My City

I know that some people might think I'm weird when I refer to Copenhagen as 'my city'. And I know that it's thousands of peoples city but my Copenhagen is different from everyone elses. It is mine and it is special to me. It is the tiny corners of coffee shops, curled up with hot chocolate and a book, watching the people pass the window. It is the sounds of bikes on the side walk and buses passing. It is the smell of sugar and smoke that collide perfectly to make my city smell adverturous, wonderful and special. It is the fountian that I sit at with my best friends under the dark, stary sky as we talk and listen to the street performers. It is not needing a map because even if I get lost, I can look up and us a building as a reference. It is finding the small places, like a book store that sells English books. It is the unexpected happening yet not finding anything wrong with it. Everything in my city has a special sound, a special look to it. My city has a song that is only mine. And it is Mine.

Holiday Season

So it's the beginning of the holiday season being away from home. Thanksgiving was on Thursday and it was tough being away from home and my family but I got to skype with them so it wasn't all too bad. I'm not sure what it's gonna be like at Christmas but I can only hope that it's not to hard to be away from my family...

Moving...

So, I changed host families yesterday.. That is a pain in the butt!! I had to pack my entire life into my suitcases and lug it across three towns and then unpack it again. Ugh! I have to much stuff. haha! I'll have to send some of it home...

Imagine Dragons!!!

So last night I went with some exchange students to go see the group Imagine Dragons! I didn't really know what to expect seeing as they are quieter and nothing like Macklemore. But it was actually really really fun. They were so amazing and it was actually a really comfortable concert. They were handing out water to the people who were standing closer to the stage so we wouldn't pass out. It was really nice.

G2G in Holbæk

So this past weekend we had a G2G (get together) in Holbæk, a town about 2 hours by train from mine. It was for Halloween but it was also about saying goodbye to the Oldies (Exchange students that came in the winter last year and are leaving soon). So, once me and my friend from Taiwan ran to catch the regional train to Holbæk we sat back and waited to get there. Once we got off the train in Holbæk, we met a bunch of exchange. It was so amazing to see all of them again after 3 months. So we waited for the bus then about 25 of us crammed into a bus to get to the high school we were sleeping at. that was all on Friday. On Saturday we went into Holbæk and roamed around (and my friend from Taiwan, different one, tried to kill me by feeding me wasabi). That night we had a Halloween party. It was so fun because a lot of the exchange students have never had Halloween before. After that there was a dance that went all night. We had to go home the next day :( it was so sad

Whoa...

Whoa... it's been over a month since I updated my blog last... Gosh I'm sorry. Let me catch you up on the happenings..

• I went over to Sweden around Oct. 19th... to be honest, it looked just like my home state. It was green with rolling hills and corn.... Really Sweden... Really. -_-# but it was fun anyway. It was really pretty and we went hiking which was interesting. And they have cheap candy! ;)
• Tivoli opened again for Halloween so me and my family went with some of THEIR family there. It was really fun. Even though we didn't spend any money on riding any rides it was just fun to be there with them. I really love them. They are now my family, no longer just a host family. 
• We had a week long break in the school year for fall and my family went to Germany! It was so much fun. We all (all seven of us) piled into their car and drove to Germany. We went to H.C. Anderson's house on the way which was really cool. In Germany we stayed in Hamburg which was really cool, except it rained the day we went out to explore but that's okay. We saw St. Nikolia's church that was bombed during WWII and it was so cool. If you ever go to Hamburg I would definatly suggest going there. 

So that was October... 

Laughing

Okay. So I was talking to my friend about people laughing in different countries:
Like Japan is www
Brazil is Huehuehue
Spanish is jaja
Danish is hæhæ

And We were just talking about it and she said, Why can't they just laugh normal...
Why can't then just laugh normal...

I love my friend but this is just somewhere where I have now become different.
Why can't they just laugh normal...
That is their normal. Who am I to tell someone else who grew up in a completely different culture than my own what is normal or not. It's not wrong for them to laugh the way they do. It has to do with their language and their culture.

In Thailand they put 555 for laughing. That's because the way you say 5 sounds like a person laughing.
In Spanish jaja j=h.
and the list goes on and on.

I think I can tell I've become different now because I can tell where the cultural boarder is. I know that we do think that are different. The difference in me is, I know it's not wrong and I know that what they are doing isn't "not normal".