Danish Pavlova: April 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

3 MONTHS!!

In the past 3 months I have:

Flown halfway across the world
Been sick in 3 different countries all in 24 hours
Learnt how hard Danish really is to speak
Cycled everywhere
Got lost biking to school
Biked to school in darkness
Biked home in a storm
Been blown off my bike
Crashed my bike
Been involved in a 3 bike pile up
Visited Diana in Silkeborg
Got lost in Silkeborg at night
Seen how the Danes really party
Been to Intro Camp
Lost mobile phone on the train going to Intro Camp
Got off at the wrong Train Station going to Intro Camp
Lost my memory card in my friends laptop
Learnt some more Danish
Met some amazing people
Seen Les Miserables all in Danish..even the songs!!
Turned 18 in Danmark
Had my kiwi friends come to the “Bro” and surprise me
Got free birthday champagne in the club
Got “non alcoholic” drinks brought for us
Walked 6km home in heels
Seen about 20 Handball matches
Been confused for a Brazilian
Been confused for a Londoner
Been to the “beach”
Been to church
Got sunburnt 3 times
Casually driven to Germany to buy alcohol and food
Gone to Copenhagen for the weekend
Casually gone to Sweden to meet up with other New Zealanders
Ridden my bike in the snow
Had a snow ball fight
Built snowmen (harder then it looks)
Become pro at catching trains
Visited 5 churches and surprisingly they were all different!
Gone into a Cave
Had Leticia pop across from UK to see me
Climbed one of the highest mountains in Denmark (100m)
Attended Rotary get together with 150 other exchange students
Been to “interesting” rotary meetings
Performed the Haka 2 times in a dress
Been yelled at 2 times in Danish by my teachers
Gotten 60% in an English grammar test
Met some nice Danish boys
Learnt that Danes don’t snack
Lived with a Danish family
Lived with no lounge
Lived withno host mum
Tried rødgrødmedfløde
Tried the “special” black bread
Done a liquorice shot (with my councillor) at 10am
Communal showered with the girls from my class
Had to explain who the Maoris are
Explained so many times that New Zealand is not part of Australia
Been able to converse in Danish

And most importantly taken LOADS! Of pictures and had an amazing time!!!

There has been other events but these are the ones that came to me

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Raaah I'm a Viking!!!

Okay first of sorry for the delay in getting another post up, i've been busy having a life and not living on the interent...suprising as it may seem

Anywho on to the main event!!

Picture 150 exchange students from all over the world coming together for one weekend and throw in some music and food and cameras and what do you get? A weekend of photos being taken, friendships being made, no sleep all weekend and an overall fantastic weekend!! Its what we call in the business a Rotary get together.

This weekends theme was Vikings and was held in Roskilde which is knowen for its Viking museum and is situated on the island of Zealand (the one thats has Cobenhagen on it). The weekend started on Friday and so I spent most of my afternoon travelling there by my favourite mode of transport the train. Now before I set off I was under strict instruction not to lose my mobile phone this time so I was making sure I had it on me at all times.
When Angela and I got off in Roskilde we see the other exchange students plus the "oldies" these people were hugging and running around they have been here for more then 6 months so know each other really well.
Friday night we learnt some Dansih folk dance which was highly entertaining becasue they were quite "special" dances. We got to dance to normal music later in the night and everyone was just hanging out and talking. I stayed up late talking with Emmah and Ange and we stole some of Elyses food at 4am thinking she wouldnt mind.

Saturday Morning got woken up early for breakfast and we got told the plans for the day. We headed to the Viking Museum and got split into groups. We were doing lots of different activites all day. I started with making rope, it looks harder then it does and takes a long time to make! but I am the proud owner of some handmade rope now! We also learnt about the Viking ships and how they are made and also about the voyages that people take in the ships in todays day and age.

In the Evening we all got dressed up for Dinner and the Party. Felt weird getting dressed up and all we were doing was walking down the corridor. After Kai we had entertainment and the Australasia group (Ange, Helen, Tim, Eylse, Me and Emmah) performed Do you believe in Danish again. It is on you tube for thsoe who want to see it, choose the one where you can see 6 people. The dancing started once the live band arrived and was really fun danicng with everyone. When the band left we all mingled with different groups and making more friends. My group I was hanging with stayed up all night talking and spooning in the corridor to keep warm.

Sunday was goodbye time and for some of the oldies it would be the last time that they would see some of their friends so it was quite an emotional time and we were also all very tired. On the train home I kept falling asleep and then waking up having no idea where I was or even what island I was on making it very hard and thinking I had missed my stop to chnage trains. Luckily everything was okay and I got home in the end and got off the train to find I had lost my voice!
All in All awesome as weekend meetign all the exchange students, we have a bond which is hard to explain but you find yourslef clicking with most of the people.

Bring on Eurotour!!