Ja min lille ide med at give jer alle en julekalender med et indlæg hver dag som trøst efter ingen aktivitet på bloggen gik da lige i vasken. I kan dog stadig være glad for de 14 indlæg i fik og for at jeg lover at resten af jeres kalender indlæg vil komme. Selvfølgelig også flere indlæg efter jeg er færdig med de 24. Men et indlæg hverdag var nok lidt for stor en mundfuld for sådan en nybegynder blog som mig. Og når dansk niveauet og engelsk niveauet når det samme punkt så tager det tid og hjerne kraft at skrive begge dele. I skal nok for de 10 indlæg der mangler og mange flere i fremtiden. Dog vil nogle af dem kun være billeder og nogle vil meget korte. Men lover at i også vil få nogle af de lange en gang i mellem.
Håber i alle havde en dejlig jul og får et dejligt nytår.
Idea unsuccessful.
My little idea of giving you all a little advent calendar with a new post everyday as a way to make up for my lack of activity on the blog failed. However I still think you should all be happy about the 14 posts you did get, and I promise that the rest of your calendar post will also be written. Of course there will also be more posts when I have finished the 24. However a post a day is a bit too big of a handful for a new blogger like me. And when the level of my Danish and English reach close to the same point it takes a lot of brainpower and time to write these posts. I will write you the 10 posts that I’m missing and many more in the future. However I will say now that some will be just pictures and some will be very short. But I promise you will also get some nice long one every now and then. Hope you all had a very merry Christmas and that you will have a lovely new year.
Så kom jeg da lige lidt bagud med det hele. Lidt bagud med lektierne og lidt bagud med bloggen. Er dog kommet mindre bagud med mit kalenderlys, det blev klippet så nu er det den 15 på vej til 16. Så lidt bagud er den stadig. Men i dag bliver det hele forhåbentligt indhentet. Bloggen skal i hvert fald klares først, har ikke nogen længere forklaring på hvorfor jeg røg bagud. Som skrevet før var jeg til en Harry Potter maraton i weekend, hvilket gjorde mig meget træt halv delen af ugen.Da jeg så kom over den træthed, ja så var der da lige alle de lektier der også blevet skubbet til side af trætheden.
Så nu skal der skrives, både lektier og blog. Det lyder ikke som den vildest fredag, men medden vilde weekend jeg havde sidste uge og den vilde weekend jeg får med de andre udvekslingsstudenter tror jeg at jeg har rigeligt med vildhed. Så jeg sætter musikken på. Tror det skal være noget med jul, for det bringer da altid fest og farver. Mon ikke også valget falder på en af de sange jeg skal synge med mit kor til skolens julekoncert mandag? De har rumsteret i min knold længe, tror ikke det kan undgås. Jeg starter med denne.
Little behind with most things
There I just got a little behind with everything. A little behind with the homework and a little behind with the blog. However I have some what gotten back on track with my advent candle, it was cut so now it is 15th going on 16th. So a little behind is it still. Hopefully I can catch up on everything today. One thing is sure; the blog is the first thing I need to catch up. I don’t really have a long explanation for why I got behind on the blog, other than the one written earlier with the Harry Potter marathon. It left me really tried the first half of the week. When I was over the tiredness then came all the homework that had been pushed aside by it.
So now some writing has to be done, both homework and blog. Might not sounds as the best Friday night, but with the crazy weekend I had last week and the crazy weekend I will have this week with the other rotary exchange students I don’t thing a Friday without craziness will be a problem. So I’m gonna put some music on. Thinking I’m gonna go with some Christmas, that always brings some joy and happiness. It will probably end up being on of the songs I’m singing with my choir at the schools Christmas concert Monday. They have been hanging out in my brain for a good while now; I don’t think it can be avoided. I wills start with this.
Siden jeg skrev om mine hurleys og den irske national sport hurling så tænkt jeg at det ville være en god ide at skrive om den irske festival i Milwaukee jeg var til.
Min værtsfamilie har irske rødder og de har en tradition hvor de tager til en salgs festival i Milwaukee hvor der er en masse forskellige irske aktiviteter (går ud fra de var irske aktiviteter). Man kan få et gratis indgangs armbånd hvis man deltager i et 5 kilometers løb før festivalen. Så det gjorde vi så, gik ikke helt dårligt i forhold til min løbe form ikke var/er den bedste.
