Hey peeps!
So next week I'm going to go on the southtrip! It's a trip to the south (obviously) with all the exchange students in my district and one other. So after that I will have a lot to tell, so I will update again when I come back in november. :) Really looking forward to this!
See you later
- Ellen
fredag den 19. oktober 2012
onsdag den 26. september 2012
Orientation weekend & El Rodeo!
Hey people, how's it going?
I'm sorry for making you wait so long for me to update this, but I've had stuff to do :)
So, a little about what you are gonna hear about in this post:
So, let's begin!
Yes, I have started in school, I am now an official argentinian school student, on a school in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca called ENCJA. I am in 5to "H" with Sølvi, the guy from the Faroe Islands, whom I traveled to Catamarca with. There are about 32 persons in my class, it says so in the group on facebook, but it don't seem like that many, but there are a lot and we have a very small class room in the basement of the school. Quit nice. Well very different than at home, that's all I'm gonna say. I don't do much in class. I don't understand shit of what the teacher says, haha, only in english of course. In english is kind of a both way class, like a english-/spanish class. While the learn english, Sølvi and I learn spanish. That's actually nice, 'cause the english they learn is not as high level as and danish class in that age, so it's pretty basic.
In chemistry I do work too. Well, it has only been copy sheets, and like math, with Boyld's law and so, so it's pretty easy. Me gusta! I the rest of the classes I use most of the time to either talk to the classmates, or draw. Oh year, drawing. I'm getting a lot of practice. Hehe, but thats nice.
I also practice spanish, witch still is pretty hard, but I'm getting there! I can understand much of what my mom says to me, but for some reason every time someone ask me a question I am all like, "Erh, no entender espanol, derpie-derp". But as I said, I'm getting better and better every day, I think.
Here in Argentina, or in Catamarca I am not sure, is it tradition to find a "queen" of the season. It is like a "Beauty Contest" where like 20-30 girls walk a "catwalk" in two different outfits: A casual and a going out. The judges is a group of the school teachers whom later will choose the winners and so.
Well, we were one day talking about this at school, and some girls said that I should be in it, and I was like "noo" and they were like "yees!" and then more came, and at last I said okay... So I did it and I knew I could not win because I was not from Argentina, not really from the school, but it was a special experience. And Sølvi was kind of in it to, to walk me, and a couple of other girls, in to the "catwalk". Man, those people are crazy about that boy! :D Here some pics from the Pre-election that I was in:
All righty! Now to the orientation weekend with Rotary! It was a meeting at a hotel/place called Valle Carlos Paz three weeks ago, from the 7th to the 9th. A pretty nice hotel, with clean rooms an nice bath. Well, it was all the exchange students from all over the world and the once there going from Argentina in January from our district, 4815. We heard a lot about aaall the things we could/should do and could/should not do, things we had heard a thousand times before. But that was only some of the time. There was a nice garden, and the wether was HOT! The rooms were nice as I said, and it was cool to meet all the others from all over the world. We also met the last danish person in our district, hehe, we are four and three of os came to Catamarca and she lives i Cordoba where the weekend had place. Her name is Caroline and I sad next to her on the flight to Buenos Aries. A very nice girl. She had not been speaking danish since we came here, so it was a little weird for her at first, and there appeared an english word now and then, heheh. But we had fun, her, me and Mathilde. And it was actually nice to be around some danish girls for a change.
Besides all the dos and don'ts-talk and the nice free time, there were arranged some activities. We played some weird games withe the Roteract/interact, friday night we had a talent show, where most people showed something traditional from their countries. Mathilde danced and she was very good I can tell you ;) And saturday we had a costume-party! Every body (except the adults) were wearing all different kinds of costumes, there was a disco and a DJ and music (of course) and dancing and people seemed to have some fun. Sunday before we went home we had to stand up in front of everyone and tell about our country. IN SPANISH! Well it went okay and we had Sølvi's "support" because he didn't want to do it by him self. Haha. We also had to sing our national anthem. We could only the first verse. So that weekend was fun. Even (most of) the 6 hours bus drive was okay. Saw some movies, had a chat or two, took a nap, you know all those things you do when you're traveling like that.
