101 days left

Hello everyone! I know it has been ages since my last blog post and I’m sorry for that but I was hit with some inspiration to write seeing as I only have 101 days left in Denmark. I just got back from my study tour to Austria and it was absolutely incredible. I went skiing with 2D which is my friend Maria’s class but they kindly let me tag along because I couldn’t go to the US with my class on their study tour. I had never been skiing before so it was definitely a learning process with a lot of falls but I had a lot of fun trying to learn. We went to this little town in Austria called Neukirchen. It was interesting hearing German and stepping out of the routine I have made in Denmark.  Being on top of the mountain there was so beautiful and I can’t wait to go back to Austria on Eurotour in May. Speaking of Eurotour I have received the information about it and I cannot wait. It is going to be 18 days from the 22^nd of May to the 8^th of June and we will be going to 8 different countries on a bus. Basically I cannot wait but I’m also scared for it to come because it kind of marks the end of my year. Anyway today has been pretty relaxing but also kind of interesting. So I didn’t have a class in the morning just two in the afternoon so I  hung around and slept in which was nice and then I got on my first train headed to my school no problems. I made it to central station and made a quick switch to my next train and then it headed off to tarnby like it always does. So normally the train ride takes about 8 minutes but today we got stuck on the tracks. Now I wasn’t really surprised by this because this particular train line is delayed at least once a week usually but it usually only takes 5 minutes for the train to be up and running again. Today was a different however and the train ended up being delayed about 50 minutes and at that point I had already missed the start of my class and would’ve only made it for the last 30 minutes. I then decided that I’d rather go to park and wait for my next class then go wait in the school. It’s a beautiful day a bit chilly but the sun is out and there isn’t a cloud in sight. So I guess its kind of a good thing that my train was delayed because I’m loving this spring weather. In the time that I’ve been away from my blog so many incredible things have happened and I have grown to love Denmark and all the people I have met here even more than I thought possible. So I pretty terrified that I am already at my last 100 days. But I’m not done with this adventure yet and I’m looking forward to hopefully more sunny days of spring and a little bit of summer here in Denmark.

Lots of love

Abbie

Extra Information:

-I’m starting 100 days of Denmark/100 happy days on my Instagram tomorrow if you want to check that out it is here: https://www.instagram.com/itsabbienotabby/

-Eurotour details if you are interested: file:///C:/Users/Abbie/Downloads/Euro%20Tour%202016%20(4).pdf

Long Time No See...

Like all my other post on this blog I have to start by apologizing for my horrendous lack of updates I'm just too lazy and busy most of the time.(Also you'll have to thank my friends and English teacher for yelling at me on Skype today because that's why I'm updating this) Anyway I guess I will have to recap the whole month of October now so I will try my best :).

I'm going to do this in order of what I have been up to this month so to start off this great month I went on an 8 kilometer orienteering run  through a forest outside Copenhagen with my counselor Finn. I am horribly out of shape so it was a bit rough but it was still nice to experience something that my counselor really enjoys. The next day I went to go see The Intern with Marianne a Rotarian and her daughters. I thought that movie was really nice and it was a nice way to make a normally boring Monday into a really fun day. Then that Wednesday my sponsor Rotary club put  on 5K run that maria and I both tried our best to run in. Then I went to a Sebadoh concert that Declan kindly got my ticket for. It was a good concert and it was nice hanging out with Franco and Declan. Then in the middle of the month we had fall break so I had a long relaxing week with no school. That week was also when my birthday was. On the 15th my host sisters came into my room (late so I got to sleep in) and then sang a birthday song to me. Then we had breakfast and I opened my presents( thank you for everything I got guys it was really nice) and after that we just hung out until I went to lunch with Finn. He took to me to lunch at a restaurant down in the harbor and I got a huge burger that was so hard to eat nicely but it tasted delicious. Then right after that my friends all came over for a sleep over. We all hung out and ate a wonderful dinner of Mexican food (Thanks Jens for cooking) and we also ate many desserts made by Marley and my host mom Pernille. Needless to say we were all very full by the end of the meal but it was totally worth it. We all hung out and watched some things and just talked and then the next day everyone went home. That weekend I went to a Rotarian named Lis' 80th birthday. Thanks to her I got to experience a traditional danish party/ dinner and I got to go to a really pretty hotel/ place about an hour from where I live. It was a long night but I had a great time with that. Then I had an Imagine Dragons concert that I went to with Cajsa. I really love their music so I of course really enjoyed the concert. The opening act was also really good they are called the Sunset Sons and I liked their songs a lot. The rest of that week was uneventful in school but I am still enjoying even that. I like my class a lot so it makes the going through a boring school day where I don't understand anything a lot easier. Plus not having to do homework is a big bonus:p. Then on Sunday I went to have dinner with my second host family. It was nice to see where I would be staying and it was also good to be able to talk and hang out with my next family. I'm going to be moving on the 14th so I'm glad I was able to go over there before hand. Then I had a fairly normal last week of October until Thursday came and I found out that there was a demonstration that a lot of people in my class would be going to so. I decided to go as well. It was a really cool experience being able to protest against budget cuts to schools in Denmark. Then on Friday the 30th I went with Marley and a rotary member from her sponsor club to a Halloween festival in Malov. We ate a lot of 5 kroner cakes, candy and other things while walking through the town and forest. And then on Saturday I went with Maria to her third host Mom's apartment and we made Monkey bread and golden fish. After baking we went to Tivoli which was decorated for Halloween and it was amazing to see I loved it. Then the next day we went on a long walk with my neighbors dog Charlie and October came to end and November began.
I love it here and everyday I cannot believe that I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to be in this wonderful country for an entire year. As always I can't wait to see what I will get up to next.
Talk to you soon hopefully!
-Abbie

