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Dav! Well the weather here is very very different, today it was about 1-2C and raining hard। Hmm॥ where to start? The hotel in Bangkok was Beautiful and had a huge pool and a big marble atrium। The three of us each got seperate deluxe rooms and were treated to a free Buffet Dinner with tray after tray of delicious food। And even though we had alot of confusion finding the bus to the hotel, and being told we have to pay a bond on the room as well as not knowing how much to tip the busboy, it all turned out fine. We were greeted at the airport in Copenhagen (København) by a Rotarian who led us to the domestic terminal of the airport. My host family was gathered in Billund with both Australian and Danish Flags. We then set off into the cold to find the car. The first few days were busy setting up a Danish cpr Number and Phone number. As well as exploring Odense which is very old and Pretty, stone pavements, triangle roofs and everything :) On the Wednesday I started School at Odense Katedralskole. The coordinater and the Exchange students I met were all super-nice and gave me a tour around the school, which is not much different to Nagle in terms of stairs and placement of things. My class is great and there is plans for a trip to Prague in March. I got to choose to do German (or spanish) and Drama. It turned out to be a good choice to do German because my HostDad used to live in Germany for 6months. On the wednesday I also went to the theatre to see Treasure Island in Danish. It was the premiere and was so good that even I understood it.The saturday morning I attended a ceremony for Funen Person of the Year with my host parents which was held at the Office for the Newspaper. At the event i met the big people around town such as the mayor and the former mayor. The winner was a man who runs free circus training lessons during the school holidays for kids. Following his speech some of the children did a performance of circus tricks, like juggling. Later that evening when the story was on the news my host family and we saw me in the background!! The other very exciting thing we have done is watched the Handball. I am not sure how much of the news gets back to Australia but Denmark is now the European champions. In the semi-final against Germany the scores where tied 25-25 with three seconds left on the clock and Denmark had a penalty throw.... can u imagine the excitement??? well needless to say Denmark got the throw and one the game. They then competed against Croatia the next night and won by about 4 goals. That night I had dinner with my councillor and my next host Parents. My future-hostmum is a Danish to German translator at a legal firm. At this point i was very very glad i chose to study German and not Spanish. My future host parents are very nice as well. Hmmm... That seems to be about it because i have to go get ready for a party at my school for Fastelavn. Which is the old Holiday on which they used to hit at a wine barrel with a cat in it. Hopefully that tradition has changed, but even so I have always been more of a dog person ....