Bonne Vacance, The Sequel.

Perhaps I should have put that title in Danish.

Thus, 1/3 closing posts. Got the first one underway, the last two to come in due time.

Today ladies and gentlemen, May 13th 2015, marks my last day of school in Denmark.

I have officially completed school as a foreign exchange student in the Danish language. Granted I didn't understand half of it up until the last couple weeks here, and that was if I was lucky. However now I'm done! And I can go back to understanding the lessons! (Which could arguably be an unfortunate thing) ;-)

Crazy to backtrack all the way to last year, writing my last day of school post and entitling it "bonne vacance," and to think to now, one year later, that I'm doing this all over again. I honestly just cannot believe that last year on the last day of school, Denmark still felt ages away. I could have never imagined in my wildest dreams writing a last day of school post in Denmark or my year even ending, let alone me even getting there at all. It all just felt so unreal and far away. Now its even a little bit surreal how fast it all goes. I mean really, I feel like I also just wrote my "Først dag af Dansk skole" (I'm completely confident that you can probably at least guess what that means, and that I don't have to translate), and met all my classmates.

I remember my first day I went in the back of the class and sat next to someone, class ended early, school ended at 1:40 in the afternoon, and then I went home and got a mass of friend requests on facebook from some of my classmates. Now it's the last day. It boggles my mind to no end. Of all differences I've experienced in Denmark, the way time goes on is certainly not one of them.

This past year in Danish school hasn't been the easiest year of my life. I know what I did, and it wasn't homework, tests, or much school work at all for that matter. The excuse "Because I can't understand," started to feel so beaten down and worn out towards the end of this year, even when it was true. Even when I could understand some of what the teacher was saying, it was almost too late in the game for me to be able to comprehend the classwork. Because what they were doing at that time, no doubtedly followed something that I missed at the beginning of the year.

Something I've always wondered when I was in maybe, hour 3 of my 6 hour study sessions back home, was what it would be like to be someone who let themselves come home and put it in half the hours I do to their school work, and still get the grades I do. Or perhaps get grades a little lower than me (respectably). To simply be one of those who comes home and doesn't have to be the straight A student and get their homework done all the time.

I now know what that's like. And I won't be going back to that lifestyle. It's not and never will be the lifestyle for me. I'm built to take on twice the level of stress I mentally can, overthink things to the highest degree, and plan every minute of my life. Granted, coming home and not having homework to do was relaxing and enjoyable because when I got off school, I could self decide what I wanted to do next. (On the other hand if it's one of those afternoons where you spend all evening on your computer, you have no excuse such as homework as to why you're exceptionally lazy and antisocial). However sitting in school and going through the same routine every day for hours *check gmail, check blogger (sees nobody commented) check facebook, log out, log back in, log out again* gets really tedious because I honestly, sometimes just felt dumb. Just to put the words out there, and no more sugar coating, you just feel dumb.

Sometimes I would literally look up university sights and visibly pull up ACT test sights to make it look like I was doing something intelligent and had important matters to attend to on the home front. And I mean technically I do have important matters to attend to, but I'm also built to procrastinate on everything that stresses me out which is quite possibly why I'm always stressed, I save 4/2 of my work for the last minute. But when I think about it too, my university search binges did give me some pretty good foundation on college research...

My Danish classmates have about another two weeks left in the classroom, and then about a month of reading/studying for various exams. I however, will be off touring much of Western Europe, and do not have to take the exams.

So therefore, there is also not much to say on "the last day of school" specifically, because for my classmates it wasn't their last day. I made my classmates some vanilla cake with chocolate frosting which was nicely made if I do say so myself, and brought it to class, and we all "hyygede" for a while. They gave me a nice little farewell present called a "blå bog" which is kind of putting together all your impressions of the person etc. that you gave it to. It was super sweet, and I really like it :-)

And then I got my last most delicious 22 kroner sandwich from the school kantine (cafeteria) before I left. Which will also be my last school food that isn't freezer burned pizza and/or soggy chicken burgers (I will give my high school credit for their mashed potatoes though). Man I loved this cafeterias food.

And that's a wrap for my Danish school year! Should I start counting days until school starts in the U.S?

I think not...unfortunately this summer break doesn't come with a year after. 

'Ses!