Time

Time. To me, that is the scariest word. Every second that passes brings me closer to the end of my exchange, I don't want to waist it at all. I need to live a whole life in the one year I am here in Denmark, and it is already a third of the way through! I still feel that I have yet to accomplish much. The time has been slipping away, three months sounds like a long time but it really isn't. A year isn't a long time. It will be gone in the blink of an eye. This past weekend I went to an exchange get together in Holbæk. It was nice, I just really feel like I missed out, like I was holding back. I realized that I don't really know many of the other exchange students, and I really want to. The South Americans seem like such fun people, but the whole language barrier makes me worried that I would just feel out of place most of the time. I'm just going to start trying to be more involved with seeing them and going to things.

Other than that though everything has been fantastic! I moved to my second host family a few weeks ago, and ever since then I have always just been so happy! I'm actually even less tired (besides the fact that I am still catching up on sleep from the weekend.) Mark (the other Rotary student in Fredericia) and I are good friends now too, we realized that we are very similar people and it's really nice to have someone to talk to that completely understands! Not to mention we are from the same state haha! And I have been talking to people from back home a lot less, which I guess is a good thing. Oh and I started a ballet class! It is wonderful; very very basic but sometimes it is good to go back to the beginning. And I can work on pointe on my own just to keep my ankles strong. I am really tired of hearing about the election all the time! Thank God it will be over tonight! I just hope that Obama wins, or else I will move to Canada when I go home.

Right now I am really trying to work on money management now. I have been saving about 60 kr. a month for euro tour in May. I am so excited for it! I'm pretty sure that I will get to celebrate my birthday there with the other exchange students somewhere in Europe. Anyways back to the money thing, everything here is so expensive and I've just never been too good with money. It goes by so quickly and I never keep track of how much I've spent haha. And I just want to buy everything! That is something that I want to get better at. I also really really need to stop worrying so much! My friend Emily told me that I worry a lot and I thought about it and I really do! Haha I just think too much about what is going to happen. So yeah, at the moment those are my goals.

I am just really happy to be able to be here. I am so grateful for the opportunity and for my parents. How did I get so lucky?!?