Vacation!!

OK I am sorry, but you know.. Vacation is always busy and I couldn't find any time to blog so I do now!! Since last time I blogged we was headed to Salt Lake City to shop, and than a whole lot more after that.. We visited Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, drove on Highway 1 along the west coast of California, and last but not least San Francisco! Here comes some pictures from our whole trip (Mobridge-San Francisco)! We visited 9 states, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California

 Cayla and I in Mobridge :)

 Sitting Bull's Memorial by Mobridge

 In church 

 My hostdad Mike and I

My cake

 My parents <3

 At Badlands National Park, SD

 At Cosmos, Black Hills, SD 

 Needles Highway, SD

Mt. Rushmore, SD

 Devils Tower, Wyoming

 With Buffalo Bill, Wyoming

 Getting something to drink, Wyoming

 Mountain Blue Bird, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

 Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

 Rock Squirrel, Zion National Park, Utah (these was all over)

 You could hike through the river, Zion National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon, Utah

 Bryce Canyon, Utah

Grand Canyon, Arizona

 Grand Canyon, Arizona

 Grand Canyon, Arizona

Hoover Dam, Border between Arizona and Nevada

 Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California

 Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California

  Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California

  Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California

Solvang (danish town), California

 Solvang (danish town), California

Highway 1, California

 Carmel, California

 American Breakfast, San Francisco, California  

Mom and Johan by Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Ready to go home, San Francisco - London - Copenhagen

XoXo Siri

No! I didn't forget about bloggin'

A week has now past since I left Mobridge, and you wouldn't believe how much I miss it! But I am having fun here, on vacation, and it is nice to have time to relax (More like being un the run and spending hours un end in this [STUPID] RV)... But it is nice to get to see all the places we have been talking about in History and that people have told me about.. Seeing familiar and unfamiliar places! It is nice to be with my family (most of the time)! Well back to my vacation! I have in the past week seen more places than I thought was possible in a month, been in 5 different states (South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Utah) and learned a bunch!

Last Monday (the 4th) (in the morning), we left Mobridge and heated to Badlands, South Dakota which is a National Park, it is an old Lava landscape.. It was like a desert there, it was so freaking hot and there was almost no wind! After we had driven around for about 4 hours and I had bought my indispensable magnet (I collect magnets from every place I have been, and I have done it the last 4 year; which collection includes magnet from all over Europe and now also the United States), we headed to the Black Hills, where we slept at a Campground near Rapid City!

Tuesday (the 5th) we started the day by going to the mall, "just" to buy a new lens to my Camera, but I (my parents) ended up buying a t-shirt, a tank-top, and a pair of tennis shoes too.. We than went to Cosmos, which is a place in the Black Hills, where gravity is supposed to be "wrong"! After about 11/2 at Cosmos we headed to Mount Rushmore, even though I had been there before it was still like being in a Movie, going there, because it is a place you see on TV so often! We than went to the a Campground in Hill City, and got ready to go out for Dinner, and than to go to Crazy Horse.. At Crazy Horse (the Native American's version of Mount Rushmore) we saw this lightning show, where they told the story of Crazy Horse and had a protector showing pictures on the actually memorial..

Wednesday (the 6th) we spent in Coster State Park looking at Buffalos and just driving around the Hills. That night we slept at a campground by Deadwood, SD..

Thursday (the 7th) the day I had to leave South Dakota! In the morning we went to the falls by Spearfish, and than we were heated to Wyoming.. We drove to Devils Tower, to see what is just a famous Rock Formation than looks like a tower.. At night we drove to Sheridan where we ate at the famous Sheridan Inn, where Buffalo Bill stayed back in the day (I most admit, I had no idea who he was at first either, some famous Cowboy or something like that.) We stayed the night at a Campground close to Sheridan.

