And then some time after that...

Yea, it's been a long time since the last update on how the exchange year is going. And I must say it's going pretty damn well. I've found some guys from the hockey team, the Bow Tie Boyz and co., and those are the guys that I am pretty much hanging with most of the time. About school, well, as soon as I kinda got use to all the new stuff, the days are getting more n more similar. I think that is how school is all over the world. It's something u have to do. The Fall Hockey season has ended, and it has been quite an experience to get to know all of the other hockey players, and to play on a such a high level... It's great! Now the try-outs are coming up next week, I'm crossing my fingers that I am gonna make it. I'll skate my ass off, and do the best I can to make it. If that's not the case, then I'm pretty sure that there's a lot other things to do at Novi High School :) I've been introduced to a new sport called Lacrosse. I saw it on TV for the first time over here, and now I've got all the equipment I need to start practicing. I'm gonna try-out for the team in spring. Some of the varsity players are getting together after school sometimes after school to play, and tomorrow I'm joining them. I hope I can keep up, I don't think so, but it'll be fun. I like the sport and I have been practicing cradling and shooting in the drive-way. Another thing is that I've got some good grades in my classes so far, and it's a good thing I didn't that hard classes, cause then I would be using too much time doing homeork instead of being out there experiencing the american ways.. That's all I have time to write for now.

2 weeks and 1 day later..

Well, today's blog update is going to be written in danish.. There's so much english going on around me, and therefore I thought it was about time for some danish. 


Jajaaa, dansk.. Hmm ? Hvor skal jeg starte... 















Wauww.. skolen er kæmpe. Da jeg ankom min første dag, tog jeg mig selv i at stå med åben mund i den store Atrium Hall. Noget andet er at gangene og trapperne på skolen er fuldstændig ulogisk tilrettelagt, selv efter to uger, går jeg forkert i byen. Jeg prøvede at finde trappen der gik op til 207-215 lokalerne. Jeg finder et par minutter efter mig selv stående i den anden ende af skolen ved dans, musik og teater klasseværelserne. Udover at gangene går skråt og at skolen rent faktisk har et område, eleverne kalder "The Bermuda Triangle", fordi selv senior-eleverne  farer vild dér, så er det sgu egentlig meget fedt. Jeg har fået nogle gode fag, som er udfordrende og sjove. Hver dag er der fodboldtræning med Novi High School's JV Soccer Team henholdsvis kl. 14 eller 15 :) efter det, er der nogle dage, hvor jeg derefter tager til hockeytræning med Novi's Fall Team (pre-season). Dér er der både træning og kampe. Jeg begynder efterhånden at give lidt slip på hæmninger, og jeg kan også allerede mærke at min tale er blevet bedre. I skolen begynder lektierne efterhånden at strømme ind... Det var alt for nu, for jeg skal netop til fodboldkamp mod Northville High School snart.

PS. Jeg prøvede at tage et billede af travlheden på gangene i "Passing Time".. Som I kan se er det ikke lige nemt at tage det skarpeste billede, og det var ikke det mest optimale sted. Hvis jeg havde stået dér meget længere, var jeg blevet trumlet ned :O

7:15

Yeah that's right.. School starts at 7:15 ! Say whaaaaaat?... It's hard to adapt to.


Just a little information: My schedule is as followed;
1st block - French III (A)
2nd block - Weight Training
3rd block - Architectural Design
4th block - Short Story And Independent Novel
5th block - Power Technology
6th block - US History (A)


Every class is 55 minutes, no recess, and a 30 minute long lunch break in the middle of 4th block. Besides, you got 6 minutes to get from your last class to your next :)

Oh dear God ! - School's coming up...

So, tomorrow is the day, huh... I guess so. The day where i will walk the halls of Novi High School. And here the day before, I'm actually not that terrified. Maybe because I have been doing a lot the last week, I haven't had the time to be terrified. I can't wait though, I'm anxious and excited to have my first day of school. It's gonna be mind blowing...


The days up till this day, has actually been going by pretty fast. I've been introduced to a great new family that I'm supposed to live with for a whole year (10 months), I have met other exchange students and their friendly families, been to some very different parties, Cedar Point, Kalahari Resort with a gigantic water park, two great days by a lake at "Uncle Brent's" house and met some of Karen Kotcher's (Bjoern the norwegian exchange student's host mom) awesome family members. We went tubing, water skiing etc. It was literally awesome. Here's some pics from the lake house, don't have them all, there is also some video clips, but those will be put out in the time to come.

A quick update

I've just come back from my soccer try-out. It went well I think. It surprised me, how good they actually were. I just didn't know if soccer was a big thing in America. Last night I got on the ice with the Michigan Elite Team down in St. Mary. It was good to see how the competition was like. Now I know what it will take to join the Novi Varsity Hockey Team. Just in about 15 minutes I have to go 'cause I'm going to meet some people down by the lake. We're going to do waterskiing some tubing etc. It will be fun :) See ya

Just some pics of the house :)

Safely landed !

ZzzzzzZZzZZzzZzzz....... Waaaaaaaaaauw I'm tired..

- After being travelling for 26 hours in total without sleep, from when i left my front door in Denmark, until i finally could get some sleep in my new room in Novi !

John and Sue are great, and I am excited to meet Alex (their son). None of them are home right now, but Sue will be home soon. And then it's just about experiencing the american culture ;) And now I am going to get some breakfast for the first time in Novi... Exciting !


But here is some pictures that shows how my room looks like !

Thoughts about departure...

First of all I'm going to write in English.. Partly because i need to train it, and then also because I thought it would fit perfectly to the occasion :) 


Secondly:

"All my bags are packed 

I'm ready to go

I'm standin' here outside your door

I hate to wake you up to say goodbye"
John Denver / Leaving On A Jet Plane

As he says in the song, so it is true for me... My bags are (almost) packed, and I do really hate to say goodbye to all friends and relatives back here in Denmark.. There's even some I didn't get to say bye to, and for that I can only say that there is always "tomorrow", which in this case would be in ten months.. waaaaauw.. it's a long time. It feels weird just to think it while I write.. I actually can't believe I am doing this. It's not yet a reality for me, until when I am sitting on seat "13B" on the plane. Or almost just the second I walk up the stairs of Detroit Airport. Right now? I think I need to go to bed. I have a long and a very exact planned day tomorrow :O

For those of you I don't see tomorrow - so long suckers ! ;) I hope to see many of you when I get back.. 

- I can't wait to see US and A.. It's gonna be wiiiiiild as hell :)