it this Friday, which should be interesting to say the least.<br />
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Nov. 30- I didn't have the first 2 classes, so I was all excited to sleep in and then go to the next 2 classes, but whoops I slept through my alarm and woke up 6 minutes before needing to be at the bus, and since the busses are usually a few minutes late I ran there trying to make it, but I didn't, so I got 2 more classes off! Then I didn't have language school, so instead I just took the bus and hung out with some of the exchange students from my school.<br />
That night my family presented me with the Christmas advent calendar which is this really tall doll with 24 little presents tied to it! It was really nice and is now hanging on the back of my door in my room and I get to open one every day!<br />
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Dec. 1- I went to school and then Alicia was moving that day to Gamborg also, so I went to her family's house and helped her finish packing. I also got my 2nd lovely package from my family, which was filled with some American foods I was missing! I shared some with Nora (Austria) and Alicia and then we kinda lounged for awhile until we needed to leave to Gamborg, then we rushed and packed really fast. That night I went over to Alicia's after dinner and I can already tell it will be really nice living so close ( a 5 minute walk if I go fast). It will be really good during those times when there is nothing to do at home or with friends from school.<br />
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Dec 2.- There was a Fredags Cafe after school so Nora and I went together and Martin (from my class) taught us how to make the Christmas hearts, which was very nice of him!<br />
Then Nora, Katharina (Germany), Alicia, and I went to Odense for the rest of the day to shop since the stores were open late. I only bought one shirt and then we ate at McDonald's since it's cheap and we are poor exchange students. It was a nice evening, just shopping and seeing Odense all decorated for Christmas. I slept at Alicia's that night because the next day we went to Copenhagen!<br />
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Dec. 3- Alicia's previous host family (Lis and Jens) kindly took us with them to Copenhagen and Alicia and I spent the morning shopping (I only bought 2 things) and then went to Tivoli to see the Christmas decorations. It was nice in Tivoli, but pretty cold. We just walked around and took some pictures. We also sat with the Julemand (Santa Claus) and took a picture. Then we took the train to Lyngby to meet up with Lis and her daughter who lives there and we had a nice dinner of sushi. Then we went and picked up Jens from his party and drove home. We got home kinda late so we just stayed up for awhile watching tv and then fell asleep.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah this store had some not so American foods haha- things I don't even think we have in America, but there were some things that were so tempting to buy, but I resisted the urge to buy a $5 snapple. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">waiting to see Julemand (santa claus)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Tivoli</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tivoli</td></tr>
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The next day we just relaxed because my host parents and Jonas were also recovering from a party at Brian's work.<br />
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Dec. 5- School, then that night Alicia, Mie, Jette, Morten (Alicia's host father), and I went to Middelfart Interwheel (the wives and daughters of Rotarians club) and Alicia, Mie, and I gave short speeches in Danish about our time here and a bit about home and for Mie about Australia. Then there was a long meeting with the woman reading a long book in Danish, going over notes from other surrounding Interwheel clubs. At one point they said something about an exchange student named Francisco and Alicia and I started laughing so hard even though it wasn't very funny because we are friends with him and it was just so random that his name was mentioned. I'm sure all the woman thought we were crazy. Then we got to play bingo and win prizes. I won first and chose and got a box of chocolates. then we ate risalamande which is like rice pudding and is very popular around Christmas time. The tradition is that whoever finds the whole almond in their portion is supposed to keep it a secret until all the risalamande is gone and then that person wins a prize. Coincidentally Alicia and I both won this one also and we won candles.<br />
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Dec. 6- We were doing this thing called AT, which is like 2 subjects combined and then the kids do a presentation on it. It's somewhat hard to explain, but it was for 4 whole schools days this week and was very boring for me.<br />
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Dec. 7- So since AT was really boring and I couldn't do anything the previous day Brian let me skip school, so Alicia came over we ate a nice breakfast together and watched the Amazing Race from in Denmark, which was kinda funny because they were all pronouncing all the names really funny. Then we had language class. I made macaroni and cheese that night for my family and it turned out really well for my first time making it all on my own and only my second time in my life. That night I went to Alicia's to work on our Danish homework, but that didn't turn out so well, we just ended up bugging her host brother while he was skyping with his brother who is in Brazil on exchange.<br />
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Dec. 8- So I got to school and it turns out the teacher had canceled the first 2 classes, so Paulina and I just worked on finishing the Danish homework. Then we had language school where we actually accomplished a lot more than usual.<br />
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Dec. 9- We did our AT presentation and I said the conclusion in Danish. Then I went shopping with a girl from my class (Sara) to buy winter shoes, which didn't take too long to find a pair I liked!<br />
Then I waited at the train station for Alicia, Emily (from USA), and Nora because were going to a party for the exchange students that are leaving soon since they came last January. there were A LOT of exchange students in Odense that night and it was a really fun night and good to see lots of people. There were mostly Brazilians since those are some of the ones going home soon, but it was a really good time with lots of fun people. I took the train home at 4 in the morning and then slept for 6 hours until it was time to get ready to go out with my family.On the way home it was the first time I had seen snow on the ground here, it was only a little bit and it melted, but still it was snow!<br />
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Dec 10- It is a tradition in this family that usually Brian's mom takes all the old enough cousins out shopping to buy X-Mas presents for their parents and to a Christmas play in Odense, but this year she couldn't, so Brian took us instead. There were 5 cousins I got to meet and then Mie, me, and Brian, since Jonas couldn't come. We went to a mall in Odense and went around helping the younger ones find their presents. The cousins were all very nice and one had been an exchange student in the US a few years ago. We then went to McDonald's for lunch (geez I have eaten way more McDonalds here in the past 4 months than I have in the past 3 years at home combined I think). I think that was the most I have ever seen spent at McDonalds, close to $100 for lunch haha.<br />
Then we went to the play and I saw most of the first half and understood somewhat what was going one, but then the second half was really confusing and I was really tired, so I napped a tad during that one. Then we went back to Brian's mom's house and had pizza and watched the Christmas calendar on tv. Then we went home and watched a movie on tv and then I went to bed and slept for a nice, long time.<br />
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Dec 11- Jette, Brian, and I went for a walk around Gamborg, so I could see the area which was nice. Then I went home and cleaned my room and relaxed the rest of the day since I was still tired from the weekend. We also baked some Christmas cookies, which turned out pretty good! One was pebernødder and the other I can't remember the name of.<br />
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Brian had to drive up north Jutland for work, so he invited me along. We left pretty early (7, so maybe not THAT early, but still it is for me) and started the 3.5 hour drive to a town called Thisted. We stopped at a place along the way in Jelling, which has 2 large stones with writing in Runes (the viking's writing) and was the first place Denmark was mentioned in writing I think. There were also these 2 huge mounds that were burial grounds for vikings and apparently they form a ship shape somehow.<br />
Then we kept driving and tried to find a coffee shop somewhere, but of course in Denmark nothing opens until later and even though it was like 9:30, no shops were open. Finally we got to Thisted and found a cafe where we could have hot chocolate, which was very nice. Then Brian went to his meeting and I stayed at the cafe for awhile and then walked around the town of Thisted a bit.<br />
Then Brian, his coworker, and I went for lunch and then Brian and I were on our way again. We stopped in Klitmoller, which is usually a really good surfing spot, but the wind was coming the wrong way, so there weren't very big waves. Then we started driving home and took a ferry for 10 minutes and then drove home. I slept most of the way, but it was a nice trip getting to see more of Northern Denmark and the differences from Fyn.<br />
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Dec 13- It was Alicia's and my first day at the børnehaven (pretty much day care) where we had decided to volunteer. It was a bit tricky at first since the kids were pretty shy and they knew we didn't speak much Danish, but after a little while they became comfortable and we could do some basic talking with them. Luckily we were doing art projects together, so we could use our hands to show things we couldn't explain. I think this will be a fun thing to do and learn some more Danish, since the kids never laugh when we mess up.<br />
Then I went to Kolding with Jette and Mie to go Christmas shopping. It was a nice day and we got a bit of the X-mas shopping done!<br />
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Dec 14- We had a language school party for Christmas, which was pretty fun. We played Bingo in Danish and won little prizes. We also ate æbelskiver. Then we exchanged gifts in the German game we were playing called Engel Bengel (pretty much secret santa). Overall it was a nice day.<br />
Then we baked more Christmas desserts- this time with lots of marzipan.<br />
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Dec 15- We had language school again, but it was pretty much just talking since it was the last time we would all be there since Paulina (from Chile) and Gustavo (Brazil) are going home in the next 2 weeks. We also had two picture frames for them with a class photo.<br />
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That night Alicia, Jette, Mie, Morten (Alicia's host dad), and Frederik (Alicia's host brother), and I all went to the church in Gamborg for the Lucia ceremony. It was a short church ceremony where we sang, and the little kids walked in with their candles and white dresses and Lucia with a candle crown on. Then we went to the Forsamlinghus (community center) and had æbleskiver with a lot of people from Gamborg.<br />
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Dec 16- In gym class we had been working on a dance unit and the exchange students were all in the same group (Alicia, Paulina, and me) with 3 other girls, who we didn't know too well. And the dance the other girls chose was African dancing, but we hadn't gotten much practice or prepared much and then that day Alicia and another girl were sick and another just didn't show up. So it was Paulina, another girl, and me doing the African dance. let's just say it was extremely embarrassing.<br />
Then after school I went to Odense to see my neighbor from home, Tanja, who was an exchange student in Denmark 7 years ago and was here visiting her host families. It was good to see someone from home and just talk about the differences between exchange then and now.<br />
Then I went to Alicia's house for awhile and we were supposed to just have a girls night, watching Mean Girls and eating American/Canadian junk, but her host brother and his friends enjoy bothering us, so that plan didn't work too well, but it was a fun night anyways.<br />
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Dec 17- Jette and Brian were having a party for their friends from University that day. There were around 17 of us in total. There was one other girl my age and her name was Nina coincidentally enough. We had a big, long lunch. and then later we spent almost 2.5 hours with everyone going around the table saying the important things that had happened since they last saw each other since they only see each other 2 times a year. Then us younger people just watched a movie and tv shows, while the adults went downstairs to party. It was a nice day, but I was very tired by the end of it.<br />
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Dec 18- We had a lazy day once everyone left while Brian and Jette went to get Christmas presents. Then Mie, Brian, Jette, and I went to get the Christmas tree, which only took 5 minutes. It was good just to relax after the party the day before.<br />
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So there is the long awaited/needed update. I am sorry it is SO long, but it needed to be done!<br />
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I can't believe it is almost Christmas- 5 days for me! There is no snow unfortunately and there will only be snow on Christmas if some miracle happens :(.<br />
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And here is a nice photo of the view from my house! It was a really sunny, nice day, which doesn't happen very often this time of year and the past few weeks have been pretty dark and grey.<br />
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Farvel for nu, and the next blog post will be a nice jolly holiday one!<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-14348869273854563792011-11-20T08:33:00.001-08:002011-11-26T09:17:55.197-08:00I know, I know, I've been slackingHej alle!<br />
I know I am slowly getting slower at putting these blog posts up, but hey at least they are still being put up at all!<br />
and yes I know I promised to put pictures on photobucket, but it takes SO long, but hopefully soon I will find enough motivation to do that.<br />
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Now time for what everyone actually comes here for! To see what I have been doing! At least I think that's why you guys read this?<br />
So in my last blog I left you around November 4th. As I mentioned I had a Rotary get together in Holbæk, which is a town on Sjælland.<br />
It was for all of the exchange students, newbies and oldies. In case you aren't familiar with all this exchange student lingo, I am a newbie and the people who came in December/January of last year are oldies since they will be leaving in December/January of this year. We hadn't met most of the oldies, so it was fun to meet some new people, but I also feel like we all already had our groups of friends and people to talk to, so I didn't meet as many oldies as I would have liked, but hey at least I met a few cool Australians, Brazilians, a South African, and New Zealanders.<br />
Friday (nov. 4th) Alicia and I took the train together from Odense, but the train was pretty late because of some issue, so we missed our 2nd train, but that was fine because we met up with some other exchangies in the Roskilde train station and had another train like 20 minutes later that we could take. On this 2nd train there were a bunch of Brazilians and other South Americans, and one poor American left in all the craziness of Spanish and Portuguese. We all also kind of dominated the sitting area with our bags and things, but no one seemed to mind and they were all a bit interested in us since they kept looking at us.<br />
Then we arrived in Holbæk and there were LOTS more exchange students there waiting to get on the bus to take us to the school we would be staying at. We took a city bus and in total there were only 2 Danish people on the whole bus, the driver and the Rotex helping us. Then we got to the school and had to wait in a not so organized line to get signed in and it took awhile because people kept distracting the person signing us in.<br />
It was nice that at this weekend we could choose where to sleep. There were I think maybe 6 or so rooms and you could just put your stuff in any of them.<br />
That night we just ate pizza, had a disco, and talked with each other since most of us hadn't seen each other since Intro Camp. I think I got to sleep around 3:30 that night.<br />
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The next day we had breakfast of what else, but Bread as it seems we always eat a lot of at Rotary events. Then we had a couple hours to explore Holbæk on our own, which was pretty fun. I went off with Kirsten (from Canada), Marisa (from USA) and we went shopping a bit, then walked by the water and took pictures and then through a park, where I made them take lots of pictures of me, and them since I was the only one not used to a "real" fall where the leaves all change colors.<br />
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Then we came back and had lunch. Then it was time for activities. There was pumpkin carving on the schedule along with some sports, but since Simran (India) had never carved a pumpkin we all wanted to do that, but we later learned the people who had promised us the pumpkins couldn't deliver them anymore for some reason, so we just watched the soccer game for a bit and then went inside since it was so cold.<br />
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That night we had a Halloween party and my costume was a California girl. And no I didn't just wear my regular clothes and say I was that, I wore a California t-shirt, shorts, flip flops, the California flag as a cape, and sunglasses to compete the look.<br />
We had a dinner that night and it was fun with everyone dressed up, with some being more creative than others. Rotary was there for dinner and our show. People that wanted to had signed up for different acts for our entertainment. A bunch of us from the US were going to sing Party in the USA, but then people slowly started backing out and we never really practiced, so we just decided not to do it. The rest of the performances were singing, a dance battle between Latinos and Brazilians (that was really fun and funny), an Australian dance, a slideshow for the oldies since they will be leaving soon, and some more. They also had a battle of the countries in singing our national anthem as fast as we could and as much as we could in 30 seconds. Let's just say America did not do so well. It's hard to sing it to a different tune and really fast when most of us barely know all the words to it, but it was still hilarious.<br />
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Then we had another disco that night and could just hang out and talk also. I did a mix of both, but somehow I ended up at 5:30 still talking with 4 other exchange students, then I realized I really should get some sleep, so we all went and passed out. People kind of just slept wherever they wanted, so there were people all over couches and the ground and in the hallways, pretty much anywhere you could find a semi comfortable spot.<br />
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Sunday we were woken up and had to pack all our stuff before we got breakfast. Then there was a few goodbye songs for the oldies and it was pretty sad watching them all and realizing that would be us in some months. It's really scary how fast the time is going and I don't really like to think how many months I have been here or how many I have left.<br />
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Sunday I came home and just relaxed and then Monday I got to stay home from school because my host parents couldn't really drive me there or pick me up, so that was nice to get some extra sleep after only have 8 for the whole weekend.<br />
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Tuesday and Thursday I am kind of having trouble remembering what I did, but I don't think there was anything too special.<br />
Wednesday was a day called Operation Dagsværk, where we had the day off from school and if you wanted you could raise money for building schools ( I think) in Peru. I went to Odense for the day with 4 girls from my class and we sold cake. In total we made over $100 US dollars on just selling the cake for 90 cents each piece. It was a nice day and I liked being able to bond a bit more with people from my class. Then after that I went to a girl's house who is in my class and we watched a movie and I talked to her parent's a bit in Danish. Then we went to another girl in my class's house to have dinner with 7 other people from my class. It was really tasty and a nice end to a good day.<br />
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Friday we had a Gymnasium Party that night, so I got ready at my house and then went to a girl in my class's house for the pre-party. The gym party was all right, but there was some Danish rappers that weren't very good especially since I couldn't understand them. Then Alicia came home to my house for the weekend.<br />
Saturday we woke up nice and late and then went shopping Odense with another exchange student from our school, Katharina from Germany. It was nice and I bought a couple of things, but we kinda forgot that stores close around 3 or 4 on Saturdays, so we had to finish earlier than we planned. It's so weird having Saturday be a short shopping day where back home that's one of the bigger shopping days. We ate at McDonald's because Alicia wanted it and it's cheap, but she had fun saying the American (me) was in her natural habitat and finally at home.<br />
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That night we ate dinner with my family and then watched movies and ate junk food.<br />
Sunday we made an American breakfast for my family, consisting of pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon. It turned out pretty well and I have now made pancakes twice in my life all on my own!<br />
Then we spent the rest of Sunday being lazy and taking pictures outside again because of the beautiful fall leaves and my obsession with them.<br />
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Monday nothing really happened.<br />
Tuesday one of the exchange students I had become friends with was sent home, which was a sad day for all of the exchange students and we tried to support him the best we could.<br />
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Wednesday: Alicia and I were supposed to go see Twilight: Breaking Dawn with the boy who got sent home, but since we had already bought our tickets we still went. Before that though Alica, Nora (from Austria), and I went to Alicia's house to get her things for the movie and somehow we just ended up lying on the floor in her laundry room because the floor was warm and heated and we were freezing from our walk home. Then we went to a restaurant called Asia with Gustavo (from Brazil) since he is going home in December since he's been here since January. Also, I kinda made them go since I was really wanting Chinese/Japanese food. It was pretty good and definitely filled my craving for Asian food for awhile.<br />
Then Alicia and I went to the movie. It was in English with Danish subtitles and at one point the subtitles said "hjem i fart" or something like that which really just has to do with home and speed, but Alicia and I had both been reading the subtitles at the point and started laughing because to us it was funny, but of course no one else found that phrase funny.<br />
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Thursday my Mormor (host -mother's mom) picked me up from the bus station and we went to her house and had tea and bread which she had made. It was really good! And then we went to her friend's shop where he fixes clocks and it was actually pretty cool seeing all of those really old clocks. Some were around 300 years old and one even had it's original paint. Then I saw the daycare where my Mormor works sometimes and it was pretty much the same as an American daycare, but it was nice to see. Then I went home and had the usual Thursday night pizza with my family.<br />
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Friday I deleted my English essay by accident, so I had to rewrite it all since it was due that night. That was not so fun, because then I got writer's block on what to write about since I couldn't remember my other one very much. Then I watched most of the 2nd part of the last Harry Potter movie with my family. Yes, Katie I actually watched Harry Potter. I didn't really know what was happening though because I haven't seen most of them.<br />
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Saturday I slept kinda late since I was really tired. Then later that day my host mom and I started on Thanksgiving dinner. We made the cranberry sauce and pumpkin (butternut squash instead- we couldn't find pumpkin) pie. Then my host mom made some caramels, which tasted really good!<br />
That night we watched the last episode of Bingo Banko for this season and then 2 movies. I was kinda proud of myself for staying up to 12:30 since I usually go to bed fairly early here, but it may be because I had slept until 11:15....<br />
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Sunday I woke up at a bit more of a reasonable time and had breakfast with my family. Then I just kinda hung our for the day until it was time to start making Thanksgiving dinner. I made the stuffing and then my host mom made the mashed potatoes, turkey, green beans, and gravy. I invited 3 girls from my class to come celebrate with us. It was a very nice, hyggeligt night and all the food tasted almost as it should! The pie was a bit thinner than usual, but it was fine still and I'm pretty proud of making a butternut squash pie all the way from scratch, since they don't sell cans of filling here. Before dinner started I had everyone say what they were thankful for, which was nice and heartwarming haha. Overall it was a good night and I'm glad I got to have Thanksgiving in Denmark (even if it was a few days early). And to all you people from my Thanksgiving back home who may or may not be reading this: I wore my 25th Annual shirt in the spirit of Thanksgiving! And I hope Thanksgiving is good for everyone this year!!<br />
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Now highlights from this last week:<br />
Monday I brought more pumpkin pie into class to share with my class and most seemed to like it!<br />
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Thursday I went to downtown Middelfart after school and finally got my NEM ID, which means I can finally get my bus card, which gives me free train rides on Fyn also! Then I went home and watched some of the Macy's Day parade online, which was really nice. That night I skyped with my mom and dad and sister and it was nice to see and talk to them for a while since I have only skyped with them each once since I have been here.<br />
