9th and 10th week

This whole "I’m gonna blog every Saturday" thing may not have been my brightest idea.  So, again, I’ll be telling you guys about my week this week and my week last week.  As I'm writing this it's actually Friday but I'm not going to be home tomorrow so I'm writing it today. 

I only had school on Monday and Tuesday of last week. I also went on Wednesday, though, because we were taking a class picture.  They had testing and a big project so I didn't have to go!  So don't worry, I've been filling my time with lots of good stuff :) 

Since our house is out in the country side there are not many busses passing through.  There is one that comes by my house on week days at 6:12 AM, 7:08 AM, 8:28 AM, and 2:01 PM.  So it's a little difficult to get places.  On Thursday I just waited until 2:01 to go into Vejle to meet some friends.  I had other plans for Friday, though.  I took the bike 4 km to the nearest bus stop where buses come more frequently (in the rain), took a bus to Kolding, took a bus from Kolding to Vejle, took a bus in Vejle to a friends house, and then walked to her house from the bus stop.  We went shopping and then went laser tagging with the youth group at my LDS church.  It was very fun!  I spent the night at her house where we had a very fun night.  The next day I went to the Mermaid Bowl in Vejle with Poncho.  It is the last game of the Danish American Football Foundation.  The game was equivalent to our Super Bowl. So, obviously,  I had high hopes.  The game started at 7:30 but we got there around 5 for the tail gate.  The stadium was smaller than Mackey Stadium at UNR and was only half full.  It was a good game and our team won!  We were behind the whole game until about the last 3 minutes when we pulled ahead.  It was very fun and very cold!  It definitely made me miss real American Football even more than before, though!

A booth at the tail gate party. It says, "Would you like to be and Exchange Student in the USA?"

The Mermaid Bowl with Poncho. Go Razorbacks!

Sleepover fun!

This Monday, I celebrated the Canadian Thanksgiving with a Danish family.  A few weeks ago a girl in my class, Cecilie, asked me if I was doing anything for the Canadian Thanksgiving.  When I told I her I wasn’t she invited me to celebrate it with her and her family.  She told me that they had a Canadian student last year.  I thought maybe it was something that was common to celebrate in Denmark and that’s why they wanted to celebrate it with me.  Then she asked if there were any other Canadian exchange students.  I answered, ”Ja, men jeg er fra USA.”  Which means “yes, but I’m from USA.”  We both started laughing and she said I reminded her of the girl from Canada so she thought I was from Canada.  They still had me over for Thanksgiving dinner, though.  They made traditional American Thanksgiving food for me and it was really really hyggeligt!  Not mention, it tasted American!

This Tuesday, I went into Vejle where  I met two other exchange students: Poncho and Rachael.  We went to the Vejle Kunstmuseum (art museum), and the Økolariet. I have no idea if that translates to anything, but it was like a museum about the way the protect the environment in Denmark and stuff like that.  It was pretty cool!

On Wednesday I had 7 exchange students over to my house to celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving again.  Cathryn is from Canada, so we thought we would celebrate it with her.  It was also a good excuse to have the exchange students over, because most of them haven’t seen my house yet.  It’s pretty far away from where most of them live so it isn’t that easy to have them over.  I met them at the station in Kolding and we went and bought some groceries and then went to my house.  We made fruit salad, sweet potato casserole, pasta, jello, cookies, and ris a la mande.  While it may not have been traditional Thanksgiving food, it was all we knew how to make!  It was fun, though and it tasted good.  We ate by candlelight and then just talked and watched movies.  Everyone spent the night because it is not easy to get to Vejle from my house after about 2 o’clock. 

Our Thanksgiving meal ♥
(photo credit Rachael)

Everyone left on Thursday.  That night I went into Vejle and spend the night at Cathryn’s house because we were going to Århus Friday morning.  Her host mom had a business meeting there so she drove us.  We went with another exchange student from Brazil, Heloisa.  We went into DomeKirke (a big church), Kvindemuseet (women’s museum), Vikings museet (Viking museum), Aros (the same art museum that we saw at INTRO Camp), and Den Gamle By (“the old city” it’s an “open air museum” it is a big area that has homes and shops and roads the way they were in olden days). We did all this in about 5 hours.  It was pretty busy!  It was really fun though!

Cathryn and me

Autumn time! We went for a walk behind Cathryn's house and enjoyed the beautiful Danish nature!

Heloise and I posing with "The Boy" in ARoS

Den Gamle By

Beautiful sunrise on Thursday morning (photo credit Rachael) 

The view of Århus

Tomorrow morning my host mom, sister, and grandma will be travelling to Holland!  We’ll see Holland and Belgium this week, through Wednesday night. We're leaving at 4 AM and it is now nearly 1 AM and I'm not packed yet.. so I think I'll wrap this up! Well I've had a great two weeks! I got a package from back home which was really great.

So, you know, if anyone is just super board and wants to send me a package, I wouldn't mind ;) haha just joking.  So thanks again to everyone for all the support! Next week's blog (which will hopefully happen) will have everything from my trip to Holland and Belgium, so it should be a good one :) Thanks to everyone for all the support , I'm so blessed and am so grateful to be here!  In the words of Medina, "Jeg har det godt." ♥