Sunday
We arrived late to Ringe, because our driver was
driving too slowly. It was hard to recognize the person we were staying with because
they looked different than on the photo they sent us. She and her mother live
in an apartment close to their school, so it didn’t take long. She let me stay
in her room and she slept on a sofa in their living room, it was very kind of
her to do that, so I will have to let her stay in my room alone too. Her room
was very nice with white walls and white furniture, and it looked very tidy. It
was a bit small, but it was enough for me. For dinner, we had bread from dough
like tortilla with some meat and vegetables.
Monday
We met up at school and our teachers divided us into
groups. We were with people we were staying with and they had to guide us
around school and show us around. It was their first day after a four week
pause because their teachers protested. Later, we visited a church in their
town and then we went to a museum about their town, Ringe. There was a guide,
an old lady who had a big hump on her back. She was really small and she
couldn’t speak English very well, so she always asked a Danish teacher how to
say the word she couldn’t remember, it was very boring. Then we went to a
library, we ate our lunchboxes there and then there was a disco with some more
Danish pupils from their school. Then we went to minigolf, but it was raining
and it was very windy, and I was freezing. After minigolf we went to Emily, one
of the Danish girls. We sat around a big table; we drunk some hot chocolate and
had some apple pie. Then they showed us some Danish pop music on YouTube and we
showed them ours, it was fun. Then we had to go to Nanna’s place to eat some
dinner, we had homemade pizza with ham and cheese. Later, we went to Nikolaj's
house where Vojta stayed. He lived on a farm, it was really fun, we learned
some Danish phrases and we taught them some words as well. Then we went to jump
on a trampoline outside, everybody there had a trampoline, it was so cool.
Tuesday
We had to get up earlier, because we had to meet at
school at eight. We gathered at their school with all the Danish pupils to sing
some songs, it’s their tradition there, then we went to LEGOLAND, it was
amazing, it was cold there but it didn’t rain. We went on a water attraction
and I got wet, my pants were so wet. There were machines, dryers, but although
I used it twice I still wasn't dry enough, so I was still cold. The attractions
were amazing, there were many rollercoasters, and there was a place called
The Temple where were 'laser games', where you were in a trolley and you had to
point at lights around you and press the trigger on a 'gun' and it counted
points. The best rollercoaster was The Polar Express, it was the fastest one
and we were there about five times, I loved it. We had meatballs, potatoes with
gravy for dinner, its typical for Denmark. In the evening we went to Louise’s
place where Kája stayed and we played a game similar to baseball outside and
jumped on a trampoline and then we went to look at huge greenhouses in which
Louise’s family grew carnivorous plants, plants that eat insect.
Wednesday
We went to a dolphinarium called Fjord-og Bæltcentre.
It was very interesting, we had some free time in there to look around and then
there was a guide who was very funny and he told us some information about sea
animals like whales and crabs. We got to hold one of the crabs they had there,
it was amazing. He showed us a video how people in USA found a dead orca on the
beach and they didn’t know how to get rid of , so they exploded it, but that
wasn’t a good idea because then there were huge pieces of dead stinking meat
falling from the sky. One of those fell on a brand new car and damaged it
completely. Then we had some free time in the town, Kerteminde, where the
dolphinarium was. We went to a shop called Netto, it’s like their Tesco and I
bought a Danish chocolate and After Eight in a stick that we don’t have in
Czech Republic. We went around the harbor with
Caroline and took some nice pictures. Ten Caroline bought big fish and chips
with ketchup that actually looked and tasted like it was made from tomatoes. I
bought a banana split ice-cream, it was delicious. In the evening we went to Odense to look at the
house where Christian Andersen lived, but it was The 1st of May, the day when
people don’t work, so everything was closed. We didn’t have time to go shopping,
so it was very boring there. Then Caroline stayed with us because Louise went
to training. We watched a new episode of The Amazing Race where Joey and Meghan
were eliminated, which was very sad, but then we played some games on my
tablet, we had some excellent time. For dinner, we had spaghetti Bolognese, I
was laughing a lot because of a helmet that Nanna's mother thought was nice but
we didn’t, it looked ridiculous. Then we went to a girl where Matouš Klíma
stayed and it was boring because Johanka and other girls from Denmark, Eve,
Soki and Laura weren’t there, so nobody talked to us there.
Thursday
We biked to a castle, Egeskov. The way there wasn’t
bad, but their bikes were terrible, they were like road bikes with brake
systems like bikes for small children. You could stop the bike by reversing
cycling - that was very bad for me because I always put my feet down before I
stop the bike. The castle was amazing, we went on Segways, it cost 40 Danish crowns
for fifteen minutes which I think wasn’t that expensive and I had a lot of
money left, so I was happy to spend it on this.
We were there in a big group, it was fun. Later, we went to gardens that
were around the castle. We didn’t go to the castle but I think that that was
okay, because I don’t really like castles. Then we went on a stairway which led
into the trees and then there were ladders with ropes and webs around so we
don’t fall down, because it was really high. The way back wasn’t good, because
the settle was very hard and I was wearing jeans, so it wasn’t comfortable.
When we came back, Caroline and Louise stayed with us, so we drank some coffee
and watched a movie, then we went to eat dinner at their school. Everybody was
there, even their parents and siblings. It was fine, but there wasn’t much food
I liked, but I wasn’t very hungry so it was alright. Later, there was a
delicious strawberry cake. After few minutes, we went to their gym, it was
terrific! It was huge, we could jump from big a foam pit. I did a flip
there. It was very difficult to climb out of the foam pit, but eventually, I
got myself out every time. I wanted to stay longer, but we had to leave,
because we left early in the morning.
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