Here some pictures:
Okay, here it comes! EL RODEO! El Rodeo is a beautiful place up in the mountains, that once a year is host for most of Catamarca's young people in The Students Week. It's almost a week, or a long weekend, of parting! You rent a house, a lot of people together, and then you stay in El Rodeo and party all day and all night! (Ok maybe not all day) It was a lot of fun and I think everybody knew who we were, 'cause every time we went out of the house, people started screaming our names, haha. But nothing is so good it's not bad for something.. Yep that's right, something bad always has to happen.. One night we were out, and some other stayed in the house in the backyard. While they was there some one snuck in a STOLE MY BACKPACK! Yes, my sweet heart Fjäll Räven! And not just the backpack, also the stuff in it, which happened to be my most valuable things! :( My camera, 200 pesos, my ?!clippers!? and my beautiful, sweet and truly beloved iPod :'( And thats not it! He also took my sisters backpack and stole some pants and a sweatshirt!? And her phone! I don't know who the fuck he is, but I'm gonna hunt him down and I will kill him! ORG! But well, Sol went to the police and they found our bags ind the river.. At least the thief was nice enough to put my wallet back in my bag, and THANK GOD he didn't take my credit card! But all my notebooks and my dictionary got all wet and ugly..
So I would love to show you some pics from the fun we had, but hopefully you understand that that's not really possible. But besides that, it was fun. :)
Alright. That's the things I've been doing lately and by the way have I passed my first month! Damn, the time is really flying, I have to learn that spanish fast! Because time is not the thing I have most of, apparently. Here some other pictures, hehehe:
P.S. If you have some questions or something you want to know, please let me know and I will do my best to give you the best answer, next time ;) Thanks for reading guys!
I'm sorry for making you wait so long for me to update this, but I've had stuff to do :)
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| Just a little picture of a sunrise over Catamarca |
- School!
- My spanish
- Queen Election
- The Rotary orientation weekend
- El Rodeo/students -day/-week
- Some other things
So, let's begin!
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| Yeah, that's little me in my cute school uniform :3 |
In chemistry I do work too. Well, it has only been copy sheets, and like math, with Boyld's law and so, so it's pretty easy. Me gusta! I the rest of the classes I use most of the time to either talk to the classmates, or draw. Oh year, drawing. I'm getting a lot of practice. Hehe, but thats nice.
I also practice spanish, witch still is pretty hard, but I'm getting there! I can understand much of what my mom says to me, but for some reason every time someone ask me a question I am all like, "Erh, no entender espanol, derpie-derp". But as I said, I'm getting better and better every day, I think.
Here in Argentina, or in Catamarca I am not sure, is it tradition to find a "queen" of the season. It is like a "Beauty Contest" where like 20-30 girls walk a "catwalk" in two different outfits: A casual and a going out. The judges is a group of the school teachers whom later will choose the winners and so.
Well, we were one day talking about this at school, and some girls said that I should be in it, and I was like "noo" and they were like "yees!" and then more came, and at last I said okay... So I did it and I knew I could not win because I was not from Argentina, not really from the school, but it was a special experience. And Sølvi was kind of in it to, to walk me, and a couple of other girls, in to the "catwalk". Man, those people are crazy about that boy! :D Here some pics from the Pre-election that I was in:
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| "Going out" (Btw. Everybody is at Sølvi, hehe ;)) |
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| Casual |
All righty! Now to the orientation weekend with Rotary! It was a meeting at a hotel/place called Valle Carlos Paz three weeks ago, from the 7th to the 9th. A pretty nice hotel, with clean rooms an nice bath. Well, it was all the exchange students from all over the world and the once there going from Argentina in January from our district, 4815. We heard a lot about aaall the things we could/should do and could/should not do, things we had heard a thousand times before. But that was only some of the time. There was a nice garden, and the wether was HOT! The rooms were nice as I said, and it was cool to meet all the others from all over the world. We also met the last danish person in our district, hehe, we are four and three of os came to Catamarca and she lives i Cordoba where the weekend had place. Her name is Caroline and I sad next to her on the flight to Buenos Aries. A very nice girl. She had not been speaking danish since we came here, so it was a little weird for her at first, and there appeared an english word now and then, heheh. But we had fun, her, me and Mathilde. And it was actually nice to be around some danish girls for a change.
Besides all the dos and don'ts-talk and the nice free time, there were arranged some activities. We played some weird games withe the Roteract/interact, friday night we had a talent show, where most people showed something traditional from their countries. Mathilde danced and she was very good I can tell you ;) And saturday we had a costume-party! Every body (except the adults) were wearing all different kinds of costumes, there was a disco and a DJ and music (of course) and dancing and people seemed to have some fun. Sunday before we went home we had to stand up in front of everyone and tell about our country. IN SPANISH! Well it went okay and we had Sølvi's "support" because he didn't want to do it by him self. Haha. We also had to sing our national anthem. We could only the first verse. So that weekend was fun. Even (most of) the 6 hours bus drive was okay. Saw some movies, had a chat or two, took a nap, you know all those things you do when you're traveling like that.
