21. December 2008

Oh, I just realized that I hadn't updated my blog for quite a while.

PDC: was fuuuuuuuuun! I mean, technically we just arrived, took a pictures, ate, and then we danced for hooooooours! It was soooo much fun. Glenn wasn't that bad a dancer. We had a lot of fun, definitely. Afterwards, we went to Anna Willoughby's house with a couple of other people and ate ice cream. A perfect ending on such a fun night!

The last couple of weeks I have been busy(-ish) with exams.. All last week was dedicated to exams. Of course, people here were completely stressing out about it. I think it was nice, because we didn't have to wake up super early and just.. yeah, go to school.

Monday was history, art and science exams day. Since I don't take those classes (I mean, I take art, but not AP. And only APs have an exam), I took my Chinese exam. It took me like 20 minutes, so it was fairly easy. 

Tuesday was language exams day. I take Chinese AND French, so I chose French that day, and Chinese monday. French was pretty easy too. It was basically just fill-ins, answer questions about a text and write a mini essay. 

Wednesday: English exam.. Oh wow. That did not go well. I stayed up all night on Tuesday to write an essay, that we had to bring to the exam. I think it turned out pretty well. I hope I can get a B on that. Then the exam itself, at school.. ooh. We had some vocab word stuff (we had to know 200 words - words like vitriolic, concomitant, redolent), that I covered pretty well. I got most of them. AND THEN we had 12 quotes from the 5 books we have read this semester, that we were supposed to analyse and write about. I only remembered 2 of them, so I failed pretty much. I just hope that the essay and vocab words can save my grade.. I mean, save me so I don't fail. I don't care if I get a C. I just don't want to fail and get in trouble with AFS.

THEEEEEEEEN: MESSIAH YAY!!!! We had a concert on Thursday night. It was fun. I really, really enjoy singing it. It is sooooo beautiful. Parents, grand-parents, friends, and people like that came. It was rather crowded in McCain (at school. All the buildings have name. And some rooms. McCain is a huge chapel-auditorium). The entire chorus was standing on the stage, very crowded, singing - for 1 hour. It was quite long. Especially when we were waiting for the 4 solos in a row to be over. 

Friday morning, it was all of that over again, but for the school. It was fun again. But I was kind og sad because that was the last time I will probably ever sing the Messiah. Two girls fainted during the concert. It just gets so hot.. So people faint. It looked rather dramatic when this girl just fell forwards, a couple rows. And people just kept singing. I think they're just used to that happening.

So finally, we're on Christmas break. Steve came back from his almost 3 weeks buisness-trip to Texas and Marina & Carolina both cam back from college! The house is full again! Yay!

So the last couple of days I have just been chilling with my awesome host sisters. I sure enjoyed it so far.

Friday, after the Messiah (which was the only thing we came to school for; Christmas service), I went to Goldberg's with Carolina. Goldberg's is a bagel shop right next to school. When I was about to order, this lady came up to me, and it took me a couple of seconds before I recognized her. De Cutshaw was standing in front of me. She said hello and asked me how things were going.. Stuff like that. It was quite scary though since I haven't seen her since I got pulled out of their house. Whatever ;)

So, Christmas is coming.. Break is going to be so much fun! 

This experience just gets better every single day. It's great.

I hope y'all are doing great!

9. December 2008

AFS Christmas party!

Julio, Me, Guy, Carolin, Alessandra, Andy, Taresa & Luisa (Pedro, Oscar & Michael are missing)
PDC (only from the picture party @ Aubrey's house)

Getting a boutenniere on a jacket = not easy.

Getting a corsage on my wrist? Easier.. Haha

Me, Agnes & Glenn


Glenn, me, Aubrey & Marco being silly

All the girls (@ Aubrey's)

Me & Cammie being super cool. Allison being absolutely gorgeous (in the blue dress)

Cammie and me! Yay!

Glenn and me

I hope y'all enjoyed the pictures! I will actually write what happend another day. But it was fun, as you probably can see!

4. December 2008

I just found some picture from Hilton Head, where we went on the chorus trip in September.

I put a red ring around myself in the pictures. 

This is from when we actually sang at the church (what we came for). This is the 9th and 10th grade chorus. 

At the party of the first night. Me in the yellow thingy. 

Chilling at the beach. I the front; Catherine Smith, Bess and Sara Lynn - all from my grade.

Those were the only pictures I could find with myself in them, but if you want to see more pictures from the trip (what it looked like and what some of the students look like), you can see them at: http://westminsterhighschoolchorus.shutterfly.com/

Bye!

3. December 2008

So, since PDC is on sunday, and it is a very big deal, I want to tell you guys about it.

First of all, PDC stands for Pre-Debutante Cotillion, and is a dance they have every year in Atlanta, at different Country Clubs.
There is this tradition called "Debutante" - very southern, very old, and not really practised anymore. Only by some few, very rich people. 
Wikipedia's definition of a Debutante:
A debutante (deb or presentation ball) (from the French débutante, "female beginner") is a young lady from an aristocratic or upper class family who has reached the age of maturity, and as a new adult, is introduced to society at a formal presentation known as her "debut" or "coming out". Originally, it meant the young woman was eligible for marriage, and part of the purpose was to display her to eligible bachelors and their families with a view to marriage within a select upper class circle. This traditional event varies by region, but is typically referred to as a debutante ball if it is for a group of debutantes. A lone debutante might have her own "coming-out party", or she might have a party with a sister or other close relative.

A debutante ball in the United States, is used more often in the South, and some other countries. Debutantes are usually recommended by a distinguished committee or sponsored by an established member of elite society. 

