Sorry I have been so slack at writing in my blog, I've just been so busy with intro camps, traveling and more traveling that I haven't had much time to tell you about all the amazing places I've been lately so..
From the 3rd - 7th February I was having the best time on Intro Camp which is pretty much a rotary camp for all the newby's in Denmark to meet, have heaps of fun and have over 25 hrs of intense Danish lessons. It was abit hard the first couple of days because I had just met 40+ new people as well as 7 hrs of Danish every day, but the good thing was that all 40+ of those people were also going through the exact same thing!
Pretty much we would wake up bright and early and eat breakfast together, then we would go into our classrooms and do a solid 3 hrs of Danish lessons. Then it was lunch and a small break which was then followed by another 4 hours of Danish lessons. After going through 7 hours of Danish our heads were pretty tired which was okay because then we got a few hours break - which usually ended in us all either sleeping in our rooms or sleeping in the Pejsestue (which is where we can relax and where we spent most of our spare time). After that we would have dinner, some sort of activity like sport, relax abit more, then go to bed. Then we would wake up and do it all again.
Thursday was different though, as we took the whole day off to explore Aarhus! First we got a tour around 'The Old Village' which was a beautiful little village with old houses all together. They had some buildings from the 1800's onward and beautiful picturesque places. After about 2 hrs of that we pretty much got 5 hours of freedom to do anything and go anywhere in Aarhus, and being in a group of girls we managed to spend the whole 5 hours shopping!
It was sad saying goodbye after having such a great time together but we all knew we would see each other soon and then we could share all the great places we've been and things we have seen!
On tuesday my mum, friend named Katrine and her mum drove up together to stay in Skagen for the night. Even though it was a long drive up it was definitely worth it! I got to stand on the most northern part of Denmark, see a church filled with sand, play on sand/snow dunes and have an overall great time! It was a pitty that it was -5 degrees because it made it hard to imagine the "sunny beach" atmosphere but that just means i'll have to go again (and that's awesome)!
After getting back from that mini road trip I was so tired and I was looking forward to the next few days of relaxing; little did I know Inge have planned to drive another 2 hours to Odense for the day! I am so glad I went because I got to go see Hans Christian Andersen's house and the museum all about him and his fairytale stories. It was so interesting learning about how someone so poor and alone as a boy could become this amazing, and well-known writer, like himself. I also saw two other museums and walked down the main walking street with lots and lots of shops along it.
Hopefully now that school will go back I will not be as busy so I can write in this more often, and so you don't have to read massive essays!
My nose is touching the top of Denmark!!!
On top of the sand/snow dunes at Skagen
bye for now,
Beth