Here some pictures:
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| Before the costume-party Matias, Caroline, Mathilde and me |
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| All the exchangers from Rotary Club Catamarca Valle |
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| When we talked about our little lovely country |
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| Denmark, Hungary, Faroe Islands and Argentina Me with Mathilde, Patricia, Caroline, Sølvi and Marcos |
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| Me with Mathilde and my lovely hostsis Sol |
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| District 4815 - the best! |
So I would love to show you some pics from the fun we had, but hopefully you understand that that's not really possible. But besides that, it was fun. :)
Alright. That's the things I've been doing lately and by the way have I passed my first month! Damn, the time is really flying, I have to learn that spanish fast! Because time is not the thing I have most of, apparently. Here some other pictures, hehehe:
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| Some lovely argentinian jewelry I bought in the square The pink stone only exist in Catamarca ;) |
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| Got traded some pins at the orientation That's my blazer so far, I like it :) |
P.S. If you have some questions or something you want to know, please let me know and I will do my best to give you the best answer, next time ;) Thanks for reading guys!
fredag den 24. august 2012
Flying and cheek kiss
Hola Blog!
So, I arrived here to Catamarca around 14 o'clock the 21st of August, and I am gonna tell you about what had happened before and since.
We all met at the airport in time, luckily enough, but felt like the time was gone on one second, and suddenly we were on our way to Frankfurt. I didn't even got to say a good goodbye to my family and it was all so confusing and hectic. :( But it took a second and then we were in Frankfurt and of to Buenos Aires. It took 15 HOURS! But there were some goooooood movies, like The Hunger Games, The Avengers, The Lucky One (a lot of the's) and The Ciderhouse Rules, (Watched the all! Or not them all but them I just said! ;)) so I survived, even though the food was TERRIBLE!
But we got to Buenos Aires and some were picked up by there family, some for a 5 hours drive, and me and the others were of by CRAAZY cab to the other airport so we could get to our final distention. I went to Catamarca with Sølvi & Matilde, and it was an very nice 1.5 hour flight with them :) But in the airport the flight was about half an hour late, so we were late when we arrived. But we were beautifully received by the other exchanges and their families and the was a lot of cheek kissing and all that and their are all very nice! Well, I met my family and we went to the car and drove away to our home. It is a nice house that is pretty central and we can walk to almost everything :) Here's very beautiful, and I got my own room with a view of the mountains. I have made friends with the other Rotarystudens and their brothers and sisters, and they are all SO nice and fun to be with. :) Sooo, long story short, I AM GOOOD! And getting a lot of attention from people shouting and whistling at me, and sometimes when I pass some boys they mumble like, "uuh, miamor" and stuff, sooo fun ;)
The biggest change will be the dinner time! :D The first evening we went to the center with the guys and we were home about 22.00 and then we had dinner. When you are used to eat around/between 18-20 it pretty late actually! And the other day we ate at 23.30! Hehe, soup all the time! For dinner, you know, for lunch it have changed between chicken, fish and beaf I think. Mostly chicken, or should I say pollo ;)
Spanish is cool, and HARD! I practice every day with my sister, Sol, and I'm getting better, bur it's going slooooooowly! But I like the language, so I'm doing my best! And Sol is a good teacher, even though she's not the best at english, but it's only making it better, you know :) The other night we went to my friend Agustina and they tried to teach us how to dance AGENTINA STYLE! And we drank mate, a traditional type of tea that mostly is drunk with a lot of sugar :D But it's good, I most say. We had a lot of fun and so. Hahaha, so much fun... ;) Btw, are they very happy for sugar and salt over here, I've noticed, hehe. I have also been to some kind of "Queen Pre-selection" It was like a catwalk with some of the senior year girls, and you plan out the rest :) That included more dancing. They do that all the time, but that's okay, I like it :)
- That's it for now! I'll pep you guys up later, with more experiences late. Miss ya!
oxox Ellen
- P.S. The blog will be updated when I have something interesting to tell you, and if you have any questions, just write them to me, and I will do my best to answer next time ;)
So, I arrived here to Catamarca around 14 o'clock the 21st of August, and I am gonna tell you about what had happened before and since.
