2011!

Dette indlæg vil blive på Engelsk!

A thank you to Mie Andersen, for giving me this idea! Thank You Mie!

2011 is almost over; it is kind of hard to believe! It just went by so fast, maybe even too fast! 2011 was a year filled with happy memories and big changes! It all started last New Years Eve, when I got to jump in the New Year with two of my best friends Natasha Christensen and Emma Olsen, how sweet! Already in the 5^th week of the year I got to go to Norway with all the 9^th Graders, 10^th Graders and the kids in 1.G! We went skiing in Trysil!! We had so much fun, and it was so great to get to ski with all my friends, and especially get to ski REALLY fast with my really good friend Sofie Nielsen! We had so much fun, going down those hills!! Just 2 weeks later I got to go skiing in Austria with my Mom, Dad, Brothers, and Family Friends!! It was so much fun, spending all the family time, even though I had to miss out on a couple of days of skiing because of my dumb injury in my knee!!

A week later, it was my birthday, which I got to spend with all my family around me and with my 3 sweet girls Sofie, Natasha and Emma!! Months past before anything else exciting happened!! In April I had my second surgery on my knee, no fun at all and it hurt a lot, but I am glad they fixed it, and that it almost doesn’t coarse me any trouble anymore! How nice, after 8 months on and of crutches!  Then the time came for last day of school at Johannesskolen!! We got to dress up, through caramels and spray water on the kids, and make fun of our teachers!! And then at night all the graduators (9^th and 10^th graders) had a big party!! We had so much fun, defiantly a day I will never forget!! Then the day for the actually graduation came, it was so much fun, and then partying afterwards in my backyard, and then sleeping in a tent on blow-up-madras’s, I don’t know how well it went for all us big city-girls, but we had fun at least!
It was really difficult to say good-bye to Johannesskolen, my life for 3 years, the place where I had the most of my friends, and where I had got so many happy memories and some not so happy ones!

But Summer Vacation was here, FINALLY!! My vacation wasn’t like any other summer break I had ever had before! I could get a call everyday know, saying they found a hostfamily for me, and that I was leaving that same week! Meaning I couldn’t really leave the country, had to be able to get home fast! That meant I didn’t get to go to France, like I had done almost every year in the past! But instead I worked in the family business earning pocket money for my year in the States, and hang out with friends! That was only how I spend the first couple of weeks! Later on the time came to say good-bye to Sofie, who was going to New Zealand, to make her dream come true, she was gonna be an exchange student like me, just on the other side of the world!! And not leaving my hometown all summer was defiantly not an option for an adventures girl like me, who loves to travel! So we went to Jutland, a part of Denmark, just to see a little more of my home country before leaving it for a year! And so I had something to tell people about!! So of we went to famous churches, to see thee famous “Jellinge Stenene”, stones from the time of the Vikings, and to visit friends and to go to LEGOLAND! The famous Danish company’s amusement park! It was like I was a kid again!! After a couple of weeks I returned home, and just a couple of days later we went to my grandparents vacation home by the beach! Here it happened I got the call, I WAS GOING TO SOUTH DAKOTA!! How exciting! We went back home again with out knowing more and life continued! Everyday I waited for that call telling me where and with who I was gonna stay! One Monday I called my organization in frustration of not hearing further than South Dakota, for a week! And they told me they just got the information the same day! The Weintjes Family, in Mobridge! Just 2 days later I was packing everything, ready to leave the next day! That Wednesday night, the night before I left, all my family and some of my friends came over for a “good-bye party” It was really nice to see everybody for a last time before leaving for 11 months!

The next day, way early in the morning my adventure started, finally my dream came true! I met up with other STS-students in the airport. With me were my Parents, Brother, and Grandparents for a final good-bye! I got to eat my last Danish pastry and Drink a Faxe Kondi in the airport while saying good-bye, just getting my last look, smell and taste of Denmark for 2011! I said good-bye, got checked in, and of I went! Next Stop NEW YORK CITY! Taking of in that plane was the weirdest thing ever, getting my last look of the only home I had ever known and starting a new life in a new and foreign country! That I had never been in!!!

After many hours of flying we was finally in New York! Now the program said 1 week in NYC, with all the STS-students! This was an incredible, on forgettable week! We saw the statue of Liberty, were up in Empire State Building, visited Times Square and shopped like you can only do it in NYC!! This week I made really good friends with three other students from Denmark, Cathrine who I knew from home (I went to school with her), and Nicholas and Signe I had never met before! We had so much fun that week!

Then the time came to fly to South Dakota! New York – Minnesota – South Dakota!! A long but exciting trip, I knew my hostfamily was waiting for me in the Airport, and I couldn’t wait to meet them! I arrived, and her was my new American Family: Jack, Missy, Emily, Wyatt and Hunter, and Joona the other exchange student from Finland!

I moved into their home, and I had a loooot of fun here! We one weekend went to Rapid City, to see Mount Rushmore, that was really cool!

And then time came to start school at Mobridge-Pollock High School! I already played Volleyball at this point so I knew some of the girls from the school!

I maid some good friends, and are enjoying my time soo much! Cayla Hintz, a freshmen I played Volleyball with, became my best friend here! She is such a unique girl, with a big heart and we always have a good time together and laugh a lot! I love her very much, and don’t know what I will do without her when I go back! And then there of course is other friends I have there, but I won’t take up all that space just to talk about them, so you have to be without!

I moved hostfamilies, the reason isn’t something I will tell about here, I will just say I love the Wientes’s very much and loved staying there! But I moved to my new American family, the Norders: Jessie, Mike, Josh, Kreg, Ashton, Rina, Nicole, Brent, and Amanda! (Only 2 of the kids, Josh and Kreg lives at home)

This is the best Host Family EVER, and I see them as my own family! I love staying here and I have a great, great time!

But enough about that! In 2011 I also experienced my first homecoming, my first American Christmas, my first thanksgiving, my first Halloween and tonight I will have my first American New Years! So this year there has defiantly been a lot of first time experiences for me, so of them better than other but I have enjoyed every moment of it! I am so thankful to you, for making my 2011 an incredible year I will never forget, THANK YOU!

I know 2012 will be a great year, maybe even better than 2011! But 2012 is also the year the chapter “My Amazing American Adventure” will end and a new chapter called “Gymnasium 2012-2015” will start!

Overall, I am one happy girl, and I couldn’t ask for more!

Good-Bye 2011, and Hello 2012!!