Goodbyes

It seems that in between AT week, eating sushi, planning a party, attending a party, hygge, danish school and shopping in copenhagen I have fallen behind in my blogging adventures and am lacking a post about one of the most emotional, fun and saddest weekends of my exchange. Yes, Holbæk Get Together has been and gone. It was fun, it was exciting, it was sad and there were tears shed all over the place. My last ever Rotary get together. Where has my year and time gone in Denmark? Speaking of which, today there are exactly 2 months until I am home in Australia. It is now 11:15am in Denmark and I suspect that if we fast forward to this exact time in 2 months, I will be fighting back all the tears, giving my final hugs to the people who have become such an important part of my life. It will be weird not seeing my class everyday, not speaking danish everyday, not just being able to go to copenhagen whenever i want, or even just popping over to Sweden just to go shopping... A little thing called reality hit me at Holbæk when I reluctantly gave my final hugs to all of my exchange student friends from all over the world. For some, it may be the last time that I see them, which is weird to think about because each and every one of them have been an important part of my exchange. So many tears and hugs were shared and the weekend was just perfect. 

It all began on Friday night, with a 30 min car trip to holbæk. I was reunited with all the exchange students in Denmark, some of which i have not seen for 6 months and others that i have never met before (the newbies). There were so many newbies it was insane. The group of oldies isnt so big... there are around 44 of us, so we all know each other. It was so good to see them all again, and i was so happy to be reunited with my aussie girls from Jutland who I dont get to see as much as I would like. The first night consisted of dinner, and a disco with music until some ungodly hour of the morning. I think i went to bed at around 4:30am, and slept on the floor of a school which wasn't the most comftorable thing. But all of the oldies were together so it was so nice to 'hygge' together and be all together for the last time in our exchange.

The next morning everyone woke up a little tired and all nursed sore backs from that darn floor. Our day consisted of a little tour to Holbæk city, where we got to explore a little. Of course being Denmark, it just poured with rain all day, so the 2km walk into the city wasn't as pleasant as it would have been on a summers day. After becoming totally drenched, and purchasing a 30kr umbrella, me along with a group of aussies headed to a cafe to get some caffeen and recharge for what was going to be a very very long night. It was hyggelit to sit in the warm candle lit cafe and just talk about exchange and everything that we have all gotten up to. Catching up with all the beautiful Aussies reminded me how much I am going to miss all of them next year! We didn't really do much in the city, we basically tried to stay out of the rain and bought some supplies for the party. It was a nice tour though and Holbæk is a nice city even in the rain. 

We came back a little soaked and tired, but this did nothing to dampen our spirits! After eating lunch and changing clothes, we had some time to do some fun activities. You could choose from hockey, soccer or making a pumpkin cut out. But as oldies, we decided to make our own little activity and sign everyones flags, write in books and just hygge reminicing about all the wonderful memories we shared together. It is a tradition as an exchange student to have either a flag or a book signed by all of the people who have been important to you thoroughout the year. My danish flag is now covered in beautiful messages that I will have for the rest of my life. I did shed a few tears reading them later... The book however will remain untouched until I am back in Australia and have the emotional capacity to read it without breaking down.

Signing Flags 

Signing 

Aussie Hygge! 

After this little session, we had time to prepare for the Halloween Disco/party. This was a lot of fun, and there were costumes, makeup and texters going all over the place. Every person managed to dress up and some costumes were absoloutley awesome. Now that I think about it, this was actually my first Halloween, where I dressed up to celebrate the occassion. and believe me i will always remember it. My costume was a bunny, which I loaned from my host sister. But not the bunny from mean girls and not the bunny like a try hard with just the ears. This was the full shebang. I had a head, I had feet and of course I had hands. It was a lot of fun and everyone thought my costume was awesome ;)

So, to start the night off we had a formal dinner where every one sat down on round tables and in an ordered fashion went up and got food. It was a really hyggelit dinner and I sat on a table with some Aussie girls who I don't get to see too often.

After the dinner, there were some speeches from Rotarians, and then came the talent show where we were invited to put in some acts. Of course, the South Americans stole the show, so no one really wanted to dance after them.... their cultural dance was amazing, and i have said so many times that if i got the opportunity to do another exchange, I would do Brazil!