So as said, a debutante is "presented" to the society in those big parties. The girls are normally 16-18, I think. 
So, since they were not really aloud to date before that (in the olden days, I am pretty sure that it isn't that way anymore) they did not know how to act or dance or stuff like that. Therefore, they have the PDCs. So that the girls that are preparing for those debutante dances, can "practise".
In the beginning, only the girls that were actually going to have those fancy Debutante parties were invited, but Westminster protested some years ago, and said that they could invite ALL girls, or no girls at all. So now, all girls get invited.
The tradition is that the girl askes the boy, since she is the one that gets invited to the PDC. Which means, that boys can not go if they don't get asked by a girl.
There is a PDC for every grade (and that includes all school. So only 4 PDC dances a year) - Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior PDC. Of course, the girl can only attend the one for her own grade (the Sophomore in my case - which is by the way pronounced soff'mor'), but a boy can get asked to all four of them.
It is only girls from the private schools of Atlanta that get invited, because the Debutante tradition a upper-class thing, and the upper-class kids mainly are attending one of the private schools. 
The thing is that a ticket is expensive - 240$ for a girl and her date. I mean, since I live in a wealthy society, it isn't a big deal for them, but it was for me.
Anyways, someone got me invited even though I had not paid this ridiculous amount of money. So GREAT! :D


Then, what actually happens:
The tradition is that the girl askes the boy in a very creative way. Most girls just bake a cake and writes "...name of boy.. PDC with ...name of girl.. ?" on it with icing. Something boring like that. Mostely it is because when one girl in the grade askes, the rest of them FREAK OUT and ask immediately the boy they want to ask before somebody else askes him. And then, they don't have the time to come up with something funny, so they just ask, and bring cookies or a cake the next day. Seriously, 80% of the girls asked within 4 days. I am not exaggerating. It really is a big deal. At least in my grade.
Also, a boy can't say no. Unless if he is out of town or doing something else that night.
So some of the more creative ways to ask would be to do it in class - writing it on the board, come to their play/sport/whatever practice and ask, something like that. I even saw a girl doing it during one of the peprallies with the cheerleader squad with big signs saying "PDC? ..and then the boys name..". That was cute!

Then, like for prom, the girls get very excited about it, so they go buy a fancy dress, get their hair and make up done by professionals, get pedi- and manicure, all that kind of stuff to look fabulous. 

The PDC itself is only 3 hours (7-10 pm), and people eat and dance.
But before that, people have picture parties. A girl invites usually 5-10 girls and their dates to their home, where they take a lot of pictures (1 million probably) and kind of "warm up" to the PDC itself. Of course, they invite the girls they hang out with. 
I was invited to a couple (hihi, people love me, they all want me to come! No, I'm just kidding, haha), but I am going to Aubrey's. She got me an invitation to the PDC, so I couldn't say no to her. That would not be nice of me. And I try to be nice. AND I like her! So how great is that?
Sometimes people have after parties. Some of them are harmless, some of them are more hardcore and include drinking (which is a BIGGGG NO-NO here. it really is something that is not accepted at all. And it is illegal - I can not break the law ; AFS rule #2). 
I am going to an after party at Anna Willoughby's house - ice cream eating and chilling. FUN!

So that is pretty much it..

Now, I wrote all of this, because I finally asked!
It was a bit late - since it is on Sunday, but Glenn knew we were going together. I just didn't do it officially.
So, Leigh Ann, Rachel and I dressed up all Christmas-ish (christmas vests with christmas ornaments, santa-hats, big red bows all that kind of stuff), went to the art department of the school and painted 11 signs with one letter each (P D C G L E N N ? -> -> [the two arrows were pointing at me]) in red and green. 
On Wednesday nights, Glenn has a'capella at Westminster, so we decided to take advantage of that. So we took 4 signs each ( only 3 for me, since I had no arrows), stood outside the windows of the Chorus room were they practise, and got someone to make him look out the window. Then Rachel started out with taking the P sign up, Leigh Ann took the D sign up, I took the C sign up, and so on, till we spelled the entire thing. All the boys were laughing and seemed to think it was funny.
Glenn came running out very happy and also surprised. He said that he didn't expect me to do something like that. He thought I just would have made some cookies - something laaaaaame, as he said.
It was very funny! We really had a lot of fun preparing it.
Rosalee took some pictures, so as soon as I get them, I'll post them. We looked ridiculous, so they are rather funny pictures.

So that was PDC info! I thought it was relevant since it is a very important thing here.
I am really excited about it. They all say it is a lot of fun.
I will tell you about it once I actually know. 

I hope y'all are doing well! 

1. December 2008

December is finally here! Yay!

And you know what? It snowed today. How perfect is that?

Actually it was only a little bit, and it didn't stay on the ground at all. But I mean, it's Georgia, snow just doesn't happen here.

We, sadly, started the day with an assembly telling us that a girl, called Monica (I didn't know her) commited suicide over the thanksgiving break. Everyone was quiet, beside the few people crying, and very respectful. There were some very nice speeches about how much they (the Westminster faculty) care about us (the students) and how we were supposed to handle all of this. Even when we were dismissed and walked out, nobody talked. I have never seen that before. 

We just had normal classes afterwards, but everyone was schoked.

Yesterday, we came back from Nebraska, after a 10-hour drive through Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and finally Georgia. We spent the night at a hotel in St. Louis and left in the early morning. 

Anyways; thanksgiving was fun! It's mostely eating and sleeping, but I really enjoyed it.

