Was very upset the last week of January due to my Rotary club and it rubbed off into the rest of my life.
Thursday the 26th I went to visit my first host family. We had some spicy Mexican food because they remembered I liked it, and I talked a lot with my 'ex' host mom Gitte, and some with Bo (ex-host dad), but none of the others really had much to say. All in all it was a pleasant experience and we made arrangements to have dinner again on 9th of February.
Friday (27th) I invited Mariliis and Penny (Australian) over to my house to watch movies. It was way fun! I love playing hostess! There were snacks, my room was super clean, and I lit candles everywhere (because that is what you do in Denmark)! We watched Bridget Jones' Diary II and some other movie that I cant remember the name of, but was very funny. They left for home at about midnight.
Sunday (29th) I had a meeting with my Rotary counselor which didn't put me in a better mood with my club but helped in figuring out what I needed to know about when I leave school and things like that.
Friday the 3rd of February was the birthday party for two of the girls in my class, Kathrine and Lotte. I went to that and had a good time talking and dancing (sort of...). At about 1 am I left and went to 'the city' where I met up with a guy from my class and an exchange...worker... from Italy. This girl, who is 19 and named Katia, is working at a local kindergarten for 10 months through an exchange program. It was very interesting to talk to her, so I didn't go home until about 4 am.
Saturday and Sunday I worked almost completely on a power point to use for a speech at a local 'efterskole'. 'Efterskole' is like a 10th grade boarding school that is optional between 9th grade and the gymnasium or technical schools. The only break I took from this was to go out with Mariliis, and Anna, Maria, and their mom. The last three were all part of Jess' last host family. Anna went on exchange to Australia last year, and Maria is going to Oregon in August. We went to see Narnia, which was a cute movie.
Monday I misses my first class because I hadn't realized that there was too much snow/slush to ride my bike and I needed to catch a bus. It was a very short school day, but I mostly spoke Danish, because it was my sixth month anniversary and I promised everyone I'd start speaking mostly Danish in school after I'd been here six months. Later I had to do my speech to the school, which went fine but my slide show didn't work!
Thursday the 26th I went to visit my first host family. We had some spicy Mexican food because they remembered I liked it, and I talked a lot with my 'ex' host mom Gitte, and some with Bo (ex-host dad), but none of the others really had much to say. All in all it was a pleasant experience and we made arrangements to have dinner again on 9th of February.
Friday (27th) I invited Mariliis and Penny (Australian) over to my house to watch movies. It was way fun! I love playing hostess! There were snacks, my room was super clean, and I lit candles everywhere (because that is what you do in Denmark)! We watched Bridget Jones' Diary II and some other movie that I cant remember the name of, but was very funny. They left for home at about midnight.
Sunday (29th) I had a meeting with my Rotary counselor which didn't put me in a better mood with my club but helped in figuring out what I needed to know about when I leave school and things like that.
Friday the 3rd of February was the birthday party for two of the girls in my class, Kathrine and Lotte. I went to that and had a good time talking and dancing (sort of...). At about 1 am I left and went to 'the city' where I met up with a guy from my class and an exchange...worker... from Italy. This girl, who is 19 and named Katia, is working at a local kindergarten for 10 months through an exchange program. It was very interesting to talk to her, so I didn't go home until about 4 am.
Saturday and Sunday I worked almost completely on a power point to use for a speech at a local 'efterskole'. 'Efterskole' is like a 10th grade boarding school that is optional between 9th grade and the gymnasium or technical schools. The only break I took from this was to go out with Mariliis, and Anna, Maria, and their mom. The last three were all part of Jess' last host family. Anna went on exchange to Australia last year, and Maria is going to Oregon in August. We went to see Narnia, which was a cute movie.
Monday I misses my first class because I hadn't realized that there was too much snow/slush to ride my bike and I needed to catch a bus. It was a very short school day, but I mostly spoke Danish, because it was my sixth month anniversary and I promised everyone I'd start speaking mostly Danish in school after I'd been here six months. Later I had to do my speech to the school, which went fine but my slide show didn't work!
posted by Alyssa @ 5:12 AM
2 Comments:
At 3:52 PM,
Nicolette Johnson said…
OYYYY ALYSSA!! hows it goin? grapes possibly....indeed, when ya comin home? the other day i got interviewed by newpaper people and i told them you should be valedictotian...cos your smart and stuff. hehe--Nicole
At 6:27 AM,
Alyssa said…
Nicole! You need to email me! Or give me you new email, since obviously the one I have you don't use!!
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