About the week before last: I started weekly Danish lessons on Wednesday, and so far they are going well.
Thursday was my birthday. I honestly don't think I could have felt more blessed.
I woke up to breakfast with my host family, and opened some presents from them. They got me a ticket to the X Factor Finale, which is really cool and I am looking so forward to that. Also, they got me a Danish flag on a flagpole with my name and birthday engraved on its base.
Then it was school, which turned out to be a lot of fun. I had a few free lessons and just got to mess around and chill. Everyone was also really nice, and I got quite a lot of Danish happy birthdays.
After school, I had to go straight to the Rotary House to help set up for the meeting that night, and was with two other girls who are going on exchange in the summer.
That night at the Rotary meeting, I had to give my presentation about myself, my country, etc. They all sang 'Happy Birthday' in Danish and there was a lot of cake! Then I said my presentation, starting in Danish, yeahhhh I tried. Then we auctioned all the prizes I had won from the Handball, and I ended up 4700kr (approx R7500) richer. And on top of that, all my host families for the year, got me a combined gift which was an acoustic guitar and that was really just the cherry on the top of my birthday. I was ecstatic.
Friday was my first school party, it was a Friday's cafe. It was a lot of fun, and quite hilarious considering everyone was dressed up.
On Saturday, my host family's entire family came over for lunch, and it was very 'hyggeligt'. The members of their family really spoilt me and I did really not expect to be so blessed. I got a number of gifts that I am so grateful for.
It was a really good weekend.
This past weekend was the Rotary Get2Gether with all of the exchange students in DK. Everyone arrived from different areas in DK and were very excited. It was so much fun to see the people you knew already and also to meet new people.
On Sunday, when I got back home, I learned that I had three days off of school.
I am super happy!
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