Together!

My work trip finished Friday night and I took the train to find Susan and the boys.  Now we have taken a ferry ride to the island called Aero. 

Look who I found!

More sailing

Acksel, my host invited Sophie's host family for a sailboat ride and dinner. We left out of a town called Corsor and went really close to the bridge I climed up and posted about earlier. Here are a few pics. 

One Direction and a boat ride

Today we spoke to a few classes at the local high school that are apart of their international track. I've spoken to several groups in Denmark and all of them ask about lockers in school. They have seen so many American movies and shows that they are really curious about lockers. And, all of the girls love One Direction!  I am thankful I have learned some songs from Noah. They were impressed with that. 

Here is a chair of knowledge at the school. 

After that we went on a boat ride.  The boy in the picture with Jill is Giovanni. He is on a Rotary Exchange from Brazil. He has bee here for one month. We had a nice quick ride. 

Home for Kelly

I a in a town called Skalskoer which is a small coastal town of about 6,000 people. I am staying with a very nice family who live in a remodeled church that is beautiful. They have an 18 year old daughter named Linnea that needs to meet with my sister Kelly. She watches Beverly Hills 90210 every day!  Not the new one either, the ones from the 90s and she loves them. Kelly and Linnea could spend lots of time talking about 90210. 

2 weeks in

Here are more things to add from the trip

19. I think I am known as the sweaty team member.  Go figure!

20. People are impressed with my Paula Clark and Kay Peterson ability to make small talk about anything. 

21.  We went inside a Viking grave. 

22.  We went to the biggest flower shop I have ever seen.  

23. We are staying on the southern coast of Falster, which is pretty!

24. There are lots of sugar beets here, and you don't eat them, you use them to make sugar. 

25. I eat lots of bread!

26. I have drank lots of coffee. 

27. Danes eat lots of meat!

28. I had fancy sheep yogurt and it was the best I had ever tasted. 

Churches going over the edge!

Here is a church that is famous because in 1920, due to erosion the altar section fell over the edge. It's on a beach that is known for flint stone and as a place where you can trace the dirt back 65 million years. You can see on the beach, there is no sand, only round stones. When a wave comes in, there is a really cool sound of thousands of rocks slightly moving against one another. 

Vikings and bats

We were in a town called Maribo on one of our longest days. We even had to change right out of our bags for our presentation. During the presentation Sophie and I met our hosts and it really sounded like they said they had gotten us hotel rooms. It was hard to hide how excited we were. Our hosts are Michael and Lars. At one point Lars said "we can stay here and look at these people or leave and see some cool things". He and Michael took us on a nighttime tour of Lolland island. Different houses and statues. The high point was that we had been seeing many different Viking burial mounds when we got to one that we could go inside of. It was dark and there was a tiny path you had to crawl through. We climbed in and looked around with an iPhone light. It was super cool. There was even a bat inside!  We did finally end up at a hotel!  

Before our presentation

Me and some weird statues

Efterskole

The Efterskole is something that is unique to Denmark. It is a one year program where students that are 15, 16, or 17 leave their parents and stay at a residential school. It is strict with bedtimes and early rises. Most students don't know one another but quickly do. It is seen as a way for kids to mature and become more indepenant. Some have specialties like sports, dram, or music. Denmark is smaller in size than Oregon and has over 200 of these schools throughout the country. There are even 20 that are for kids with dyslexia. I wish the US had something like this. The kids go home pretty often, but are jam packed with activities!  Most schools are only about 100 students in size. 

Thinking about food?

Danish food has been great. Lots of meat and lots of potatoes. This sums up what I will need to do when I get back to Oregon.