Friday (the 8th) we were now heated to Yellowstone National Park, and on the way we stopped in Cody, WY, a town that is famous for something to do with Buffalo Bill (again!), where he apparently stayed at the Irma Inn, where we had to get something to drink (HAHA!) In Cody I bought a Cowboyhat (yes this time I payed, because my mother refused to), I am not sure why I spent 33 dollars on it, but I wanted to prove I could be a little redneck! We also stopped in Little Big Horn, MT, the place where that Indian vs. White battle was back in the day! Late at night we arrived at Yellowstone, at a campground without WiFi (disaster!!)

Saturday, and Sunday the (the 9th and 10th) we spent both days in Yellowstone (where I off course bought a magnet, hihi) and where we saw everything from Mountain Bluebirds to Chipmunks, to Grizzly Bears, to Coyotes, to Mooses, to Hot Springs, to Geysers, to Water Falls (the once we saw in Spearfish didn't even come close, it made we wonder why we even stopped in Spearfish), to ya what didn't we see? We saw black bears, squirrels. eagles and buffalo too! It is hard to explain how amazing there was, and cold! It freaking snowed, in freaking June! Well all I can say is GO THERE, and bring a coat!

Monday (the 11th) after spending the night in Yellowstone we where now heated to Grand Teton National Park to see the famous Mountains! after only spending an hour there we where once again un the road, this time on the way to Idaho, and than to Utah (all we pretty much did all day was drive) and we are now at a Campground in Utah by Bear Lake known as the Caribbean of the Rockies, and tomorrow we are heated to some "Outlet town" by Salt Lake City, which equals more shopping <3!!!

And for you who things I should upload some pictures, I will say that I am to impatient and that the will come at some point either in Las Vegas, when we are gonna stay at a real hotel and not a campground or when I get home in the end of the month!
Well anyway, time for bed! Sleep Tight/good morning to the people in Denmark! I'll will now finally turn of my computer and go to bed here in the RV at the Campground in Garden City, Utah! Good night!

XoXo Siri

Long time, No see

Well it has been awhile! And I wish I have had time to blog, because there has been so much to right about!! It all started tuesday the 29th of May (the last day I blogged), that was the day my parent flew into Minneapolis. The day after (wednesday) went by with packing my things and getting ready, well I was so nervous/excited that I didn't (couldn't) do much!
Thursday the 31st of May 2012: The day was finally here, the day I was gonna be reunited with my family, God I was excited!! And it was so freaking good to see them again, you  wouldn't even believe the feeling I had in my body, it was indescribable! (I can't believe it is already one week ago!)
Friday we drove around Mobridge, and went to Sitting Bulls Memorial, To the Museum in Mobridge, and  I send to big boxes of literally crap home (books, shoes, cloth ECT.), and than we went on the a boat ride in the Bay!

At Sitting Bull's Memorial (West River, South Dakota just across the River from Mobridge)

On the Boat!

Saturday we spent pretty much all day at the Marina where we enjoyed the sun! Only highlight/lowlight of the day was the fact that my Lens for my Camera brook and I had to wait until we got to Rapid City to get a new one! At night we went out to dinner, my whole Host Family (all the ones who was in Mobridge), and My Family at Fireside (A restaurant in Mobridge)

My mean mother chose to take a picture with the broken lens (It couldn't focus or zoom, so she was lucky is was focused!) but my eyes was all teared up! 

Sunday: We went to church in the Morning, it was fun to show my family my life through the last 10 months, and show them what American Church is all about! Than we drove to Fort Manual in Kennel, SD and to Fort Yates, ND (Just to go to North Dakota)!! Well when we got back to Mobridge, we went to Dairy Queen and than went swimming in the River! That night we had a goodbye party at the Marina, where we had supper, eat cake and went swimming in the river, made s'mores and ECT!...

At Church with Pastor

Norway Lutheran Church "The little Church on the Prairie, Rural Glenham, South Dakota

We played wedding with the cake!

Monday we left Mobridge and our Family Vacations  Started in Badlands and the Black Hills, SD! I'll hopefully get time to post about that tomorrow and upload some more pictures!! For now it is Bedtime, 11.55 Local Time (Mountain time)! Good Night here from the little RV in Sheridan, Wyoming, sleep tight!