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Friday we had gym class and we are working on making dances in groups to perform in a few weeks to our class. The group all the exchange students were put in (Alicia, Paulina, and I), is doing African dancing, which should be interesting to do in front of 2 classes. Then that night I watched a Christmas movie with my family and started packing since I move on Sunday.<br />
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Saturday: Today I woke up at 5:45 to skype with my whole family that was at my parent's house and it was nice and kinda funny to see them all trying to skype! Then I went back to sleep because in my opinion there is not much of a reason to be up that early on a Saturday. Then today I finished packing and took some pictures of Morud before I move tomorrow.<br />
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To end this post I want to put what I'm thankful for: I'm so thankful for all of the wonderful people I have met so far, and the wonderful experiences I have had. I am thankful for my family and friends back home who have supported me through this and encouraged me to go on exchange! I will see you all before I know it! All in all I am thankful for where I am right now.<br />
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! ( a few days late)<br />
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Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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(and if you want to see the pictures bigger just click on them!)<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-15003458545831656392011-11-07T12:14:00.000-08:002011-11-07T12:14:37.311-08:00What I've been up to these last few weeks!Hej!<br />
So I figured it was time to tell everyone what I have been up to these past couple of weeks since I haven't done a post in a little while.<br />
As I said in my last blog I was on holiday for a week from school and I will just go over the main highlights of the week!<br />
Wednesday (10/19) my host parents didn't have work, so we took a trip to the west coast of Jutland. It was very windy and we could pretty much be held up by the wind. The water was nice to see and it was a good day to be there since the weather was a bit wilder because then we got to see the waves. It was somewhat similar to Northern California beaches, but way windier! We also drove through the military base and saw the tanks and trucks returning from practice. Then we went to a small town called Ribe where we ate lunch in a small restaurant that was really just an old house turned into a restaurant. There were I think just 2 different small rooms with tables, so it was very hyggelig (Danish word with no direct translation just cozy, nice as the closest translations). We then went to Ribe Domkirke (Ribe Cathedral), which is very old and famous. It was a beautiful church with a big organ. Then it started raining, so we ran to the car. Then we went to a town and saw a lighthouse and the levee where they had some poles that showed how high the water had gotten during different storms. Then it was off to just past the border into Germany to buy candy, soda, and beer since it is much cheaper in Germany. We stocked up and then headed back to Morud.<br />
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Thursday (10/20) was I finally got to go to the foreign service registration place to fill out the papers for my Danish CPR number since my visa paperwork finally came!! Then it was Chris' 12th birthday. We went go karting and then out to dinner at an American restaurant called Bones. During go karting I kind of crashed into the barrier walls a bit, but I was fine it just took a few minutes to get the kart out, but I promised my family I drove much better in a real car. Then I just sort of took it easy driving for the rest of the time we had go karting, so I came in last place, but that's fine with me since I don't want any broken bones! Then we had dinner. It was a really good ribs place. They had a bottle of California wine on the table, co of course that was the wine my host parents had to have ;). Then we went to a candy shop and then headed home where we watched a movie. It was a really nice and fun day.<br />
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Saturday (10/22) my whole family came over for Chris' birthday breakfast. There was some of Jytte's family and some of Niels' family. It was nice to meet everyone and we had a delicious breakfast. I had peanut butter on one of my pieces of bread and that started quite the discussion about peanut butter. Then some of the daring family members decided to try it, but no one liked it, they were all pretty grossed out haha.<br />
We watched Bingo Banko also and I was only 4 away from winning, which was pretty close for us, but maybe next time!!<br />
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Sunday I can't really remember if I did anything too exciting, but I don't think so.<br />
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Then Monday (10/24) I only had 2 classes in the morning, so Jytte and I decided it was kind of pointless for me to get up at 6:30 to go to school for an hour and a half and then have to wait 3 hours for the first bus, so I got to stay home and just sleep and relax, which was nice.<br />
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Tuesday (10/25) I had my last soccer practice. It was pretty fun, we just played a mini game the whole time and then some tv station came to film us playing because the town I play in, Veflinge, has to close it's elementary school, so for some reason they are making a video about it and our soccer team got to be in it. Then we had a dinner with the team where we ate burritos (they call them Mexican pancakes here) and played a foosball tournament. It was a fun way to end the season, but I'm sad I won't be able to see the team very often once I move to Gamborg in around a month.<br />
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Then on Thursday (10/27) Alicia and I did our presentation in Danish class on the psychiatric hospital and it went pretty good. Then Alicia and I had decided to carve pumpkins, so I slept at her house that night also. We walked to her new host familie's house with 2 pumpkins, our back packs, and my bag of gym clothes and sleepover stuff, so we must have looked pretty funny. Cadu (from Brazil) also came with us since he is living in Middelfart right now. We had a fun day just hanging out and laughing a lot. We had a delicious dinner with Alicia's host parents who are really funny and nice. Alicia and my first 4 classes had all been canceled for the next day, so we got to sleep in, which was really nice. Then we made pancakes from scratch while listening to some Danish and Disney music. We also worked on our pancake flipping (without a spatula) techniques, which was really funny and entertaining even though the pancakes got a bit destroyed from being flipped over and over again. Then we went to school to 2 hours and the day was done! Then I went back to Alicia's house and we hung out until her host parents were home. They brought us to a bigger town called Kolding, where we went shopping, but Alicia and I were just feeling really poor and everything was so expensive, so we only bought one pair of shoes each. It was a fun, yet depressing shopping trip just because shops are SO expensive. The cheaper option is H & M, but even that is more expensive than H & M back home. Then I came home to Morud and it was nice to be home again. We just watched a movie and then I went to sleep!<br />
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Saturday (10/29)- My host parents had a party to go to, so Chris and I were home the day, but Jytte's mom and her friend came over for dinner, which was really good and we mostly talked in Danish, so that felt good how much I could understand. Then Chris and I watched Bingo Banko and fell asleep on the couch until my host parents got home.<br />
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Monday (10/31) I gave a presentation in Chris' class. He's in 6th grade here and I just spent the whole day at his school. I told about California, the United States, and they asked me LOTS of questions, which were fun to answer and I made brownies for them which they seemed to love. It was interesting just to see how an elementary school is here in Denmark. Then I went to a Rotary meeting that night.<br />
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Tuesday: (11/1) I went to the movies that night with Jytte and Chris to see the newest Tin Tin movie in 3D and it was really fun. It was my first time at a Danish movie theater and they are a bit different than American theaters. First of all you get assigned seats (you can decide whether you like the one's they offer you or not), but you have seats you have to sit it. Then you go in and buy food and you just grab what you want, like popcorn is already served in bags and there is no butter popcorn :(, just extremely salty popcorn. It was a fun night even though we got back a bit late.<br />
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Wed (11/2): That night I had a Spanish class field trip to a city called Kolding which is on Jutland. it was to go see a movie about abortion and the laws regarding it in Nicaragua. I went there with 2 girl from my class and the Spanish teacher drove us since we live the farthest from school I think and he had room. The first hour and a half was a lecture in Danish on what we were going to see and then there were 3 questions asked (one by a boy in my class named Martin who I know might read this- thanks for continuing my boredom ;) ) and he spent like 10 minutes answering each one, so I was a tad annoyed/bored during that part. Then the movie came and I wasn't sure what language to expect, but it ended up being in Spanish with Danish subtitles and they talked really fast, so I was a bit lost the whole time and I ended up falling asleep for some of it. To my defense I was really tired also, but that was not my favorite movie for sure. Then I got back at 11, which is the latest I have stayed up in awhile. Yes, I know I am like an old lady here, but I get so exhausted every night and my family tends to go to bed earlyish, so hey why not get more sleep?<br />
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Thursday (11/3)- I went to soccer. I thought I had gone to the last outdoor practice, but they won their school team soccer game, so they needed to keep practicing. It was good to see them all again and it was a nice practice. Then at the end they completely surprised me with a t-shirt with a picture of the team and I <3 VM Pigerne (Veflinge-Morud girls) on it. I almost cried because it was so sweet. They really made my first months great and fun even though I was pretty new to soccer. They helped me a lot and taught me lots of Danish. I met some of the sweetest people and I hope I will still be able to see them once I move, which is coming so soon!<br />
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Friday: I got to leave early from school (missed history- YES!) because I had to go home and pack and then go to the Odense train station to go to the Holbæk for a Rotary get together for the weekend.<br />
I wil write a short post about the weekend late this week since I think and I know all of you do too that this post is WAY too long.<br />
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Well there's what I have done! I hope I remembered everything that was important!<br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
NinaNina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-65928700632690772432011-10-21T06:11:00.000-07:002011-10-21T06:12:03.454-07:0030 differences between Denmark and the United StatesHej.<br />
I have been meaning to do this post for awhile, but it always felt like it would take more work than just a post talking about what I have done. As I have been here a month and a half I have noticed more differences, but yet it stays somewhat similar.<br />
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1. Very little censorship. It is so weird hearing songs on the radio with swear words in them or seeing adds on tv with swearing and nudity. Here is an add for a cell phone company that was quite a shock to see on daytime tv:<br />
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And trust me there are one's even more shocking than this! But in a way I think it is better. The United States is very strict and somewhat prudish when it comes to what can be shown in public, but Denmark is very open about it. There aren't really ratings on movies and just some of the general topics of shows are deemed acceptable here. It just makes everything more comfortable and open to talk about in a way.<br />
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2. SO much more freedom. Everyone just gets a lot more freedom, responsibility, and trust at a much younger age in my opinion. Little kids (maybe 6 or 7) ride the regular transport bus home from school and get home on their own. The would never happen in the US. Then parents would be afraid of something happening to the child all the time. Don't get me wrong parents worry about their kids, but they just don't always hold them back, they let them do things on their own. Another example of the freedom is with school. At my school it seems like it is pretty much your responsibility to show up. Of course the school might call your parents if you have too many absences, but really only if it was a huge problem. Not like in California where you miss one class and you get a call home.<br />
Also it seems like a lot of people have jobs.<br />
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3. Everyone eats with a knife and fork here. Now don't get me wrong, I didn't just pick up food and eat it with my hands back home. People here eat with the knife in their right hand and the fork flipped over in their left hand. They always keep them in their hands pretty much until they are done eating. It took some practice and lessons, but now it is almost automatic for me. One day I was trying to show some girls from my class how I used to eat, but whatever I did just felt too awkward and I can't even remember how I used to do it. I find it so adorable when I see little kids eating with their knife and fork. They just look so proper. Also, we eat a lot of open face sandwiches here and they are always eaten with a knife and fork!<br />