We arrived to Nebraska on Wednesday (after a 10-hour drive to St. Louis - to get Carolina at her college, a night in St. Louis and a short trip by airplane to Omaha, NE) where Steve's dad picked us up at the airport. We drove for.. an hour I think, before we got to their farm - litterarly in the middle of nowhere, where the rest of the family was. Actually not quite "the rest". Just Steve's mom, his sister and her husband and their 3 kids from Texas.

The rest of the family stayed at Steve's other sister's house, not far from the farm.

Glenn came with us, so he and Carolina were pretty much spending all their time together - which is understandable, since he is still at Westminster and she in college, and they see each other rather.. rarely. So I chilled with Marina. Which was cool. Marina is cool! (So is Carolina!)

On thanksgiving day, we went to Steve's sister's house to celebrate it with the entire family (actually some cousins were missing.. but whatever. Almost then). We played Nintendo Wii, talked, ate, watched football, took naps, ate more, went for walks.. Stuff like that. Pretty chill, but very nice. The food was delicious! Even though I couldn't eat the turkey. I had mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli casserole, bean casserole, salad, bread and a looooooot of pie!

This weekend is going to be pretty busy! 

I have a rehearsal for a concert (with the chorus) at Holy Spirit (a church) and something planned with Laurie (my new AFS liason) on Saturday.

On Sunday: first I have the concert at Holy Spirit, then I have an AFS christmas party, AND because it is PDC day, I have the picture party and THEN the PDC itself! (Credits to Aubrey for getting me a ticket!). That is a lot on one weekend.. But I'm really excited! PDC is going to be fun! 

And seeing my AFS buddies again - EVEN BETTER!!!! YAY! :D

Oh well, I hope you all enjoy christmas time!

Okay this weekend was awesome!

Friday night, I got to hang out with Glenn and Daniel. And they are pretty awesome. It was fun.

Then, on Saturday, I went to Meron's bithday party. She held it on a party bus. Yep, super VIP! Naah, it was an old school bus painted black, and pimped on the inside. But it was fun, we danced with the pole (ha ha ha ha, I know) and yelled at people we were driving by. 

After the party, I went to Brianna's house. We went to see the new James Bond. I really liked it. But it was too short somehow.. It felt like a lot of information was missing. But whatever, I liked it. And the girl is soooooooo pretty! And her name is Camille! Yay :D

Sunday morning, I went to church with Brianna and her family. That was really different. People were wearing nice clothes, they said AMEN at random moments, and it took 2 hours. I think I would have liked it if had not been that long. I also felt kind of akward, because I was the only white person in the church. Not that I am judging by skin colors, but other people do (no offence, but it's the truth).

Afterwards we (Brianna and I) went to the High Museum with Brianna's .. group.. of young people? I don't really know what it was. A group for young black kids. So again, I was the only white kid, and they all looked at me like I was.. very very outstanding. But when we told them that I was a foreign exchange student, they were all cool. 

We saw an exhibition called The First Emperor. It was about the Qin dynasty and the Terracotta army, and very interesting. I liked it.

After that I just went home and chilled out with the family. Kyohei and Marina were there, so it was extra fun!

We are leaving for Nebraska on Tuesday! Yay! My first Thanksgiving.

Well that was it. I really hope I get my camera cord back soon, so that I can upload some pictures!

Hope y'all are doing well!

16. Nomvember 2008

Picture time! Yay

So Alex, my italian AFS friend, came over this weekend! We went to the CNN center, Underground Atlanta - which is kind of a mall, but underground, where the railroads used to be. We also went to see a musical; the Altar boyz - which was absolutely hilarious!

And enjoy the few pictures:

Alex being cool while waiting for CNN guided tour

Me being an angel (as always, duh).

Alex and I in front of a big CNN sign.

Like requested from my dear mom, pictures of my new host family:

Marina, Carolina and Jimmy Dean.

Steve and Agnes

We went to the mountains a couple of weekends ago, so here are the pictures:

Enjoy the beauty of the mountains of Georgia. And of ME!

The new family

Taking a short break

After a long day, food at Wendy's.

12. November 2008

SUP? ;D

Well, I feel like I have to tell you about my weekend, because it was really awesome.

So Friday night, I was supposed to go to Shelby's house, for a sleepover. So we did. And when I walked in to her room, 7 girls jumped out of all kinds of their hiding places and yelled "SURPRIIIIISE!"! (Hayley, Caroline, Anna, Peyton, Maria, Katie and Claire. And of course, Shelby and myself were there also). They did that because I wasn't going to have a sweet 16 birthday party. That was soooooo nice of them!!!! I jumped up at first and almost screamed, but afterward, I almost cried of joy.

We had dinner, cake, danced, did our hair and make up, talked, and stuff like that. It was a great night.

Then Saturday night, Of Montreal was playing at the Tabernacle - a venue in Atlanta. I went with Leigh Ann, Cat, Rachel, Glenn, Jake & Daniel. They are all seniors, so I do feel kind of young, but they're being really nice, so I don't think it matters to them. Which is good, because they're awesome people. 

The concert itself was pretty amazing. The stage-show was really cool. They all wore different costumes for every sond and they danced and stuff like that.

When the concert was over, we went to sleep at Daniel's house. We = Glenn, Jake, Daniel and me. We played Nintendo64, ordered pizza, watched a movie, and finally went to sleep at.. 5 am. At least, Glenn and I did. 

Next morning we went to The Original Pancake House and had pancakes. They were really good. Fun times!

Everything is going pretty well at school. Chinese is getting more intense, but I really like it, so it is okay. 

French is fun. I really enjoy being able to communicate with a native French person (my teacher, M. Mourjan). Actually, to make this a bit more fun, a funny quote!

