Hejså Allesammen :)

Wow... I'm so bad at keeping updated with these blogs. Soooo... I will just quickly run through how things have recently been going.

Right now Im on efterårsferie (fall break), and I'm just relaxing (slappe af in danish). Im enjoying my time with my family and just REALLY getting into the danish culture, which I feel I've been neglecting lately. So on Sunday my host mom, host dad, sister, and I went to Odense and visited mor mor (grandma on mom's side) and went apple picking! It was so much fun, and as usual mor mor always over feeds me. And it was the very first time I tried the danish specialty, herring. Most forigners dislike it from what I've heard but I ADORE IT! It is so good on a piece of rye bread, with dill sauce. I love it. And we had my favorite danish dessert, which is the old fashioned birthday cake. So of course I had a wonderful time :)

And yesterday I went to the København zoo with my friend Mika. The zoo is about 150 yrs old, and it had about the average animals you would find in a zoo. After we went shopping for some touristy stuff. I bought a really nice scarf with the danish flag that says Danmark on it! And a little gift for my sister, Sam. No Sam you cant know what it is until Christmas time either!!!
And since I was already on a danish high I decided to stop at the musik store and find some good solid danish music. The best I could come up with was Nik and Jay. Haha aka: danish rap!
And now as I listen to the songs over and over again I find myself understanding more and more of what they're saying, which is a great achievement for me... especially if they're rapping it ;)
And after our big shopping spree we met up with a friend in Lyngby to go shopping for our Halloween costumes for Holbæk weekend. We all wanted something cheap but something unique- I ended up with a black sparkly mask, spider web gloves, deep red lipstick, and a black pen. I will be "Eddercup Pige" (Spider Girl) Hahah. I will have my friend draw a spider web going up my kneck leading to a spider on my face, haha so it should be fun :)
And later that evening I went home with my friend. And we ate dinner with her host family and watched Jurasic Park with danish subtitles. It was such a great evening, just spending time and laughing at how corny the movie really is...

And today.... I FINALLY cleaned and sorted through my room. Its about time too. And after I went with my host mom to go visit my host sister at her work. And also to go to the library for some kids books in danish. I walked out with 9 silly kids books and one being Klods Hans (H.C Andersen fairytale, and a play I saw my 2nd week here in DK). I also got a cd with the national song of Denmark, which I will learn by heart! So after my host mom and I were browsing through Kvickly (equvilent to Walgreens or something but with more groceries) and we found a collection of three Cds with all kids music on it, all the traditional danish kids music. So I will be singing "Fastelavn er mit navn", "Ole har fødselsdag", and "Puf" in no time!

So overall things have been so amazingly great lately. I feel much more immeresed and I feel my danish improving alot. Now that Im forcing myself to do so, the easier life gets. I'm so happy to be here, and my homesickness has faded to 5% now. So Im at a good spot on the exchange student chart right now.

Anyways, that was a quick and brief update. Love you all :)
SHALOM
Hej Hej!