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4. Danish people are a tad more reserved until you get to know them. This is not meant to be rude to Danish people, it is just something I have noticed and had to get used to. In the US I just feel like we talk like we are friends with everyone. We hug each other a lot more and are just extremely friendly from the start. Where as sometimes you have to get to know one another better before you get to that point.<br />
I think Danes try to stay out of one another's business in a way, for example if I were standing on the street looking really confused at a map and looking around a lot no one would really say or do anything different. Whereas in the United States I feel like someone would ask if they needed help or something. It is not better or worse, just different things for me to get used to.<br />
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5. People bike EVERYWHERE, no matter the weather. It does not seem to stop no matter how much it is raining. Today it was pouring rain and many kids in my class showed up with the front of their pants soaked, or some other kids wear waterproof pants I have noticed (Katie didn't you need a pair for your orientation? ;)) I have yet to have to bike somewhere, but I know when I move to my second family I live biking distance from school, so I think I need to start practicing before there is snow and ice everywhere! I love it on Sundays though just to see cute, elderly couples out for a bike ride. It just looks so happy!<br />
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6. Having your elbows on the table is not rude here. Before I came to Denmark I didn't really know, so I just tried to eat with with my elbows off the table, which is something I rarely do. After a few days and eating with many different people I came to the conclusion that it is not rude, so now I am comfortable just resting my elbows on the table as I eat.<br />
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7. The stoplights/ walk signs. First of all stop lights go from green to yellow to red and then back from red to yellow to green, so once the light goes from red to yellow the cars start getting ready to go. I don't know how well this would work in the United States because I feel like people would start going just way too soon with this system.<br />
The walk signs are also different. They still throw me off sometimes. There is a green walk man and a red, don't go walk man, but the light counts down in red and I used to think it was how much time I had to cross the street, turns out it's actually how much time until I CAN cross the street. Good thing I figured that out!<br />
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8. Sundays- everything is closed pretty much. Almost all stores are closed all day. Sometimes I can find a coffee shop or something open, but usually only one. Some grocery stores are open, but if they are it is for a very short time.<br />
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9. There are so many traffic circles here. In Petaluma there are maybe 3-5 tops (don't quote me on it). Here they are everywhere! I think I go through 4 just on my way to school. I just feel like I am always going through them haha!<br />
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Now the rest I'm just gonna list without explanation:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">10. winnie the pooh = peter plys</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;">11. they sell beer and wine at the movies</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 12. guys wear tunics and capris</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13. people eat carrots/cucumbers a lot as snacks at school</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14. ketchup costs money at some places and mayonnaise is an option for french fries usually</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15. all cars are stick shift</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">16. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">swearing in class is fine.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17. we call our teachers by their first name</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">18. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">you can trust almost every bakery to be delicious. Even 7/11</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19.All school stuff is turned in online, you check your schedule online, and everyone brings their computer every day to school</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20. emergency number is 112 not 911</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21. Once you turn 18 you start getting paid by the government a couple hundred dollars each month</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22. Milk usually only comes in 3 sizes and only if you go to the bigger stores</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23. Driving age is 18 and it costs a lot to get a drivers license </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24. drinking age is 16 and sometimes beer is sold in vending machines</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">25. Their aren't really substitutes at my school, class is either just canceled or the students are supposed </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to do the work on their own </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26. the Danish flag is used a lot like for birthdays and other celebrations</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">27. kids can have their phones out in class</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">28. we are given breaks in class where it's fine to go out and smoke/ so many Danish teenagers smoke</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">29. Some public bathrooms you have to pay for</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30. Most Danish people love lakrids (licorice). There is everything imaginable in lakrid flavor- ice cream, gum, gummies, sauce for ice cream, and alcohol. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well that's all I have for now, but I am sure there will be more to come!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Farvel for nu,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nina</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span>Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-13173371793520741682011-10-20T04:28:00.000-07:002011-10-20T06:35:32.833-07:00A much needed update!Hej!<br />
First of all sorry this has taken awhile to write; I've just been busy, and tired and didn't really feel like spending a lot of time writing a long blog post. But now you can know what I have been up to for the last 2 weeks or so.<br />
Friday the 7th I was driven into Odense to meet Jaz's aunt. Jaz is a friend of mine from back home, who I have gone to school with since kindergarten and he happened to come to Denmark for the year also to live with his aunt and cousin. Jaz's aunt happened to be in Odense, so she offered to drive me to visit Jaz for the weekend. He lives in a town called Birkerød, which is like 20 minutes from Copenhagen I think. We spent Friday just watching a scary movie and going for a walk with a girl he know's who is from Poland and lives in Denmark now.<br />
Saturday (October 8th): It was a really busy day, so I will try and remember everything we did!<br />
First we drove to Kronborg Castle (Hamlet's Castle) and walked around. I think this is the first castle I have ever been to and it was really nice. We also took a tour of underneath the castle and climbed the tower. From the castle we could see Sweden, which is such a weird feeling; being able to see another country from across the water!<br />
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Then we walked around the town of Helsingør and I tried this Danish snack. I asked whether it was better to know before or after I tried it, and Jaz's aunt said after. It is called flæskesvær ( I think) and ended up being fried pig skin, but it wasn't actually as bad as that sounds, it tasted alright!<br />
Then we took the coastal drive to Copenhagen and it was a really pretty drive! Then we saw the Little Mermaid. Everyone else that had already seen it told me how small it was and that they were disappointed, but I had then imagined it would be really small, so it was bigger than my expectations.<br />
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Then we got dropped off at the train station to meet Sonia (the girl from Poland) again and walk around Copenhagen for the rest of the day. We walked on the shopping street and I resisted buying very much except for a few postcards and a keychain for my Rotary blazer, which by the way is getting filled pretty fast! Pictures to come soon!<br />
We also went to Nyhavn, which is probably the picture you would see first if you were to google Copenhagen pictures.<br />
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Then we headed to Christiania, which is a small, controversial community in Copenhagen. Here's a link to read more about it, since it would take too long to completely explain on here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania</a> , but pretty much it is a very unique place that can really only be found in Denmark. In Christiania you can't take pictures because of all of the drug trading, so I only have this one from the front gate:<br />
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Christiania was a really unique place to go and it was fun to look around.<br />
Then Jaz, Sonia, and I went to this really good coffee shop called Barresso, which I may have talked about before, but it is really good, but incredibly expensive. I ordered a small hot chocolate with whipped cream, but as with anything I order in Denmark I am never really sure what I am getting until Ihave it in front of me. This turned out to be a VERY small drink with a straw with chocolate on it to stir in the hot milk, then the whipped cream was literally just a glass filled with whipped cream. This cost me around 7 dollars, but it was still good!<br />
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Then we went home and had dinner, then just relaxed after a very busy day!<br />
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Sunday (October 9th): We had breakfast with Jaz's grandparents and the food was delicious as Danish food usually is and it was really nice to meet his grandparents.<br />
Then we drove through places in Copenhagen again, like the Parliament building, the Queen's castle, and this area across the water from the Opera house. We also climbed the Rundetårn (Round Tower) and got a great view of Copenhagen!<br />
Then I took the train home, which was just a nice, calm train ride, with not too many people. It was good to be home again!<br />
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Now just the highlights from last week:<br />
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Wednesday at language school we were given the assignment to find something interesting to do in Middelfart and make a speech about it as if we were showing it to our parents from back home. We were put in pairs and I'm with Alicia (from Canada). The class went down to the tourist center and chose our topics. Alicia and I chose the psychiatric hospital museum, because we really couldn't find too many fascinating things in Middelfart that we could make a speech about.<br />
On Thursday we went to the museum and struggled a bit trying to figure out what we needed to pay since the man working only spoke Danish. In the end we got our tickets and the man convinced us to buy a pamphlet explaining the museum in English. We had fun wandering around and figuring out what things were, but it was a bit creepy with it's white walls and soundtrack of patients from when the hospital was still open.<br />
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Friday: My class had the last 2 classes of the day canceled, so I went to a sandwich place that is really good with some people from my class. Then we went back to school because we were having a "Fredags Cafe", which is pretty much just people drinking beer and eating cake after school, but the money was for charity. There was also a limbo contest, which was funny to watch and the winner of course won a bottle of beer. Then the "slave auction" began. It was pretty much people going on the stage offering different things and then the audience would bid on them. For example some of the things offered were making lunch for someone for the next week, playing Oh Susana on the harmonica while the guy took off his clothes, unlimited drinks at the next Gym party (that one went for a lot), and so on. It was really funny to watch and 2 girls in my class helped explain what it was the people were offering.<br />
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My host dad, Niels, was gone in Germany until Sunday, so it was just the 3 of us home. That night we watched a traditional Danish movie, called Olsen Banden. They didn't have any English subtitles, but we put the Danish one's on because it made it easier to be able to read and listen, so I could actually understand some of what was going on. I want to watch it again once I get better at Danish, so I can fully understand it.<br />
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Saturday was my last soccer game. I played for about 30 minutes and made some good passes as the girl's on my team told me. We won 5-2 and it was a good game to end the season on!<br />