M. Mourjan: Où est Lindsay aujourd'hui?

David (with a very American accent): Ca n'est pas mes oignons monsieur!

- It just seemed funny that a non-native or at least fluent, would use that expression..

I laughed pretty hard for a couple of minutes. Which I do often. As the only one, the other students don't understand the funny stuff. 

We started to sing the Messiah in Chorus. It's fun. And hard - like WOW. But I will learn it. Somehow, I will! 

We are working on a Graffiti project in Art. It is going to be sooooo awesome! I'm really excited about it.

I am really obsessed by Jean-Baptiste Maunier at the moment. He is the guy from Les Choriste. His voice was amazing! I'm getting really into this chorus/chorale music. It's fun. And it really sounds good!

I wish I could make a CD with all the songs, so you could all hear it. 

All the songs sound so beautiful after working hard on them. Like really.

Hmm.. What else can I tell?

Oh, it's getting cold now. I can't wear shorts anymore. Which is kind of depressing. Especially beacuse I can't go buy new jeans, BECAUSE THE DOLLAR IS WORTH 6 KR! It's insane. 

Oh well, I hope y'all are doing good!

Camille

4. november 2008

Finally! Electionday!

This is sooooo exciting! I am constantly updating nbc.com and cnn.com to see the results.

So far, Obama has 206 electoral votes and McCain has 89.  Which is good.

But since they're just getting to the middle of the country, all the north east states already voted (for Obama). And now McCain is going to get a lot of votes from those conservative middle-states.

They're not completly done counting in any of the states anyway. 

I really do hope that Obama wins though.

I went with Agnes when she went voting. They do it on computers in Georgia. I hope you can trust the system.. 

AND I got a "I am a Georgia voter!"-sticker. Yay!

Marina went voting a couple of days ago and told us about how it went. 

She was registered in downtown Atlanta, which is the most crowded area - of course. She told us that there were only 22 voting computers, so she had to stand in line for 4 hours. And it wasn't even the actual election day! 

That is the area where all the black population is. So of course, they were all going to vote for Obama, and the REPUBLICAN state of Georgia made sure that they couldn't afford to stand in line for 4 hours to vote. That is so not democracy. 60% of Atlanta's population is black. How can McCain have 60% in Georgia of the votes if everybody got a chance to vote?

I think there is something wrong..

Oh, and I am not just assuming that all black people vote for Obama, because of a skincolor. But the truth is that a lot of black people I know, vote for Obama, because he is black. And that is also true in the rest of the country.

Anyways, while I am waiting for updates, let me tell you about something else.

On sunday, I went to Little Five Points with Glenn, Leigh Ann and Katherine. It's a pretty hip area, with cool people and cool stores. We went to this shop call Rag-O-Rama where you can turn in your old clothes and they buy it from you, and sell it in the store. Which means that there was this store FULL of vintage-2nd hand-cool stuff!

I got a shirt saying "Screw the war lets dance!" and a Nike jacket. Like really 80's style. 

We had fun.. So that was good.

Well, I have to go to bed. 

Oh, Obama will totally win if he gets California (which he will) and Virginia or Florida. And he has 51% of the votes i both states, so far! YAY!

No McCain= no dumb Palin as president, because he would die anyway. 

Well, you'll probably all know the results when you read this anyway.

Camille

2. november 2008

SOOOOO, as you should know, my birthday was on friday! It was the most amazing birthday ever.

I English class, on thursday, mr. Finsthwait handed me an article about Copenhagen from an old newspaper. I read it and felt a bit sad. "Tomorrow is my birthday, I am going to celebrate it without my family, lagkage, the songs, breakfast in bed and so on. And now I miss my beloved city with all the nice places to go that they talked about in the article!". Mr. Finsthwait asked me if I felt a bit homesick, and I nodded and started crying. I was really convinced that my life was horrible at that point. 

But at night, Agnes had invited 2 friend - Ruth and Francoise, and we all had dinner together. Steve was in Texas. Anyways; it was a nice night. So it cheered me up a bit.

Then, the next morning, Agnes woke me up handing me the phone, and mama was on the line! So I did get my wake up-song!

I went to school, and everybody there were all like "oooh happy birthday!!!". Birthdays are a big deal here. But I think I got more attention because I am "the Danish exchange student". 

Hayley brought me a huge Disney-princess-singing-balloon that sang "happy birthday" and said "may all your birthday wishes come true!" everytime someone tapped it. Shelby brought me a "Sweet 16!" balloon, and Caroline brought me a.. regular black balloon. Hahaha! I also got a Barbie balloon in my homeroom. Rachel got me a spongebob balloon, but it flew out of her car, so I never actually got it. 

Also, people brought me cookies (Hayley, Shelby Dover, Ses), brownies (Shelby, Bess), candy (Danielle, Bryana) and I even got Oreos from Brianna, cupcakes from Cammie and a drawing from Taylor!

Anne made me a sign on a piece of paper that said "happy halloween, I'M 16". It was hanging on my neck all day. (It's a tradition here, so everybody can see that it is your birthday)

In homeroom (which is the first 10 minutes in the morning, where we read announcements) they had a halloween-cake with green icing saying "happy birthday Camille!".

I had Chinese in the first period and our teacher told us that we were cooking today. We made stirfried rice and eggrolls. They were really really good!

Next period was chorus. Mr. Morris made everybody sing for me.

