It has been forever!

Wow, I am so sorry folks that I haven't posted in a month. With adjusting to this country and making friends, I am becoming busy constantly. The past month has been absolutely wonderful. I have done soo much and now I feel ever more like a dane. The most important things to cover is what I have been up to recently I think. The past week was our October vacation (kind of the equivalent of Thanksgiving break). At the beginning of the week I was able to go on a small trip with my host family. We got to go to the island of Jutland and stay with my host moms mother. A very sweet lady, but she doesn't speak much english. We had dinner with my host mom's sister and her husband one night too and it was a very nice time. It has become very normal for me over here to have a glass of wine with dinner. My host parents and whichever hosts of dinner generally offer it. I think it will be very strange going home and not being able to casually enjoy a glass of wine at dinner. Anyways, after spending a day or two with my host grandma, we went to the north-east part of Jutland and stayed in a beach side apartment with another family that was friends with my host family. They had three kids who were 14, 16, and 9 so we had a good time. It was too bad though because it was very rainy so we spent a lot of the time drinking tea and playing board games. I got home from Jutland mid week and was able to enjoy some days relaxing and was actually able to go to a couple of parties. I made a very good danish friend name Karoline who lives right down the street from my house and I was actually able to spend a day at her school before break, so that I was able to experience a different danish school then just mine. It was fun and I was invited to a party with her class, which we went too over the week and it was very fun. I enjoyed the break a ton and loved being able to sleep in. Today is my first day back in school and believe me, it was hard to get up this morning. It's almost always difficult to go to school knowing that I already graduated back home and that my grades don't count at all. But on the other hand, school is fun and I get to socialize with more danish people too. Another interesting thing that happened in the past month is that I was actually able to get a visit from a good friend in California that is living in London this year. Flights from London to Copenhagen are very cheap and she came for just a weekend. We had a great time and ended up exploring Copenhagen a lot. We went to a couple art museums which were very great and we also went to all the pretty sights in Copenhagen. I try to go into Copenhagen a lot because I think its such a interesting and cultural city. Theres so much stuff I want to do and haven't done. I hope that by the time I leave Denmark, I'll be an expert on Copenhagen, but I definitely still have a ways to go since when I usually go to Copenhagen, it is for something and not just too explore. The next weeks will be very busy also, I have got a lot on my plate. Every Tuesday and Thursday I am still learning Danish (although we dont learn much in those classes) and this weekend I will be spending the weekend a ways south of Copenhagen at a water park called Lalandia. Its a tradition for my host family to go there and they always go with my host grandparents (on my host dad side) and my  host uncle and aunt and their two young kids. I think it sounds like a fun time, and hopefully the whole park is inside or else we would all be pretty cold I think. It is getting absolutely beautiful in Denmark by the way. I think there are definitely some pictures to come of the autumn leaves. Most trees are yellow and orange now and there are just shedding their leaves. We all know its going to be winter pretty soon, but I am very excited. I think winter in Denmark sounds pretty great. The months of January and December are very traditional months and they are said to be filled with candles, tea, and delicious food. I think I will enjoy Christmas here very much. In the past month I have been able to have dinner with both of my next two families so finally I have seen my next houses and my next rooms. They both have really nice houses and my rooms are nice too. They also both live fairly close to the train stations so transportation will be easy. Well the weekend after Lalandia I will actually be having a Rotary weekend. It's called a Get Together or G2G. We will spend the weekend staying the night at a high school and hanging out with alll of the exchange students in Denmark. I think it sounds like a pretty great time, I am really looking forward to it. The weekend after that (10th of November) I am even busy also. I will be going with my second host sister (Lise - 19) and two other exchange students on a one night boat cruise over to Oslo, Norway. I can't wait for that because I am so excited to see Norway. Since I am part Norwegian I think it will be cool to see where my ancestors came from and of course just be able to say that I have been to Norway. In mid November I will actually be switching to my next host family also and I think with all the things that are going on in the next three weeks, it will come faster then ever. It's really hard to believe that I have already been here for more then two and a half months. Where has the time gone? But at least I really feel at home here. I wonder how it will be to switch to my next host family and start all over again having to make myself comfortable and too adjust. Part of me is scared to switch but part of me is very excited, I think I will really enjoy my time there. So there it is, all that I have yet to do soon and all I have been doing. I am pretty tired being back in school right now, but I think soon I will readjust to the school schedule. I hope this is enough of an update for all of you and I'm sorry again that it has been so long. Much love, Zoe