Godday!
Today I was sick on the couch and watching a television show about Australian girls training to be princesses. I told my host family that we didnt need to train them, we send ours over to Denmark to do that!
But watching the show reminded me that I should write to report everything that has been happening here. wow where do i start. At the beginning always works ;)

The day after my last report was my host sister's birthday (fødselsdag). This was quite exciting as we got to sing the Danish Birthday song (every verse ends with a line about the persons family waiting at home to have chocolate cake) and eat a special danish cake. On that day we also had my first glimpse of snow, but only for a couple of hours. Although we still spent those few hours making snowmen, snow angels and throwing snowballs.

You probably havent heard but they believe a meteor landed on the island of Funen (which is the region i am in) recently.So the following day I went meteor-hunting with my host Farfar and Farmor (my host Dad's Dad and Mum). We failed to find it so my dreams of having "meterorite Jennie" were forever shattered. On the was to the place we saw the property of the man who owned Lego. Apparently he is quite a horse fan as he had many expensive horses. I am not sure what i expected but i was quite disapointed that it was not made out of Lego.

My host mother also took me to see the HC Andersons Hus. This is a museum based around, and including, the house in which Hans Christian Anderson was born in 1805. The museum includes an area in which you can sit and listen to the most famous fairytales (in five different languages!), watch a biography in a small cinema, and follow a timeline with important documents and photographs. It is also possible to walk through the house and stand on the very spot they believe he wasborn. I did learn some things i didn't know also, such as he was 25cm taller then the national average at that time, and travelled very much for that time. Also that he painted (quite well) and did 'papercuts'.

From the 10th-17th I attended a language camp, which was held at a type of boarding house on Jutland. This camp was organised by Rotary and all of the recently inbound Exchange students attended. On this camp we had Danish lessons as well as taking excursions to see the Viborg Cathedral, Aros and Lake Hald. Lake Hald is the second deepest lake in Denmarkand is part of a large ecological study as it has to have oxygen pumped into it. The Viborg cathedral has been built and rebuilt several times due to fires, only the crypt remains from the original building. We also took a trip to Arhus in which we visited Aros, the museum of modern Art. The trademark peice 'boy' is created by an Australian artist Ron Mueck. If you get an oppurtunity google him and see the hyperreal sculptures he creates.

We also spent an evening playing scout games in the forrest that was right near the school. Our team spent alot of time getting lost!We also went bowling one night. On the last night we had a banquet with some Rotarians and our district councellors and then afterwards had a discotek which lasted pretty late. We also tried some traditional danish dishes such as Frikadella and Rødgrød med fløde. The food was not so bad, for a camp school, We managed to find most of the hairs before we actually ate them :) The other strange thing that happened on the camp was a girl was asking me where i came from. When i said Geraldton she was very excited and told me that the people she were staying with now had a daughter away in Australia, a girl named Lil! small world....

This last week I have been staying with my second host family while my host family is away. In denmark they have winterbreak (vinterferie) either last week or this week, so i managed to get the week of school also. The town I am staying in is about 20 minutes drive from Odense and has around 6000 people. The shipyard here makes some of the largest containervessels in the world. My host family took me to Copenhagen where we saw the queens castle (she was not at home), the Little Mermaid statue and went shopping. On thursday I was in the local paper with my host brother in a story about exchange students. It mentioned why i chose denmark, what the differences and things like that. Last night i went to the Opera to see Don Pasquale in Danish. The music and acting was fantastic.

Well, thats about it so far....