Then we had an assembly. I was sitting on the front row with the seniors (usually, only the seniors can sit in the front. So sophomore sitting with seniors? not happening. But it did on friday, because I am so amazing. Nahh, just kidding ;D). Anyways; there was an a'capella concert during that assembly. At the end, 4 girls in my grade that are in women's a'capella, grabbed the microphone and said "Today is a very special day - a danish girl we all know's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMILLE!", and the whole high school clapped. That was funny.. ahaha

In my french class, M. Mourjan decided that he didn't feel like working with Antigone, so we watched a french movie - Les Compères. I liked it a lot, even though we didn't get to watch all of it.

In my free period, one of the high school counselors, Ms. Davis, took me to lunch. That was very nice of her! 

Afterall, I had an amazing day at school - with a looooooot of food.

After school, I went home with Ses and Brianna. We all went to Ses' house. I was pretty tired, so I took a nap. It was dark when I woke up and time for TRICK-OR-TREAT-ING! Afterall, it was my only halloween in the US. So the three of us dressed up, and walked for a looooong time in the neighborhood and got tons and tons of candy. We had a great time. Brianna had to leave at 10 though, because she had a cross country meeting next morning (cross country = running 1.000.000.000 miles). But then Sarah and Farah joined us. We stayed up most of the night, talking.. 

What a fuuuuuuuuun birthday!

Today, sunday, Agnes, Steve and I went to the mountains, with some of Agnes' and Steve's spanish friends. It was a beautiful and quite long walk. And they all spoke spanish most of the time, which I didn't understand at all. But, at a point, the kids tried to talk to me in English. So I wasn't completely isolated all day.

Tonight, we went to Ruth's house for dinner. Marina (my host sister, who is in college and lives in Athen) and Kyohei (her boyfriend) were also there! I love them. They are so nice to me. 

AND tomorrow = NO SCHOOL YAY! It's teacher-something day, so no school for Westminster kids. I love my life. Haha

Oh, and it has been decided that I will stay with the Mathesons the rest of the year. So let me introduce you to the family, just quickly.

There is Agnes - the mother, who was my liason untill.. 10 days ago.

Then Steve - the father. A funny guy

Carolina - the 18 year old daughter. She goes to college in Saint Louis, where she studies architecture (so I don't get to see her often).

Marina - the 21 year old daughter. She goes to college in Athens, where she studies landscape architecture(1 hour drive from here, so I do get to see her in weekends).

And then, Jimmy-Dean - the old dog. 

I really feel confortable with this family, even though I have only been here for 10 days, or so. I am happy that this is working out better. 

Everything is getting better, so I am convinced that this year will be absolutely amazing.

I hope y'all are doing great!

Camille

26. okt. 2008

Okay, so since everybody is asking for details, and I am getting tired of explaining it again and again, here you go:

Og faktisk skriver jeg det på dansk. Så er der nok mindre sandsynlighed for at såre nogen.

Okay, så i torsdags blev jeg flyttet fra the Cutshaws hus. Det var ikke min eller familiens beslutning, men AFS' bakket op af skolen. Det fungerede bare ikke.

Min værtsmor havde meget store krav til mig (som hun sådan set også har til alle andre og alt andet i den her verden), som jeg tydeligvis ikke levede op til i hendes øjne. Det blev hun meget frusteret over, og var derfor overbevist om at jeg ikke var klar over hvor privilegeret jeg var over at være landet i DERES familie - og det sagde hun rent faktisk et par gange. Pointen er at hun klagede mange gange til AFS og skolen over mig, som jo derfor fik et indtryk af at hun ikke ville have mig boende.

Udover det, snakkede jeg selvfølgelig også med Agnes (min kontaktperson) om de mange gange hun var gået amok på mig, fordi det jo skræmte mig helt vildt. Hun fik mig til at snakke med en high school counselor, som så i sidste ende besluttede at det bare ikke var sundt at jeg boede hos dem.

Det er en meget travl familie, og jeg tror bare ikke de havde tid eller overskud til mig i deres liv. Det respekterer jeg, og jeg er meget taknemmelig for at de prøvede.

Torsdag, efter min sidste time, gik jeg så op til Agnes (som er spansklærer på skolen) hvor jeg fik at vide at jeg ikke skulle tilbage til the Cutshaws hus. 

Jeg tog hjem med Agnes den dag. Hun sagde hun ville snakke med the Cullens (næste værtsfamilie) for at høre om jeg kunne komme og bo hos dem lidt før det var planlagt. 

Torsdag aften hentede Agnes og en lærer fra skolen, alle mine ting. Eller næsten alle, for der mangler stadig nogle få ting.

Så vidt jeg ved er the Cutshaws meeeeeeget sure. Like virkelig rasende. Hvorfor? Agnes' teori er at det er fordi min værtsmor ikke fik det præcis som hun ville have det (altså at AFS og skolen tog beslutningen om at flytte mig, og ikke hende).

Det lyder helt sikkert som om jeg overdriver, for det gør man tit når man fortæller sådan noget, men det gør jeg altså ikke. Hun er meget temperamentsfuld.

Men altså som sagt, så ringede Agnes til the Cullens for at høre hvornår jeg kunne flytte ind. De sagde det ikke var noget problem at det var tidligere, og det nok godt kunne være om et par få uger. De sagde også at det som min værtsmor havde ringet og fortalt dem om mig, ikke ændrede deres syn på mig. Så det var jeg ret lettet over.

I dag snakkede jeg så igen med Agnes om alt det her. Hun fortalte at desværre havde min værtsmor ringede til alle mulige for at fortælle hvor forfærdelig jeg er, inkl. the Cullens. Great - for nu gider de ikke have mig boende.

