Week 4 and almost 5

10/22/12 – 11/01/12

HALLLLLLLLLOWEEN!

I would love to start this post with a “beautiful” picture of my lovely class at the Halloween party Friday at the school!

“The famous class” on Edmonds Community College!

It has just been two busy weeks! So I won’t talk about the school, because there has been so much schoolwork, that it would be to boring to read about it all! So short said: two VERY busy weeks!

BUT of course we have had time for something else!

Monday and Tuesday – nothing else than school…

Wednesday I went together with Simone, Line and Elise to this little cute café Aloha, not far from the school, where we love sit to do our schoolwork and to have a good girly conversation. After the café we all went ice skating with some of the others from the class – it was really fun and of course I fell!

Thursday after school we went to this huge store with costumes to the Halloween party on the school Friday. It is really incredibly, how much they make out of Halloween! A lot of the houses are also decorated and people walk around in costumes and where we bought our costumes a lady told us, that Halloween is only getting bigger for every year – I think it is really big now! So after the Halloween shopping, we went to the cinema. It was the biggest cinema that I have ever been into! The biggest hall in Herning is about 2 or 3 times smaller than this – WOW were my first reaction with big eyes and open mouth!

Friday it was time to the Halloween party at the school and we where excited to see, if everybody would be dressed up in a costume. After school Simone, Line, Mia, Stine, Elise and I went out for dinner at Blazing Onions, where we got the some of the best burgers,  I have ever tasted! We went home to Simone after the dinner so we could get dressed up for the party. A lot of the people had done something out of them selves and the school also held a contest about the best costume. There were 5 prices and our class won 3 of them, so quickly we got almost “famous”. A lot of the students on the school are from Asia, so they are crazy about us! The party got us thinking of our gymnasium parties in Herning and a lot of us miss them – and the alcohol (sorry Kelli) but still we had a really good and fun party!    

 Ready and dressed up for the Halloween party

The fantastic burger on Blazing Onion


Saturday we got up early to our second trip together. It was a trip to Snoqualmie Falls and Rattlesnake to hike. Unfortunately the weather is not the best more, so we had a day where it was raining all the time. We could still see the beautiful fall even though it was hard for the rain and the fog – a shame! After that we went to Rattlesnake to hike – it was so hard! I made it though to the top and I’m actually a bit proud to say that I have been walking 1.9miles up of a mountain to the top! Again the weather was annoying and we couldn’t see that far, but still a very beautiful view!

Snoqualmie Falls - very beautiful!

On our way to the top of the mountain



The fantastic view from the top of Rattlesnake 

Sunday was a relaxing day!

What a lovely surprise!:

Monday = schoolwork and a new busy week! BUT I got the best surprise from my lovely family in Denmark – they have sent a packet with Danish candy! I was so happy, when had opened it, especially the liquorices made me happy! So thank you again to my fantastic parents and siblings!

Tuesday we had to hand over three assignments and I had 3 hours in the lab plus a presentation… So Simone and I decided to eat out and have a good dinner after school! We went to the Italian restaurant again. We had three courses and it just tasted so good – our stomachs were completely full after that fantastic dinner! The best part of it, was that it only cost us about 20$ (about 120 kr.) so cheap!  

I have actually also planned a new trip together with Line and Simone – all I can say: it is going to be luxury and expensive!

Wednesday was relaxing and I got home directly after school, just to do laundry, clean my room a bit and relax.

Thursday we only had a study lab in the school and then we went on our third trip to Boing, the Future of flight. We couldn’t take pictures in the building, but it is actually the largest building in the world by volume. We were on a tour, to see how the flights are build and how long time it takes – it was a good tour, not the best we have seen over here, but exciting to see the different flights.

Boing from the outside - the largest building is on picture number 1 to the left

So tomorrow I will go on a trip together with Line and Simone that will be expensive and luxury and I can’t wait! – you will hear about it next week!

Some funny things people have said about us Danes

When I went to Blazing Onions with the girls, our waiter asked us which language we spooked (as always, when we are speaking Danish to each other). All of us have been wondering how Danish sounds like to people who don’t speak it. Some is saying that we sing then we are speaking, other is saying that it sounds like French or maybe German (which we don’t think at all). So we asked the waiter and said none of this, but that he had never heard something like it – we had our own and unique language! Cool! 

The other thing is that we in Denmark can drink, when we are 16 (over here you must be 21), so when we talk with other about it, their mouth and eyes gets so big! But we met this guy in the bus and he said, “One of the only things I know about you guys is, when you finish high school (gymnasium) you’re having the longest and biggest party – our student party that is about a whole week”. We thought it was really funny!   

There are squirrels everywhere and specially Simone is crazy about them :)