1st week in a nutshell

Well, it's been a whole week since I've been here.  Half of the time it felt like it was flying by- and the other half of the time every second seemed like an hour.
I've seen some pretty cool stuff so far.  I think my favorite was probably Middelfart. When the Danes say it you can't even tell it has the word fart in it.  The way they speak is- very different.  They do this thing where they say ya in a gasp.  I'm used to gasping if something is shocking.  They do it to say "ja." The first time someone did it to me I thought something happened- nope!  I hope that's one of the traits I don't pick up!
Anyways- back to my sightseeing.  So we crossed the bridge connecting Jylland and Fyn to get to Middelfart.  It crosses the sea called lillebælt.  The one connecting Fyn and Zealand is called storbælt.  Lille-little. Stor-big.

This is on the bridge.  In Middelfart we got an icecream at a famous icecream place.  Icecream is "is" in Danish. Then we went to a little castle (really little haha-now it's a hotel) and walked around outside.  We went through a deer reserve and I saw an albino deer! We went down to a beach in Middelfart.  Prettiest sunset I've ever seen..

       On Monday we went to the police station to figure out stuff about my paperwork.  It was scary; I felt like those people that everyone looks at funny because they're "foreigners." Someone thought I was Russian.  Nope.  Then we went to Vejle and I saw my school.  I have to take 2 or three buses to get to school and then walk 20 minutes. I'm gonna be so lost.  Monday night at 5 Ole (my counselor) and his wife picked me up to go to a Rotary meeting. We had traditional Danish food (quite good) and went around a museum.  I didn't get home til 11:15 that night.
       On Tuesday it was Lise's birthday.  We didn't do much but her family came over for dinner.
       On Wednesday we went for a bike ride into Jordrup.  We didn't do anything though just rode around.  Then we came home and got ready for dinner.  We had dinner with all of my families and my counselor and his wife.  My "host grandparents" were also there.
       On Thursday we went into Kolding and did some shopping.  They have walking streets here where they have stores and shops.  Cars can't come in.  They're quite nice- I like them.  That night we went over to the neighbors house and had dinner with them.  They are very nice.  We had smoked fish and shrimp and frogs ( I'm sorry to say that I did not muster the courage to try the frog).  It was outside and very cold!
       On Friday we went to Fanø.  Anything that ends in ø is an island.  This one is on the West Coast of Denmark.  It only took us 20 minutes to drive across the country.  That was strange.  We drove onto a ferry that took us into Fanø.  We drove along the coast for about 15 minutes.  They called it a road, and it was marked as a road.. but it was just the sandy beach.  That was interesting.  It was really pretty there.  We went to 2 different cities there and a museum and an old church.  They had cows there that were the strangest looking cows I've ever seen.  They were hairy like sheep dogs, but they were cows.  I wanted to pet them.  There was a big windmill there.  I saw it from a distance but we didn't go up to it.  Then we came over and had dinner with some more of their family.

Today we aren't doing much.  My host sister is leaving for boarding school tomorrow so it is mainly about getting her all packed and whatnot.  Tomorrow night my family is taking me to Fredericia to show me my church so that I can find it more easily on my own.  That's nice of them.
School starts on Monday.  I have 2 weeks of language school.  Then the next week I'll be away at Intro-camp.  The two weeks of Language School is for local exchange students.  Intro-camp I believe is for all exchange students in Denmark, so I think it'll be really fun.  Then the next week I'll start normal school.  The school I'm going to starts when I start Language School, so I'll be starting school the 4th week into school.  Fine by me!
Well considering that I've never made a blog before I don't really know what else to say.. so I think I'll leave it like this!  I think I'm gonna try to blog each saturday.  That's my plan!  Have a good week :)