Sleep deprived crazy weekend!
Wow! This weekend has been mad!
Friday was an exchange student gathering in Odense, which was put on by exchange students, not Rotary, and mostly took place in an Irish pub to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I brought my newbie, Penny, and my exchange sister (cause we came at that same time) Mariliis. We met up with Kyle (Colorado), Sarah (California), Katie (New York), Katy (Wisconsin ?), Aaron (Australia), and two Brazilian girls whose names I cannot remember for the life of me! Oh, and Lilie (France), two or three other Estonians, and a handful of Hungarians. It was great until my newbie brought in drinks from a supermarket into the pub and was kicked out, so I had to follow. Wow, now I can go home and tell people that I've been kicked out of a pub. That is slightly disturbing. I don't think we would have been booted but the table I was at, with five or six people only had one beer on it, so he wasn't making much of a profit off us.
After we left the pub, Penny and I had to find Mariliis and company, who had gone to a cafe and were smoking a water pipe! Yuck! Still, it was really cool in a weird way because I'd never seen one before. I thought they were illegal or only in Turkey. Thinks were slowing down and none of the people that left with us were from Odense, so we had no where to go and didn't know the city. Mariliis, Penny and I went back to Middelfart on the 12:48 train or something like that, called my host mom went back to my house where they both stayed with me.
Saturday, after booting Penny and Mariliis out, I got ready to go to a birthday party for Grace in Kolding. I thought I was going over and staying the night but changed my mind before leaving to catch the train and didn't take anything. Missed the train I wanted to catch after trying really hard to make a ten minute bike ride take five, because as I was walking out the door my host sister opened her IFU Exchange letter that told her she is going to be living in Littleton, Colorado (a suburb of Denver)!!!! I had to do a happy dance since that is close enough that we can visit each other next year if we feel like it.
Finally caught a train 30 minutes later and met up with Grace and Natalie (both from Ecuador). Grace is still with her second host family, whom I've met before and really like, so it was really fun talking to them. Two girls from Grace's school and Grace's 19 year old host sister were also and the party. We had Ecuadorian food, which tasted really good, and Danish layer cake for dessert. After dinner we all conversed and Natalie tried to teach us all how to tengo (unsuccessfully). Later we went out to a pub, and I was going to take the last train into Middelfart but changed my mind 5 minutes before I left and stayed. We played cards, foozball, and danced, or tried too. We went to a club but the music was really bad (rap! Eew!), and when we were dancing together we kept getting bothered by pervy old men (okay, not old, just older). Mostly we sat and tried to sing good songs over the very loud 'gangster' stuff they were playing.Ended up staying the night in borrowed pajamas with my contacts soaking in solution in a coffee mug.
Sunday morning we ate breakfast together (Grace, Natalie, and I), I made everyone pancakes and we had usual Danish food. I left on a train and got home about 2 in the afternoon. The rest of the day I will pack because....
TOMORROW I LEAVE FOR SCOTLAND!!'
Yes!
Anyway, I'm pretty happy right now and Spring is FINALLY coming to this country. I had forgotten what Denmark looked like in sunlight!
Friday was an exchange student gathering in Odense, which was put on by exchange students, not Rotary, and mostly took place in an Irish pub to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I brought my newbie, Penny, and my exchange sister (cause we came at that same time) Mariliis. We met up with Kyle (Colorado), Sarah (California), Katie (New York), Katy (Wisconsin ?), Aaron (Australia), and two Brazilian girls whose names I cannot remember for the life of me! Oh, and Lilie (France), two or three other Estonians, and a handful of Hungarians. It was great until my newbie brought in drinks from a supermarket into the pub and was kicked out, so I had to follow. Wow, now I can go home and tell people that I've been kicked out of a pub. That is slightly disturbing. I don't think we would have been booted but the table I was at, with five or six people only had one beer on it, so he wasn't making much of a profit off us.
After we left the pub, Penny and I had to find Mariliis and company, who had gone to a cafe and were smoking a water pipe! Yuck! Still, it was really cool in a weird way because I'd never seen one before. I thought they were illegal or only in Turkey. Thinks were slowing down and none of the people that left with us were from Odense, so we had no where to go and didn't know the city. Mariliis, Penny and I went back to Middelfart on the 12:48 train or something like that, called my host mom went back to my house where they both stayed with me.
Saturday, after booting Penny and Mariliis out, I got ready to go to a birthday party for Grace in Kolding. I thought I was going over and staying the night but changed my mind before leaving to catch the train and didn't take anything. Missed the train I wanted to catch after trying really hard to make a ten minute bike ride take five, because as I was walking out the door my host sister opened her IFU Exchange letter that told her she is going to be living in Littleton, Colorado (a suburb of Denver)!!!! I had to do a happy dance since that is close enough that we can visit each other next year if we feel like it.
Finally caught a train 30 minutes later and met up with Grace and Natalie (both from Ecuador). Grace is still with her second host family, whom I've met before and really like, so it was really fun talking to them. Two girls from Grace's school and Grace's 19 year old host sister were also and the party. We had Ecuadorian food, which tasted really good, and Danish layer cake for dessert. After dinner we all conversed and Natalie tried to teach us all how to tengo (unsuccessfully). Later we went out to a pub, and I was going to take the last train into Middelfart but changed my mind 5 minutes before I left and stayed. We played cards, foozball, and danced, or tried too. We went to a club but the music was really bad (rap! Eew!), and when we were dancing together we kept getting bothered by pervy old men (okay, not old, just older). Mostly we sat and tried to sing good songs over the very loud 'gangster' stuff they were playing.Ended up staying the night in borrowed pajamas with my contacts soaking in solution in a coffee mug.
Sunday morning we ate breakfast together (Grace, Natalie, and I), I made everyone pancakes and we had usual Danish food. I left on a train and got home about 2 in the afternoon. The rest of the day I will pack because....
TOMORROW I LEAVE FOR SCOTLAND!!'
Yes!
Anyway, I'm pretty happy right now and Spring is FINALLY coming to this country. I had forgotten what Denmark looked like in sunlight!
posted by Alyssa @ 7:38 AM
1 Comments:
At 9:45 AM,
Anonymous said…
SCOTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wanna go! oh well i guess new york in june will have to do. if you see and hot scottish guys you better take pics of them, or kidnap them and bring them back to gillette -steph
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