So, following the south americans, some americans got up and did a little fun rap, then more south americans danced and sung, then there was an amazing singer accompanied by my friend Beth on guitar, then the New Zeland boys took to the stage and totally blew everyone away with the Haka. It was awesome to see it live! Then.... it was my turn. Here is where the emotion for the night really began. It is a tradition as exchange students to have a farewell video that is shown on the last get together. I volunteered to make it and that was a good idea as it gave me something to do in class! Here is a link if you have 7 spare mins, i reccomend checking it out. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4c4fe-vhYA

This video was a success, and I made many cry. It was so fun to look back on our exchange year, and reflect on how far we have all come as people. I think that all of the people I came with in January 2013 have changed in more ways than one. We are now young adults, ready to dominate the world!

So the talent quest ended with a few tears, but that didn't stop the oldies from having one of the funnest nights of our exchange. There was a disco, with really high music and it had a party atmosphere. We all danced until the ungodly hours of the morning again. A band came along and played some live music, and of course there was a DJ, with coloured lights. It was so fun dancing all night long.

The next morning, everyone woke up tired, exhausted and emotionally drained. The final goodbye came, and songs from our exchange were played which only made us cry even more. I hugged all my beautiful exchange friends for what may be the last time, and wish the all the best with the future. It was a wonderful weekend.

I was picked up on Sunday morning, and slept for an hour when I got home because I was just so exhausted. Then, we celebrated my host dads birthday! It was a lot of fun but a very very very tiring weekend. 

Back to school monday for a week that is called AT. I had a similiar week to this when I first came to Denmark, but this time I actually participated and help (a little) with the final project. My class had this project based in Physics and English (yay for me). It was different to the last one, as it was a lot more pratical and it involved nearly the entire second year. It was based around the idea of making my school more green. My group worked with the idea of solar pannels, and installing them into the school. Obviously there is not a lot of sun in Denmark, so we had to think pratically about this. Our project ended really well and it was a hyggelit week. 

On Wednesday however, we were free from school as in Denmark it was a day where people work and earn money to donate to the children in Africa. The girls in my class however didn't participate and instead used the time to go shopping in Copenhagen. Very dangerous for my already overflowing collection of clothes. We actually went to a place that I have never been before- a place called Fields which is a thumping huge shopping centre! It was so nice to go shopping with them, and I only bought a little..... ;) we ate lunch together and just talked. We went home at about 4pm, and I stayed in Copenhagen to meet one of my Australian friends. The weather wasn't the greatest, and it gets dark now at around 4pm, so we got to see Copenhagen by lights. We stopped in Nyhavn for a coffee, then ventured further down the shopping street (our usual route). We finished the night off with a dinner in the shopping street, before crashing on the way home. It was a very fun day.

On Friday night, I ate dinner with one of my Danish friends and her Australian dad. It was so cool hearing an aussie living in Denmark and we talked about some cultural differences that we had both experianced.

The rest of the week was normal, however the weekend was not as I was at school on both Saturday and Sunday to hold a fete type thing with my class. This was to raise money for their study tour to Malga in Spain, that I will unfortuantley not be here for. It is a tradition for second year students to go some where in Europe, or even New York with their class. The purpose of this, I am not really sure, but I wish that i was there when my class goes. It would be a lot of fun, but I have been asked if i will buy a ticket to Spain from Australia, or even better have there study tour to Australia! Anyway, this  weekend was a thing called study fest, where every class in second year throws a little party for parents, and friends where they have some fun things to raise money. The theme of my class was Circus, so we set up our classroom like a circus. There were lights, coloured dots, bunting- the full thing. So we met early Saturday to set it up for the night. Everyone from my class dressed up like circus folk. There were clowns, dancers and a few ring masters (of which I was one). This was a lot of fun. We had a horse, and a cream throw thing where our history teacher was the one to cop the cream. I can now officially say I have thrown cream at a teacher something that not many people can ;). We ate some dinner and then partied the night away before getting kicked out at 11pm. It was a very very fun night and my friend Laura and her host sister came too.