XoXo Siri

The day is here, they have waited for..

Today at 3.45 pm danish time (8.45 am central american time) my parents flew out of Copenhagen Airport, and are now on there way to Chicago, Illinois and from there to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota where they stay until Thursday, and then arrive here in Mobridge Thursday afternoon!
I am so excited to see them!!

XoXo Siri

If I only could

If I only could I would stop time and go back to the time where we just were kids.. A time where all we did was fun and we only had to cry over skinned knees and worry over the monsters under the bed, and if just the light was on or we could hold our mothers hand those worries disappeared.. A time were you played with everybody and our friends was always like friends should be... But I miss this time so much of the fact that I do not want to grow up, or I am scared of it.. And now it seems like all my friends a hurrying* to! I don't understand, they are still teenagers what are they rushing for?? Getting married at 18? Moving out at 17? And getting tattoos at 16? I am sorry to the people who do/did this, I am not mad at you, but I think you should enjoy your "childhood"!!

Well I will enjoy it for as long as I can, even though I  am properly more responsible and independent and more mature than most "kids" my age, but who don't want somebody to cook for you, and clean and do your laundry I sure do!!! :)

No hard feelings,

XoXo Siri

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Camping :)

The weather is crappy and I am suppossed to go camping later.. Arh, well I'll have fun any way, I'll be with Cayla and her family, so nice <3

XoXo Siri

And for the last time...

I just got done skyping with my Parents... and for the last time in this turn.. Next week at this time they will be here in Mobridge.. On Tuesday they fly out to America, and on Thursday the arrive in Mobridge <3 <3 <3  Oh I am so excited, no time to pack!!
XoXo Siri <3

Graduation and last school day

The Senior's Graduation May 20th 2012

Last day of school at MPHS:

XoXo Siri

2012, the best and worst year of my life..

I have lately cried, so much that you wouldn't believe it.. I have cried of happiness, and of sadness... I punched my pillow over and over again because I just couldn't do this anymore, be here.. It is like it is pointless, why stay and need to say goodbye, what good will it do? I feel like it is over anyways and I should just leave now instead of waiting.. And then there are the moments when I have cried because I have to leave, I am so freaking confused about all this, but I guess that is normal for my situation.. Well other than that, I have lately missed my beloved grandmother, my Mormor, mor than I ever have before.. It is the fought of not getting to hug her in the airport in Copenhagen, like she hugged me goodbye in August, that is killing me... It is the fought of not getting go to the Country House in "Rorvig" and spend time with her this summer that is killing me.. All the things I usely do in the summer, will now forever be changed.. No more late nights eating waffles with jam on the porch, no more homemade strawberry porridge and picking blueberries with her.. No more helping cooking meatballs "frikadeller" and no more afternoon danish pastery and cocoa.. No more painting outdoorfuniture and watering flowers.. No more of all the Grandma stuff!! Well I still have my other grandmother Lise, my fathers mother, and yes I still get to do all the stuff with her, but that is other stuff, not the stuff I did with my Mormor, Kirsten!!! And all this missing has left me with the fear of ever loosing, with the fear of my mother passing away, because my children in the future will also need a grandmother, a fear that Heaven aren't really that great and that God have forgot about her... It has left me with the fear of confronting the truth and the world.. Confronting Denmark, and the fact that she is really gone..
I miss her more than words can describe, more than I could ever tell... Day, by day it doesn't seem so bad, but in the big picture, I think that I still believe that she will come back! Enough about my grandmother, even though I could write Novels, and Novels and more Books about her, I wont make you read it!!

