onsdag den 25. december 2013

Glædelig jul!

Hej alle og glædelig jul!
Som altid er der gået lidt for lang tid siden jeg sidst har fået skrevet.. Ups
December er bare gået så utrolig hurtigt! Alle har bare være så søde at sende mig pakker og ønske glædelig jul, og jeg må altså også indrømme at jeg savner den danske jul ret meget! I går var juleaften, og der manglede virkelig noget dansk julemad og hygge med familien! Om dagen lavede vi ikke rigtig noget specielt, og om aftenen tog vi på Japansk restaurant. Maden var super god, men måske ikke lige for juleaften. Efter middagen tog vi hjem og åbnede gaver om aftenen, fordi Ari skulle med hendes far til hans familie tideligt om morgenen. Så ja, juleaften var da meget hyggelig og meget anderledes men kan uden tvivl bedere lide den danske jul. Fik da også lige juleskypet med mor, far og mormor og senere med Helena :)
I sidste uge havde vi koncert hvor jeg skulle synge med Choir på skolen! Vi har fire forskellige slags kor på skolen som skulle synge til koncerten, Concert Choir som jeg er i. Det er blandet piger of drenge, Treble Choir som kun er piger, Chamber Choir som man skal til audition for at komme i, og Acapella Choir. Tatiana er i Chamber og Acapella så hun sang også! Hele familien kom og så og så tog vi ud for at spise bag efter! super hyggeligt! Fredag var der juleafslutning op skolen hvor vi også lige sang en hurtig sang, bandet spillede og lærene havde også forberedt en sang! Vi har altså de bedste lærer nogensinde! De går bare så meget mere op i deres arbejde end danske folkeskolelærere gør!!
I søndags havde vi inviterede en masse fra skolen til Christmas Party hjemme hos os! Vi spise og lavede en masse hyggeligt juleting, og Kenzie og Heather blev og sov. Fik den sødeste gave af Kenzie, en kjole en masse jueslik, en ring og en læbepomade! Og hun blev også super glad for min! Nu ligger jeg bare og slapper af her den 25 december og ser på alle mine fine gaver!
Håber i alle har haft en rigtig hyggelig jul!







Besøg fra Zen!




Iiiiiiiiihh så koldt!!!






Så kom der julepakke fra Helena, og tegning fra Thomas!!!! <3 <3 



KOOOOLDT



Kravlenisser fra mormor og julekalender fra Fritze!


Vores smukke plastiskjuletræ….


Julehygge og The Julekalender!




søndag den 1. december 2013

Thanksgiving og Black Friday

Så er det allerede sidste dag i ferien, syntes elles godt jeg kunne bruge lidt flere! Vi havde en super hyggeligt Thanksgiving med familien og en masse mad! Kæmpe kalkun plus 5 ekstra retter, så vi blev ihvertfald mætte! Efter maden tog vi til black friday i The Crystal Mall som ligger 15 minutter væk! Riiiimelig stort! Ja fik måske købt et par ting.. eller en masse! 
Har åbnet adventsgave fra mor og mormor idag, og vi har pyntes huset med plastik juletræ.. Og danske julehjerter som blev flettet imens jeg juleskypede med Helena <3
Fik også lært Ariana at flette julehjerter og lave julestjerner, rigtig hyggeligt! 





Alle vores poser samlet fra BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING! 


Mit ynglingslys duftlys fra Bath and Bodyworks!



onsdag den 27. november 2013

Lang tid siden!

Hej alle, sorry jeg ikke har fået skrevet i noget tid, der er bare sket så meget!
For et par uger siden tog vi til New York igen for at shoppe og vi fik viiirkelig shoppet igennem! Mine hænder var helt smadret efter at have båret rundt på alle de poser haha! Vi blev der helt til midnat, New York er helt fantastisk om aftenen med lysene og det hele! Weekenden efter var vi til Paramore koncert! Overdrevet fedt! Elsker Paramore så meget så det var ret vildt at se dem live! Ugen før det havde Paramore's maneger skrevet en mail til skolen og spurgt om 29 af deres bedste sangere ville komme og synge med den, så det bedste kor på skolen som hedder Chamber Choir fik lov til at synge med dem oppe på scenen i en af deres sange!! Kan godt sige jeg var en lille smule jaloux men stadig så vildt at se! Vi havde en fed aften! Ellers er der ikke sket så meget.. Det er blevet super koldt her over! En af morgenerne var det -7 grader!! Kan nu bedere lide når solen skinner! Tiden er bare gået så hurtigt, kan slet ikke forstå jeg har været her i over 3 måneder! I morgen er det Thanksgiving, så noget af familien kommer over og så skal vi have dejlig mad! Dagen efter der det Black Friday hvor butikkerne åber ved midnat og så er der vildt udsalg overalt! Det skal vi da også opleve, og det kan jo godt være jeg ikke kan modstå alle de gode tilbud! Så er det også snart december, det bliver ret underligt ikke at skulle holde jul og nytår hjemme i år! Men spændene at prøve noget nyt! Har fået adventsgaver af mor og mormor med posten <3 Efter jul er det snart Hawaii og Florida tid, glæder mig SÅ MEGET! Det bliver super dejligt at komme hen til varmen, og også at møde nogen af de andre udvekslingsstudenter på Hawaii!

Ps. Nu når cross country er slut, bliver jeg jo nød til at løbe for mig selv.. suk! Det første billede er fra min løberute. Det er nu ret flot!
























søndag den 3. november 2013

Exchange is...

