A Visit to Mormor and Morfar

This past Saturday, I went with my family to visit they're grandma (mormor) and grandpa (morfar).
It was cozy and fun.

Back to School

I was back in school this past week and not too many interesting things have happened, but I list them off for you.

I'm really starting to settle in, I got Word on my computer now and this music program for class homework. So now I've been doing my homework and turning it all in (all online). I always feel great when I turn something in, especially when it's in Danish.

I've been  looking at activities to do after school like dance or yoga or Zumba or something. There aren't a lot of art things to do. I'm still looking for a place to do pottery, with no luck.

Luise, Line, Simone and I went to a small, low-key concert where our friends from class, Karoline, played with her band. It was small, but very cozy. It's always fun to see Karoline play, she is a very good singer, and her songs are beautiful.

Karoline is the one in the red toga-shirt.

Sweden Trip pictures

Everyone having cake.
In Denmark, they eat cake and 1 or 2 hours after dinner everyday. It's a weird, but so good tradition. I'm hoping to bring this one back to the states.

Nicolai and the boys running from the snow back to the sauna.

Ellen and I on the lift up to the top of the mountain. It was freezing that day, but you could see the top and it was gorgeous. Normally it was just white everywhere from sky to trees.

We made it to the top of the mountain and you could see everything for miles on miles. It was truly amazing.

This was one of the few days where you could see more than 10 feet in front of you on the top of the mountain.

Ellen flipping pancakes and succeeding.

 Malena flipping pancakes and not completely succeeding, but was a great entertainer. :)

 The girl heading to the grill.
There was a grill right next to the slope. It was like a little cove at the end of the slope and you could ski right into it. It was just a roof and a grill and places to sit. The hotdogs were danish style, so of course they were good.

We all met up the last day at McDonald's  It had a ski-through. We got ice cream - don't know why, it was freezing out - and enjoyed the warmth of inside.

Final group picture. I don't have my ski clothes on because I went skiing in the afternoon and we met in the morning. I had walked over from the house to McDonald's to meet up. It was pleasant out when you weren't skiing down a mountain at 15 mph.


The trip was really great. I got tighter with my family and made new friends with the other family that came. It was a great way to spend winter break.

Week in Sweden

Im in Sweden right now at a ski resort with my family and the mother, my host mothers friend and her two boys. It's really fun up here, mostly in the 10 degree F range, but with snow covering EVERYTHING. It's white as far as the eye can see.
My day here starts with waking up on the top bunk of a three person bunk bed (2 on the bottom bunk) and then eating breakfast. Everyone gets ready for the cold and with all our ski clothes on we go skiing. I go on the greens and blues with the moms and my younger host sister, while everyone else goes on reds and blacks. We all meet up for lunch and then head out again after a 30min rest break. By 5 most of us are back from the hills and Ellen is making dinner. We have a snack of cake and coffe, then the kids head to Ye sauna, which is in one of the two bathrooms. Half way through we run into the snow outside and role around for a few seconds and the  sprint back to the sauna. After dinner we hang out and play games.

Right, so that's my day if you wanted to know. Otherwise my few days in Sweden have been great and very tiring. It's cold and beautiful. I can NOT speak Sweden though the Danes seem to understand it. Hanging out with my family and their friends is really nice.
Pictures will come when I'm back next week.

Double You - Ordrup Musical 2013

Last night I went to see a musical at my cousin's high school. It was so much better than I ever could have imagined. I was in this beautiful school library, which was a completely different building from the school. It was a story of this brother and sister and there's lives before the present. The girl sings her life through Wicked songs and the boy through Pink Floyd songs. It was an odd combination, but they somehow made the story make sense that Pink and Galinda got together in the end and the sister (Elphaba) and Fiyero get together in the end. I think it made more sense to me that the Danes, because I knew the Wicked plot line by heart, and my Aunt had never seen the Wizard of OZ.

The four main characters were really great singer, especially Pink. There was also a Wizard of Oz who was the dad of Pink and Elphaba. 

Though it was a weird combo of music types, it turned out to be really entertaining. it was a fun night, and it was good to see my cousins and aunt.

Around the House

Here are some photos of the house I'm staying in. The piano is my favorite part, and the whole place is beautiful.

Almost A Month!

It's been a month for me here in Denamrk, and realizing that was huge for me today. I was talking with Luise and some girls from my class and Luise says to me, 'Kaia, you've been a month today right?'
I was like, 'no haha, no way... oh wait'

So that was the most dramatic thing that's happened since this last weekend when we watched the Super Bowl at school until 2 in the morning and then slept there. We had to sleep in the gym; it was cold and we only slept for about 4 hours before having to wake for school the next day. My class wasn't there, but I hung out with Kristine and her friends, it was super fun and cozy.

YFU Intro Weekend

Friday I went to the YFU house in Tommerup, which is two hour train ride from Herlev.
There were five of us that were new students and the next morning a bunch of other students came to hang out.
We watched movies and got to know each other.
Then we learned danced from all the different places people were from. I taught them the Cupid Shuffle and Cotton Eye Joe. I learned a Spanish and a Chilean dance, as well as some silly German kid songs.

We also went for a walk before dinner and saw the tiny town and it's beautiful garden cemetery.
After dinner we baked a cake, so we could have something to keep us awake.


I had a great time, met a lot of new people from all over the world, and made a ton of new friends.