onsdag den 9. november 2011

Livingston college..

Hey y'all.. ;-)
Today we went to the college in Livingston.. We were in som different classes to see what the were doing, and then 4 of us were having a live screen meeting.. that was really interesting.. we were sitting in a classroom with these screens and having a meeting with some people from Springfield. So we could see and hear each other.. that is an amazing form of communication, and then the people dont have to drive the way to meet face to face.. Just amazing..!! Then we went to a biology lab were there were some very exiting things.. I will paste some photos in later so y'all can see what i'm talking about.. ;-)
- Then our instructor from DK Hans Henrik, and some friends of Patsy and Herman, Jimm and Janett was coming to the house at 19 to have a nice chat with us. Jimm and Janett was a wonderful couple, and I really enjoy spending time and talking with them. So again today, I had a wounderful day.. :-)

mandag den 7. november 2011

weekend...

Saturday we were out - we went to Nashville in a biiig black limo.. It got late, but we had so much fun.. ;) -  So sunday we relaxed all day.
When we got home to Patsy and Herman again we all got a massage and then Patsy and Herman went to some friends and we were home alone and tired, and went to bed early..
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Loerdag var vi ude - i byen i Nashville i en stor sort limosine.. ;-p -  Det blev sent, senere end det har vaeret de andre dage og jeg vaegnede tidligt, saa jeg var godt traet og det meste af dagen stod den paa afslapning..
Da vi kom hjem til Patsy og Herman stod en massoer og ventede paa os og vi fik alle 1 times fuld massage.. Det var virkelig skoent og meget tiltraengt!

Sorry for keeping you waiting.. / Undskyld ventetiden..


Pizza and beer..  

Friday d. 4. november, we had one class with Bridgett, another hostmom. We had about social problems, and compared Denmark to America. It was very interesting to hear and the other students was choked at some points.

After that we went shopping in a mall. It was fine.
It was also the first day raining and it was very cold.

Patsy and Herman had arranged an event with a musician, Greg, who's played some blues. It was really awesome..! the other girls and our instructor was at Patsy's also and we're got  pizza and beer.. It was at very nice night...
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Fredag d. 4. november havde vi en time og det var med Bridgett, en af de andre som hoster studerende, de resterende. Vi havde Social Problems, hvor vi sammenlignede USA og Danmark og det var ganske spaendende. Mange af de studerende paa skolen blev overrasket over hvordan det var i Danmark og det var ganske morsomt.

Senere tog vi til et stort center hvor der var en masse butikker. Vi gik rundt i et par tre timer og det var nu hyggeligt nok.

Patsy og Herman havde arrangeret et event og der kom en musiker som spiller blues og det var virkelig fantastisk!. Jeg elsker jo musik, saa det var lige noget for mig. ;)
Alle de andre piger og vores laere fra dk var her oz og det var en super hyggelig aften..

onsdag den 2. november 2011

So today vi participated in a class called; Introduction to broadcasting - monday we are gonna be on the local radio at Vol State. In the class we heard about radio history.

Later on we had Introduction to Radio Production. We had the same teacher as we had in first class. He was a great teacher.

Later we had about two hours, we spend the time in open lab; just sitting at the computer and writing home and some of us updated the blog.

After that we had a little tour around the school; saw the place there the radio'thing is in, saw the room where there is a news room. (I can't remember the word right now...)

6.45 pm the had a dinner, down at the rock castle, with our hostmom and hostdad, Patsy and Herman. Patsy is in a storytelling group and she arranged that we should come and tell a little story from Denmark, and Karina, Heidi and I told a story from H.C Andersen "Clumsy Hans". First a little bit in danish and then next the story in english.
They asked some question about Denmark and it was really nice and "hyggeligt".

It's really great here. The students are friendly, everyone is friendly. Everything is bigger and the wheather is FANTASTIC!
I'm really happy to be here.

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I dag har vi haft et par klasser. Foerst havde vi Introduction to broadcasting. Vi hoerte en smule om radioens historie. Og vi havde en skoen laerer. Vi havde den samme til Introduction to Radio Production.
Det er lidt sjovt at se og vaere med til. En af forskellene paa danske og amerikanske elever er, at vi i Danmark er lidt mere respektloese. De fulgte med i klassen og var til steder; eller nogle af dem var.
Karina, Heidi og jeg snakkede om, at det masske kunne vaere fordi at i USA skal man selv betale for uddannelsen og man har faktisk meget at tabe, hvis man ikke bestaar. Det fik en til at taenke lidt..

Senere havde vi Open Lab hvor vi bare sad ved en computer og skrev hjem til vores familier og skrev lidt paa bloggen.
Derefter blev vi vist rundt paa skolen. Vi saa deres radiostudio og der hvor de optager deres nyhedsudsendelser. Vi var ogsaa inde og se et sted hvor de spillede lidt for os. Jeg filmede det og tog billeder, men selvfoelgelig har jeg ikke mit kabelting med.

I aften har vi vaeret til et event med Patsy og Herman. De er med i en storytellinggruppe og havde arrangeret at vi skulle lave lidt for dem. Saa os tre som bor ved hende vi fortalte en historie fra H.C Andersen; Kolds Hans, foerst lidt af den paa dansk, derefter den hele paa engelsk, og de elskede det og var virkelig glade for det. De laerte lidt om Danmark og stillede en masse spoergsmaal.
Det var super hyggeligt og skoent at moede nye mennesker.

tirsdag den 1. november 2011

Another great day

So today we had our first real class. We had a medical terminology class, we had about the blood system. After that we had lunch with the school president.
We also attended an international education committee meeting, where we got to meet some of the teachers. We listened to Dr. Girija Shinde. She told us a little about the school and the class she is teaching in.
We learned more about the school and how it works.

We, Karine, Heidi and me, got home to our sweet hostmom Patsy and she had cooked us a lovely healthy meal; fish. It was sooooo good.
She is the nicest person on earth and she'll do anything for us.

In a few minutes, then we are finish writing this blog, we are gonna sit down and have a glass of wine with her, before we go to bed.

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I dag har vi vaeret i skole, hvor vi havde vores foerste rigtige time; om blodet.
Efter frokost fortalte en laerer, dr. Girija Shinde, lidt om skolen. Og jeg syns, at det hele kom lidt mere paa plads og man fandt ud af hvordan deres skole fungere og hvilke uddannelser man kunne tage. Vi havde derefter et moede med skolens udvekslingskomite, hvor de sad og snakkede lidt om hvad de studerende fra udlandet skulle.

Anne-Marie, hende som soerger for os herovre, koerte bagefter Karina, Heidi og jeg hjem til vores soede vaerstmor, som havde lavet et laekkert maaltid til os. Det var endda sundt.

Vi fyrer den lige nu af til Lady Gaga, Patsy er stor fan. Hun er for cool. Og naar jeg bliver faerdig her har Patsy sagt, at vi skal have os et glas vin, saa vi kan sove godt i nat. Vi er alle sammen godt traette, saa det bliver nok ikke noget problem.