Folk kender hende godt, så de ved godt det nok ikke er fuldstændig rigtigt. Men de kan ikke ignorere det, pga. deres professionelle forhold. Altså kan det skade dem og deres arbejde/stilling hvis de havde mig boende - da det ville vise en form for "jeg er ligeglad"-hed. 

Det forstår jeg selvfølgelig godt. Det kan måske være svært at sætte sig ind i, men sådan hænger det her samfund sammen her. Så det er jeg cool med.

Mit problem er mere at min værtsmor reagerer sådan her. Jeg forstår virkelig ikke hvorfor hun gør så meget ud af det.

I kender mig jo godt.. Så umulig er jeg da overhovedet ikke. Og jeg prøvede ovenikøbet at være ekstra sød! 

Så det gør mig en smule ked af det. Men det går nok.

Så lige nu ser det ud til at jeg kommer til at bo hos Agnes resten af året, da andre familier ikke vil skabe en konflikt med the Cutshaws ved at ignorere deres "advarelse". 

Derfor har jeg selvfølgelig fået ny adresse, som i kan spørge min kære måtter fatman om at få, hvis i meget gerne vil sende mig et brev. 

Hvis ikke du synes du kender min moder, så ved du godt hvor du kan kontakte mig, og få den.

Jeg håber i forstår en smule af den her indviklede konflikt.

Nu tager jeg bare én dag af gangen, og så ser jeg hvordan det hele går.

Jeg håber i alle har det godt!

Camille

20. oktober 2008

So.. Life just goes on; school, homework, friends.. Stuff like that.

This weekend I went to see Wicked - a musical, with the Cullens. My other host family. They are very nice people and we had a great time together! And the musical was fantastic.

Christy celebrated her 10th birthday on saturday with family and friends. She got a LOT of presents. The amount of packages was insane. She was happy ;)

Homecoming was on friday. Actually it was last week, but the game was on friday. 

Thursday we got to dress up, which was amazing. The main theme was decades - and all grades had voted for a decade. The freshmen were the 50's, the sophomores (my class) were the 80's, the juniors were the 90's and the seniors were the 60's.

There was a dance thursday night for the entire high school. Outside. With a DJ. I am currently trying to learn how to dance, but I am having fun anyway. haha

Also, you might think "usually homecoming dances are formal". But not at Westminster. 

We didn't have class on friday. Actually we were supposed to have all kinds of activities outside, but the rain (that comes every year on homecoming - WHY??) kind of spoiled it..

I was sitting inside all day with Bryana, Brianna, Danielle and Lillian. We managed to have fun anyway, so it wasn't that bad.

There was a peprally (like for all big football games) where the homecoming king was elected. Jake won! Yay! Jake is my friend and a senior. 

Then all classes had to perform a dance that illustrated their decade. The freshmen had a couple of girls that did the handjive. The sophomores had Morgan prentending to sing a song from the 80's (I have no idea what song it was) and tried to get the entire grade on stage to dance and clap. = we failed majorly = we didn't prepare a actual dance. The juniors were very good. They had a group of girls pretending to be Britney Spears and some boys prentending to be N*SYNC. It was hilarious. Then we had the seniors that just.. danced.. 60's dance. They had a lot of people participating - which was really cool.

And then, on friday night, the football game, of course. They always chose a bad team for homecoming, so they are sure of victory. They picked Decatur (which is Alessandra's school. My AFS buddy from Italy, in case you forgot), and we won 43 - 6 . So the game wasn't that much fun itself. But being there with friends and the whole GO CATS spirit is amazing.

Halloween is coming up = my birhtday! 

Shelby is having a halloween party on friday. We are supposed to dress up, so that will be interesting. I am going as Tinkerbell. I already have my costume. It's cuuuuuuuute!

I hope y'all are doing great!

Camille

ps. HVIS nogle skulle have lyst til at sende mig en lille fødselsdagsgave, så kommer der en lille ønskeliste:

1. Piratos lakridser

2. Faxe Kondi

3. Mao sko - JA, jeg mener det dybt seriøst. Jeg kan ikke finde dem her, og jeg vil seriøst gerne have et par..

4. ringe - gerne store og gamle og sjove og 5 kr's agtige.

5. Nintendo 64 + Mario party 1 til N64 - man ved jo aldrig om nogen ejer sådan en. 

6. Billeder - af jer! :D

Jeg bliver også meget glad for et kort!

Men jeg forventer intet. Jeg ved godt jeg er laaaangt væk.

13. okt 2008

Picture time! Yay:

Spirit day - green and white, Westminster colors.

Hayley, Camille & Caroline

With fancy tattos and more green.

Shelby and Camille

Buuuut we didn't. NOT good.

The football field. And our team.

I spend the weekend with Alessandra, who lives in Decatur. She is an AFS student from Italy, and she is really nice. We had a great weekend.

Friday night, we went to see a football game at her school (their team sucked).

Saturday, we went to The World Of Coca-Cola. It was awesome! I will post some pictures later. At night, we went to see a laser show on Stone Mountain. It was very patriotic (it showed very BRAVE american citizens and played songs like that and people were standing up.. It was funny).

On Sunday, we went to Atlantic Station for shopping. It was nice. And her host family is really nice too, so that was just perfect.

Today (monday), was Colombus day, which means NO SCHOOL! Yay!!

Anyway, I hope y'all are doing well.

Camille

5. Oktober 2008

I went on a AFS orientation this weekend.

We had so much fun. I love the other AFS kids. They're just great.

We talked a lot about what was difficult and stuff like that, so.. we had a good time!

