Friday, January 23, 2009

Fun Stuff I Do


Life in Denmark... is like life at home but friends live to far away to visit so instead we just throw lots of parties all the time.
Life in Denmark... is slow and relaxing
Life in Denmark... costs a lot because it is quality over quantity

Yep

Life in Denmark... different

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

2nd Half of mini-stay

I really liked my stay with the Korsgaard family.  We had many many laughs together and I liked they way they live.  It was not painfully hard to say goodbye, but that is because I will probably go back at some point in time... yes, I love that family that much.

Friday I went to work with Flemming who was the Father in the family.  He is a partial owner of a company that works on building houses and other things.  While I was working I built 2 windows for a house as well as going with another guy to a zinc dipping place for dipping an old ladder into zinc to make it new looking.  It was a fun day and I got to reapply some of the work that I use in Canada and New Orleans.

One of the best parts of the stay was having breakfast saturday morning.  Mathias and myself sat down to have a very large breakfast in front of the TV.  I enjoyed this very much as we had bacon, eggs, and toast.  I had butter and cinnamon sugar on my toast, just like when I was a little kid!

AFS also planned a day in Køpenhavn (Copenhagen) which was a lot of fun.  The best part was going ice skating in the square.  The skates where very dull and the ice choppy, but it was still a lot of fun to get out on the ice, and it was outside too!  I must admit... it was very very cold.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

First half of my Mini-Stay

What is a mini-stay you might be asking yourself.  
A mini-stay is where another family on another region of Denmark chooses to take you as a member of their family for a week and you learn different way of living.  This is a very helpful way to experience more during the exchange.  Everyone gets to do this although the dates are different for everyone.

I am half way through my mini-stay with the Korsgaard Family.  They are very nice people and have a lot in common with our family, meaning the Shriver/Foster family.  I like that they are very interested and seem to like the USA.  My temporary "mor" is a flight attendant and travels all over the world and loves picking up food... maybe, I made up the food part, but when I got here they had a large container of Jif peanut butter, chunky.  I love Jif, and I have had quite a few sandwiches.
I went to school with both of my temporary siblings so far.  It was a lot of fun today to go with Amanda where I saw what a lower level school is like, 9th grade.  I talked with a lot of the students and also got to teach a lesson for another class instead of going to German class.  Mathias's class was also good but it is more what I am used to here.  I didn't talk with any of the kids in his class, thats what happens when people get older I think.

We have big plans for the weekend which I am excited for.  Possibly going to a movie theater or swimming pool.  I am also going to København ( dansk (danish for danish) for Copenhagen)!  I will post again before I leave.  There is also a Miami Hockey game airing live online at 11pm my time on Saturday which I am really excited for.  I am so happy here!  Whoo Hoo!  They are really really nice!!!

Love you all,
Especially you Java(post me sometime dogg)
Peace

Saturday, January 10, 2009


It is hard to sum up a trip that lasted that long.  It was full of a lot of fun happy times but a few sad times also.  Never the less it was a really good trip.

I visited my real family that lives there and am so happy that I got to see some familiar faces.  Mike was just great to hang out with.  We saw the whole city together.  We also went to Windsor Castle together which was a blast!  I loved listening to the history of it.

The saddest part was never having the feeling of christmas.  I never felt the excitement or rush of christmas day.  It all past very fast and I don't really remember what happened on that day.  I think we ate and I know we sat around the christmas tree.  Our tree was very small.

New years was exciting but I was surprised on how little the crowd shouted when it struck 12.  The dull roar of the crowed really just stayed at the same volume although loud it was not too much screaming except for Boris, Ivan, and myself.  Despite there being no ball drop, it was a fun New Years eve.  

We got to visit a battleship near the end of our trip.  It was a lot of fun and enjoyable although it was sooooo cold the whole day.  It was cold everyday, but this day seemed colder then the rest.  It was fun because they had a audio player that you could listen to, the same as at Windsor Castle.  I enjoyed sitting and watching the history of the ship and hearing what sailors had to say about life on a ship.

We also made it to the London Zoo.  Poor creatures must have been freezing.  I was freezing at least.  Cinci Zoo rocks during the summer compared to this zoo, but in the winter this one keeps animals and birds out.  I don't know which I like better.

I was happy we all got christmas poppers at the restaurant we ate at, although I was the only one who wanted to wear the hat and people popped them at random times.  Christmas sure was different, I miss our christmas.

I think my favorite thing by far was going to the Dominian Theater and watching We Will Rock You the musical.  It was great and I love watching live performances.  I knew all the queen songs they sang so I sung along and at the end it gave me that uplifting feeling deep inside.  I was glad we got to go see that show.  The actors were really good also.

To end our trip we went to Cornwall to visit Far's family.  There is not much to say about it really.  We went.  But while we where there I saw some very inspirational sites.  We went to Land's End.  This is the furthest west you can go on the continent or something like that.  I was dark by the end but I really got a few good pictures.

That was christmas in London.  Any questions just write in my comments section and I'll be sure to respond to them.