Sunday, we were back at school cleaning up the mess that we made... it took about 3 hours. I went home, did an english assignment, read harry potter and just had a chill out day (something that I have not had in a very very long time). Then for dinner, we ate duck as it was a special day in Denmark where nearly half of denmark eat duck.. i am not really sure why, denmark has a lot of traditional days like this though. It was cool to experiance 

Today is Monday, and I have 2 peroids of school left... english and biology. Today has been a pretty normal day although I was quite proud of myself as I presented something in Danish to my whole class as part of group work. Never in my wildest dreams would I thought that possible! AND I GOT 7 FOR MY LAST DANISH ASSIGNMENT IN FULL DANISH! WOOOO HOOOOOO! 

Anyways, this week is pretty normal. Just school and hopefully will be sending a package home. On the weekend there are plans to make some christmas decorations and on sunday im seeing Stomp the musical! Should be a good week!

Love to everyone at home

See you in two months

xxx 

little busy bee

And so another week has been and gone, and the time that I have left in Denmark continues to become shorter and shorter. This weekend I think that the realisation that I am soon going home will hit me, as I have my final get together with all the exchange students in Denmark. For some, this may be the last time I see many of them so there will be a lot of tears, and reminiscing about the year that will always be the best year of our lives. But before I become more emotional in this blog post, I better tell you all about my awesome weekend! I apologise, as this blog post will not have many pictures as my mac is in overload with the thousands (no exaggeration) that I have taken in the last year. 

On Friday after finishing my presentation on the stolen generations (which went well) I was on cloud nine and this was heightened by a trip to Tivoli with two of my favourite Aussie girls. Of course i have been to tivoli a lot... and its probably the only thing i talk about in my blog but it is just one of the most magical places in the entire world. As it is now October, Tivoli is decked out with pumpkins, cobwebs and creepy things in honour of HALLOWEEN! It was so beautiful and magical in the lights and ahhhh i just love Tivoli. We took our last rides on so many rides as for christmas they are all closed. We headed home at like 10 30 as the rain and the cold got the better of us. It was a really really hyggelit night and Tivoli was just so magical. There were so so many pumpkins in there as well! I think there were over 1000. It was truly amazing and increased my love for Tivoli so much more

Halloween Tivoli! 

On Saturday morning I didn't get a sleep in as I was up and on a hunting expedition with a lady in my Rotary clubs husband. Hunting is something that I NEVER imagined myself doing... but I thought when in Denmark I may as well just try every opportunity that comes your way. So we went hunting through a beautiful forrest in the neighbouring town to Roskilde. There was a group of hunters who gather once a year and it was really nice to meet all of them. After some coffee and fresh crossants, we were out on our expedition. The weather was nice, and it wasn't too cold. It was a little scary to be there with a group of men holding guns. There was an eery feeling in the forest, as we had to be quiet. There were 3 dogs with us, and I got to hold one of them. They let them off, and they scared off all of the birds in the forest. They shot 3 in the first round. It was a little confronting to see and hear the guns being fired... and of course hear the gun shots of hunters in the next forest over. We moved onto the next part, and two deers were shot. I have never even seen a live deer before so it was a little confronting that my first deer was a dead one. I didn't shoot anything, I just watched and experienced the hunting. I was grateful for this actually! We had a drink break, and headed out again. The forrest was beautiful, and it was nice to walk through all the autumn leaves. We finished the day at around 1pm and the total was 3 deers and 3 birds. A good hunting haul for the day. I had a hyggelit day, although it was a little confronting. I think it was my first and last time hunting. After, we had lunch all together and it was really nice.

After hunting, I came home jumped in the shower and went to one of my Danish friends 18th birthdays! The girls in my class had a 'warm up hygge' before, which was really nice. We got ready together and ate some pizza. I love this about Denmark and danish culture and it is something that I will really miss when I go back to Australia. We played some games and were then ready to go to the party. The party was held in a small hall in Roskilde. It was really hyggelit and I had a lot of fun. I love Danish fests especially 18th ones!!  

On Sunday, I had a day with my host family. My year in Denmark has included a lot of firsts, but one of the most exciting was carving my very first halloween pumpkin! After seeing these in the movies, I have ALWAYS wanted to try but it is not so typical in Australia. In Denmark however it is really popular, as it is so cold and wet outside and the little candle light in the pumpkin head makes everything that much more hyggelit. I made them with my host sister Julia and it was harder than it looked! But it was a lot of fun!