Other than the tragedy I faced in 2012, it has been a good year... I have seen so many new things and expirienced a bunch.. And it will only keep coming.. Soon a new adventure starts!!! SUMMER'12 the time of our lifes.. Soon I'll get to see some of the things I have always dreamed about... But first I get to show my parents Mobridge, and then we are heated to Mt. Rushmore and I once again get to see one of the most amazing things in the world.. And further to the amazing Las Vegas, than to Grand Canyon, Los Angelas, San Fransisco and then home to good old Denmark!!!!!!!! Hanging with my friends, seeing my family and travel once again this time 2 weeks to my own little Paradice: Antibes, France with my grandparents and my brother..... Well it is gonna be pretty awesome!!

And in the fall only more adventures and new things are gonna come..

XoXo Siri <3 

a Final Goodbye

On August 11th 2011, the trip went to the States, it seems so long ago now.. I can't believe how much I have grown up in the past 9 months, I have learned so much about others and my self.. I have become more independant and much smarter and will now take better choices, but well that choice of going here, to America was the best I ever made... Now it is soon all over, today in 2 weeks I'll leave Mobridge, Say my final goodbye.. I'll shed tears and smile.. I'll pack up all my stuff up, to now once again start a new life, in an old country I have known my whole life.. I'll go on Vacation and then once again return to Denmark, once again sleep in my own bed, once again eat dinner with my family, once again go to my friend's house, once again live a life in Denmark, but it will never be the same as it was before I left for the states, everything will now have changed, I have changed, everybody else has changed.. It wont be the same school I go back to, but I new one, where I once again has to find new friends, and learn new friends.. Everything yet nothing will have changed.. It is paradox, for me as now a new person to step into...

It will all be so wierd, that feeling of being excited but sad, happy but confused.. a feeling you can't discribe..

In under 2 weeks I will once again hug my parents, once again tease my brothers, once again speak my native language and once again see danish humor.. In under 2 weeks, I will be reunited with everything I ever new, and yet with nothing I understand.. Why, why, why it will be for long time, I once again has to figure everything out.. In under 2 weeks I'll see them again

I'll once again say goodbye to one world, and hallo to another, once again say goodbye to one family, and hallo to another, once again say goodbye to one set of friends, and hallo to another, once again say goodbye to one school and hallo to another..............


XoXo Siri

COUNTDOWN!!!

3,2,1!!!!! 3 freaking days of school left, and all it is, is semester test... It is sad and I am happy! Well I am gonna miss MPHS, a lot but of course I want vacation too!! On wednesday at 1O'clock I say my final goodbye to this school.. No more waking up at 6 am, No getting a ride in an car to school, no more boring Biology with Mr. L, no more long hours writing papers in Mrs. S's language art class... No more stupid assignements in food class with Mrs. K... No more watching warmovies, projects and playing trivia in Mr. W's (U.S. History, Psychology, World History/Geography).. No more doing nothing in Geometry with Mr. S! No more annoying studyhall with Mrs. M or Mr. S!!! AHHH Finally no more freaking school lunch!! :D
Well there are good things I am going to miss too, like walking the hall ways with Cayla before school, standing in the hall way "hanging" in the lockers and talking.. No more practice to attend after school, no more making posters, no more "3.17 pm" is the best moment of the day.. No more lunch to talk in.. No more telling about Denmark, no more school spirit, GO TIGERS! no more MPHS and soon no more Mobridge :(!! I'lll miss it all so much!!!!

Well we still count down, 3 days left.. 3,2,1!!!!!!

XoXo Siri

good morning!!

Good morning on this lovely sunday morning, have a great day <3

XoXo Siri

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Manerer

Jeg er ved at få spad af amerikaneres manerer!! Det er så slæmt at jeg mister appetiten når jeg spiser med min værtsfamilie og i skolen kigger jeg ikke op fra min mad! Dem jeg sidder med til frokost har ok manerer men nogle af de børn har de værste jeg nogensinde har set.. Josh og Kreg (mine værtsbrødre) falder her ind under, og forstår godt hvor de kommer fra for mine værtsforældre's kunne også værer bedre.. Snakker med munden fuld af mad, lægger ikke gaflen mens de tykker, bruger fingrene til at skubbe maden op på gaflen med i stedet for en kniv, lukker ikke munden når de tykker, drikke direkte fra mælkekartonen, står op og spiser af en tallerken osv, osv...!!!
DET ER BARE SÅÅÅÅ ULÆKKERT OG JEG VILLE ØNSKE JEG KUNNE SIGE NOGET TIL DEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
men altså der må jo være en grund:

Håber at børn i fremtiden i Amerika lærer det!!!!

