Size does matter...

So, now we have been here almost two weeks and unfortunatly I'm haven't been the best in keeping my blog updated... Sorry, everything has been so busy but without doubt great too! 

The first week passed  by pretty fast with getting to know the family, the school, how to get around with busses (although I'm not so unlucky that I have to take the bus to school in DK, I have truly come to admire the Danish bus system. Us Danes know how to rule that kind of stuff! Here the busses arrive everything in between on time and 10 minutes after... They have taught their bus drivers how to say hi though - seems like Danish bus drivers don't really possess that skill...) and stuff like that.

Edmonds Community College is as we were "warned" about a very asian populated school. The canteen is crammed with asians noodles... It is a bit of an experience though and they seem extremely friendly. However, we have all our classes seperately, which means that we so far haven't interacted that much with the other students. The whole thing about going to school over here is so different though - we barely have any classes... Some days we meet at 10.30 and are off around 2.30 and within that amount of time we have a big lunch break + a study lab period. And our host families apparently think that the school is pushing us hard - giving us too many sciences + classes...?! 

Last weekend I met some of the most interesting people I have met long… Benjamin’s host family appeared to be this awesome family that has been all over the world and hosted students from basically everywhere. They had so many different stories and experiences to share and along with the longhaired 25-year old son (a real college-drop out J) they were babbling all night about everything from weed, to strange Russians to their hates on Mid Romney… Those weird Russians appeared to be exchange students they had had before the wall fell - quite interesting people those kids seemed to be...! :)

I was amazed by how open-minded and welcoming that family is – so maybe Kelli is right, some Americans are just more extrovert than us reserved “jante-lovs” Danes.

Saturday we were invited for a Canadian Thanksgiving, which was quite interesting. Victor’s hostmom is apparently Canadian and instead of celebrating the American thanksgiving, she is having a party on the 6^th of October every year to celebrate the “harvest” – or at least it was supposedly what the Canadians celebrated traditionally. So their house was smarten up with fancy Canadian flags and symbols and full of tons of different people – some of them completely dressed up in the Canadian colors.  So we ended up having a great night with meeting loads of cool people and tried tons of odd food.

 After having discussed the benefits of providing bullied kids games (WOW, LOL and that kind of games, although I’m not quite so experienced on that field I appeared to have an opinion… J) with a, not to be prejudiced, typical gaming guy, whom studied game-technology and development at a uni somewhere, we were even invited for dinner sometimes next week by a hypnotist… whom appeared to be his mother… So it was definitely a different night... :)

Besides that I learned, that as a kid my age you should NOT introduce yourself to other youngster by hand greeting… Couldn’t initially really figure out why they looked so strangely at us when we offered our lovely hands…  Sorta felt as the formal too polite mama’s kids from a little outmoded Scandinavian country… ;)

So tomorrow I am going downtown Seattle for the first time – feel a little embarrassed about not having been there yet after almost two weeks…! Anyways, the school is supposed to take us around and show us the sights of Seattle. And then Saturday I’ll leave for Vancouver with a couple of people - already gave up the hope about seeing "free-Willy" whales tho... :)

So everyone, have a great weekend and enjoy Denmark, the rain and the lovelaay “daily life” – I’m sure Vancouver will miss you ;) 

PS. Watch this and imagine that it's created by some danish dudes that just think they are Norwegian - the content is so true! :)