I have a host family- the trilogy.

Helllooo!!

In general: I just spent the last week volunteering in a school for special education children. It was very interesting, and the U.S happens to be even more iconic to these children I met than I ever imagined it could be. My favorite question: "have you met one direction?" I also went to a school party, made some småkager (cookies) with my host sister, more specifically snickerdoodles which we burned, ANNNNND *drum roll please* switched host families for the LAST time.

It's been about a year since I wrote my first "I have a host family blog," a year I thought I'd never get through, seeing as how I was still waiting for Denmark to come. It's been about three months since I wrote my last blog about switching to my second host family. And thus, this is my third, and final host family blog.

And thank God this was my second to last time packing, because I'm pretty sure with each time I pack I get worse and less organized than the most recent time. I mean I'm not kidding, I had more clothes than I could fit in my suitcase (literally, and I don't say literally figuratively this time), and even though the more I packed away, the less clutter I had in my room, everything still managed to look messy.

I am living very close to my first host family in this third family, and can bike to school again which I actually am happy about as long as I don't get soaked in the rain, which really is not a rare occurrence. It's actually how I soaked my phone.... I know actually I say I'm happy to bike again now, but the forecast for me saying "I hate biking" while biking and huffing and puffing again up Denmark's many hills (it's NOT a flat country those are all just a wheelbarrow of LIES) is 100%. Call it a very conditional happiness. ;-)

My first host dad actually once told me he thinks I'm "getting used to my bike because I'm not coming home so tired and out of breath anymore." I decided that laughing would be my best shot, because what I didn't tell him is that I really just walked up one of the side hills that nobody drove down, and hopped back on my bike again when I got to the main street so nobody saw me walking.

ANYWAY- back to my host family. I have two host brothers, 15 and 16, and a host sister who goes to the same school as me, who is 18. They also have two cats, so sorry mom - you'll be sneezing for a while until I do laundry once I get back to the United States. One of the cats can open doors (from both directions) as well. I've been told that in the middle of the night he may sneak into my bedroom by opening the door by himself. And if he wants to leave, well he opens it again and leaves.

I am really excited to have a house full of siblings again, I hope this will be a fantastic end to a fantastic year, and I am more than confident that this family will be a fun and welcoming family to spend my last four months on exchange with.

Oh! And before I end my blog! I went to a Katy Perry concert live in Herning! It was amazing! The one thing the other exchange student and I noticed though, is that when Danes go to concerts, they don't cheer. Or sing along. Or stand up. Or dance. They only cheer for a couple seconds when the artist finishes a song, starts a song, or comes on stage. They all just sit still and... listen (even when the artist gives the next verse of the song to the audience to sing.) Maybe its a cultural thing... maybe it was just this concert.

Anyway- I'm ready to make the finishing touches to my exchange year, a year that feels like it just started, and I sure hope that these next four months feel as infinite as my first four months did.

In a week I'll be off to Istanbul with my class, so I'll also be blogging on that. I suppose all these new blogs make up for my lack of blogs from Christmas to February. It can only mean I'm keeping good and busy in my last four months here? :-)

Vi ses! :-D