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Published: September 25th 2008
Intro Camp
The "crew" for the weekHey Everyone!
Well, i just got back from my intro camp in århus!
It was so much fun! For the first time ever i traveled by train, and it took about 1 12 hours to get there. On the train i met up with tow Rotary echange students, one who is from Canada, and another from Brazil. We traveled together which was nice! It was exciting having people to talk to who is going throught the exact same thing! We finally arrived to the train station where we found about 5 more exchange students, all from the US Canada and Brazil.
When we arrived to the school for the camp, it was fascinating to see how manyRotary exchange students there were spending their year in Denmark. I believe that there was 108 of us, and 50 of them were from Brazil! And about 10 from other South American countries.
EAch day we spent about 6 hours in classrooms for language class! It was very stressful considering that these teachers had to cram all the information they could into us in only 5 days. One day we went to town and saw a museum and then went SHOPPING!! =) Then next
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we were tired at the fire pit. But it was fun day we went to a different town and saw an amazing church, it was wuite beautiful! We later got to see the town and go shopping again. Walking around these towns was so interesting and a great experience. Just the structure and the shops were completely different than the US. When walking through the streets and looking up at the buildings, it finally hit me that i was living in Europe, and Denmark for that matter!
As for the language...well...it is sooo hard! i reccomend that if you are going to be an exchange student in Denmark that you start practicing NOW! I have had about 5 people (from Denmark) tell me that danish is one of the hardest language to learn. They also say that when you are speaking it, it sounds like a frog is in your throat or it sounds like a throat disease. Hmmm.. i completely agree on that one. Some letter combinations are very hard to say, especially when you have never said them before. Danish does have some cool letters though like : æ, ø, and å.
The camp has helped a lot though, and when ever i watch tv and see the danish
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The beautiful church =) subtitles, i can sort of get an idea as to what it is saying =) Oh, and by the way, most channels here are in english, with danish subtitles at the bottom. And i went to the movie theater with my host sister and almost all of the movies playing are in english with danish subtitles. It is very nice, but then again, when everything is in english, it kind of makes it harder to learn the language. =(
Anyways, everything is still amazing here! I am going to a place called Skagen in a couple of weekends with my family, and i hope that will be a lot of fun!
Hope everything is well in the states!
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