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| Me and my lovely brother and sisters |
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| All the Argentina Exchanges! Bye DK! |
But we got to Buenos Aires and some were picked up by there family, some for a 5 hours drive, and me and the others were of by CRAAZY cab to the other airport so we could get to our final distention. I went to Catamarca with Sølvi & Matilde, and it was an very nice 1.5 hour flight with them :) But in the airport the flight was about half an hour late, so we were late when we arrived. But we were beautifully received by the other exchanges and their families and the was a lot of cheek kissing and all that and their are all very nice! Well, I met my family and we went to the car and drove away to our home. It is a nice house that is pretty central and we can walk to almost everything :) Here's very beautiful, and I got my own room with a view of the mountains. I have made friends with the other Rotarystudens and their brothers and sisters, and they are all SO nice and fun to be with. :) Sooo, long story short, I AM GOOOD! And getting a lot of attention from people shouting and whistling at me, and sometimes when I pass some boys they mumble like, "uuh, miamor" and stuff, sooo fun ;) |
| Me y (some of) me amigos! (Sis Sol in the middle in front) |
Spanish is cool, and HARD! I practice every day with my sister, Sol, and I'm getting better, bur it's going slooooooowly! But I like the language, so I'm doing my best! And Sol is a good teacher, even though she's not the best at english, but it's only making it better, you know :) The other night we went to my friend Agustina and they tried to teach us how to dance AGENTINA STYLE! And we drank mate, a traditional type of tea that mostly is drunk with a lot of sugar :D But it's good, I most say. We had a lot of fun and so. Hahaha, so much fun... ;) Btw, are they very happy for sugar and salt over here, I've noticed, hehe. I have also been to some kind of "Queen Pre-selection" It was like a catwalk with some of the senior year girls, and you plan out the rest :) That included more dancing. They do that all the time, but that's okay, I like it :)
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| Mamá y Papá |
oxox Ellen
- P.S. The blog will be updated when I have something interesting to tell you, and if you have any questions, just write them to me, and I will do my best to answer next time ;)
søndag den 19. august 2012
The Final Countdown!
01 Day!
Enjoying the last evening in Denmark, with a lovely cup of tea on a balcony in Copenhagen
mandag den 6. august 2012
Packing
A "small" suitcase, LOTS of clothes
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| Next quest: Making this |
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| Fit into this |
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| Aaaaand I did it |
And yes, it will close ;)
søndag den 22. juli 2012
Departure Briefing
Two weeks ago I went to the departure briefing and met all the other students from Denmark that are going on exchange in all corners of the world, and to here about their choices and preparations.
I went there, with the two other girls from Als, by train It took 4 hours or something, it took soooo long! But when we almost reached our distention, the train got filled with Rotary students!
When we arrived we got rooms and roomies, and started talking about everything we knew about our exchange.
Later we all got together and we was told about do's and don't's on the school (we were staying on Gudenådalens Ungdomsskole all weekend) after we were divided into district groups and send out to traveltips and talking- and presentationtips. Very important! We also had national groups later, where we learned everything to know about being and exchange students in Rotary. We were guided by ex-students, you know, people there have been away before.
Saturday evening we had the traditional Hawaii party, and had sooo much fun! Really, it was the best. :D Everybody danced and partied and dressed up to Hawaii.
It was an interesting and learnable weekend and it made me even more excited to go than before. Good job Rotary! Just saying ;)
I went there, with the two other girls from Als, by train It took 4 hours or something, it took soooo long! But when we almost reached our distention, the train got filled with Rotary students!
When we arrived we got rooms and roomies, and started talking about everything we knew about our exchange.
Later we all got together and we was told about do's and don't's on the school (we were staying on Gudenådalens Ungdomsskole all weekend) after we were divided into district groups and send out to traveltips and talking- and presentationtips. Very important! We also had national groups later, where we learned everything to know about being and exchange students in Rotary. We were guided by ex-students, you know, people there have been away before.
Saturday evening we had the traditional Hawaii party, and had sooo much fun! Really, it was the best. :D Everybody danced and partied and dressed up to Hawaii.
It was an interesting and learnable weekend and it made me even more excited to go than before. Good job Rotary! Just saying ;)
HI!
Hey people! My name is Ellen I'm 16 years old, and I just finished 9th grade with fine, fine grades.(;
I live in a tiny tiny town called Nordborg on a little island called Als in the southern Denmark. And in less than a month I am going for exchange to Argentina! I am really excited and can not wait to go! Yesterday there was a month to my travel day. Time is flying, and before I know it I will be there.
On this blog I will tell you all I can about my stay and my preparations to it, hope you'll enjoy it. :)
I live in a tiny tiny town called Nordborg on a little island called Als in the southern Denmark. And in less than a month I am going for exchange to Argentina! I am really excited and can not wait to go! Yesterday there was a month to my travel day. Time is flying, and before I know it I will be there.On this blog I will tell you all I can about my stay and my preparations to it, hope you'll enjoy it. :)
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