sne, sne, sne, jeg elsker sne!

just for you, becca.

So it has been a while since I last posted and it really hasn’t been on my mind to update my blog, until my friend Becca informed me that she reads it and thought that I need to make a new post and update her/everyone else who reads it.

Well, yesterday I switched families. It was so odd to pack up all my stuff into a suitcase again and have to move, because I had never moved in Canada, so I never needed to clear out my room and put all my stuff in a suitcase, but in the past 4 months I have had to do it twice, so it was very odd. It was really hard/sad to say goodbye to the Knudsen family because I enjoyed them so much, they were truly the nicest family. They made me feel like one of them and definitely made my first 4 months in Danmark ones to remember and they made is so much fun. My suitcase was packed full that I could barely close it and my carry on bag was so heavy from all my school textbooks (textbooks that I have never even opened/used). But my last weekend with them was very hyggeligt. On Saturday we went to my host mom’s cousin’s because it was their birthday and they have a son around my age, so him, Jakob, and I had a snow war and it was so much fun to play in the snow, (btws, we just got a lot of snow and it looks so pretty and I love it so much) except for when they would gang up on me and both throw snowballs at me. Then we went home and got ready to go to the centrum for the Christmas market and to see the tree in the centrum get lit, along with all the other lights. It was so BEAUTIFUL, words cannot even begin to describe how lovely it looked with all the lights lit up. I was so excited and it definitely was not a let down. Then we went home and once we got out of the car Jakob made a snowball and threw it at me, so the war was on! We played outside for a while and by the time we went inside I had snow all in my hair and my pants were wet, but it was totally worth it because it was so much fun. I just LOVE sne! (snow in danish) And that night for dinner we had a traditional Danish Christmas dinner and it was so yummy! On the last morning with them I woke up to the smell of a yummy breakfast, I came downstairs and to my surprise Jens had made “american style” pancakes, and boy were they yummy! During breakfast they surprised me with gifts (I was not expecting this at all) and then I gave them a gift from me, a dream catcher and explained the whole story behind them. I will definitely miss them a lot, but they told me I was welcome to visit, so i will of course take them up on this offer.

On Wednesday my language class is going to Tivoli (an amusement park in København) and I am so excited because a) it will be fun to go on rides, b) it’s all decorated in Christmas stuff and people have told me it is so beautiful ad c) it is a day spent with my language class, who i love and have so much fun with, so all in all it will be a very fun day! And then on Friday I am going back to København with my friend Anne to visit our friend Josephine (they were in Canada last year for their exchange) and I am super stoked to see them because I haven’t seen them since May!

Well Christmas is fast approaching and I am so excited for it because from what I have been told the Danish Christmas is much different than how we celebrate it in Canada. Some things they do differently is that they open their presents on the 24th, that is right you just read that correctly, they open it the night BEFORE! How different eh? They also don’t eat turkey and mashed potatoes and pie like us, they have duck and fish instead, so that will be interesting! They also put candles on their tree, real lit ones, first time I was told this I was so confused at how it didn’t catch on fire, and they also dance/sing around their tree, so that should be interesting. They also do New Year’s Eve a little differently, from what I’ve been told they do a lot of fireworks, so I am excited to see that because I am sure it will be so pretty.

Well in two weeks I have to make a 20-25 minute presentation to my rotary club at our Julefrokost (christmas lunch/dinner) about Canada, my family, and the First Nation people in Canada…oh and it has to be in dansk (danish), so wish me luck. I will tell you how it goes and how the holidays go! Until I write again.

-Maggie.