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Then that night I taught them to play a card game called Ocho Pinnocho and I changed it so Chris and Jytte had to answer in English and me in Danish, which made it a lot more challenging at least for me! We also were talking about some tongue twisters and difficult words to say sin Chris is always trying to get me to say Rød Grød Med Fløde ( something only Danish people can really say correctly), so I taught him She Sells Seashells by the Seashore and another exchange student had told me that Danish people have trouble saying "There are 2 squirrels in the refrigerator", so I tested that on Chris. He flawlessly said all of it, but then wouldn't try refrigerator, so I said I wouldn't be entertaining him by saying Rød Grød Med Fløde anymore haha. Eventually he tried saying it after a bit of persuading and did pretty well considering it is a pretty hard word to say!<br />
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Then we watched Bingo Banko as always and then an American movie that was on tv, but as usual I fell asleep!<br />
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Sunday we went to Legoland again because we had some free passes from last time and Jytte had gotten a few more at work, so we invited Jytte's friend and her 2 daughters and 2 of the oldest daughter's friends. They are all friends with Ellen (my host sister who is in Alaska on exchange) and I have played 2 soccer games with one of them. The four of us just went off on our own and they were all very nice to me and we spoke mostly in Danish. It was cold, but at least there was no rain! We rode lots of rides and this time Legoland was decorated for Halloween (even though they don't celebrate it here), which was nice. It is so different here with places closing for winter because of the weather. Tivoli and Legoland are both closed now, but they open for certain times, like Christmas and the fall holiday (which I am on right now). It was a nice day at Legoland and I am glad I got to go again!<br />
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Monday, I went to Fredericia to see the exchange student that lives there, Cadu (from Brazil) and Alicia and Gustavo from my school also came. I met with Cadu first because Alicia and Gustavo had some issues with the train. Apparently they had ended up on a direct train to Kolding, when they had thought it would stop in Fredericia, so they had to take another train back, but it all worked out.<br />
We just wandered around the shopping streets and ate lunch (bread and chocolate milk), had ice cream, shopped, and had fun. It was a really nice day and we had a lot of fun and I didn't spend TOO much money. ;)<br />
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Now I am on efterårsferie, which is a week off from school. It used to be a week where the kids would go help pick potatoes with their parents, but now it's just a vacation week.<br />
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I have lots of plans for this week, so the next blog will be full of exciting things!<br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-38695570092082345322011-10-06T07:53:00.000-07:002011-10-06T07:53:24.084-07:00Highlights of last week and so far of this week!Hej igen, (hi again)<br />
So now you know what I did Monday and Tuesday of last week, but as for the rest of the week I didn't really do anything on Wednesday or Thursday.<br />
Friday I stayed home with Chris and we watched tv, but I was exhausted so I just fell asleep on the couch as usual. I just get so tired here with so much Danish all the time and just focusing really hard on what people are saying, trying to figure it out, so I usually fall asleep fairly early (9:30 on school nights, and maybe 10 or 11 if I'm being a real rebel/ have a bit more energy on weekends)<br />
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Saturday was the district conference in Odense, so it was really good to see a bunch of exchange students again. We did a short presentation at the conference, but it wasn't much. We just walked in with flags from our home countries and some people said something in Danish if they wanted to. No one from the US was going to, so Anna (from New York) and I decided to just say a very short thing in Danish, and it went well.<br />
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Then all the exchange students went bowling. We had a good time and it was the first time we were meeting the "oldies", or ones who have been here since last January. They were from Australia and one from Argentina I think.It was fun, but everyone wished we could have had longer to hang out and bowl. A lot of other districts in Denmark have had a get-together for a weekend, but no one is really sure in my district if we are having one or not, so we'll see!<br />
Saturday it was just Chris and I home again, so we watched this show called Bingo Banko, which is like the American show called National Bingo Night, which really didn't last long. It is basically a tv show that starts around now each year and then you print out bingo cards off the computer and play. The hosts do all kinds of crazy things to get the numbers to make the bingo and if you get 1 row, 2 rows, or all 3 rows filled you call and can win lots of good prizes. We have never won yet, but we're hoping I'm the lucky charm (so far not too much). Then we watched a movie and again I fell asleep!<br />
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Sunday: I worked on my Rotary presentation all day and wrote a whole speech in Danish. Then I baked brownies to bring to my Rotary presentation, since I thought it might be a nice touch to show an American dessert!<br />
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Monday: I was nervous all day at school about my speech, but one of the girl's from my class helped me on the bus ride home with how to say the more difficult words, which was really nice of her! Then I practiced some more at home until it was time to go. There were maybe 30 people at Rotary that night and all my host families were there. They started by inducting 2 new members and then it was my turn. For a moment we couldn't find my speech, which stressed me out a bit because let me tell you I could not have done it off the top of my head. Luckily we found it underneath some other papers! The speech went well I think, considering I spoke for about 10 minutes in ONLY Danish. I think people understood most of what I said, or at least they were being nice and said they did, but everyone was really nice about it and laughed at the funny parts, so I know they could understand some. One of the parts many people enjoyed was when I said that in Petaluma we have the "World's Ugliest Dog Contest" and showed a picture of last years winner. Then we had a delicious dinner as always and then I served my brownies, which I think was a nice end to the evening. By the end of the night I was exhausted from having been worried about the speech and having finally given it, but I feel accomplished for being able to do it all in Danish and it really shows me how much my Danish has improved since I have arrived! But one thing is that after giving the whole speech in Danish, all the Rotarians spoke only in Danish to me and I couldn't understand a lot of it still. I think my writing is improving much faster than my speaking just because nothing is pronounced like it is spelled.<br />
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Tuesday: It was a really good day for me even though nothing very excited happened. We got out of school early, but the bus didn't come for another hour, so 2 girls from my class and I walked to the center of Middelfart since they needed to go to some stores there. It was just nice hanging out with people from my class, similar to what I would do back home.<br />
Also Jytte and I decided that we should start speaking almost only Danish, and I realize just how much I have learned since I have been here. While I am no where close to fluent, it just feels nice to be able to finally understand and be able to respond to simple sentences and questions in Danish.<br />
Then I had soccer and it was a fun practice. We did lots of small activities the whole practice and then just had fun shooting goals at the end. Plus the weather was perfect. It was crisp out, but there was no wind, so it wasn't too cold. And the sky was dark, with even darker clouds, but the field was all lit up by the lights. For some reason it was just a great day and when your'e an exchange student you know not every day do you feel like this, so it's nice to have a day like this!<br />
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Wednesday: My Danish language teacher was sick, so the exchange students just walked around Middelfart. We went in lots of stores and in this second hand store we had lots of fun, since a lot of the stuff was old and looked like it was from the 70s. Alicia (from Canada) found 2 American flag handkerchiefs and they were cheap, so of course I had to buy them!<br />
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Well that is all that has happened these last few days, but the last week has been busy and I already have plans for this weekend!<br />
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Farvel for nu,<br />
NinaNina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-37449756541624553522011-10-04T06:57:00.000-07:002011-10-04T06:57:17.950-07:00Concert in Tivoli!Hej,<br />
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I figured it might just be easier to make a separate blog post about the concert since there is lots to tell! On Monday (9/26) I went to a concert in Tivoli with Alicia (the other Rotary exchange student at my school) and we had some adventures. First of all when we got on the train we kinda forgot that we needed to make sure we got in the right wagon, so we walked back and forth like 3 cars in the train and people kept pointing which way to go, but whenever we got to the spot they pointed to it was some really weird door and was just like the connector for the two trains, so it was a bit sketchy and we had no idea how to get to our car. Even the ticket checker had pointed for us to go this way. It wasn't until we had the ticket checker bring us there that we realized we had been walking through the quiet zone the whole time! Whoops! and let's just say we weren't being as quiet as they wanted, but we didn't know! So then the ticket collector brought us to the post we had been to 3 times and was like "Oh I guess you can't go this way". Alicia and I didn't feel so stupid then that we couldn't figure it out, because there really was no way to get through there! The solution we had to get to our train car was to get off at Odense and run the length of the train to get to our car, but luckily it all worked out and we made it.<br />
We arrived in Copenhagen with no more trouble and then we were waiting for Simran (from India) to arrive when we saw some more exchange students, so we said hi to them and wandered around the station a bit.<br />
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Then once we found Simran we headed over to Tivoli (a very famous and old amusement park opened around 1843). We squeezed together on a ride that we thought was going to be more intense than it was, so we were freaking out about where to put our bags and such, but once it started it was really calm, so we just laughed the whole way since we had been worried for nothing! We rode a few more rides including this spinning swing that goes 262 ft ( 80 meters) up in the air. It was pretty cool and we got a great view of Copenhagen from up there!<br />
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Then we found more exchange students and were all so excited to see each other. I think there were between 20-30 of us at Tivoli that day. For most of the night it was Alicia, Simran, Lily (from Colorado), and me together. We went on a ride called the Dæmon 4 times because the first time I was nervous and Alicia didn't go, the next time we convinced Alicia, but she was nervous, and than the last two were to get good pictures to buy. It was fun and one of the scarier rides at Tivoli, but it really wasn't that bad.<br />
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Alicia and I refused to go on the ride where it drops you a few hundred feet really fast because we just have the fear that our legs will get cut off and personally I don't like the feeling of my stomach in my throat, so that ride we skipped.<br />
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You probably don't know most of these bands, but the one you might know is Aqua- "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world..."- Yeah, ring a bell? Turns out they are Danish, which I didn't really know! Too bad they didn't sing Barbie Girl at the concert.<br />
We got pretty close to the stage, but then it was too crowded, so we wandered around Tivoli for a bit. Then we just sat in the garden at Tivoli and watched the concert from the screen since we were tired and knew we had no chance of getting close to the stage. It was really nice just being there and enjoying the songs, even though we couldn't sing along with most of them.<br />
Then Alicia and I had to go catch the train back. Sounds easy enough right? Well not for us. We felt all smart that we found where the train should be, so we went upstairs to look for food. Then we headed back downstairs to the platform. It was a bit confusing since we had gotten off the train across the street and now we were getting on in the station, but we just hoped we were in the right spot. We then just sat there for about 10 minutes. Then I looked up at the screen and it said a different destination than what we needed, so I asked a woman if we were in the right spot. She said we needed to be 2 platforms over and we only had 2 minutes until the train was supposed to leave (Danish trains are very on time unlike the busses here), so we ran up the stairs and then over to the stairs to bring us to the right platform. We found our train, but then it was so full that we had to just keep running to find a place where we could squeeze in. Finally we found a spot where we could barely fit. Then we had to make our way through lots of people to find our seats. Some nice Danish teenagers had people move for us since we felt bad making everyone stand up (there were people EVERYWHERE- seats, aisles, doorways). Then we found our seats and had to have the 2 people move that were in them since we had them reserved. Then we tried to sleep until we got to Odense.<br />
Alicia spent the night at my house and then we went to school the next morning. I had so little sleep that I wasn't even tired until I got home and then took a long nap and went to bed early!<br />
The concert was really fun and I am glad I went even though train tickets are crazy expensive here!<br />
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So honestly this is probably going to be a sort of short blog post, partially due to the fact that it was almost the same as last week and due to the fact that for some reason I can't really remember what I did all week, but somehow it's gone!<br />
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I'm just going to put the highlights in instead of a day to day recap:<br />
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Well as I said at the end of my last blog I was cooking for my family. We had macaroni and cheese, a salad, and garlic bread. I think it all turned out pretty well and we didn't mess up any of the conversions for the macaroni and cheese!<br />
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Then the rest of the school week was pretty much the same: soccer and school.<br />
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Friday I finished school at 11:37 (Yeah, I know a random time), but the bus doesn't come until a few hours later, so Jytte picked me up and I went to her work in Fredericia. I walked around the shopping street there, which was nice, but I resisted buying too many things! Then we just had a nice relaxing night watching <i>500 Days of Summer. </i><br />
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Saturday my host parents were cutting wood again for the winter supply of heat, so I just hung out, but later Jytte and I went to a mall in Odense since Odense is so close to Morud (I think 15-20 minutes, so we go there a lot).<br />
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Sunday I got to see Linea, who was an exchange student in my district in California last year! It was really nice to see her and we had fun walking around the center of Odense. It was Linea's first time in Odense, so I was her really bad tour guide since I have only been to this area a few times and there were always people to lead me to the right place, but we found our way with a bit of help from her iPhone.<br />
One thing I forgot about Denmark though is that pretty much everything is closed on Sundays, so we couldn't do much shopping, but we did visit Hans Christian Andersen's childhood home, which was incredibly small, so it didn't take long to see, but it was on my list of places to see in Denmark, so that one is checked off!<br />
Then we just sat at a really good coffee shop called Baresso, where the drinks are really good as long as you don't think about the price compared to say Starbucks or Peet's!<br />
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That was pretty much the whole last week, but trust me the next 2 posts will be more interesting!!<br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-67085552789189648432011-09-18T07:49:00.000-07:002011-09-18T07:49:53.976-07:00"Regndråber holde droppe på mit hoved"Hej alle,<br />
I can't believe I have already been in Denmark almost 1.5 months! It is a crazy and scary thing to think about, because if the next 10 months go like this I will be home before you can say rød grød med fløde (well actually that would take you quite a while to say, but still you get my point).<br />
It has been raining a lot this week, but so far I have been lucky and haven't had to be outside during any of the torrential downpours.<br />
<b>Monday</b>: School as usual. Then I went to my Rotary Meeting. It had been a few weeks since I had last been there, so it was nice to see everyone again. Unfortunately, there was a politician speaking, so I really didn't understand much of the night. But on the bright side, the food was really good! As it always is :)<br />
I also talked with my counselor about my class trip to Dublin, Ireland! He said since it was a school trip I could go, so I am off to Dublin in March I believe and I think it will be a really great trip, especially since I get to go with my whole class! Just imagine: 26 Danes and 1 American, in Dublin, around St. Patrick's day ( I think?), it's gonna be great!<br />
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<b>Tuesday: </b>Guess what? I went to school again! It was a good day though because I had Spanish and English. Then I worked on some geography homework for quite some time. The homework takes quite awhile for me since I usually have to go: Danish question, to English question, to English answer, to Danish answer, but it is helping to do some the homework, but still in classes like history and social science I barely attempt to do it.<br />
Soccer that night was fun. The girls on the team were speaking mostly Danish to me, but it was very fast, so I would just say "Hvad?" (what?) and the would all laugh and try and repeat it slower and simpler. Luckily I stopped myself from just saying "ja" to most things people said and it turns out that was a good idea with some of the girls' questions hahah.<br />
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<b>Wednesday</b>: I am proud to say I turned in my first FULL Danish assignment today in geography! I answered everything in Danish, so it's probably not even close to being right, but hopefully my teacher (Helle) will see the effort, which I am sure she will since she is really nice and always gives me extensions when I need them! Religion class was canceled, so I sat with some of the other kids from my class and they helped me a bit with the rest of my geography homework! It is so weird here that when a teacher can't come to school the class is just canceled, no substitute, nothing. There is just a lot more freedom at the school. For instance you can sit on the couches outside the classes and no one comes up to you asking why you aren't in class or when I leave school to go to language classes, I don't have to check out with the office or do anything really, except leave.<br />
I had Danish lessons again and luckily Alicia, Paulina (from Chile), and I missed most of the rain on our walk to the Danish school.<br />
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<b>Friday: </b>Friday was a great day of the week for many reasons! First I had gym in the morning, which was just doing jump rope, then I had English, which is always a nice break for my head, then history (we had cake again), which I worked on my Danish language homework in! </div>
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Then I went home and got ready for the party at the school that night. I went to a pre-party again, but this time at Sofie's (the one I went shopping in Odense with) house. There were 9 of us in total, and 5 of us were in class together. It was good to meet 4 new girls from the school, because now I know just a few more people. It's weird to think that I can count exactly how many people I know at the Gymnasium, because I have never attended a school where I know so few people. The pre-party was really fun and we just had a good time dancing, eating, and getting ready for the long party ahead! </div>
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We then took a short taxi ride to the Gymnasium. There were more than 400 people there I think, so it was quite busy. One of the most shocking things to me is that the students can buy alcohol at the dance. It is just such a weird and different thing to see. The party was pretty fun! I then went home and slept!</div>
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<b>Saturday: </b>I just had a nice relaxing day. I went to the library in the morning with my host mom to get some more children's books in Danish. I then worked on some English and math homework. The math is still somewhat of a challenge when I can't understand the explanation, but I do the problems I already know how to do (not many!). I also went grocery shopping with my host mom for the "American" dinner I am making for them on Sunday. </div>
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<b>Sunday:</b> Today I had my first soccer game! I played for about 20 minutes and while I didn't do great, I don't think I did anything too terrible in the game and overall it was fun! We won 3-2, but it was definitely a nail-bighter game!</div>
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-19517477380241388322011-09-11T09:47:00.000-07:002011-09-19T11:07:41.884-07:00Soccer, Shopping, and Sleep! (plus a bit more)Hej!<br />
So it's time for my weekly update and it feels like just last week I was writing one of these.... oh wait I was, but it still feels like the week went by so fast!<br />
<b>Sunday:</b> Rest/ and sleep to recover from the long week at intro camp!<br />
<b>Monday: </b>School- I actually could understand a bit more in each of my classes, which felt great! Every little bit counts even if I only understand 1 or 2 more words a day it is better than none! And I could even do what we were doing in math today! It was the quadratic formula, which we learn in 8th or 9th grade in the U.S., so it felt nice to finally be able to actually do something and succeed in it haha.<br />
<b>Tuesday:</b> School, then soccer. It was only my second practice, but I am enjoying the team and it's pretty fun even though I am not that great.<br />
<b>Wednesday:</b> School as usual, then I got to leave early since I had language classes! I now have language classes every Wednesday and Thursday, which is great because those were always my longest days at school! I walked there with Alica (from Canada) and Gustavo (from Brazil) and we made it just in time for the start of class since there was a bit of confusion about who was leading the way; me or Gustavo. The teacher, Lorea, seems really nice and she understands that we have lives and other homework than just her class, which is always a nice thing to hear since sometimes it seems as though teacher's forget that! There are 7 of us in the class: Me, Alicia, Gustavo, Katharina (from Germany), Nora (from Austria), Nok Nahm (from Thailand), and Agne (from Lithuania).<br />
For dinner I had McDonalds with my host dad, Niels, and brother, Chris, since my host mom wasn't going to be home from work until late. You may think McDonalds must be the same no matter where you go, but this one at least is slightly different. First of all you have to pay for your ketchup/ Mayonnaise salat as I have learned you have to do at all fast food restaurants. Second of all the food is just generally more expensive. For example a Big Mac costs around $3.50 or so in the U.S., in Denmark it costs almost $10 (no, I don't know this off the top of my head, I had to look it up haha). Another is the mayonnaise salat, yes you read that right. They have mayonnaise dressing packets for people to dip their fries in, which is pretty common here. Well those are really the only differences, but it's little things like this, that you notice when in another country.<br />
<b>Thursday: </b>Again I had language school, it was especially nice because I got to miss Social Science class, which the teacher and I have agreed I understand nothing in!<br />
Language class was again good, and I feel like I learn a little bit more each day. Also, this may sound weird, but it's nice to have homework that I can actually do! Before I was really only doing my Spanish, English, and geography homework unless a teacher told me otherwise. I also now have more people to take the bus home with on Wednesdays and Thursdays since Nok Nahm and Katharina also take the same bus as me.<br />
When Niels brought me home from the bus station the second we got out of the car, the craziest hail storm I have ever seen started! It came down for probably 2 or 3 minutes and the hail was the size of a tic tac almost! After the hail ended everything was covered in the hail and it almost looked like it had snowed!<br />
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Then it was time for pizza night Thursday since my host mom works later on Thursdays it is just easier to have pizza, which is fine with me!<br />
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<b>Friday:</b> For the last 2 classes of the day at school it was an assembly to hear some politicians from Fyn representing parties for the upcoming elections. It was somewhat interesting at the beginning since we got to send a text to "vote' for which politician we wanted to win, but as the politicians talked faster and more complicated I got bored and just sat there playing on a girl in my class's iphone, since I wasn't understanding anything.<br />
Then after that 2 girls from my class (Sofie and Mathilde) and I took the train to Odense (Denmark's third biggest city) and went shopping! There was another boy on the train from our class with one of his friends, and once we were in Odense the 5 of us ran into each other a few times, so Sofie, Mathilde, and I of course had to have them take pictures of us!<br />
We went to lots of stores and spent lots of money, but since it was my first shopping trip in Denmark, I justify it since I needed some "Danish" clothes. We shopped until all the stores closed (at around 7) and then had dinner at a fast food style place called Sunset Boulezard, which has supposedly healthier fast food with sandwiches and things like that on the menu. It was pretty good and saved me some money compared to eating in a restaurant, which is crazy expensive here!<br />