"Exchange is change. Rapid, brutal, beautiful, hurtful, colorful, amazing, unexpected, overwhelming and most of all constant change. Change in lifestyle, country, language, friends, parents, houses, school, simply everything.
Exchange is realizing that everything they told you beforehand is wrong, but also right in a way.
Exchange is going from thinking you know who you are, to having no idea who you are anymore to being someone new. But not entirely new. You are still the person you were before but you jumped into that ice cold lake. You know how it feels like to be on your own. Away from home, with no one you really know. And you find out that you can actually do it.
Exchange is learning to trust. Trust people, who, at first, are only names on a piece of paper, trust that they want the best for you, that they care. Trust, that you have the strength to endure a year on your own, endure a year of being apart from everything that mattered to you before. Trust that you will have friends. Trust that everything’s going to be alright. And it is seeing this trust being justified.
Exchange is thinking. All the time. About everything. Thinking about those strange costumes, the strange food, the strange language. About why you’re here and not back home. About how it’s going to be like once you come back home. How that girl/boy is going to react when you see her/him again. About who’s hanging out where this weekend. At first who’s inviting you at all. And in the end where you’re supposed to go, when you’re invited to ten different things. About how everybody at home is doing. About how stupid this whole time-zone thing is. Not only because of home, but also because the tv ads for shows keep confusing you.
Thinking about what’s right and what’s wrong. About how stupid or rude you just were to someone without meaning to be. About the point of all this. About the sense of life. About who you want to be, what you want to do. And about when that English essay is due, even though you’re marks don’t count. About whether you should go home after school, or hang out at someone’s place until midnight. Someone you didn’t even know a few months ago. And about what the hell that guy just said.
Exchange is people. Those incredibly strange people, who look at you like you’re an alien. Those people who are too afraid to talk to you. And those people who actually talk to you. Those people who know your name, even though you have never met them. Those people, who tell you who to stay away from. Those people who talk about you behind your back, those people who make fun of your country. All those people, who aren’t worth your giving a damn. Those people you ignore.
And those people who invite you to their homes. Who keep you sane. Who become your friends.
Exchange is music. New music, weird music, cool music, music you will remember all your life as the soundtrack of your exchange. Music that will make you cry because all those lyrics express exactly how you feel, so far away. Music that will make you feel like you could take on the whole world. And it is music you make. With the most amazing musicians you’ve ever met. And it is site reading a thousand pages just to be part of the school band.
Exchange is uncomfortable. It’s feeling out of place, like a fifth wheel. It’s talking to people you don’t like. It’s trying to be nice all the time. It’s bugs.. and bears. It’s cold, freezing cold. It’s homesickness, it’s awkward silence and its feeling guilty because you didn’t talk to someone at home. Or feeling guilty because you missed something because you were talking on Skype.
Exchange is great. It’s feeling the connection between you and your host parents grow. It’s hearing your little host brother asking where his big brother is. It’s knowing in which cupboard the peanut butter is. It’s meeting people from all over the world. It’s having a place to stay in almost every country of the world. It’s getting 5 new families. One of them being a huge group of the most awesome teenagers in the world.
It’s cooking food from your home country and not messing up. It’s seeing beautiful landscapes that you never knew existed.
Exchange is exchange students. The most amazing people in the whole wide world. Those people from everywhere who know exactly how you feel and those people who become your absolute best friends even though you only see most of them 3 or 4 times during your year. The people, who take almost an hour to say their final goodbyes to each other. Those people with the jackets full of pins. All over the world.
Exchange is falling in love. With this amazing, wild, beautiful country. And with your home country.
Exchange is frustrating. Things you can’t do, things you don’t understand. Things you say, that mean the exact opposite of what you meant to say. Or even worse…
Exchange is understanding.
Exchange is unbelievable.
Exchange is not a year in your life. It’s a life in one year.
Exchange is nothing like you expected it to be, and everything you wanted it to be.
Exchange is the best year of your life so far. Without a doubt. And it’s also the worst. Without a doubt.
Exchange is something you will never forget, something that will always be a part of you. It is something no one back at home will ever truly understand.
Exchange is growing up, realizing that everybody is the same, no matter where they’re from. That there are great people and douche bags everywhere. And that it only depends on you how good or bad your day is going to be. Or the whole year.
And it is realizing that you can be on your own, that you are an independent person. Finally. And it’s trying to explain that to your parents.
Exchange is dancing in the rain for no reason, crying without a reason, laughing at the same time. It’s a turmoil of every emotion possible.
Exchange is everything. And exchange is something you can’t understand unless you’ve been through it."





Der var en af de andre udveklingsstudenter fra Danmark som lagde denne her tekst på facebook, og det er helt utroligt så meget det hele passer så jeg syntes også jeg ville dele den!


onsdag den 30. oktober 2013

States og homecoming dance

Så fredag aften efter pep ralley var vi til homecoming dance. Det var fra kl 7-22 sååå velkommen til 7. Klasse! Haha! Det var sjovt at opleve og vi havde det rigtig sjovt selvom det var meget anderledes! Alle siger at prom bliver helt sikkert større og bedere :) 

Vi har også lige haft The States Meet i Cross Country. Det er det løb der slutter det hele af hvor alle dem fra ens stat løber imod hinanden! Såååå hårdt og der er altså noget hurtige i mellem dem! Så det var det sidste løb og nu er sæsonen desværre slut! Det var helt sikkert den bedste beslutning jeg har taget at komme på det hold! Det er dem sport der har det tætteste hold! Alle er så forskellige men stadig rigtig gode venner så det er lidt trist at det er ovre.. Heldigvis mødes vi stadig og laver ting sammen.

Idag mødtes holdet efter skole for at spille amerikansk fodbold!! Mega sjovt! Har altid syntes at det så så bersværligt ud, men man skulle bare lige lidt ind i det og så var det overhovedt ikke svært! Så er der også bare lige det der med at gribe bolden...