A week and one day ago, I arrived in the beautiful county of Denmark completely exhausted, jet-lagged, and at the same time pumped full of adrenaline! My body just wanted to sleep, but I was far too exctied to do that! I mean I was in Europe, in Denmark! I still had an hour and a half drive to get to my house, but I couldn't fall asleep. When I got to my house, I met the rest of my host family (my host mom, Hanne, picked me up at the airport) min far Peer, min bror Christian, og min søster Marie. They all greeted me so warmly and instantly made me feel at home! I made it through the rest of the day without sleep, but that night I slept great! The rest of the weekend, I got to know my host family and told them all about me and the US.
Sunday, my host brother, sister, and I went to Lalandia. Lalandia is a huge swimming/bowling/eating/skiing/sauna-ing/everything.else.you.could.possibly.want.to.do-ing place. It was pretty awesome but like everywhere and everything else in Denmark, it is expensive! So we just went swimming and goat seeing! It was really fun though!
Tuesday I went to the b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l city of Copenhagen. It doesn't matter how many pictures you see of a place, it is definitely better in person, and the same goes for Copenhagen. It is so old and it has such cool architecture! They definitely drive CRAZY though! :). I didn't see it all (I would need like 2 weeks for that), but i saw the little mermaid, Rundetårn, the Opera house, Amelienborg Palace, Nyhavn, and some other awesome, random buildings! We also stopped by Christiania, which is a whole city inside of Copenhagen. It has it's own laws, and is tax-free! It is pretty much a huge hippy community, but it is really cool!
Friday, I went back to Copenhagen, but this time it was just to drop off my host sister, Marie, at the airport (she is going on exchange to Mexico). She took a bunch of her friends, and they all hugged and tried not to cry and everything like that :) but she landed safe and is now with her family over there. She says it's like a sauna because in Denmark it's averagely 60-65 right now and constantly raining (it's raining as I'm writing this :/ ) And in Mexico is like 90-100, so you can imagine how she is feeling!
So as to my overall thoughts about Denmark after my first week? I actually love the food! I thought it would just be pretty plain and nothing special, but it is delicious! There are some strange things that i have never tasted before, but i have given them all a try and I've liked almost all of them (except pig skin... not my favorite). However... everything has to have some downfalls and the weather is Denmark's downfall. It has rained at least a little every single day I have been here and I have also worn pants everyday! That is very different that the kind of August weather that I am used to! They say this is one of the rainiest summers in the history of Denmark! But I guess it wouldn't be Denmark if it was 90 degrees and sunny everyday, and truthfully it is nice to get away from the heat I'm used to! So overall Denmark is great and I am so happy to be living in this awesome country :)
I start school Tomorrow and I'm not quite sure how that will go, but I will definitely talk about it on my next post!
Some strange things I've noticed:
-Some houses still have straw roofs!
-Every town is very old looking and it's super cool!
-Danes have very naughty humor!
-It's perfectly fine to cuss in front and with your parents
-Danes eat tons of fish (raw and cooked)
-They really do ride their bikes all over!
-They drive insanely!
-Cashiers and grocery stores sit down
-McDonald's in Denmark tastes much better!
-I can't remember anything else, but I know there is more!
