29th-36th week

Well it's been about 2 months.. sorry haha. I try to update this on Saturdays because then the days line up so I can count exactly how many weeks it's been, but all my Saturdays have been busy. So my dad gave me the genius idea of writing it on a weekday and then posting on Saturday.  So here I am :)
Ok where to begin.. I'll start with the big things and then go from there :)
In February I went on a ski trip to Germany with my lovely second host family! Now, considering where I live in the United States one might think I was good at skiing. One would be wrong. This was my first time skiing so it was difficult, but it was really fun. We stayed in a little town called Braunlage. With a lot of help from my host family, lots of falls, bruises, and sore muscles, I would say it was a successful trip :)

The Bunny Hill haha. You can actually see our little apartment in this picture on the left side.

Getting up after falling is way more difficult than it looks.

my awesome host sister and dad ♥

my second host mother :) ♥

Brautwurst!

and of course.. Weinersnitchel!
(i dunno how to spell it..)

The weekend after this lovely/freezing adventure was a trip to Lalandia. it was a Rotary Get Together with all of the Rotary Exchange Students in all of Denmark! We are about 200 in all. Lalandia is like this waterpark fun center place. Haha I don't really know how else to explain it. They have holiday houses so that families can take weekend vacations there and stay in these little cottages and then walk over to Lalandia. In Lalandia they have ice skating, bowling, mini golf, eating, games, and a swimming park area. It's all indoors and in the same building. It's pretty fun! It's on a little island in the south east of Denmark and it took a few hours to get there by train. The train was about 60% exchange students and it was really fun. There was not enough room for us though and it was really funny to watch the differences between Danish culture and the other cultures within the train. For example, Danes are typically very stoic and quiet when in public. So you throw a bunch of rowdy South American, Asian, Australian, and North American teenagers on a train with them and it was chaos surrounded by quiet Danish people haha. When I got on the train I couldn't get past the first entrance into the seating area because there were too many people. About the last hour of the train ride it was just exchange students in that little area and we had all our stuff in there and figured there weren't actually any other seats so we just stayed there. So just imagine like 6 more exchange students and like 5 more Danish people shoved in with all of this. good times :)

So we got there Friday and ate together and just hung out in our houses (the holiday houses). There were 4 to 8 people in each house. On Saturday we went in and hung out in Lalandia all day enjoying different activities and then we went home on Sunday morning. So it was short, but it was really fun. This was the first time many of us met our "newbies" (the new exchange students that got here in January from South America), and it's always fun to see those people that live in other cities that we haven't seen in a while.
We had a slideshow for the "oldies" because it was the last time we'd all be together before we went home. It had pictures from all of us and it was really nice. If you want to watch it (which i recommend.. :) ) you can watch it from this link :)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UyTbpVTW_7w#!

looking out the window on the train while crossing the water :)

you can see here that now i'm actually whiter than walls.

Someone won this in a vending machine for me when I was trying to get out a dolphin. We named it the Ugly Duckling because that story is by Hans Christian Andersen. We found it fitting.

about to get on the train with my fellow Vejle Exchangers :) We had 3 warm days in March- this one of them.

Everyone was very sleepy on the way home. That's Keenan (USA) and Martha (Brazil) and Poncho (Mexicao) and I are watching Drake and Josh to pass the time. and the ugly duckling is perched on Keenan's shoulder for the long trip home.

The people who sat by Keenan and me were very lucky. We serenaded them with Wicked.

It was a fun weekend! I think the big thing to happen would be moving host families. My time at my second host family expired and I moved to a little village called Bredsten. My last night with my host family we went bowling and to dinner. It was really fun, too bad I'm horrible at bowling. It was a really nice night. It was not easy to say goodbye to my family, but it wasn't goodbye it was just see you later :) I don't have any pictures of my new house but when I do I'll put them up.

They surprised me with movie tickets to Les Mis cause it had just come out (movies come out later in Denmark.. dunno why) and movie candy and stuff. It was really nice :)

Mmm, ice cream on a waffle. I think yes.

My current host family consists of a host sister who is 19, Line, and 2 host parents, Erik and Barit. They're a super lovely family and I'm so happy to be living with them! :) Line was an exchange student in Canada last year and one of her Canadian friends is now on exchange in Norway and came down to visit while her. We went around and showed her a bit of Denmark, which meant returning to some places like Århus and København (Copenhagen). 

The ice is melting which means.. YAY SPRING!

Last weekend was Easter and I spent it on the West Coast (of Denmark) with a friend from Australia. Her family has a Summer House up there and we went up for Easter with her host family. It was in a little town called Vestervig and they said that the weather we experience was the nicest weather they'd ever seen up there at this time of year, so that was super great! It's finally warming up and it's in the 40s now most of the time. Which is super great. So here are pictures from that!

enjoying the sun (with a winter jacket on..)

Beth and me

the view from the house

view from a light house

So those were all the big things.. but of course there's always fun little stuff happening. This last March was the coldest March in 26 years in Denmark and it was cold times 23947239850613.  It's finally starting to get warm and the days are about 40 degrees fahrenheit which is lovely. The sun is up now at about 6.30 and it's bright outside until almost 8. It's great! Most of the snow is now gone and the harbor, rivers, lakes, and ponds are starting to thaw.

March in a nutshell

My host counselor is the headmaster of an Efterskole. Efterskole is a concept that basically only exists in Denmark. It's like a boarding school but it works on a different level than in the states. The students are about 15 years old and they typically go after they're finished with their primary school that ends about where our 9th grade year ends. They can go to school that have specific purposes. For example, if they're interested in soccer they can attend a school that focuses on training for soccer. The one I went to had a large focus on gymnastics and dancing. I got to teach a ballet class which was super fun, and I got to watch them perform their gymnastics routine. It was a very memorable experience, and super Danish! They live together in apartments on the campus and spend all their time there, and every now and then they go home on a weekend. Everyone that I've talked to that has been to an Efterskole has absolutely loved it.

In other news, the sun was out this week and I didn't know how to handle it.

Well it's probably about time to close this up. I have less than 3 months left.. and for 3 weeks of that I'll be roaming around Europe on Eurotour- WOOOH! can't wait. I hope all is well wherever you're reading this! Thanks for all the support I've reeived!
Vi ses! ♥