Now the countdown really begins. Exchange has absolutely flown by, but at the same time it doesn’t really even feel like I’m on exchange anymore. It’s my life and just normal days here so at the same time it feels like I’ve always been in Denmark. Similar to the last month leading up to leaving NZ, it’s now hitting me that yes, I’m on exchange and it is coming to an end in just over a month. I thought all the months leading up to now had been busy but November has proved me wrong. I have been so busy doing anything and everything in all the spare time I have. At least once or twice a week I am in Aarhus after school and spending the afternoon/ evening with my exchange friends just eating and talking about everything. I have become super close to my newbies which is really nice because I’m now getting the feeling back that I had with my oldies and I thought that would never happen. On the 6th, I went back to my first host family after school and had a catch up and ate dinner with them which was really nice considering I hadn’t been there since I left back in April. We played a lot of games of sequence and drank a lot of coffee, both of which were traditions and our family time when I stayed with them so I really enjoyed it. The day after, I met my friends in Aarhus during the day because I didn’t have school and then met with my dad’s mum to go shopping, spend some time together and then to eat dinner. It was a really nice day. Then it was friday and I had Gymfest, the theme for this one was “Underground/ hip-hop” which was really fun to dress up as. We had a forfest (pre party) where we celebrated one of my classmates birthdays. That weekend, I travelled to Odense where I met my 3 best friends (Zara, Alanna and Lexie) to celebrate Alanna’s 18th birthday. We arrived around 3pm where we would begin to eat dinner! Her host dad is a professional chef so he had prepared an 8 course degustation for us. It was absolutely incredible! My favourite dish was with pulled quail paired with quail eggs (fried and boiled) and roasted cauliflower. We finished dinner around 5:30 and all the other guests arrived at 6 and the party started. It was a great week. The next week was a bit quieter. I went to Aarhus once to meet my group and then I was sick for about 3 days. On the weekend I took a trip to Kolding where I went to Zara’s house with Alanna, Lexie and another Australian called Sophie. Here we celebrated Zara’s 17th birthday in a relaxed girls weekend way. The next week I was in Aarhus twice and I got to meet some exchange students from AFS which is a different exchange organisation. They’re also really cool people. On Tuesday, I did my final presentation at Rotary in Danish about my year in Denmark and how it has changed me. It ended in a huge thank you and many many tears. I really love my host club and they love me too so it was a bit of an emotional night for me. In the weekend, I went to Løkken with my host family from Friday to Sunday where we just relaxed and played card games and had a walk along the beach. It was really cool because there are so many old German war bunkers that are lying all over the beach so all of us kids did our exploring and climbing in and on top of all of these. It was nice to be exploring again, something that’s not so common here in Denmark haha. Now it’s the last week of November and it has been a bit of an emotional week. On Tuesday I was in Horsens after school just watching a movie with some exchange students at one of their houses. With all the rain we have been having it is basically all we can do when we aren’t inside Burger King or Maccas eating haha. Wednesday was really fun but really emotional because I went to Aarhus to spend the day with one of my best friends from Argentina. He is like the brother I never had and we are super close but this was the last day I could see him to say goodbye. He leaves on Sunday and we both have too many plans to be able to see each other another day. On Sunday went going to a Christmas concert with my dad’s dad so I wasn't able to see him off at the airport which is really sad. On the other hand, the concert was absolutely incredible! We saw Stig Rossen live which was amazing for me because I have been listening to him every Christmas for god knows how many years. So to see him live was a dream come true. And to top it off I got to talk with him, hug him and get a photo with him after the concert as well. It was the perfect weekend and the perfect way to begin December. Friday I had a sleepover with one of my best Danish friends, Emma, and watched Christmas movies and ate Christmas cookies, yummmm.
I have a feeling December is going to be a really emotional roller coaster month with doing many things for the last time and buying things to take home. But also the excitement of Christmas and being able to see my family soon. It's a really big conflict of emotion and it's really hard to control or handle sometimes, so lets see what happens...
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