So I really am terrible at keeping up with this thing and for that I am truly sorry. I can never find the time to just sit down and reflect on my adventures here, even though I have loads of free time, I just feel that I never have the right words to describe my life here. I really am loving it, the people are so friendly, the places are so beautiful. The only thing that I can see to complain about would be the biking in the rain, but even then it is still kind of fun. Usually if it is raining in the morning my host far (dad) will drive me and my host bror to school, so that is always nice. I am slowly, and when I say slowly I really mean SLOWLY, understanding more and more. Coming up with responses is the most difficult. If I understand what they said to me in danish I usually just reply in english and then say one or two words in danish. But I have definitely made some true friends here. I think since we are all in the same situation, we as in the other exchange students, we can talk about anything and everything because we are going through relatively the same thing. Where as when I am trying to come up with topics to talk to my host family or my classmates it is a little difficult. I really do love the danish friends I have made here and my host family, they have truly made me feel apart of everything and have made Danmark feel like home. But my best friend here is definitely Ana, from Brasil. She goes to my school, but she is not in my class, so we usually hangout outside of school and usually go to language lessons together. Talking with her is just so easy and we are always laughing. She will be a life long friend, I can feel it. And I can feel that the others that I have become close with will be as well.
School isn't getting any easier, I really do not understand what the teachers are teaching. Sometimes when they draw diagrams I semi get what they are talking about, but when you cannot understand what the teacher is explaining it makes it much more difficult. But my teachers, being the fabulous people they are, don't really expect me to do the work. They understand that I am illiterate in danish and do not understand anything, so they know how difficult, and at times boring the class can be for me. But I do participate in my english class, so that is always a relief because that is the one class I can understand. In english last week my teacher asked me to do a presentation to the class about school in Canada. I think it really helped to enlighten my peers on how a daily school day was like in Canada and I really enjoyed explaining it to them because it was the most I talked in a while. And the topic was about something that I really love. Being away from PCVS and my town has made me appreciate it 100 times more. I love it here, but I do love my home. And I enjoyed the class asking me questions and being able to answer.
I went to the zoo this weekend with my host brødre (brothers) Jakob and Jens, and Jens' girlfriend. I got to see the giraffes, which I absolutely love. It was a wonderful day. Jakob spent most of it making fun of me, or saying things like "oh that's your family" when we saw the monkeys. And saying I have the same schedule as a six year old tiger. All jokes of course, but they all made me smile. And I got to see the cutest little monkeys..I don't know what kind they were, but they were so adorable!
Well, until I write again. Enjoy. (:
