A summation

So the days are running out, and even though I am excited to go home, I still don't really want to leave. Now is the time to sum up my year, and I am going to do it out from my beautiful present I got from my host family. My host family has reached me so much, and my year wouldn't have been the same without them. They gave Mink and me each a special designed pandora bracelet. All the charms each represented something from our year. 

The empire state building stands for America, since it is here I had my exchange. The snowflake stands for all the snow we got this winter. And that was a LOT!

The heart says Mom on the side, which is specifically from my wonderful host Mom. The cheese says Wisconsin on the side. Wisconsin is very well known for their cheese, so that is why it is a cheese.

The fish is because I leaned how to fish this year, and I love it! The music nodes are for my love for choir. I have done so many amazing things with choir this year. It was one of my best classes.

The heart says family, because I have a lot of that now. 2 full sets of grandparents, 10 siblings, 1 niece and 1 nephew. The 16 says sweet on. I had my sweet 16 here and it was a lot of fun. We went to Mall of America right before my birthday. 

Ice cream!!!! I love Ice cream, and of course I have aeten a lot of that here. And I do love bags too! Therefore a bag.

Around christmas I got that funny idea that of course I wanted a dog. I didn't get it though, but I do still love dogs. Here lately I have had a love for old keys, and I have made a lot of fun with them. Therefore a key and its lock.

The basket ball is because I played basketball all winter, and I loved it! It is the only sport so far I don't absolutely stink at. Perhaps it is my tallness. The plane is because I took some trips this spring. First I was a week in Hawaii, and then 10 days in Florida. I do love to travel too. 

It has been an absolutely an amazing year! With ups and downs of course, but overall it has been a lot of fun!

- Troldungen

Wisconsin Dells

As an AFS exchange student everybody has a liaison. A liaison is a volunteer from AFS, that you can trust. If you have any kind of problem, your liaison will always be there. It happens to be so that mine and Minks are the same. I have loved my liaison, and I was very sad to say goodbye to her. But before that happened, she took me and Mink down to Wisconsin Dells. Wisconsin Dells is known for their big water parks and resorts. We went to Mt. Olympus, and I have never seen anything like it. It was huge! And really American. I love water, so it was so much fun. On this picture is Mink, me and my liaison's son. 

All of us on the lazy river. A lazy river is a kind of an artificial river with artificial current. As it says you can be laying lazy and just go with the flow. 

This was one of the water towers:

These were crazy! Of course we went on both of them, and actually the curvy one was the worst. I have never seen anything like it.

Wave pool. The wave sometimes got over 10 feet. It was crazy!

Gocarts:

Minigolf:

This was a goeth house our liaison got us lured into. It is called the Upside down house. It was very crazy and scary!

And of course the food. So yummy!

Love sushi!

- Troldungen

Orlando, now without my parents

The 11th April I was so lucky to have an airline ticket to Orlando. Since I left Denmark, I have wanted to go down to Orlando to visit some of our friends that lives down there. That is also what I did this Easter. In my school we don't have spring break, but we do have Thursday, Friday and Monday off around easter. With some schooldays off, I went down there. I hadn't even been in Wisconsin for a week, and off I wnt. The kids in the family I went to visit did have to go to school all of the days, but I was really good anyway. In the start it was really hard to talk Danish though. I took myself thinking  "can't I just say this in English?" When I went back to Wisconsin everybody was like: "You've got an accent..." Overall it was nice to talk a little Danish again. I just have to get used to it again when I return home to Denmark in a few month. I was there for 10 days, and it was really nice to get some Danish food again. 

One of the things I wanted to buy down there was a prom dress. There isn't many options up here around Webster, and I wanted one nobody else had. Here is a little selection of the many dresses I tried on:

I loved this one, but it is black. I don't mind black, but I don't like it is only black. It is too much funeral. 

The following one won. I love it because it is almost too long, and there are so many layers.

The first Sunday we went out to the west coast and stuck our toes in the golf. The beach was so beautiful, an we got the best Italian ice cream. It was almost as being back in Italy. 

Italian ice cream!!!

You can't go to Florida Orlando without visiting Disney at least once. This time the choice fell on Magical Kingdom - again. A couple of years ago when I went there with my parents, a lot of the amusements were closed. AND this time I wasn't the only child. It was really fun, and we got to see the new parade called "The Festival of Fantasy parade". Very fancy, and even the new film Frozen was in it. 

Overall it was a really nice trip, and I wish I could do it all over again. A really good thing with the trip was though I got reminded about a lot of things about Denmark, which I kind of had forgotten. Yes I miss Denmark, but not as much as before, and now I have realized that I am going to miss Wisconsin just as much, when I go back to Denmark.

And of course I won big time in monopoly:

- Troldungen