November Already?!

  It's already November 7th and my time here is running out.... I haven't updated my blog in a while just because I've been so busy making the most out of my days! This will probably be a long update considering the fact that I haven't updated this in quite a few weeks... 

  The trees here all such pretty colors and I can now truly say I have experience a true fall, not like the ones in Texas where only some trees are different colors. It's beautiful. Two weekends ago, I went to my friend Kia's house to celebrate a Danish Halloween. Denmark doesn't celebrate Halloween the same way that we do in the United States. There's no trick-or-treaters or costumes and candy. Instead, the church in each town will hold somewhat of a community gathering where they eat together and do some activities. Kia lives in a town called Bogense, which is about 25 minutes from Odense. Because it was a Sunday night and we had school the next day, I to spent the night at Kia's and went to school with her the next morning. We went to the church and helped her mom put out cookies and set up the stations for pumpkin carving. We carved pumpkins and then went into the church for a service along with most of the people from the community. After a nice service, we went to their city hall to eat pumpkin soup and lasagna. It was such a nice experience to see how other cultures celebrate Halloween! 

The view of the trees from my room.

My pumpkin with Kia.

Family pumpkin carving.

With our pumpkins 

  On Tuesday of that week, I went to my friend Jacob's house for dinner. Jacob is one of the few people that lives near me! His family is so nice and I had a great time! :) On Friday, I went to Sarah's (one of the girls in my class) birthday party. We had a lovely dinner with tacos and then Sarah had made some delicious chocolate mousse for dessert! After eating we all sat and talked until it was time to go home. I'm so happy that I've met so many amazing people here in Denmark and I really hope that I will stay friends with them even when I'm back in Texas. On Saturday night, I attended my first Danish wedding! Uffe's (my host dad) niece had a beautiful wedding and I was lucky enough to be included! :) Danish weddings have many interesting/sweet traditions that happen during the reception. One tradition is that whenever the bride or groom leave the room all the men go and kiss the bride or the all the women go and kiss the groom. Also if you bang your fork on your plate over and over, the couple must stand up on their chairs and kiss. If you stomp your feet, the couple must go under the table and kiss. Throughout the dinner sheets of paper are passed around with songs on it that different guest at the wedding have written about the couple. We sang around six songs through out the dinner! It was a very nice personal touch on the wedding! I will post photos from the wedding once they are uploaded onto the family computer! Yesterday all the art classes in the first grade of Nordfyns Gymnasium went to Århus to see the famous art museum ARoS. The bus ride took around two hours and we were already there. We first walked around the city to see the different architecture and then went to the museum. It was a great trip! Tomorrow I am going to Holstebro to visit The Pedersen's (my dads host family). I'm looking forward to a great weekend with great people:) 

The city Århus

Inside 360 panorama rainbow

360 Rainbow Panorama 

Anna and Mia