After this, we went into Copenhagen as a family where I got to experiance Danish autumn in the space of a few hours. We drove to a beautiful big park just on the outskirts of Copenhagen. This is the home to the theme park Bakken, which holds the oldest roller coaster in the world. Unfortunately I never got to experience this theme park- but that just gives me another reason to come back to Denmark I suppose ;) The theme park is now closed, but it was cool to see some of the rides... They do look pretty cool. The purpose of this little field trip was to go for the annual Sunday stroll in a beautiful park in Denmark. It was so beautiful with all the autumn colours on the trees, it is so different to the scale of Autumn that we have in Australia! It was so beautiful and I finally saw a live deer! After the walk, (in the rainy weather- love denmark ;) ) we went to Tivoli for a little bit to see Halloween. It was good that I was there on Friday as the weather wasn't the best. We bought some føldeballer and ate dinner with my host sister who lives in Copenhagen.

Autumn in Denmark! 

The rest of the week involved school. On Monday however, we had one of the biggest storms in Danish history. It resembled one in Australia. It was INSANE! There were trees blown over, wild waves ripping up the coast and a little damage to my host famalies summer house. I thought it was very funny though, as being a small country, the storm impacted the whole of Denmark within the space of a few hours. This is just unheard of in Australia as only one specific area is affected. Danes didn't really know how to respond to this wild weather, and the country went into turmoil... The trains stopped working and people couldn't get to work. It was pretty crazy. 

Read about what happened: http://cphpost.dk/national/hurricane-force-storm-crossing-denmark (of course it is in english ;) ) 

Håndbalt!

It is actually a little strange for me to be consistent with my blog updating- I mean two blog posts in the space of 2 days! But the current maths lesson I am sitting in isn't so appealing, so I decided to do another update on what I got up to last night 

So last night I managed to tick off another thing on my 'to do list' in Denmark. This list is becoming shorter and shorter, and I have almost managed to achieve everything I wanted to do on my exchange year. The thing that has now been crossed off my list was a håndbale game... Something that to me is very Danish as i first experianced the hype of Denmark playing the finals when I first arrived. 

But Australians, the handball that we think of is NOT the handball that they play over here in Europe. I'm sure we are all aware of the fun handball game that consumed much of my primary school lunchtimes. Four people, in their own square bouncing a ball around a few times. It's fun, but NOTHING compared to the standard and the stamina needed to be a player over here. Here is a short youtube clip incase some of you aren't familiar with the sport (because I sure wasn't when I came) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYfK7U9xRmk

It's exciting, its face paced and Danes love it! The atmosphere at the game was awesome, and everyone was right into it. Of course, it did help that Denmark won. I saw the womens game, and the best way to describe it is like an over aggressive netball game with a hint of some soccer goals. It is very fast paced, and you have to keep your eyes on the game or else before you know it the other team has scored!

Denmark played Austria and I wondered what language the umpires would speak, or how difficult it would be for the Austrian team to understand danish... kinda like what i experienced when I first came to Denmark. I suppose being Aussie, we don't really think about that because we just take it for granted that we are an english speaking nation. Europe has defiantly opened my eyes to the wider world. 

Me and my host sister dressed up for the occassion hoping to make the TV, however we were sadly missed in our Danish outfits. I had a lot of fun, and picked up a Danish flag blower and of course some clappers! It was a really fun night and I am so glad that I got to see a live match as we do not have it so much in Australia. 

Me and my host sister Julia ready for Handball! 

And tonight I do not get an early night. I'm off to Tivoli with two of my Aussie friends and of course I am going again on Sunday because I just love Tivoli and haven't seen it for Halloween (what?!) On Saturday I am off to one of my Danish friends 18th birthday :) and last period today, i am doing a presentation on the stolen generations....to 60 people... in a classroom.... with a microphone... for the last period of the day... 

Wish me luck!

Ola fra Spanien

Ola! I will start this blog post with the greeting that I heard for 12 days whilst on my little afterårs ferrie with host family number 2. Our destination- Spain but to be more specific the Grand Canary Islands and to be exactly correct the island of Lanzerota at Club La Santa, a sports place that is a popular holiday destination for danes, englanders, germans and some spanish people.

