Snowday!

The christmas sprit has come over me, and my room is now decorated with the danish elfs and danish Christmas hearts. The rest of the house is on its way to get decorated, but it is still just the 4th of December. The last two days have been free from school, because of the big snowfall. Over a foot snow has already fallen, and it is still snowing like crazy. My Christmas package came today, and made the day a great day. The presents went in my present drawer, the training socks for my leg in my training bag (Oh yes I can finally say I have on of those), the hoodie on my jacket, and the Christmas decorations went up. Thank you to my parents for the big package with a little bit of everything in and to my aunt Birgit for the Christmas decorations. Today I was on my first snowmobile ride. I, who thought it was a little bit like the four-wheeler, got surprised. When Em told me to lean to the side we turn to, because otherwise it would tip over, I got surprised. That is dangerous! We made it through, but my heart jumped a few times (With my body). So pretty!

I realized today, that I should probably do a checkup for you. It has been long time since I wrote anything about school. I like the school over here. School in Denmark is OK, but here I have some really god courses. To give an example: In the first hour I have Debate. One of my favorite courses. I love to argue, and I am the best in the class. Second hour I have choir. Every single day learning about music and nodes and singing. Monday I was at honors choir all day, because I was selected with 6 others out of 30 in the class. The honors choir is were you go to a school, and the best from all the schools in your district comes and practice together. In the evening we then had a concert. It turned out so that we sang for 7 hours, and next day, I couldn't talk. It was a fantastic day, and it sounded so good. So back to the school check up. Third period American History, 0kay but a little heavy. Fourth hour English 11, next semester I am going to take a harder english class, because right now it is boring. Fifth and sixth hour Algebra 2. As fun as math can be. Seventh hour anatomy. Not as fun as I thought. I think there is way too many tests where you need to learn a lot of hard words by heart. A little heavy too sometimes. 
Basketball. I love itI It is so fun, even though half of the time I am lost. With basketball comes the question: How is my shin splint. Not good is the answer. I made a deal with my host Mom: As long as it doesn't hurt so much that I cry, I can play. Perhaps that is not a wise thing, but I like it so much that I just want to play. We were actually meant to have our first game yesterday, but since we had a snow day, it was canceled. 
Homesickness. Well... It is a battle, but I am winning most of the time. Yes, it is becoming harder as Christmas is nearing us, and all my fingers are crossed for the better after New Year. As I think of it the first two month ware easy, and as I come further it becomes stronger. Well there is only one way, because the option of giving up, isn't open for a second. I am going to toughen up, and get through it.

Last week it was Thanksgiving. We had plans for going to Arkansas Tuesday, but when there was a storm warning, we left Monday instead. Originally I didn't think that I was going because of basket ball. It turned out I missed 3 practices, not so bad, but anyway not good. In Arkansas we visited the Moseleys. They are some friends of Arlan and Debie (my American Dad and Mom). We did a lot of fun stuff, like watching a dinner show, visiting Silver Dollars City (a big american amusement park), and a cute little town called Eurika Springs.

A little bowling of course:

Arkansas. Do I have to say anything more?

This church build out in nowhere, and made out of only steal and glass.

We visited this old hotel, with a lot of stairs. 

Eurika Springs:

A statue out in the middle of nowhere. Why not?

So pretty lights!

While we ware there, it was Black Friday. First I thought of it as fun, but then they told me, people had been tramped to dead before, which I found a little bit scary. We did it Thursday night at 10, and people were staying in huge lines, just to get into the stores. The line in front of the Nike store was about 100 meters long. It was crazy. I kept to the stores, that were a little bit less full, and got a nice leather purse for half price at Fossils with a makeup bag, and a lightweight jacket from Wilson leather. 

So now there is only Christmas in front of us, and I am as a little kid again. Even though I do miss the calendar show which is a Danish traditional TV-show with a new episode each day of the Christmas month. (I read the one on TV2 is a number 2 of Ludvig og Julemanden. Typically when I am gone they show a new one...) Well that just gives me the right to see it in June. I am now short of 1 years of calendar shows... Hmmm. The only solution to that is double of it next year! Have a good 4th december everybody!