And on friday, there was a football game. THE biggest football game of the year - Westminster vs. Lovett. (Lovett is the big rival). We were all in the Westminster spirit, dressed in green and saying "Go cats!" (our mascot is the wildcat)

Unfortunatly, I lost my purse. With mastercard and visa card and cash, my camera bag (luckily not the camera), pictures, tickets from different places I have visited around the world, and a lot of other stuff that meant something to me. I didn't find it again.. Not good.

But I had fun.

I will post some pictures of tha AFS orientation and the football game + peprally + the rest of that day when I get the pictures from those who took them.

Pictures from Hilton Head:

Cammie and I in the bus, on the way to HH

Hayley, Caroline and Shelby enjoying some blue stuff and the pool

The beach, right behind the hotel. Nice nice nice!

The place we stayed. Yes, it was very nice. But, I mean, it was a Hilton hotel.. haha

30. september 2008

Hilton Head 08!!

We went on a chorus trip this weekend, to Hilton Head, in South Carolina. It was a-m-a-zing! I had soooo much fun. And it was so beautiful..

We droev for like.. 6 hours in a bus (3 busses actually - 9th and 10th grade chorus, 11th and 12th grade chorale, men's a'capella, women's a'capella & the ensemble) to get there. But it was a nice drive. We had fun together.

When we came, I wlaked out of the bus and saw the most beautiful Hilton hotel. I thought "Wow.. this is really different from the KonTiki trips I am used to!". But I mean, it costed 350$ for those 2 days. So.. yeah. And people that go to Westminster can pay that. That really is different.

So, as I just wrote, it was really beautiful. Of course, there were pools and hot tubs and stuff like that, but it was also right at the beach. It really was amazing. I wanted to stay for a whole week!

We had parties at night - one of them on a riveboat in fact. That was the best. I love the american youth being able to have fun and dance, without being completely drunk.

We sang in a church (which pretty much was the purpose of this trip), and.. just hung out. It was a lot of fun.

This week, and a part of last week, I have tech crew. It means that I am in the crew, that does all the technical work, in the Westminster play. I just play the music before and after the play, and at the intermission. So there really isn't a lot to do during rehearsals. 2½ hours of.. starring. Maybe do some homework. 

But I get involved, and the people are nice, so I am not complaining :D

Besides that, the PDC craziness has started. PDC is a dance that some club in Atlanta arrange for some of the schools in Atlanta. The tradition is that the girls invite the boys, instead of the regular boys-invite-girls. Which is pretty funny. BUT the thing is, that when the first girl asks, the rest goes insane, and next day, everybody will have a date. Which pretty much happened on monday. So today, everybody had a date for PDC. 

And the dance is not before December 7th.. It is INSANE. I really want to go, just to experience an American dance (since prom only is for seniors and juniors), but it costs 250$ for the tickets. I'm not sure whether I feel like paying that or not.. I'll see. I have 2 months.

I will upload the pictures from Hilton Head soon.

Hope you're all doing well!

Camille  

19. september 2008

Hey!

Something new happened today, so I felt like posting it in here. Hahaha

And I have nothing to do anyway. So here we go;

They took me out of my math class (because I had major understanding problems, and it was just a useless pain in the ass, since I don't get any credit for it), and now I am taking AP French instead. AP means that it is college-level, kind of. Something like that, I think. Hahahaha.

The thing is that I get to learn how to actually write French, since I already speak it. Yay!

So today I had my first French class. It was interesting. 

Agnes asked me if I wanted a Spanish class also. I said that it was probably better that I didn't, because I am already struggling with getting my English perfect, taking Chinese, and now French - which is a natural language for me to speak (so I go back to "regular speaking" i my head = Danish and French. Yes, very verrrrrry confusing), and then the Danish that I write or hear - all of that every single day, I was afraid that I might get too confused. 

So I might take an art class in addition to all this. Just so I don't get bored with my 2 free periods, almost every day.

Have a good weekend!

Camille

18. september 2008

Hey everyone!

How is everything going?

I am doing so great here. People are really, really nice. 

School is going well, also. I still have problems in math, buuuut I'm working on it. I got a tutor, that can help me, which will help me a lot. Besides that, everything is good. 

I am finding myself confortable with the Cutshaws, and I think they are feeling the same way about me (I mean, at least I HOPE they do! ;D) 

On monday, we went to Auburn, Alabama, Christy, De and I, for Christy's diving. She goes there twice a week. And it is a 2 hours looooooooooong drive! So 4 hours in the car. yepp

She is diving at the Auburn University. It is h-u-g-e. I mean unbelievable huge. So they have some really nice pools, where she dives. And believe me, she is really good. I can't believe that she is only 9 years old!! I posted a video so that you can see it.

Coming up; I have a trip to Hilton Head (the beach) with the Chorus - next weekend actually, and I am relly looking forward to it!

This weekend, my friend Hayley is having her sweet 16 birthday party, so we are going to surprise her! It's going to be so much fun!! yay

So everything is just great!

Since I don't really have more to say, I'll just post more pictures.

I just wanted you to be updated.

Camille

ps.

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Caroline (in the back), Madeleine & Hayley (in the front)

I will take some more pictures to post. Because I don't have more.. Sorry! :D

aaaaaaand- Christy diving. 

8. September 2008

Pictures! 

YAYYAYYAY!

Westminster Campus. 

The Hallway of Campbell (and Katie). Campbell is the Sophomore-building. That is where we have Homeroom and have our lockers.

Cameron (aka. Cammie) and I.

Bryana & Camille. She reminds me so much of Niloufar.

more Westminster. Beautiful, huh? ;D

De, proudly, shows all the beautiful clothes she got me.