My holiday began on Thursday two weeks ago (what!) with a 3 and a half hour flight to Madrid. From cold Denmark to a mildish warm sunny Madrid

On the way! 

Emma, me and my host dad ready for Le Santa! 

We were in Madrid for the night, and stayed at my host Dad's friends mansion 30 mins from the airport. I can now officially say i have ridden in a Mercadies! So we crashed and woke up very early the next morning ready to jump on another plane ride to reach our next destination- the grand canary islands and airport. The flight was around 3 and a half hours again. It was a clear day, so we could see out the window as we flew over Paris and other exciting European cities. 

At least the early morning provided a really nice sun rise

We arrived in the Canary island airport and it was clear that we were far from Europe's cold grasp. It was hot. Like not quite Australian 40 degree hot, but hot which was SO nice! We changed clothes and then got on another plane ready for our final destination- LANZEROTA!

Our 3rd and final flight

nb before i came to Denmark, I had only been on 2 planes..... within the space of 2 days i have exceeded that limit- what?! 

This flight wasn't so long, only lasting about an hour and a half. And finally we had arrived in Lanzeroter! We got our hire car, and drove half an hour to our home for the next 12 days- CLUB LE SANTA! It was good that we had a little drive, as I got to see some of the islands landscape. There is lava rocks everywhere and of course catacuses! There are actually some volcanoes on the island that are no longer active (thank goodness ;) ) 

I wouldn't call it a tropical island by no means! So the geographical aspect of the island was interesting and within the 12 days I got to explore a lot of it. One of the days, we drove to a beach about an hour away to go snorkling. This was just AMAZING as we were snorkling over some lava rocks from the volcano. Of course there were tropical fish which were amazing to see in the wild. And the water was crystal blue and so warm and inviting. It was a wonderful day. 

Ready for snorkelling! 

Beautiful beach!

I was also lucky enough to go to a Spanish market in one of the neighbouring towns in La Santa in a town called Teguise. This market literally had everything and it was by no means on the same scale as Cobbity markets. it was HUGEEEE and took up the entire town. It had a really cool atmosphere with spanish music and it was located around a beautiful old church (of course its europe after all). I didn't buy much as a lot of the stores had typical paddys market knock off design things, however there was some cool individual stuff. So I picked up a few souviners and headed back to La Santa! 

The Market (the church is in the background)

Beautiful Spanish Town! 

We also ventured out to a cave which has a unique species of crabs which is found no where else in the world. This was beautiful to see! And the Spanish people of course turned it into a fancy restraunt where concerts are held. We just had a coffee and enjoyed the beautiful surroundings of the cave. It was difficult to get a photo that did it justice!

The cave where the crabs live. 

The beautiful fishing town where we had dinner that night

We also had surfing lessons in a neighbouring beach called Farmara. The surf was pretty good and offered me some beginner waves to find my balance on a good old foam board. The surf turned on the first day though and became a little washing machiney. We were there for just two days, but I learnt a lot and by the end of the courses I could ride the waves standing up. Of course that will all change when I get home and try it out on a hard board at Grassy! 

The courses were from 10 30-16 00 each day (long day) and we had lunch provided by the school. This was hyggelit as we got to meet people from all over the world. There was a Russian, dutch, italian and german. Quite a nice range. 

The instructors were good, and one even asked me to marry him because he wants an Australian citizenship. So i suppose I'm now engaged?

The beach where we had our surfing lessons

Beautiful last morning at the beach!

Unfortunately I have no photos of me ripping up the waves. Have to save that for when I get back to Oz!

For most of the time though, we were just at Club Le Santa becuase there is SO much to do there. Every sporty thing you can possibly think of it offered and the days were filled with a range of classes, from tennis to kyacking to wind surfing to zumba to paddle tennis to morning 3km walks to dance to yoga to cycling. You name it, they have it!

So at 8 00 every morning they do this thing called morning warm up which has not changed in the last 30 or so years. The same music, same movement, same time every morning. It was a fun way to begin the day 

Here is a peak of what we did and where we did it (you can actually see some of the club in this video) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-v0XZUKRM

After the warm up, there was a range of runs or walks you could take and i opted for the walk on the first morning so I could take in my surroundings. We did a range of activities that lasted for an hour. During the day, I went mostly to dance, zumba, aerobics, paddle tennis, kyacking, wind surfing, body ball and a lot more. It was a very fun and all free! The instructors were trained in absoloutley everything you could think of. 