Det var en super fed oplevelse at gå rundt omkring boder og scener der var på festivalpladsen. Der var flere scener med musik. Der var en masse mad boder. Der var tovtræk (har dog fået af vide fra en irlænder at det ikke er en stor ting i Irland), det var rigtig sjovt at se. De råbte en hel masse og nogle af dem havde skistøvler på så de bedre kunne stå fast. Nogle af holdene havde kun mænd, andre havde også kvinder på holdt og så var der nogen med kun piger.
Så var der også et sted hvor man kunne spille lidt hurling, det var den eneste gang jeg spillede hurling mellem den 11 August og 2 dage siden. Det var dejligt lige at få slået lidt. Havde håber jeg kunne købe en hurley på festivalen så jeg kunne spille, men det var der ikke mulighed for. Man kunne dog se hvordan de bliver lavet hvilket var meget interessant.
Jeg købte en hættetrøje (uden, hætte men i samme materiale. Hvad kalder man sådan en?) Den er ret så sej, dog lidt stor men var den mindste størrelse de havde. Fik også en T-shirt til at have på til løbet.
Jeg så nogle små børn danse irsk folkedans, de var super gode var vildt imponeret. Brugte godt og vel hele dagen der og var godt og grundig træt da jeg kom hjem. Men en super fed oplevelse.
Undskylder for at jeg er bagud med bloggen, og at der ikke er billeder til mit sidste indlæg og dette. Det er helt utroligt hvad en harry potter maraton kan gøre ved ens søvnrytme. Er nu kommer over trætheden fra weekend, men lektierne har hobet sig op. Bloggen skulle dog gerne få alle indlæg skrevet og billederne op så alt er godt igen den 16 December.
Since I worte about my hurleys and the Irsish national game of hurling yesterday, i thought it would be a good idea to write about Irsih Fest in Milwaukee which I went to.
My hostfamily have Irish roots and it is one of their traditions to go to this festival thing in Milwaukee where there are lots of different Irish activities (at least I assume they are something people in Ireland actually do) If you participate in a 5K run you get a free entrance wristband. So we did that, I didn’t go that bad compared to how bad my running shape was/is.
It was a really cool experience to walk around the festival ground and see the different stands. Listen to the music at the many stages. There was tug of war ( i have been told by an native Irishman that tug of war isn’t a big thing in Ireland) but it sure was big at the festival and a lot of fun to watch. There was a lot of screaming going on. There were al boys team, all girls teams and some mixed teams. Spend quite an amount of time watching it. Some of the people wore skiing boots to stand better.
Then there was a place where you could play a little hurling, only time I played hurling between August 11th and tow days ago. It felt really good to be able to play a little (very little). I had hoped I was gonna be able to buy a hurley on the festival, but I couldn’t. However I did get to see how they make them, which was really interesting.
I bought a sweatshirt there. It is pretty cool, however a bit to big for me but it was the smallest one they had. I also got a t-shirt from the 5K.
I saw some little kids doing Irish folk dance, they were super good and I was really impressed. We spend most of the day there and when I got home I was so tired. But it was a really cool experience.
Im gonna apologize for the fact that Im running behind on the blog and there were no pictures for my last post and this post. It is unbelievable how much a harry potter marathon can mess with your sleep pattern. Finally not tired anymore, however the homework has piled up. I do expect to be caught up on the blog which also means pictures for this and the last post, by December 16th.
Der er stadig ikke faldt sne ved mig. Tænk engang at jeg sidder i Wisconsin den 12 December og der er stadig ikke sne!?! Der er ikke engang udsigt til sne i vejrudsigten. Siden den først december har jeg håbet på sne, men nu må det godt vente lidt for mig. For når man kommer hjem fra skole og pakkeposten har bragt to Hurleys, ja så kan man da ikke andet end at være glad for at sneen ikke er kommet. Til jer der ikke ved det, så er en Hurley en slags bat som man bruger til at spille den irske national sport Hurling. Er stor fan af sporten, men har ikke kunne spillet siden jeg kom her over da der ikke var plads til hurleys i min kuffert. Jeg har spiller en gang siden jeg kom her, til Irish Fest i Milwaukee.
