Report from Emily in Denmark, our Outbound Exchange Student
Emily emailed Kathy an update on her travels in Denmark. See below for her information!
Hej Kathy!
Again, sorry for the delay in my monthly report, but I just got back from Intro Camp on Sunday, and have been busy catching up on sleep and missed homework (but mostly sleep).
I’m having a great time in Denmark! Everyone is so nice and I’ve already had so many opportunities. I have already been to Copenhagen a couple of times and plan to go back there with friends from school and exchange friends.
This weekend coming up I will be going to my host family’s summer house! They try to go as often as possible, but they think the 1 ½ hour drive is unrealistic to go every weekend. This, for me of course feels kind of silly because a 1 ½ hour drive is nothing! But, anyway, we are spending the weekend there, and then on Monday my family is taking me to Tivoli. It’s an old amusement park that is in the center of Copenhagen – and from what I’ve seen of it it’s absolutely beautiful!
I’ve started my Danish lessons – every Tuesday and Thursday until (I believe) the end of November. This evening will be my second Danish lesson with my class.
While at Intro Camp, we had 6 hours of Danish lessons a day except for Friday – we went to Aarhus on Friday! But the best part was it didn’t feel like 6 hours of Danish. Our class was about 20-25 exchange students, and one amazing teacher! All the teachers that were teaching the exchange students were in their mid-twenties to early thirties and they all knew their stuff. Our teacher especially made it fun for us to learn. And, it wasn’t straight forward teaching, we also had time were we just had conversation. Conversation about teenagers in Denmark, or custom things the Danes do or how they act, what was appropriate when, etc.
All in all, Intro Camp was a great week and I wish it could have lasted way longer!
As for the rest of my time in Denmark, I still can’t believe I’ve been here almost a month! Tomorrow will be my anniversary of leaving Canada…I’m not quite sure how I feel about that, though. I mean, I’m very very very very very excited and happy to be in Denmark, but it’s just weird to think I’ve already been away from my family a month! I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything, but as normal, I do miss my friends and family.
Right now I’m actually emailing you in my math class, and it’s, again, weird with what they’re studying…if what they are doing right now is what they are learning, than I’ve learned this already and can follow even though the teacher’s speaking Danish!
Well, I better go now…I should probably be paying more attention even though I already kinda know how to do this math…
Tak!
Emily