Observations

Hello, second day in Denmark today. I went to school for the first time and met my class. I was terrified at first, it was all in Danish, and I didn't know anybody, and let me just say, EVERYONE in Denmark looks perfect. It's a little scary haha. And I can't pronounce an Danish names haha. But we took a tour of the school, and it's spread out around town, and this boy introduced himself to me, and told me he was an exchange student last year to Delaware, so he totally understood how terrifying school can be. And then I met my future host sister, she is also in my class, and she just got back from exchange in Australia, so she has an accent haha. So first day of school wasn't too bad. School here is very different though.  You are put with a class of people that you will be with for two years. Also my school is a boarding school kind of, and many of the students live here. Classes are different here everyday, every week. I get a new schedule every week. And the classes start and different times. So sometimes school will start at 8:00 and go till 12:00, and the next day it will start at 10:00 and go till 2:00. Or I can have class for an hour, and then no classes for the next two hours, then have class again. Its kind of like a college schedule. Another big difference, is here, it's legal to smoke, at my age, so there are lots of students smoking in the court yard at school, which I thought was odd haha. Other observations: they eat a lot of strawberries in Denmark, I have them every meal. They really do wear a lot of black here. And everyone speaks English. Most of he buildings here are brick cottages. They have miniature deer, they eat very healthy, and everything is really neat and organized. And the water here tastes a little salty, but not bad. The roads are tiny, but that's probably because I live in the country. Oh I haven't told you about my family yet. They are amazing. They are all very kind, and the are teaching me Danish. My host dad is a farmer, and he works really late right now, because it is harvesting time. My mom worked at a bank but she is taking leave right now and getting a new job. My brother Johannes, he's great. He is going to teach me how to fish, and how to get around on the public transportation. unfortunately, tomorrow I have to ride the bus by myself for the first time, and the bus driver doesn't speak any English. So that should be fun. If any of you know me, you know I have no sense of direction. To give you an idea, recently, me and a friend tried getting to olive garden in lake Oswego, and I told google maps to take us to the one in Texas instead.  oh one last weird thing that happened, I was just watching T.V with my host mom, and let me just say, Danish television is MUCH different from American TV. They don't censor nearly as much out. For example, I'm pretty sure I a colonoscopy go down. it was that bend and cough procedure. It was odd. Another weird thing, I have seen three men driving shirtless today. I don't understand why, but if that's what makes them happy. Also, this very muscular shirtless man walked down the street while I waiting for my mom to pick me up after school, and he just sat down next to me, even thought there were other benches, and had a smoke. and then left after 5 minutes. Oh one last thing, I took a 5 hour nap after school today. Life as an exchange student. Still jetlagged. So that's that. I Promise to post pictures on the next blog post