Students in Denmark have a week off from school. I assumed, before my autumn break began, that I would relax during those 9 days, and that I didn't have many plans. By the end, however, there was not a single uneventful day that went by. It's amazing how many exciting things I did in a week.
-> I found out about three weeks back that I would be shifting to my second host family in the last week of this month. It was a wonderful day that I spent with my host family.
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| Denmark Open finals |
-> The Yonex Denmark Badminton Open was being held during the autumn break, and as my host family had such great interest in badminton, we went to watch a match. My host father and host sister were selected to play in different categories, but my host sister couldn't play because of a sprained ankle. We saw a lot of matches that day, including two matches with Indians (Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu) playing. It was the first time I had seen a professional badminton match in person and it's an experience I will never be able to forget. My host mom won three 'best seat tickets for the Denmark open finals. She gave me her ticket so I could watch the finals, and that's how I got to see the Denmark Open finals sitting as close to the court as possible. It was such a great day.
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| Harry Potter festival The Forbidden Library |
-> On Friday, I attended the HARRY POTTER FESTIVAL in Odense. I am a complete Potterhead, so this festival, was a dream come true for me. It was probably more fun for children, than teenagers, but there were a few things for people my age. The organisers arranged for so many things, and recreated a lot of the Harry Potter scenes. There were people dressed as Harry Potter characters walking all over the city. They had some really delicious candy at the Honeydukes shop. In short, I had an amazing day.
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| Harry Potter festival |
-> I also went for a Harry Potter concert on Saturday. It was an orchestral concert, but I never expected it to be that great. They involved the orchestra in a little play that they had prepared with six main characters from the Harry Potter series.
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| A statue of H.C. Andersen |
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| A room that brought H.C. Andersen's most famous stories to life |
-> On Tuesday, I visited the house of Hans Christian Andersen in Odense. H.C. Andersen was a famous author born in Odense, who wrote many popular children's tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, The King's New Clothes and The Nightingale. It was a strange feeling, knowing that the storybooks that I had read as a child, were originally written in Danish.
I had an amazing week, and for some reason, that one week felt like so much time. I did so much more in this one week than I did in a month.
It's beginning to get dark earlier and the sun rises and the first light in my area is at around 7:15 in the morning. It's steadily getting colder, and there is a chance of the temperature reaching freezing point at night this month. Next week, the people in Denmark will set their clocks back an hour (I don't understand why) so it's probably going to be quite dark when I leave home.
Language check: I could understand about the first 10 sentences that the teacher said today. That counts as something, right? I can also speak slowly but fluently now, and reading and writing is becoming easier by the day.
Have a nice autumn!
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