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

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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!!

Viking Weekend Photos

Viking Ship

The morning after

200 kroner worth of ice cream!

Before Dance

Recent Photos

On top of one of the highest mountains in Denmark....100m


Århus

Main living area in my house

My 1st path that I have shoveled, hopefully the last!

Neighbours front yard covered in snow

River that runs through the city

Jeg Elsker Sne!

It snowed this weekend!! Very exciting mainly because it’s apparently "spring" now. Everyone else in my family didn’t seem excited about the snow and looked at me like I was extremely weird when I was dancing around outside in the snow. It started on Sunday and the snow is still here riding my bike through the snow and also in the snow is awesome and a little cold at the same time. It has been around -3 and 1 degrees most days! but because I am a tough person I can handle the cold!

I was hoping that it would snow extreme last night so we would get snowed it and school would be cancelled but unfortunately no such luck.
I found the time to build a snowman and have a snowball fight with Bente (HC’s girlfriend) 2 daughters. But you don’t have snowball fights anymore its more like who can throw the largest clump of snow, I thought I would have an advantage because I am older but these girls are pro’s at handball and they have intense throwing power!

Here’s to more snow hopefully, or warmer weather both will be very nice!
Hope everyone is having fun at school and work!
Megz

I just spent 2 months in a rainy country!

NZ'ers repping it in an Australian bar- Corey is with the evil enemy AFS but we can forgive him

I'm pretty much Swedish as well as Danish now

Street photo of KBH- note no posing, i feel so old!


Elyse and I with Cobenhagen (KBH) in the backround

Today is my 2 month anniversary!! It is amazing to think that I have been in Danmark for 2 months allready. The scary thing is there is only 10 months to go but I am not thinking about that. 2 months ago me and Ange stepped off the plane at 5:30 to complete darkness and it was freezing cold, today at 5:30 it was bright and sunny but still cold but I have gotten used to it and can now wear a "light" jacket.

I have also gotten used to cycling on the right hand side of the road and cyling in high heel boots. Although the other day I was involved in a 3 bike pile up one of the many perks of cycling in Danmark, I was stuck in the middle and it just so happened to me who was throwen off the bike and it just had to be the day I was wearing shorts!

I am also getting used to catching the trains, I now longer don't get lost and also don't leave mobile phones behind. They can be very expensive though and also run late. For example on Friday I caught the train to Cobenhagen (capital of Danmark) my train was late into vejle where I was supposed to change trains so I actaully missed my connecting train! Luckily Ange waited for me so we just waited for another hour and then boarded our train. The same thing happend coming back on monday though and this time it was dark and cold and I had no Ange! This meant I got back to the bro 2 hours later then planned but I did have a whole train carriage to myself so I did dance up and down the aisles as you do!

I had a really awesome weekend in Cobenhagen. Ange and I stayed with Elyse and her host family is so nice!! They really welcomed us into their family. We went out into town on Friday night we told the boys that we would be there at 10 and we didnt get there till 1130 I had to keep making up excuses as they kept ringing us, so I was telling them of course we were on the train but really we were just taking more photos. Town was good we went into this Australian bar and New Zealand was playing cricket on the Tv so we "watched" that for a bit.

Saturday we went into town and looked around and I actually took some scenic photos, I feel so growen up!!

On Sunday we went across the bridge to Sweden! it only takes 25 minutes on the train from where we were staying so easy to travel internationaly. Sweden was really nice and different to Danmark and it was good to catch up with Julia and Alana (NZ girls) we had a look around Sweden and also shopped on a Sunday- In danmark shops close as 1:30 Saurdays and are closed on Sundays its very sad!! It was really awesome to catch up with Julia and swap stories becasue it is not that far away (well 4 and a half hours by train but hey whos counting!) I hope to go and see her again. We came home from Sweden and we were so sleep deprived mainly from Saturday night that we all fall asleep on the couch. It was so nice to lounge!! I made the most of hanging on the couches.

Was really fantastic to see Elyse and Ange again and spend time with them. Her host family described me as the crazy New Zelander funny that I seem to be getting that alot. They also said that my parents should send money to my Danish family to say they know what it feels like to live with me, now I'm not that bad am I!

Well I better head to bed, It's easter holidays over here but with family breakfasts it means I have to be up at 9am. My family is only speaking Dansk to me from now on, I have told them to do this because I really want to be able to speak more. I now speak Danglish a mixture of English and Danish words.

Hope New Zealand is getting nice and cold!!!

Vi Ses

Hej Hej!

Megz

Finally legal in the Bro

Hej
Hvordan går det?
Hva så?
Jeg er Sulten!
Hej Hej!

Okay so I have been very busy with school work and trying to learn Danish so that’s why there has been a slight delay in getting a post up..sorry hayden!
It was my Birthday last week and I was really hoping for a snow storm or at least a little tiny bit of snow but all it did was rain so that was a nice change from the sun. Here in Denmark they go quite hard out with birthdays and put flags everywhere! The Danes love their flags.
I got woken up at 6:30am by my family creeping into my room and singing the Danish Birthday song and waving flags in my face. I then had a quick breakfast and has to run out of the house and bike to school in the rain.
For the evening I went bowling with my family and also out to dinner, this was a change to how I normally spend my birthday evenings but it was still fun.

Just got asked a question in German and I had no idea what we were talking about so I just said Nein, I didn’t know if she was speaking Danish or German though they keep flicking between the two languages!!

Anywho back to the story: My host dad told me that I should stay at home on Friday night, a rather unusual request to a teenage girl but he said he had his reasons so I didn’t question him. I had been txting my Kiwi friends in Denmark during the week asking what they were doing for the weekend and they all said they were busy. Friday evening rocks around and I'm sitting in the Dining Room and HC (host dad) comes in and opens the doors outside and BAM my kiwi friends are standing outside, they had come to the Bro to surprise me for the weekend.
We decided to hit the town NZ style and so we were all set to walk into town but it was raining..as usual so we just catch a taxi, it came 5 minutes after we had rung I was so amazed. We got into town at 12, which was to early so we sit in a cafe and order some "non-alcoholic" drinks of course! We get into one of the discoteks and the guy brought over this free bottle of champagne for us, being a Kiwi in a small Danish town does have its perks! We then went into a pub where we had drinks brought for us, of course they were cokes though.
At 4 we decided to head home and started our brief but long walk home.

It was an awesome weekend being able to show them around my town and speak Kiwi again and not have to worry about explaining words! This weekend I have my school party, where they sell alcohol at the school of course I will only be drinking coke though haha. Apparently I am going to Germany on Sunday, HC wants to pick up some cheap alcohol. Im looking forward to running across the boarder going I'm in Germany, I'm in Denmark, I'm in Germany, I'm in Denmark.
Next weekend Ange (nz friend in Fredericia) and I are heading to Cobenhagen to see Elyse, that’s going to be a sweet as weekend! because there are alot of Exchange students in Cobenhagen and also Julia (nz friend in Sweden) might head across the bridge to come see us.

Yesterday I was involved in a 3-bike pile up! I was stuck in the middle and unfortunately it was me who ended up on the ground, and it was the day that I had worn shorts to school as well. But those are the dangers you face when everyone cycles everywhere and no one looks when they turn corners. I spoke at Rotary again this week, I decided to be brave and speak in Dansk and all the Rotarians were very impressed. A couple of weeks ago a Rotarian mistook me for Brazilian... I must look very Brazilian with my blonde hair and blue eyes!

Well I better go German is over and we playing Handball in Sport next woohoo! get to push people over and throw myself at the ground
Vi Ses