- Troldungen

Syg, 40 grader og løb hver dag

Ja det er så min hverdag siden sidst jeg skrev. Nu løber vi hver dag, og så besluttede vejret, at vi skulle kæmpe med endnu en ting. Så nu er det blevet sommer for alle pengene. 43 grader nåede det op på i mandags. Heldigvis kunne vores trænere godt se, at det var måske lidt for meget, så i går stod den på waterworkout, som de kalder det. Det bestod i at man svømmede ud hvor man ikke kunne bunde og derefter strintede i vandet. Det var vidunderligt, fordi man kunne få lavet noget løb, men samtidig fjolle rundt med de andre. Inden jeg rejste sagde alle AFSer jeg mødte, at det ville blive svært at få venner, og at jeg nok ikke ville have det helt store i starten, men sådan oplever jeg det ikke. Jeg har nogle rigtig gode venner på holdet (Cross country), specielt skriver jeg meget med en pige, der hedder Tegan. Selvom jeg ikke er i særlig god form, løber hun alligevel med mig nogle gange. Hun har nogle ryg problemer, så jeg tror det passer hende meget godt. 

Syg... Ja, ikke det fedeste. Jeg tror, at jeg havde bihulebetændelse og min næse drypper stadigvæk, men ellers tror jeg, jeg er ved at få det bedre. Torsdag og fredag løb jeg ikke, fordi jeg kunne næsten ikke trække vejret. Jeg troede, at det var en god ting at få hvilet mine ben, og få en pause. Nej, det var det ikke. Jeg kan mærke nu, at jeg tror, jeg er kommet i bedre form ved at løbe hver dag. Og man skal blive ved med at løbe hver dag. I morgen har vi vores første cc meet (Cross country konkurence). Det bliver ikke sjovt. De siger at dette meet er det hårdeste i hele sessionen, pga. bakker. Great. Jeg tror vi skal løbe 5 km. Normalt løber jeg 2,5 miles. Det bliver noget hårdt. Jeg er dog ikke den eneste, der er ude af form. Mink kæmper mere, end jeg gør. Hun er godt nok sej! Måske har det noget at gøre med, at jeg ikke tror på, at jeg kan gøre det. Jeg ved det ikke helt, måske kan jeg godt, men jeg tror ikke på det. Eller også kan min krop ikke, og jeg tror stadig ikke på det. Jeg prøver, men jeg ved ikke, hvad der går galt. 

American football. Ahva? Ja det var min reaktion. Jeg forstår efterhånden måske spillet, men det er forvirrende. I fredags var vi til sæsonens første fodbold kamp. Det var anderledes. Kampen varede 2 en halv time. Hvorfor? Jeg mener, at sidde og kigge på nogle drenge i tights (ikke et kønt syn) løbe rundt med en bold, i 2/30 time? Jeg kommer aldrig til at forstå sport. 

Vi var i Duluth i mandags for et slags tupperware party. Det var ikke tuperware, der blev solgt. Det var rengørings artikler. Som mange af jer nok har læst, kørte vi derfra med lidt småregn. Det endte med, at det regnede så kraftigt, at du knapt nok kunne se 2 meter foran bilen. Jeg var virkelig bange fordi radioen sagde, at hvis du kørte i det område hvor vi kørte i, skulle man søge ly, pga. tornado varsel. 

Firefighter that is me (If AFS will let me). Brandmand? Mig? Nej. Jeg og Em har meldt os til at være det, de kalder Junior Firefighters. Og nej, vi går ikke ind i nogle brændende bygninger. Vi bliver de rigtige brandmænds hjælpere. Hvis de har brug for vand eller noget andet, skal vi hente det til dem. Vi bliver nok mere maskoter, fordi vi får også de rigtige dragter på, men det er nok mere vores kostume, end værktøj. Vi kan risikere at skulle møde op et eller andet sted klokken lort om natten. Eller forlade midt i en time, hvis det er på det tidpunkt, det sker på. Det bliver nok sjovt, og jeg får lært noget nyt. På onsdag skal de stemme om det officielle, men de mangler junior mennesker, så det bliver nok ikke noget problem.

- Troldungen