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<b>Saturday: </b>This morning I had no problem waking up somewhat early, because we were going to LEGOLAND!! This was probably one of the things on the top of my list of places to go/see in Denmark and I am so happy I got to go with Jytte and Chris. We arrived a little before it opened and compared to my recent trip to Disneyland before I left, the line was small, but in Denmark it was considered somewhat busy. We raced right away to the more popular rides, so as to avoid the lines later in the day. We went on almost all the rides it feels like and never had to wait more than 10 minutes in a line, which was great! After our first ride when we were looking at our pictures from the ride, one of the workers asked where we were from and when he found out I was from California he told me how he had just been there and the "Legoland in California sucks!", which is probably true after seeing this one! My favorite ride would have to be the Power Builder. It is a ride where you create your own experience. You are given a sim card and then you proceed to choose what you want your ride to do; ex: flip upside down then left, or spin around, etc. I rode with Jytte and we just laughed the whole way.<br />
We also went to see a 4-D movie, which was cute and the snow and wind effects were fun. In my opinion one of the coolest parts of Legoland are the miniature towns and sculptures made only of legos. It was amazing to see all these small buildings composed of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of legos. The time and effort that must have gone into these was impossible to imagine! I had a lot of fun in Legoland and am glad I got to go, so early on in my trip, so that I can maybe even go again. We got free tickets to use in October, so who knows we may go again!<br />
We spent the evening watching some movies on tv. One was only in Danish, with no subtitles, but I could still figure out what was going on most of the time! :)<br />
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Well there was my week!<br />
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<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-47825025784950296702011-09-06T23:38:00.000-07:002011-09-06T23:51:17.996-07:00Intro Campin'- I've had the time of my lifeThis past week from, Sunday to Sunday, I was at my Rotary intro camp in the town of Bjerringbro on Jutland. We stayed at a boarding school type place that students go to for only a few weeks at a time to sort of figure out what they want to do or at least that's how I understood it. There was one other group there and it was a large group of elderly people who were constantly shushing us. Finally we asked our teacher why they were there and he said it was somewhat of a nostalgia thing for them.<br />
On Sunday I got on the train in Odense with around 10 other exchange students from the surrounding areas on Fyn. The train was packed with exchange students. I think there were 3 cars full of us, but we all felt a little bit bad for the people that had the other seats in our cars since it was very loud the whole way there (about 2.5 hours), but were constantly apologizing to them. We arrived at the station and around maybe 120 of us got off. We got assigned our room mates; mine was a girl named Susan Alexis from Massachusetts. The rest of the day we just had a short introduction where we met our teachers and the rest of our class mates. I was in a class with a teacher named Emil and 19 other students from all over the world. The majority of the students seemed to be from Brazil, Canada, and the United States. The rest were from other South American countries, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, and one girl from Lithuania (the only one from Europe). Then we had more free time, dinner, and then we took a short walk in the town and had tea in a park, which was nice; after that was more free time.<br />
On Monday the regular routine began:<br />
7:15: wake up<br />
8:00: breakfast<br />
8:45: morning assembly telling the day's schedule/activities<br />
9:15: class starts- Danish lessons for many hours<br />
12:00: lunch/ free time<br />
1:30: back to Danish class<br />
4:30: free time<br />
6:30: dinner<br />
7:30: evening activities with the teachers<br />
9:00: free time<br />
11:00: time to be in your rooms<br />
and then do it again.<br />
On Monday the evening activity I chose was "hyggeligt" which has no direct translation in English, but we really just sat in a room with candles, eating, drinking tea and coffee, and talking about certain talking points they gave us. I mostly talked with Alicia, the other Rotary exchange at my school, and Simran, a girl from India. We had a lot of fun with the topics and laughed a lot.<br />
On Tuesday our evening activities were outside. People could go rock climbing and then sit by the bonfire. It was really nice by the bonfire and lot's of people were singing, generally South Americans, until us Americans took over and sang "Don't Stop Believing".We then roasted this bread over the fire to make snobrød, which was pretty tasty.<br />
On Wednesday we had a special surprise, which ended up being a concert by the band the Striving Vines, which I guess had won a concert to open for the band Kashmir, which is a pretty well known rock group here. Overall it was a fun night and we enjoyed having a private concert.<br />
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We also had some different discussions in class about being in Denmark. We had one about the culture shock and another about being a teenager in Denmark. We mostly talked about the differences and some things that were shocking to us, but I think everyone liked hearing about each other's experiences.<br />
Thursday we did the same as usual and then had evening activities. This time I chose to learn the past tense in Danish. It was just a short lesson, but I feel it was a good choice plus I hadn't really felt like doing synchronized swimming or volleyball in the cold haha :).<br />
Friday was the day most of us had been waiting for, Århus!!! We went to a nearby city called Århus, which is the second largest city in Denmark at around 300,000- 400,000 people. We first went to a really interesting art museum called ARoS. It had very modern art and was overall a really neat place to go. I enjoyed seeing the huge, 5 meter tall "Boy" statue that is very well known and also going in this room filled with smoke of different colors was pretty fun since your couldn't see more than 3 feet in front of you. Another one of my favorite places to go was up to the roof where there is a rainbow walking area. You are in an inclosed glass area with different colored glass all around, so you can look at the city in many different colors.<br />
After that I met up with Alicia, Simran, a girl named Kirsten (from Canada), and a girl named Marisa (from Illinois). We walked around downtown Århus and got lots of food since at intro camp we were really only given the 3 meals a day with some bread and tea in between meals sometimes, but everyone was still hungry. We spend the afternoon watching a British comedy show on the street, which was pretty funny and I think we were the only people who really understood all of it. There was a big festival going on while were there, so there was lots of music on the streets and people in costumes, which was fun to see.<br />
We ate quite a bit our day in Århus; first we had hot dogs from a stand on the street, then we had some dessert from a chocolate place, then we had fries at Burger King since we were craving "American" food, then we stocked up on candy to bring back to the camp for when we were hungry, but that's what it seemed like most of us did.<br />
Århus was a really beautiful city and I hope to be able to visit it again before I leave.<br />
Saturday was our last full day at camp and we all talked about how fast it had all gone.<br />
We had Danish lessons in the morning and then after lunch we planned a group presentation as a class to present to the other classes.<br />
I'm going to try and find a video to add to the blog of our class's presentation, but that will come later, so stay tuned....<br />
We then had a banquet with everyone dressed up and after that the show started. All 7 classes did a performance. There were lot's of dances to Danish songs and some classes made up songs about our week there. After the shows we had a dance until 1 a.m. We just all had a great time dancing and enjoying our last few hours with each other. At one point Lily (from Alaska), Wilmary (from Venezuela) and I went outside since it was really hot and we just ran around on the grass. The weather felt perfect after being in the hot room for so long and the stars were gorgeous. We all just kind of had the "Wait, I'm actually in Denmark" moment. It was just a really fun and memorable night.<br />
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Then Sunday it was time to say goodbyes and get back on the train.<br />
Intro camp was really a great week and I learned some more Danish, which is always great!<br />
Pictures are updated here from intro camp: <a href="http://s1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/ninabreece/Intro%20Camp%202011/">http://s1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/ninabreece/Intro%20Camp%202011/</a><br />
Enjoy!<br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
<br />Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-29681992410852406732011-08-27T14:16:00.000-07:002011-08-27T14:16:32.818-07:00The wonderful lifeWell here goes my first weekly update; hopefully by making myself do these once a week I can stay on top of my blogs and keep this updated and maybe even keep the blog posts short ; )<br />
Saturday and Sunday were just nice, relaxing days since my host parents were cutting down trees in the forest, since that is how they heat the house in Winter. I'm sure you'll enjoy that, Dad. My host brother and I walked out to see them and went around a bit on their ATV. We watched a few movies and just overall had a calm weekend.<br />
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Monday was back to school and the classes were long since I only had classes in Danish that day, but it was still alright and I tried to translate as much as possible. Then I went to play soccer-golf with my host mom and brother. It was really fun and completely different than anything we have at home. It's like miniature golf, but bigger if that makes any sense. There are different obstacles and you kick a soccer ball through the obstacles to get to the hole. That probably made no sense, but trust me it was fun!<br />
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Tuesday I had school again; a bit more fun since I had English class, but the girls in my class are all really nice and help explain things to me! :)<br />
I also started my first day of soccer practice on Tuesday. It is my host sister, Ellen's, soccer team and the girls were nice and helped me figure out what to do. I haven't played soccer in maybe 7 or even 8 years, so it was a bit challenging, but I think it will be fun and a good way for me to meet a few more people living in my area, plus keep those exchange student pounds off ;).<br />
Wednesday was another long day at school with only hard classes in Danish, but again the girls tried to explain as much as they could to me and the teachers had some other things for the other exchange student, Paulina from Chile, and me to do.<br />
Thursday is always a long day at school for me (I get out at 3:22 and the rest of the days either at 1:30ish or 2:30ish), but it was still a good day considering I didn't have any English classes. In my social science class we were in groups and then had to give presentations to the class about our topic. Ours had something to do with political parties. My group came up with the opening sentence for me to say and they helped practice it many times to make sure I could say all the words. I said it in front of my whole class and they were all really nice about it and clapped for me even though it was just the start of our presentation, they also said they had all understood what I said, which is a bonus :)<br />
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Later that night my host mom, Jytte, and I went to the town hall of sorts to help make sunflower arrangements for the upcoming sunflower party the town is having. We had some confusion trying to find the right vases, but in the end it all turned out very nice.<br />
Friday was a nice short day at school for me and the classes were fairly easy since I had gym class, English, and history (which I can't understand YET). Then I went home and got ready for the 18th birthday of one of the girls in my class, Rikke. Another girl in my class, Cecilie, was really nice and invited me and the Chilean exchange student to her house for dinner before the party. It was really nice going to her house and some other girls from my class were there, so I got to know them better! We then went off to the party. There were about 100 people there and it was just a really nice, long, fun night!<br />
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Today (Saturday) I went to Odense with Jytte and we did a little shopping at the mall, but I didn't buy very much since I am saving up for the shopping in Århus this week at INTRO CAMP!!! Sunday I am headed off on the train from Odense to Randers and then up to my Rotary intro camp in Bjerringbro. I will be gone all week learning some Danish, meeting all the other exchange students in Denmark, and seeing some sights in the area! Overall I think it will be a great week! Now I just have to finish packing :)<br />
I have now had the 3 week anniversary of being in Denmark and the 2 week anniversary of being with my host family! It already seems like it is going so fast, it's crazy!<br />
