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 :)

Week 3

School, school, school … and finally weekend! ... 10/15/12 – 10/21/12

 

This week has been so busy when it comes to school. After Vancouver I was a little bit behind with all of our schoolwork – but I made it all in time!

It has been so busy because this Tuesday we had our first three hours lab – yes three whole hours in the lab in chemistry! Besides that I also had 4 assignments, a presentation and a lot of homework.

Unfortunately the next weeks will be like that too…

But because we all want to experience some things, we still have time for that (sometimes) – the only negative thing about it, is that the schoolwork will be done just in time, but that’s just how it is!

Because of the schoolwork I didn’t have time, for much else to do before Thursday evening – done with all with assignments and homework. So Simone, Line, Cecilia, Sara and some of the boys had dinner at Macaroni. It is an Italian restaurant, so no fast food – delightful!

FRIDAY = HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

At Friday we could finally enjoy the weekend, after a busy school week!

So a first the whole class were invited to dinner at Victor Friday, where his host mom also had invited us all to a real high school football game- which we all were excited about.

After the dinner we took the bus to Edmonds Woodway High School. When we came to the stadium, where the game was, we were all more excited! We had been talking about, if it would be like in movies with a big orchestra and cheerleaders.

I can tell that we weren’t disappointed! There were such a fantastic atmosphere and it was “only” a high school game. There was a big orchestra, cheerleaders and people were really in a good mood. They backed up their team as good as possible!

So overall the experience with a high school football game, was like a movie!

Here you can see a little part 
of the grand stand.

Ready to start the game!

We were cheered on the blue team

A touchdown to the team we cheered for – but unfortunately they lost the game

Saturday I was at Elise the whole day and we just had a really relaxing day a home with movies, chips and soda.

At evening we had dinner with the whole class to celebrate Alexander’s 18 birthday. Elise and I were in good time to take the bus, so we got this idea, that we had to buy a present to Alexander – and since Halloween is so big over here, when why not buy him a pumpkin, a big one! So we bought this big pumpkin to him. The only problem was just to carry it and of course we got off the bus the soon, so we had to carry it even longer. Then we got to the Alderwood center, Elise carried the pumpkin and I have never seen so many eyes on her before. But we made it and had a lot of fun about it!

After the dinner Elise, Niron, Jesper and I went home to Nicklas, where we just watched a movie, played pool and cards with his host brothers – a good and relaxing day!

On our way to the birthday with our pumpkin – we had to walk a bit longer…

While Elise was walking with the pumpkin in Macy’s, which we laughed a lot about!

Celebrating Alexander’s birthday at Red Robin with the whole class

Sunday was just one more relaxing day with movie, more chips and soda together with Elise. 

Vancouver with the ladies

Vaaaaaancouver – 10/13/12-10/15/12

I have spend the weekend with 4 amazing girls – Simone, Elise, Line and Cecilia in Canada, Vancouver,

It was a really good trip – we had A LOT of fun, food, relaxing, shopping, it was a real trip for girls!

Saturday about 09:20, we took the bus from Lynnwood transit station to Seattle, where our bus to Vancouver went from – all of us very excited!

 Ready to go!

So after more than 4 hours in bus we made it to Vancouver.

Finally! 

We made it to the hotel after about one hour – of course we walked a longer way than necessary.

But the hotel was very good and we had a room for all five of us together, so that was really good. 

Four of the boys were also living on the same hotel, just only for one night.

After we had unpacked our stuff and had been relaxing a bit; we went downtown to the most “important” and biggest street, Robson Street, which was the street with the best shops and restaurants, so of course we had to went their as the first!

Vancouver downtown! Our hotel was not more than about 15-20 minutes away, so we didn’t had to walk that long.

Line, Simone and I ended all up buying some things – of course! After 3 hours walking we went back to the hotel, so we could go out to have some dinner with the boys.

We ended up at Red Robin again - this time it was just in Canada. B-U-R-G-E-R again of course!

It was a really good day and we had a good time together with boys. So we ended up in our beds very tired and just wanted to have some sleep, so we could be ready for the next day!  

The next morning we found this really nice café to have our big breakfast (really good) and to find out what the plan was for the day – we ended actually up with none, so we just walked around in Vancouver as real tourists.

After the breakfast our stomachs were full and we were ready to see more of Vancouver.

We ended up walking to some different places – we walked in neighborhoods in a really bad condition with many homeless people, so we went back to the central part of Vancouver where Line suddenly got a Fantastic idea – spa manicure and pedicure and since the weather not was the best, we did that.

The place was called “Bella Bella”

It was really nice and a good experience and we only ended up giving about 60$, which is very cheap! So when we had left the salon, we felt that our hands and feets were very clean and looked good!

After that we walked around a bit. Simone and I decided though, that we wanted to go back to the hotel to relax. We had seen this cute little cupcake shop, so we had to buy two, which we could take with us back to the hotel.

 

The two cupcakes we bought – they were so DELICIOUS and I think it’s some of the best cupcakes I have ever tasted!

In the evening we decided to buy some food and take it with us to the hotel. After that we just stayed at the hotel and had a truly girl night with facemask, a lot of talking and laughing.

The next morning, was sadly the day that we had to leave. But before we left Vancouver, we had our breakfast at one of the highest hotels with an amazing view over the whole city!

The fantastic view!

After one more tasty breakfast we were ready to travel back to USA!

The weekend was really good and we had so much fun, even though the weather could have been better, so we could have seen a bit more – but I still had three fantastic days, with four fantastic girls!

While we were in Vancouver all of us were surprised by, that there were so many homeless people on the streets. Even though if you walked to centre, there were still a lot. The city actually got us thinking a bit of Copenhagen, specially when we walked a bit away from the centre and out to the smaller places. I would say, that I like Seattle more, but we had a great weekend and that is all that matters!

Simone, Line and Elise were three of the girls I went together with – Cecilia the last girl took the picture.

Hope you guys back home are enjoying your little vacation – then I will try to enjoy being in school!