This past week I had my introduction/language camp for exchange! It was a week long event that had all of the Rotary Youth Exchange Students in Denmark from all districts, held in a town called Bjerringbro! It was super cool to meet people from all over Denmark, and I made some pretty cool friends. There were kids from Taiwan, Japan, Lithuania, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Chile, Canada, U.S.A, and Argentina (Maybe forgetting a few countries).
I arrived Sunday afternoon with all the other exchange students, and from there we traded pins for our Rotary blazers, we talked a lot, we ate dinner, and then we danced A LOT in our "living room" area with some strobe lights, and A LOT of Brazilian music.
We had three hour Danish lessons every morning from Monday to Friday, and again in the afternoon from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursday we went to Århus and saw the art museum there, and then we were able to walk around and shop a little. I also ordered ice cream (twice) IN DANISH.
Friday afternoon was really great because our afternoon Danish lessons was talking about culture shock, and although Denmark is much like what I'm used to at home, and although the culture shock wasn't very much, it was really great to be able to talk with a whole class full of other exchange students about all the differences we've noticed and what we all think of them, or how we're adapting to them.
Saturday night there was a little "celebration" for the end of intro camp. By celebration I mean there was an entire country full of exchange students crammed into a lecture hall dancing to Brazilian music all night long. It was literally like we were clubbing, minus basically everything that goes into clubbing besides music, and people. It was a lot of fun.
We also had to perform a "show" at the end, it was all just really fun performances made up by the teachers and students. My class ended up marching into the lecture hall signing an old Danish nursery rhyme: "Min venstre, min venstre, min venstre fod er meget godt, den hopper og danser i støvler og sko. Men hvad den med højre, den højre? Den højre danser hopsasa." Which basically translates to: "My left foot, my left foot, my left food is really good, it hops and dances in boots and shoes, but what about the right? The right? The right is dancing hopsasa." I'm pretty sure hopsasa is an old Danish dance...or maybe a part of the rhyme I still don't know.
Here are some pictures from intro camp:
The "massive river of Denmark" we saw on the first night of intro camp.
A kid named Hunter and I holding up the American flag in front of the art museum, you can kind of see the rainbow bridge above us.
Also the rainbow bridge.
This is probably the biggest exhibit in the art museum in Århus, it's the rainbow bridge on the roof.
This is a view of Århus from the roof of the art museum.
This boy is one of the biggest exhibits in the art museum in Århus.
This is all Danish I translated from a story in English.
I would have wrote more, but I'm tired because I just got back from intro camp today.
Vi ses!
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