Love Rotary.

Time for an update! It has been just one month since I've updated, yet it seems like it's been forever. Thus far I have just been living my life, ya know? I go to school, I hang out with my friends, and I try to live as much like a "normal dane" as I can. I've realized that in school every wednesday in my class is kagedag. aka: Cake Day! Every week somebody brings in cake. It's wonderful.
Back in september, there was a man from Alabama/Canada here. 25 years ago when he lived in Alabama he was an exchange student in Denmark. Frands, my host dad, was his host brother. He came to visit, and it was pretty cool. He still knows danish well enough to communicate. I found out that I am living with his 1st host brother, and later on my 3rd host mother was his second host sister. That's pretty cool I think. About a week after that, my (real) sister had a break from school in Spain, and so she came to visit me! I took her to see Århus for some shopping. And we visited Den Gamle By (The Old Town). Which is a section of Århus that is preserved from way before the United States was even a country. Some things are from all over Denmark, they have just moved them to Den Gamle By. It was really awesome to see all of the old houses and shops and to see how they lived. We also went to my host families Summer house. We had fresh fish, and some very danish meals. We walked along the beach and also went into town. The town has to smallest (or maybe oldest?) Town Hall in Denmark. A lot of couples flock there to be married. We also saw a museum which was a large variety of objects from Thailand. A Danish man went to Thailand and then came back to Denmark and married an thai woman and created this museum. He did other things as well, I'm just not sure what...
School is kept interesting. There is always something "special" happening. One day, there was a protest in Århus which concerned funding for schools. Our whole school had a vote to see if we should cancel classes to provide students the opportunity to go to the protest, or if we should stay in school that day. 90% of the school voted to cancel classes. Another week, my class (which is the music class) played "I got you (I feel Good)" by James Brown. I got to play the tenor saxophone! Another week, we went out at night to see a Big Band concert. That was really awesome as well. Another week we had "motion day" which is similar to Track and Field Day. All the 2nd year students participate and do running, throwing, or jumping events. I very much enjoy school :)
Louise, my host mom is slowly, but surely teaching me how to cook. I have some recipes already, but they are all very very tasty! I really enjoy it. Also, I've learned the Denmark LOVES Obama. Like...Loves him. It's kind of fun :) Jacob and I carved pumpkins as well the other day.

Anyway, so far so good. And by good I mean absolutely wonderful. I love being in denmark and I love being a Rotary Exchange Student.

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