Where classes were held during the day. It was so hot!

We also had a lot of chill out time in the middle of the day where we could relax by the pool. I managed to finish harry potter in Danish which i was quite happy about. The pool was beautiful and I really enjoyed soaking up my last dose of sun for 3 months!

The pool of a night. We had some beautiful sunsets 

My favourite activities down there were wind surfing (which I didn't quite successfully get the hang of. Good thing we have one home ;) ) and dancing. It was SO good to get back into it again. 

The club was also beautiful and offered beautiful modern facilities! There was a wellness centre which I enjoyed a spa one night and of course there was some pretty good restraunts where we ate out of a night. 

The beautiful sunsets

The Green Team Show- one night during our stay, the team members known as the Green team who run all of the activities put on a show for us. It was a lot of fun and they did a range of things, from dancing to sycronised swimming skits. 

Sadly this vacation of mine had to come to an end, and I am now back in Denmark where there is clearly a temperature diffence and it is time to send all of my summer clothes home. 

I had a really really great time away and hopefully can one day take my own family to Le Santa because i think they would just love it! 

And if anything I found out what I can do with my Danish- work at Le santa!  All green team members need to speak danish or english. So i meet the standards! ;) 

So now time is moving all too quickly and i have less than 80 days left of my exchange year. If anything, this year has taught me how quickly time just passes. Like this time last year I was doing my HSC exams- WHAT?!?!?! 

Anyways, the plans for the next week

-Tivoli (of course) for Halloween

-Last EVER get together :( with the whole of Denmark

-School

-Keeping warm

Oh and to all my fellow Aussie readers who are affected by those terrible bush fires, my thoughts and prayers are with you

Much love xxx 

Zoo and other things

So, as always I am a busy little exchange student determined to make the most of my 94 days in beautiful Denmark and last weekend I managed to tick some things off my 'to do list' in Denmark. 

On Friday, I went to my first EVER gymnasium party in Denmark. My class couldn't believe that, especially since I have been here for nearly 9 months (what). Anyways, gymnasium fests are something that we absoloutley do not have in Australia. Basically in a simple description it is a party that the school puts on for students. The easiest way to describe it is to actually just post the link to the video that was taken on the night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZLsf1Vt0Ro&feature=youtu.be (see if you can spot the 5 second footage of me!)

Gymnasium parties are a very big part of Danish culture, as it allows the classes to socalise. This party was HUGE because it contained all of the gymnasiums in Roskilde (four of them). It was a lot of fun. Not many people from my class were there though, so I made mexican food with some of my host sisters friends before we went to the party. It was very hyggelit. 

No sleep in on Saturday morning! I was up early and eager to make the most of a free weekend (as I dont have many left in Denmark). I hoped on a train and met my Australian friend Laura. We went into Copenhagen to do a bit of shopping. Surprisingly, the tables had turned because it is usually me who buys a lot of stuff... hahaha but laura added to her wordrobe and we then met up with my host sister in the afternoon to see Copenhagen Zoo! This has been on my to do list, as one of my cousions who had traveled to copenhagen in 2012 said that it was worth the visit! And I'm glad we went. The zoo was pretty big, although i will always have a thing for Taronga zoo. There were a lot of animals there, and i was so surprised because they had emus and a tasmanian devil (that was the present from Tasmania when Mary and Fred were married). That was cool to see. The big wow factor of the zoo however was defiantley the elephants- as there was a baby one that was just over a year old (cutest little thing) and of course the new Artic Ring exhabition that opened just last year. This exhabition features an actual polar bear. However, when we were there it wasn't particularly exciting but it was SO cool to see one up close and personal- but not too close ;) We also got to see some behind the scenes of the zoo as my host cousion works there. She took us through to the kids section (educational areas) and we got to see and touch some animals. I wasn't too keen on touching them- especially because they were snakes but i faced my fear and touched one. It was rather funny because some of the animals featured in the section were actually from Australia! It was a good day at the zoo. 

So cute 

POLAR BEAR! 

How cute is the little elephant! 

Toocan! 

Laura and me at Copenhagen Zoo 

Direct from Australia- EMUS! 

