There's a first for everything...

I officially have received my first ticket.... As I mentioned before, I ride the bus thirty minutes to school every day and back. Which is no problem at all except that I don't have my danish social security number. In Denmark this number is very important. It allows you to have health care, bus cards, and even a school ID. Since I don't have my number, I can't get a bus card to take the bus every day. Instead, my host family has been letting me use the family bus card to get from school and back home. On Monday when I took the bus a Fyn Bus patrol man stepped on a began checking bus cards. I confidently handed him my bus card since I had been using it for 2 weeks and it worked fine. He took the card and then started yelling at me in Danish. Because the whole bus is always filled with Danish students that attended my school, I try my hardest to blend in as a true Dane ;)! Once the man started yelling at me and I had no idea what on earth he was saying, I had to finally say, "I don't speak Danish". Everyone on the bus heard it and started to look at me probably wondering why I'm going to a Danish school if I don't speak Danish. He then made me write my name and birthdate on this notepad and I thought he would never find me since there is no address for Natalie Orth in Denmark. Well I was wrong. Yesterday a letter came in the mail for a ticket saying that I owe them 750 ironers which is like 150 dollars! It is completely ridiculous since a bus ticket only cost around 5 dollars and the man didn't even ask me to pay for a ticket. He said that my bus card was only for two zones but that to get to my school it went through three zones! So my host mom wrote a strongly opinionated letter to the bus company explaining that I don't speak Danish and that I shouldn't have to pay for it. Kinda funny how my first ticket came from me riding a bus in Denmark and not from me speeding around Sugar Land in my car! :)