REFORMATION!

Are you ready? Here we go!!!! In a couple of months the blog will change name from "My Amazing American Adventure" to something like "A girl in the world" or "My life" or "My journey" or "My diary" (having decided on the final name yet) Come with ideas if you would like.. Well my idea is to change the blog into a blog in english about my life in denmark, so my American family/friends can follow me and anybody else who would like to..
I imagine bloggin about school, sports, life in general, ect.! I really, really hope you will follow me!

XoXo Siri

In just weeks

"A year has passed and now we stand on the brink, of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox of everything and yet nothing being the same.
In a couple of weeks we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears,we will say goodbye to people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say goodbye to before we ever left.
We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends.
We will go back to the places we came from, and go back to the same things we did last summer and every summer before.
We will come into town on that same familiar road, and even though it has been months, it will seem like only yesterday.
As you walk into your old bedroom, every emotion will pass through you as you reflect on the way your life has changed and the person you have become.
You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don't seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand.
Who will you call first?
What will you do your first weekend home with your friends?
Where are you going to work?
Who will be at the party Saturday night?
What has everyone been up to in the past few months?
Who from school will you keep in touch with?
How long before you actually start missing people barging in without calling or knocking?
Then you start to realize how much things have changed, and you realize the hardest part of being an exchange student is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind.
We now know the meaning of true friendship.
We know who we have kept in touch with over the past year and who we hold dearest to our hearts.
We've left our worlds to deal with the real world.
We've had our hearts broken, we've fallen in love.
There have been times when we've felt so helpless being hours away from home when we know our families or friends needed us the most, and there are times when we know we have made a difference.
Just weeks from now we will leave.
Just weeks from now we take down our pictures, and pack up our clothes.
No more going next door to do nothing for hours on end. We will leave our friends whose random e-mails and phone calls will bring us to laughter and tears this summer, and hopefully years to come.
We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.
Just weeks from now we will arrive.
Just weeks from now we will unpack our bags and have dinner with our families. We will drive over to our best friend's house and do nothing for hours on end.
We will return to the same friends whose random emails and phone calls have brought us to laughter and tears over the year.
We will unpack old dreams and memories that have been put away for the past year.
In just weeks we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to change and still keep each other close.And somehow, in some way, we will find our place between these two worlds.
In just weeks."

friday aften

Friday night out? No way!!  Jasmin og Jeg bruger den på sofaen!! Har fået glæden af at se efter hende :) på sofaen mens vi spiser småkager og ser svampebob :)

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What is culture? where do I belong?

Well i guess that you might know what I have been confused lately.. Well I am not sure where I belong, I am a citizen of Denmark, but am I in some way American too?

9. plads

Jeg var til et golf stævne i Tirsdags, hvor jeg fik en 9. plads. Altså normalt ville jeg ikke synes en 9. plads er særligt godt og ville kun være tilfreds med 1. pladsen, men alle de piger der var med har spillet golf i årevis og jeg har kun i et par måneder, så det er vel rimeligt godt med en 9. plads!

Bowdle Invitational 9th.

golf meet

Right now me and the rest of the JV girls is on our way to Bowdle for a golf mert! It is both our first and last because the weather haven't been with us and our meets have bben canceled.. but now we are on the way and even though it looks like it is going to rain, I bet we will be fine! This also means we have had our last day of practice, so no more golf for me in this round!!

And tomorrow there is 11 days of school left :/

XoXo

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