After the zoo, Laura and I went back to my host sister Maria's house to hygge for a little bit and just relax. It was nice just chatting and of course we reminiced about Euro Tour. Laura and I caught the train home at around 11ish after a really nice night out in Copenhagen

Copenhagen at night! Will never get tired of this place

On Sunday morning, Laura and I slept in until 10am cause we were quite tired! But we woke up to a lovely cooked Danish weekend breakfast of freshly cooked bread buns (which i am going to miss so much... gonna eat so many in the next 95 days!). We then just chatted, watched tv, contemplaced going into Roskilde but then just decided to stay at home. It was hyggelit to spend time with Laura :) and I had a really really nice day. My host family then drove her to the station so that she could go home and from there we drove to the movies. We saw a Danish film that was actually quite good. It didn't have any english subtiltes for me to follow, but that was okay because i managed to totally follow the movie :) I felt quite proud of myself although it was difficult at some times to understand the danish of a guy who is not from Denmark- i now know how people feel when they listen to my attempts especially in the beginning! It was overall a really nice weekend :) and I had a lot of fun, but little energy come my wake up call on Monday morning! 

I was also relativley busy during the week last week. On Monday night I ate dinner with my first host family at their house. That was really nice to catch up with them and we just talked about life and how much has changed. We joked about how they could get another Australian girl living with them (they have already had two- me and another girl) and I found out on Saturday night that a 15 year old girl is coming to Roskilde next year with my Rotary club. I am not quite sure how to feel about this situation. I suppose reality has hit that my exchange is sadly coming to an end! 

The season change is another reminder that my year is almost over. Just this afternoon actually I took my host famalies dog Mika for a walk around the block and took my camera with me so that I could grab some shots of the season change because the different colours are quite beautiful. Even in Australia I love Autumn, and the leaf changing colours is always beautiful. As I look out the window from the kitchen table, I see the pretty mix of colours- yellow, red and green. It is just beautiful and my walk this afternoon was also beautiful 

How cute is my host famalies dog?! Ahhhh I love her! 

And this is beautiful Denmark in Autumn 

ellers; Det er smukke Danmark i afterår! 

Beautiful colours! 

This week was just a regular week for me at school. Monday was my dreaded long day until kl 16 and I think my whole class was mentally and physically exhausted. Tuesday wasn't too bad as I only had class until 10:30 so I just went home and slept for a few hours which was really nice. Today is Wednesday and today began with a quick skype call home. I wasn't at school today because my class is writing a big Danish History paper and they have the next three days to write it. So, instead of just sitting at home being bored, I decided to ask my teacher if I could maybe participate too and write a paper just like my class. Of course, my limited Danish meant that I didn't have to write the 10 pages that my class has to write, it just meant that I can choose how much I want to write. I decided to write about the Vikings because I am living in the town that used to be the viking centre of Denmark. It was very interesting for me to read up about, although it did take a lot out of me because the text books were ALL in Danish. My topic was on the vikings religion and society and how their religion was reflected in aspects of their society. But it was a fun exercise and I learnt a lot. I finished it today- 700 words and my host mum just edited it for me :) I am quite proud of my efforts considering I just attempted to write an essay in Danish having only been here 8 and a half months!

Anyways, having finished my Danish History assignment I AM OFFICIALLY ON HOLIDAYS (again!) Wooooo hoooo! Yes, Autumn holiday time is now on in Denmark (starting officially Friday) which means that tomorrow i am off to SPAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can hardly wait! A whole week of sporting activities and realxing and soaking up the Spanish sun (because it may be the last that I see for awhile)
After I come home, it will be nearly November! HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!
Anyways, my plans include

-Tivoli for Halloween (multiple times of course)
-Handball game
-Danish friends 18th Birthday (hejså Krille!) 
-Presentation to English class on the Stolen Generations (anyone wanna help me with that?!)
-Last Get Together for Rotary (what) 

I'm off to pack my bags!
SPAIN HERE I COME! 
See you in two weeks bloggers xxxx

100 dag til bage....

100 days until I have landed in Sydney Airport.
Probably by now I am held up in customs for my trying to smuggle too much of Denmark home with me
I am not sure how to feel about this current situation.

But be sure Denmark, the last 100 days will be my best!