Well farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-87622711467665307912011-08-19T09:39:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:39:41.581-07:00Starting SchoolOn Monday I started school at Middelfart Gymnasium. I am in class 2c, which is the second of the 3 years at the school. There are 6 other exchange students at the school; a boy from Brazil, a girl from Germany, a girl from Austria, Alicia from Canada, Agne, the girl from Lithuania, and in my class a girl from Chile named Paulina who has already been here 5 months. The way my class explained what the different letters mean (like 2c) was that a, b, and c are language and more general subject oriented, while the others (x,y, and z) are the kids who sit looking at their calculators all day, but it really just means they have more science classes.<br />
Here was my schedule for the first week just so you can get an idea of all the confusion I had the first day:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Most of my classes are pretty hard for me considering they are all in Danish, but I am starting to figure out they are talking about and when I recognize one word during a lecture it makes me feel good! I guess I should explain how the classes work here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First of all my school is under construction right now, so everything is constantly changing. The classes are in different rooms every day and sometimes you have to switch in the middle of the class. Also, the time you get out of school depends on your schedule for that day, so I can get out as early as 1:35 or as late as 3:22. The classes stay pretty much the same except for language where they are split up a bit more depending on which language you want to take, but all the rest you are with the same kids except for P.E where 2 classes come together. I think this is really nice since I will then be able to become closer with these 26 people instead of having different kids in every class. There are 26 kids in my class: 5 boys and 21 girls. I have been talking with the kids and eating lunch with them. They are helping me understand what is going on in class and helping me with what I need to bring. One girl, Sofie (she was an exchange student in Idaho 2 years ago), helped me a lot the first day when the bus never showed up at the right stop. I think I am going to get along well with this class, plus we have cake every Friday in history! I don't know if the explanation of the school system made any sense, but I hope you got the picture!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well that is how school is here in Denmark and now I think I understand where to go at least. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am planning on doing a blog about the differences between Denmark and California soon and now I am planning on doing weekly blog posts on what has happened to me, but don't count me on that since I have no clue what is coming up!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Farvel for nu,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nina</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-76744119148543982602011-08-19T09:05:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:05:53.698-07:00My First Danish PartyOn Saturday I went on a short sailing trip with Anders and Karin to my second host family's house for Mie's Welcome Home party. Alicia, the other exchange student in my area from Canada, and 1 of Mie's friends came and we all got ready together. It was just like getting ready for any other event back home, but the party was entirely different from anything in California. There were around 30 people there all between the ages of 15 and 20 (I think). It was a fun, long night. I met some of my soon to be neighbors and a lot of Mie's friends and some people who would be attending Middelfart Gymnasium. Eventually I went to bed at 3:30 at Mie's house while the last 5 people stayed downstairs to keep partying. The party was full of Danish music that everyone knew the words to and then lots of American music. There was also an exchange student there from Lithuania who I talked to for a bit. I'm just going to end this post saying their are a lot of differences at Danish parties that took me by surprise, but it was overall a fun night. <br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
NinaNina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-18386272250092377322011-08-19T08:49:00.000-07:002011-08-19T08:49:32.849-07:00The beginning with my first host family!On Thursday I spent the day packing and then just relaxing until my first host family came to pick me up and bring me to my new home. It was an exciting day finally moving in, seeing my room, and getting to unpack all of my things. That night we had pizza, which I guess is a tradition since Jytte works later on<br />
Thursdays. The rest of the night was just nice and relaxing, watching a movie and finishing unpacking.<br />
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On Friday I went to Ikea with Chris and Jytte to get a few things for my room (Ellen's room-Thank you Ellen!!), which was really nice of them. We got a chair for my desk, a lamp, and some other impulse items, just like any Ikea shopping trip. And of course we had to have some soft serve since it is always so cheap at Ikea. After that we went to Bilka, which is similar to Target or Walmart in the sense that it sells everything, food, clothes, electronics, and so much more. Here I got my new Danish phone, which was a really good price (and for Denmark that's saying something!).<br />
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Chris and I also went on a walk through their property with their dog, Mille. Their land is so beautiful and green and they have quite a few acres. It is very different living out in the country with complete silence all the time, but it is also really nice. By the end of my year it is going to be weird being back in Petaluma with all the sounds of the night since all 3 of my host families live in the country.<br />
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It was really nice moving in with them and I think we are going to get along really well!!<br />
Farvel for nu!<br />
Nina<br />
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Nina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-68343786021402141722011-08-19T08:39:00.000-07:002011-08-19T12:02:01.262-07:00My first, but definitely not last trip to Odense and seeing some horsesOn Wednesday Karin had to go to work in Odense and invited me to come along and walk around the center, while she worked. I got a map and after asking one woman I made my way into the center of Odense. Odense is the 3rd largest city in Denmark at around 167,615. I wandered around just looking at all the shops and bought a candle simply because it has my name on it and as my family knows it is impossible to find things with "Nina" on them, so whenever I see one I buy it. I walked for quite awhile and took some pictures of things that looked important (other tourists were taking pictures of them also). I think I also made my way to Hans Christian Andersen's house, but it wasn't open yet, so all I have so far are pictures of the outside, but another time! I then went and read on a bench for awhile just taking it all in. Around lunch time I found a hot dog stand and had a Fransk dog, which is the hot dog just stuck in a long roll with this dressing called Remoulade, which is really good. I then eventually made my way back to Karin's office only asking one person for directions the whole way (although I did have an incredible amount of trouble finding her building and the door to actually get into the building), luckily there was no one else around to see my struggles : ).<br />
That was my first day exploring Odense and it was a quite nice one, especially since it barely rained.<br />
After returning from Odense we went to Karin and Anders' son's horse farm where he was currently having a riding camp for kids. Kim and his girlfriend run the riding camp all summer and the kids seemed to be having fun sleeping in the barn on hay! We got a tour around and saw some really nice horses!<br />
That was the end of my first Wednesday in Denmark!<br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
NinaNina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-46300478886608162392011-08-19T08:28:00.000-07:002011-08-19T08:28:50.374-07:00Meeting my families!On Tuesday, August 10 I met all of my host families. Earlier that day Karin had sent me to the store in Nørre Aaby and after a little bit of getting lost and having trouble finding the right things in the store I finally completed my first Danish grocery store experience.<br />
The rest of the day was spent preparing for my families to come. They all arrived and it was so nice to see them all after communicating with them for so many months. I had already met 2 of my 3 families in Denmark. I had met my 2nd family at the Jazz festival, so that was a nice, unexpected surprise.<br />
We spent the night just talking and drinking coffee and tea and having some more of that delicious Fyn birthday cake. This was also the last time I saw Ellen since she was leaving for Alaska that Thursday. Overall it was a nice, hyggeligt (no direct translation in English, but it really means something along the lines of cozy, nice, and usually there is food) night.<br />
There were also 2 girls there around my age who were the daughters of a man in my Rotary club.<br />
It was a really great night and I realized how great my year is going to be living with these 3 different families.<br />
A little side note: I had found out my 2nd host family 2 days before leaving, so I didn't have much communication, just one e-mail. The family lives in Gamborg, another small town, that is not too far from my school. In the family their is a 17 year old daughter named Mie, who was in Australia last year on a Rotary exchange and who is in first year at the same school as me, a 20 year old brother named Jonas, who was in Australia 4 years ago as a Rotary exchange student and now goes to a technical school, and the mom, Jette, who owns a flower shop, and the dad Brian, who works in his family company.<br />
Here is a picture of all of my families together:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-AZaP2U8RQmiAQFGBLjxU9OeQUL40_vHH6qEzwGv512hHy71g7HdwMZb6QU_jobxm_cXPa2XENObPeltpaMiDCNw3gj-T-BoFwx8pcc_f8V8VVIREvYAyK2rRgVkJUih8jTtqTAOjF8/s1600/IMG_1645.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-AZaP2U8RQmiAQFGBLjxU9OeQUL40_vHH6qEzwGv512hHy71g7HdwMZb6QU_jobxm_cXPa2XENObPeltpaMiDCNw3gj-T-BoFwx8pcc_f8V8VVIREvYAyK2rRgVkJUih8jTtqTAOjF8/s400/IMG_1645.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>from left to right: Eva (Rotarian's daughter), Rotarian, Ida (Rotarian's daughter), Tina (third host mom), Mie (second host stister), Jonas (second host brother), Karin (counselor's wife), Brian (second host dad), me, Jette (second host mom), Ellen (host sister who is on exchange in Alaska), Niels (first host dad), Chris (first host brother), Jytte (first host mom), and in the front, Anders (counselor).<br />
More posts to come!<br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
NinaNina Breecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049358442207653428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818507210554847701.post-90233104124896939752011-08-19T08:00:00.000-07:002011-08-20T02:56:18.210-07:00The first 2 days in my new life- Rotary, CPR, host families, and flowers.For the first 5 days of my exchange I lived with Karin and Anders Schebye. It was a nice house in a town called Nørre Aaby, which is a nice small town. They have a dog named Childe who was nice to have around.<br />
My second day in Denmark we were going to go sailing on Karin and Anders' sailboat, but once we got to the marina it was too windy. Instead we decided to take a trip to Bogense in the northern part of Fyn (the island where I live). There was a flower festival that weekend, so we spent the day walking around, looking at the different displays and going in a few stores. We had a traditional Danish lunch of smørrebrød, which are open face sandwiches on rye bread. The bread is taking some getting used to, but I'm actually starting to enjoy it. After looking at the many flower displays we headed to their friends' summer house. It had a beautiful view right onto the water. There we had cake since it was Karin's birthday and they all drank lots of coffee. Karin, her friend, and I went on a short walk along the beach and I was just thinking the whole time "Wow, I am in Denmark." We had some pork and potatoes for dinner (another traditional Danish meal) and finally ended the night with more coffee. Again I was tired as I was still trying to get over the jet lag and when we got home at 10:30 I went straight to bed and slept very soundly.<br />
On Monday Anders and I went to another town to try and get my CPR number (a Danish number used for everything), but for some reason I still don't understand we couldn't get it yet, so now I am just waiting for the notice in the mail that I can go register. After that we stopped by my first host family since the town we were in before was very close to Morud. It was so nice finally meeting them. Ellen was in the process of packing, so we only stayed a short while, but it was still nice to see them and where I would be living the next few months. I also tried some traditionally birthday cake that is only on Fyn. It was good, but very sweet.<br />
That night was my first Rotary meeting. I was not sure what to expect my club to be like, but it is very different than my one back home. This club has only men in it, so I feel a little out numbered ;). I introduced myself in Danish and then they went over their usual topics and then we had dinner. I also met my first host dad, Niels, for the first time.<br />
It was a nice night and I enjoyed meeting my Rotary club although I could understand next to nothing. My first 2 days were very busy, but I was just about over jet lag by the end of them :)<br />
Here is the link to where I will be uploading most of my photos for all to see, since it would take up too much space on a blog post! <a href="http://s1121.photobucket.com/home/ninabreece/index">http://s1121.photobucket.com/home/ninabreece/index</a><br />
Farvel for nu,<br />
Nina<br />
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