Da jeg stadig er mærket efter Harry Potter maratonen i weekend, så fik jeg ikke prøvet dem samme dag. Men dagen efter blev de prøvet og jeg er allerede rusten. Hva hulen er nu det for noget? Kun 3 måneder uden hurling og jeg spiller ligesom da jeg startede med at spille det. Så nu håber jeg at sne venter en uges tid, så jeg kan få spillet lidt hurling før vinter kommer. For er blevet fortalt at når sneen først kommer så smutter den ikke før sidst i marts eller der omkring.
Synes i alle skulle prøve hurling og få det spredt i Danmark mens jeg er væk. Det ville være meget dejligt, så jeg kunne have en masse at spille med. Er også nød til at få lært nogle folk her over at spille så de kan spille med mig. Forsat dejlig December.
There still isn’t any snow by me. Can you imagine, I’m sitting in Wisconsin on December 12 and there is still no snow!?! There isn’t even snow on the weather forecast for the newt week or so. Since December 1st I have been hoping and wishing for snow, but now I don’t mind if it can wait a little longer. For when you get home from school to discover that the postman has brought you a couple of hurleys you, then it is not hard to be happy the snow hasn’t come yet. If you don’t know this, I’m guess most people won’t, Hurleys are used to played the Irish national sport Hurling. The fastest game on grass. I’m a big fan of the sport, but I haven’t had the opportunity to play over here since there was no room for hurleys in my suitcase. I did play once when I went to Irish Fest in Milwaukee.
When my body is still messed up from the harry potter marathon I didn’t get to try them the first day. But the day after I tried them and I can already feel I’m rusty. What the heck? Only 3 months without playing and it feels like I’m playing the same way I was right when I started kayaking in Denmark. So now I hope that the snow will wait at least one week, so I will have a chance to play some hurling outside before winter comes. Important to play before snow as have been told that al the snow wont leave until March or something similar.
I think everyone should start playing hurling and that they should spread hurling through out Denmark so I have a lot of people to play with. I also have to teach a couple of people over here how to play so I have someone to play with. Continue to have a wonderful December.
Indtil videre så har alle mine kalender gave været så dejlig og gjort mig i godt humør. Den jeg fik i dag var anderledes, der trillede en tår eller to. Dagen gave var fra min lillesøster Amanda. Det var ikke så meget gaven som kortet der fik ram på mig. Det var en dejlig gave, dvd’en Julefrokosten en rigtig humør bombe som jeg er sikker på bliver sjov at se. Men det var korte. Min Amanda hun elsker musik, både at spille og lytte det elsker hun. Og hun har en herlig evne til at finde det sødeste sang med de mest rørende tekster. Hun havde skrevet noget af tekstens til en sang ligesom det og den passer perfekt og den ramte hårdt.
This is my winter song
December never felt so wrong
'Cause you're not where you belong
Inside my arms
Winter Song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Selvom de ord fik tårende til at trille så gjord gaven mig stadig glad. Det var en anderledes slags glad og det tog bare længere tid. For den bragte frem alle de dejlige minder jeg har med min lillesøster. Og det fik mig også til at husk hvor heldig jeg er at jeg har hende. Det er ikke alle de er heldig nok til have en søster, jeg er så heldig at jeg har 2. De er begge 2 de bedste i verden, gad vide hvad jeg har gjort for at være så heldig <3
So far all the present in my advent calendar has made me in a good mood. Then today I got one that was different, a tear or two rolled down my face. My present today was from my little sister Amanda. It wasn’t as much the present as it was the card that got to me. The present was great, a dvd with a Danish Christmas movies that is suppose to be really funny I’m sure it will be really nice to watch. But it was the card. My Amanda she loves music, to play it and listen to it. She loves it. And she has this wonderful and amazing ability to find the sweets songs, with the most moving lyrics. She wrote a part of the lyrics of a song that was just like that in my card, it fits perfect and it hit hard.