Pictures:

there were so many people at the demonstration!!

mine venner

Dat hamburger....

So many pins

Harry Potter and his gang just landed here - Cecilia (my swag classmate) 

Cecilia and Amanda 

All the desserts on my birthday

Pretty trees outside my house

golden fish things 

Imagine Dragons!!!!

My host sister Cajsa

At Kiara's birthday

Marley and Me at the Halloween Festival

Monkey Bread

More Pretty leaves 

My classmate Sigrid <3

Looking good :)

At the round tower 

With Cajsa and Sarah

at the Sebadoh concert

Maria, Esther and I 

Statues at the Glypoteket

Before running 

My counselor Finn and I 

In Tivoli

With the height man

September is over?!?!?!?!

Hello sorry about the lack of posts I'm just super lazy... but I will try to post more I promise! Anyway I am going to try and write an organized blog about September but since I have procrastinated and done a lot of thing since my last post it might be a little all over the place so I'm sorry in advance.I will only say a few things that I have done even though the whole month has been full of amazing experiences.
 So one thing that has started in September are my weekly Rotary meetings. Every Rotarian in my club is very nice and some of them are going to take me different places in these coming months I'm looking forward to it very much. At my first meeting I made a brief introduction of my self in danish and I'm sure it was bad I was so nervous. Another thing that I did was go to an F.C Copenhagen game with Maria and her counselor Sebastian. It rained the whole time but I'm really glad I had the chance to go I had so much fun. The team won 3-0 and the crowd was very excited and energized from the win at the end. This month was also Maria's birthday and her host family (who are also my third family) had a brunch for her. It was really nice and there was cake.....which is the only reason I went ;). My host family has also taken me into Copenhagen a couple of times which was really nice and I had a great time whenever we went. For example one day they took me on a very touristy canal boat ride thing which was a great way to see all the cool buildings in Copenhagen. I also had a sleepover at Marley's house and I had a really good time watching movies and eating a horrible amount of junk food with her. I also had a another meet up with my group of friends from Introcamp. We call ourselves happy llama partly because we are weird and partly because its a great name. I also got to see Kiara again which is always good (I don't know why she has to live so far away ugh...). Another thing I had this month was district 1470's conference. It was a weekend event with all the exchange students in my district. On Saturday we started the day with a parade thing carrying flags through an unsuspecting town of people which I found to be hilarious. I was carrying the flag for Thailand because there are no people from Thailand in the district this year but there are plenty of Americans to carry different flags. Then after the parade we had a room set up with all the different countries for future outbounds from district 1470 to look at the different places they could go. After we presented our countries to very excited future students we got to go have a party. The theme was Christmas and I have no idea why but we had a traditional danish Christmas meal and we got to play a present stealing game.(which I think could break up friendships but that's ok). It was a long and tiring day but also very fun.

What I have written in this unorganized mess doesn't even begin to cover everything I have done in September. I really am so thankful for this opportunity and I feel like I have done enough things to fill up more than just a months worth of time which is great. I can hardly wait to see what other things I will be up to for the next 10 or so months.

Pictures:

Selfie with my host mom

Mamiko and Luiza <3

Cajsa and I in Dragoer 

In Copenhagen 

District 1470

Declan being loser 

Too cool for you

FODBOLD game

Pretty flower

and another one

maybe this is excessive 

My soccer team :)

We were so cold

Most of the Happy llama crew

Harbor by my house 

Marley's cat sooooo cute

The only reason I went to Maria's brunch ;) 

From District conference 

At the brunch 

At the conference 

In Dragoer :)

My oldie Sophie

From the canal tour thing 

Pancakes I made with Maria <3

The parliament building from a field trip my class went on.

Pretty skies 

I was so excited to see Richmond on TV 

OMG I'M FROM THERE

At a school party with my class

Glamour shot of my love (my bike)

On to October now :)
-Abbie