Final Host Family & Last Weekend

I have moved in with my 4th and final host family now. It is strange to think that the next time I pack my bags, in just 2.5 months, will be to go back to Australia!

 

My new host family consists of my host parents Christian and Lene, their 16 year old twins Signe and Simon, and their 19 year old son Rasmus who goes to university in another town and therefore doesn't live at home. They still live in the same area as my last two host families, in fact there is only one house in between their house and my second host family's house, so I still catch the same bus to school and know my way around the neighbourhood.

My new room is on the ground level of the house, while the other bedrooms are all on the top floor.

The days are getting shorter, which means that it is now dark in the mornings when I go to school.

  

This week the fire alarm went off at school, so we had to all go outside. The process is quite different to in schools in Australia. Here, everyone just casually packs up their things, before making their way out of the building to stand around outside until they say we can go back in. There is no roll-calling and all classes just split up and make their way out how they want to.

  

It has been raining a lot lately, with the temperature during the day being around 12'C, then at night around 7'C.

I went into the international shop in my town, that generally stocks Asian, African and Middle-Eastern foods. But to my surprise I found Milo! Which Kelsey (another Australian exchange student at my school here) and I decided to buy and go halves in. There was also a range of other things that we have in Australia, that you can't get in the normal grocery shops in Denmark, like jelly crystals, custard powder, French Onion Soup Mix, sweet potatoes and a few other things that will all come in handy when it comes to trying to cook Australian food here!

On Friday night, 25th October, there was a school party, this time it was a glow party, with glow paint and UV lights. There was no one from my class going, but I decided I still wanted to go because it sounded fun and would be my second last school party in Denmark, so I went with Kelsey. She came over to my house after school and we cooked dinner, Chicken Kievs and a lot of roast vegetables (including pumpkin and sweet potato-something Danes don't eat).

  

Then we got ready together and went to the party. We had a lot of fun. It was Kelsey's first school party in Denmark, so it was fun for me to show her what it's like, and reminded me of my first school party here. We spent a lot of the night with a group of girls from Kelsey's class, so it was also nice for me to meet some new people.

  

The next day, Saturday, Kelsey and I went for a walk through the forest near where I live and I showed her around my neighbourhood. It is very pretty in Autumn!

    

   

On Sunday, I went with my second host family, to their cousin's house, about 1 hour north, in a town called Rebild. Firstly we sat down and had some tea and apple cake.

  

Then Ditte (host sister from 2nd host family), Caroline (Ditte's cousin) and I went for a horse ride on Caroline's horses. It was such a nice ride, we rode through fields, forests and along small country roads.