This is my winter song
December never felt so wrong
'Cause you're not where you belong
Inside my arms
Winter Song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Even though it brought out the tears it still made me happy. It was a different kind of happy and it took longer to come. It made me happy as it also brought out all the wonderful memories I have with my sister. And it also made me remember how lucky I am I have her. Not everyone are lucky enough to have a sister, I am so lucky I got 2. Both of them are the best sisters in the world, I wonder what I have done to be so lucky to get the 2 of them <3
Det her indlæg blev ikke skrevet lørdag den 10 december, har dog en god grund. Jeg var simpelthen optaget hele lørdag med en Harry Potter maraton. Men til gengæld for i nu glæden af at læse om min maraton. Den startede lørdag morgen ved Alessia, den italienske udvekslingsstudent. Da nogle af de deltagene (alle drengene) var forsinkede valgt vi at vente til kl 10 med at starte filmene Det var då også hyggeligt bare at snakke og køre klar til det hele, der var så meget slik, chips, is og sodavand. Vi startede fra kl 9 med at spise slik.
Lidt info om filmen, og hvad det kræver at have en maraton med dem alle. Jeg tror de fleste ved der er 8 film i Harry Potter Serien.
1)Harry Potter og de vises sten
2)Harry Potter og hemmelighedernes kammer
3)Harry Potter og fangen fra Azkaban
4)Harry Potter og flammernes pokal
5)Harry Potter og Fønixordenen
6)Harry Potter og halvblodsprinsen
7)Harry Potter og dødsregalierne – del 1
8)Harry Potter og dødsregalierne– del 2
Disse 8 film tager til sammen 1,178 minutter, eller næsten 20 timer. Det er er 20 timer uden pauser eller noget. Så da vi første starte kl 10 ville vi først have været færdig kl 6 om morgen. Men efter kun 2 film blev vi alle rastløse og besluttede at efter hver anden film skulle vi have en Just Dance ( Wii Spil ) pause. Så vi kan vist sagtens sige at vi ikke så alle film i en køre uden at falde i søvn. Alle var stort set vågne til og med nummer 6, men da 7 blev sat på faldt vi alle i søvn. Kl var omkring 4 da jeg faldt i søvn. Er ikke helt sikker på hvornår jeg vågne igen måske kl 7 fjernsynet var stadig tændt skærme var dog blevet helt blå.
Vi var fast besluttede på at se alle filmene ellers ville vores maraton jo være mislykket så vi så de 2 sidste film om morgen. Der blev ikke snakket nær så meget som om aftenen. Nogle af os kæmpe for ikke at fald i søvn igen. Vores Harry Potter maraton var afslutte kl 13. Da jeg kom jeg gik jeg direkte i seng med intentioner om at stå op kl 15 så jeg kunne se noget amerikansk fodbold i fjeren. Vågnede dog først kl 17.30, hvad mon det skete med min alarm?
Er godt træt og kommer nok til at mærke det hele ugen, og næste weekend skal jeg tilbringe i selskab med de andre Rotary udvekslingsstudenter hvilket betyder endnu en weekend uden en masse af det de kalder søvn.
Har en snak på hjerne fra Just Dance som ikke lige frem passer til højtiden men den skal nok blive nynnet en del de næste dage.
Have en fantastisk december dag.
This post was not written Saturday December 10th. However I do have a good reason for this. All of Saturday I was occupied having a Harry Potter Marathon!On the bright side you now get to read about this wonderful marathon. I think that is another of those win-win situations. I get to have a bunch of fun and you get to read about it. This movie marathon started Saturday at 9 am, it was held at Alessia’s (the Italian exchange student from my school) house. As some of the people participating were running late (all of the boys) we ended up deciding not to start the movie before 10 am so they could be with us form the beginning. However it was fun setting everything up and talking before we started the movie. There was so much junk food you wouldn’t even believe me if I told you and we of course started
eating/drinking this at 9 am.
Little info about the movies and what kinda of time commitment it is to have a marathon with them. As I think most people know there are 8 movies in the Harry Potter Series.
1)Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
5)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6)Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
8)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
All of these movies combined takes 1,178 minutes to watch, almost 20 hours. That is a 20 hours with no breaks or anything like that. So as we didn’t start until 10 am we would have finished all the movies by 6 am. However after only 2 movies we all became restless and decided that we after every 2nd movie would have a Just Dance (Wii game) break. So it is safe to say that we didn’t watch all the movies in one go without falling asleep.We all pretty much made it though number 6, but when 7 started we all pretty much fell asleep. It was about 4 am when I fell asleep. I am not 100% sure when I woke up, but I think it was around 7 or 8, the television was still one however the screen was all blue.
