Intro Camp!

Wow! I have been so busy recently. So I am very sorry to all my fans (haha) for not posting for a week or so. I went to the party at my school and it was very fun. All my classmates were very friendly and the party was fun, a lot of dancing. It was different because there was beer being served there, at a school event, so strange! Over all I had a very good time though. After the party I had a few difficulties because I was told to take the train home but I didn't know it wasn't running because of track maintenance so I ended up waiting there for two hours and then eventually calling my host family and taking a bus home, so it all worked out in the end. The next day I had a block party in my neighborhood and I had one of my exchange student friends named Alicia come over and we made mac and cheese for it together as an American dish. Yum! It was great to taste some American comfort food. We then when and spent the night at her house, by Copenhagen, and in the morning got on the bus to go to Intro Camp. Intro camp was a camp where we studied Danish and met all the new Rotary exchange students from all over Denmark. We were 150 exchange students in total and we were from all over the world, from Brazil to USA. It was so amazing being able to meet and stay with all these people who were going through exactly through what I am going through. We stayed in something like a boarding school and we each had a dorm with a roommate or two. My roommate ended up being one of my closest friends by the end of the week. Her name is Carmen and she is from Ithica, New York, we got along very very well and I loved rooming with her. I also made a ton of other friends from all over (theres some pictures on my Facebook). We studied six hours of Danish a day and did a ton of fun other things like played pool, swam, cards, a talent show, a live band, and a dance. It was such a great experience and it really was one of the best weeks of my life! We also went into the city of Aarhus one of the days, which is the second biggest city in Denmark, and went to an incredible museum and downtown to shop! I had a truly amazing time. I was a little sad to be leaving but I am happy to be back in my home in Denmark and back with my host family. I had regular school today which went ok, I was still pretty exhausted from Intro Camp because I got back yesterday and it was a long week of studying, fun, and waking up early. I will from now on just keep trying to get into a very normal routine and make friends at school, I have made some, but no close ones yet. I think it is definitely a lot easier to make friends with other exchange students but I definitely wanna have good danish friends too. I love to Danish culture and I am looking forward to truly becoming a Dane. A month has gone by now and it doesn't really seem like it. In some ways it seems like its been forever but in most it feels like it was just yesterday that I got here. Well now I will go run, I have been trying to keep in good shape and eat right, its working pretty well too! Sorry it took so long to post! Hope everyone is good. Much love from Denmark.