SNE!!

Okay.... I don't know what's going on with this blog. :) Probably just don't know how to use it properly. But anyway, I woke up this morning and everything was gorgeously covered in snow. So here's some pictures:

Jeg er en perle ;)

Wow. I just had the most legit hour and a half long conversation with Ginesta. It was awesome. We talked about everything from the role of women to Danish culture to me getting married and so on and so forth. This is going to be a super short blog post. But it was an incredible conversation. :) Also, proof that I have had an impact on this family: Tonight at dinner, Diana picked up the cat, held her above her head, and started singing the Circle of Life, and Ginesta said "She's crazy!" Muahahaha. I am so proud! I also taught Ginesta to say "She is hardcore!" Ah yes. It has been a great three months, and I am going to miss this family. But change is good. Change is healthy. And I think that I am prepared now. (Besides the actual PHYSICAL part of being prepared, AKA: Packing..) Today was, all in all, an AWESOMELY EPIC day. And since the girls and I plan on watching awesome movies together tonight... it's just going to keep being awesome. :) Jeg elsker mit liv.

Echo Killer Yankee Tango

:) Today was cool. Torben, a guy from my Rotary club, took me to work with him. He is in charge of Air Traffic Control at the Aalborg airport. So I spent the day in the control tower, and cruising the runways in the flashy light car. It was pretty awesome. The airport is half civilian and half military, which is cool because they split the costs for fire crews and things of that nature. So I also got to see some of the military side of things, which was interesting. We looked at a couple of old fighter jets, and where the military has their fuel stored, and the bunkers that the Americans built when we were terrified of Russians. Torben told me that they have to leave them there even though they don't use them because they're almost impossible to get rid of. So instead, they store tons of fireworks in them. He also told me that George HW built a bunch of them for Saddam back when they were buds, which caused the US Military a lot of trouble during the first conflict over there. Speaking of soldiers and conflict, I also something sad. Denmark has lost 39 soldiers in Afghanistan. I got to see a Royal Air Force plane bring home the most recent body. Saw them bring him off, too. From a distance, but.. still.. The flag at the main airport was at half mast too. Torben ALSO told me that there is a parachute club at the Aalborg airport. So Alex and I had the idea that maybehaps we could do a bit of skydiving. Haha. They offer a beginner's solo course and one jump as a package. Pretty awesome. So we'll see how that works out. Other than that.... the Harry Potter premiere was incredible. I move in TWO DAYS. Very exciting, very terrifying, VERY unprepared. I'll let y'all know how that works out. :)

Mud Puddles

There are indeed mud puddles in Denmark. Lots of them. Especially this time of year. Just throwing that out there. But let's start from the beginning of what I wanted to blog about. :) I had my first concert last Friday. I played the trumpet for a thing at the school. It was pretty awesome. (And here, we skip over a rather uneventful week, and we come to Friday.) This Friday, I went to my friend Else's house with a bunch of other people, and we had a Harry Potter marathon in preparation for the release of the first half of the 7th movie this week. Then I went home, and my family had a surprise dinner for me. They invited a bunch of our friends from Bjergby, and we all ate dinner together and then played a gift-exchange game. It was super fun. Then all of us girls watched Ghost Whisperers, which is a terrible TV show that I have become addicted to while staying here. Haha. It's awesome. It's got Jennifer Love Hewitt in it, and she can see ghosts who are stuck here because they have "unfinished business." It is incredibly cheesy and all, but... here I am watching it online as we speak. :P Pretty sad, I know. But anyway, the reason for this little party was that I am moving host families this weekend. I'm excited to get to know the new family and everything, and to be closer to my friends in town. But at the same time, I am going to miss these girls like crazy. Not only Julie and Diana, but also their friends. It's like I finally have little sisters. :) I'll just have to ride the bus out to see them often. Oh. One more thing. I had a little bout of homesickness on Friday night. Not bad, just a little bit. We were getting in the car to drive to a family dinner, and Christian put in a Carole King CD. I cried a little. Haha. A) It made me miss Abby, who is the world's biggest Gilmore Girls fan. (Where You Lead by Carole King is the intro song). B) It made me miss Sarah Simmons, with whom I sang Where You lead as a duet. C) It made me miss my VINYL! Haha. Pitiful, I know. But come on... my vinyl. I miss it. Anyway... That's about all I have to blog about for now. :) Have a lovely day.