We were very determined to finish what we started, so it was decided that the last 2 movies had to be seen or else our whole marathon would have been wasted.The amount of words that were spoken during those movies weren’t near half of those the night before. Some of us were just fighting not to fall asleep. Out Harry Potter marathon finally ended at 1 pm. When I came home I went straight to bed in the hope of waking up for some football at 3 pm. Didn’t wake up until 5.30 pm wonder what happened to my alarm?
I am still pretty tired and I think I will be able to feel the aftermath of this marathon all week. Next weekend I am spending in the wonderful company of the other rotary exchange students in my district, this of course means another weekend without a whole lot of that thing called sleep.
I currently have a song stuck in my head from Just Dance, it is not exactly suitable for the holiday but I am sure it will stay around for the next couple of days.
Så kommer der et at mine lovede fodbold, af den amerikanske slags, indlæg. Det handle om min deltagelse i fodbold. Det er en tradition på min skole og mange andre at pigener, på min skole 4 or 3års, møder hinanden i en fodbold kamp.
Normalt vinder sidste års eleverne, men sidste år var det 3års eleverne der vandt. Så i år skulle vi se om de også kunne vinde som 4års.
Vi havde træning 2 gange, eller måske 3 er ikke lige 100% sikker. Jeg kom i en forsvarslinje, så hvis det andet hold havde bolden så skulle jeg ind og prøve at få den fra dem. De 2 andre udvekslingsstudenter var i den samme linje som mig, ingen af os vidste rigtig hvad vi skulle. Vi fik dog ret godt styr på det inden kampen, eneste problem i kampen var at vores trænere lige pludselig sagde vi skulle være på bane når vi startede kampen hvilket vi ikke havde øvet.
Vores trænere var 4 drenge fra vores årgang. Det andet holds trænere var drenge fra deres årgang.
Kampen gik super godt og vi vandt, dog havde folk forventet at vi vandt med mere. Vi spillede ikke rigtig amerikansk fodbold hvor man må takle hinanden, vi spilled en salg hvor vi havde et bælte med flag på. Hvis en person rev i et af de flag røg bæltet af og hvis bæltet røg af så var det ligesom man var blevet taklet.
Det var dog det problem med bælterne at de nogle gag røg af bare når man løb, så man skulle passe lidt på de ikke faldt af uden at nogen havde rørt dem .
Vores hold have sorte armer på vores trøjer og de andre havde røde. Vi havde næsten alle sammen malet sorte streger under vores øjne og så skulle man helts have sort ting på hvis en hold farve var sort og omvendt rød hvis man var på det røde hold.
Det var en super sjov oplevelse, håber de laver noget lignende igen, så kan jeg måske få mere styr på reglerne så det bliver endnu sjover. Glædelig 9 December og hav en dejlig weekend.
Here comes one of my promised football related posts. This one is about my participation in a football game. It is a tradition in my school and a lot of others school that the girls on the school play a football game against each other. This is known as Powderpuff football. At my school the tradition is that the seniors play the juniors. It is also pretty much a tradition that the seniors win. However when my grade the seniors last year played as juniors they won which is not normal. So it was highly expected that we would win this years game by a lot.
We had practiced 2 or 3 times I am not 100% sure how many times. I ended up being in a defense line. Along with me were 2 of the other exchange students. We didn’t really know what to do at all. But we learned that when the other team had the ball we would go on the field and try to get it.So in the end we understood the rules enough to be able to play. Only problem during the game was that our coaches decided to make us be on the field when they started that game, which was something complete different we hadn’t practiced.Our coaches were 4 boys from our grade. Likewise the juniors had boys from their grade coaching them.
The game went really well and we won, however not by as much as people had expected.We didn’t paly real football where you can tackle each other, we played flag football. We had a belt with flag attached to it that we had to wear when we were playing. If anyone pulled in one of the flags the belt wouldfall off and it would be the equivalent of being tackled.However you had to be careful because sometimes the flag belts would fall off without anyone touching them, but just because you ran.
Our team had black sleeves on our shirt and the junior had red. Almost everyone had painted the black line under their eyes. If you were a senior you should try to wear all black, likewise the juniors tried to wear all red stuff.
It was a amazing experience and I hope there will be something similar again. Maybe then we can understand the rules even more and it will be even better. Happy 9th of December and enjoy your weekend.