You might have noticed that my hair i slightly red. I dyed it red-ish ;D

So, what do you think?

I'll uploade some more, another day.

Camille

3. September 2008

Heyyo!

So many things happen all the time. It's crazy.

We went to Florida this weekend. It was a-m-a-zing. Drew had a soccer-tournament at Disneyworld, so we went to Orlandooo. 

De took Christy and me to The Magic Kingdom, in Disneyworld. We had so muuuuch fun! I will try to upload some pictures soon of it, because we look amazing with our Mickey Mouse hats.

We came back later, the same day with Kenneth. He went on all the roller coaster rides with us! We had a really nice time. 

Then we went to the Rain Forest Café, which gotta be the coolest restaurant on earth, and it was nicenicenice. Even though I was really tired.

It was a looooooooong drive from Atlanta (and back), but it was totally worth it!

Monday was labor day, so no school. Anna invited me to her barbecue-thing she does every year. There was a lot of other girls from school, and we had a great day.

There was this biiiiiiig slide (100 meters long, no exaggeration) on a hill, so we spend the day sliding down the hill, on tubes. Our clothes got pretty muddy though.

Yesterday was Kenneth's birthday, so we went to a restaurant called Houston to celebrate his 55th birthday. He got an iPhone! woooooooow

Now, it's back to school. I still don't get anything in math classes, but I am doing pretty well in Chinese. So it's okay ;D

Hope y'all doing good!

Camille

25. August 2008

Hey everyone!

Soo, everything here is going just great. I love being here, and i enjoy almost every single second. I have already learned many things about so many things and about myself. This is really a fantastic experience.
But I'm not going to lie, everything isn't perfect. They are a few minor problems. Like school-stuff being a bit too much, and taking a hell of a lot of time, me trying to be a part of a new family, and them adjusting to this new member.
I'm trying to be positive anyway, and focus on what I can learn from that.
I am sooooo exausted when I go to bed at night (10 pm, no kidding), because school takes a lot of energy, and all of that being in english, makes my brain work even harder.
But hey, don't worry, I'm fine. I really am :) I just want to be honest, and tell about my experience as an exchange student.
Besides that, school is fun. I like the american system. And I LOOOOOVE Chinese! I am so glad that I got the opportunity to try it. I love it.

The Cutshaw had a party for me on Saturday. They had invited a loooot of people from the school. It was very nice. And I think everyone had fun!
And Christy made a really pretty sign with my name on it. She is adorable.
Drew is just being full-time nice. Very caring.

This weekend, Drew has a soccer tournament in Disney world in Orlando, so we are all going. That is going to be so much fun!! I am looking forward to spend the weekend with the family, doing something nice. During the week they all have so many activities, that we don't really get to be all gathered.

I have noticed that American families eat A LOT out. I have had one family-dinner at home, since I moved in. I'm serious. That is really different.

It has been raining all day (and I mean like.. RAINING. really raining a lot), and it is quite windy, because of the hurricane in Florida. I have never seen so much rain! And the air was soooooo humid today. My hair got all curly because of it. And it felt like we almost could grab water from the air with our hands.
All those changes are really fun though. I'm enjoying it.

I will take some pictures very soon. I just forget to do it d:

Have fun!

Camille

20. August 2008

Heyy!

So this was my 3rd day at school today. Westminster is just awesome! It's soooo big and sooo beautiful. I'm really lucky to be here.
And people are just being so nice to me! Always smiling and saying hello when i pass them in the hall.
Their school system is different. It's like.. There is 7 periods in your schedule, but only 6 on a day. So the first day is like period 1 at first and so, and day 2 is period 7 first, and then period 1. So I don't have the courses at the same time of the day. That is actually a good idea, I think! Especially when the schedule is the same (or.. it's not obviously. but you know what I mean) every day.
I have 2 free periods, which mean that I have 2 hours where I can just chill or do my homework. That's nice! :D
And I'm taking; English (The teacher, mr. Finsthwait, is such a nice person. I really like him), Maths; Algebra II (I don't understand anything. It's really different. And it all have different names and so. Confusing), Chinese 1 (YEAH I KNOW! It's sooooooo cool. I really love it. Li xiao jiè shì wo pèng you. :D), Chorus (well.. it's fun to hear the other sing. I can't do it myself. whatever - no homework from that course) and Public Speaking (I loooove our teacher mr. Onwuachi! He is really cool. And it's fun. And I think I will improve my English that way).
So school is a nice part of the day. I like it here (:

I moved in to the Cutshaw yesterday. I was really excited about that. I went well. They are really nice people. And their house is biiiig. Wauw!

We just went out and ate sushi. De, Drew, some friends of De and I. It was nice. And then Drew bought me ice-cream. That was so nice of him. He is really being nice to me. I am so happy to be here.

Right now, Christy came and asked if she could sit in here with me. She is just adorable. She bought me gifts in China. That was soooo cute!!

Well, I think that's it.
Hope y'all (yeah i know, southern speech-tingy) having fun in Denmark!

Camille


ps. See, that's my host family!

isn't she just adorable?

pps. Sven! Lige nu afspiller de din CD. De (altså diane) er HEEEL vild med Retro Rock!! :D

17. August 2008

Okay, so i'm going to do this blog in English from now on. It is really confusing for me to write Danish, because I have to tune back, and then speak English again. It's like I have to start over every time. AND my french family will be able to read it! Great!

So, my first days were just great. People here are soooo nice! And Atlanta is just so amazing. It's really, really beautiful. I feel like Scarlett O'Hara (from Gone With The Wind) everytime we drive trhough the city and neighbourhood.

Yesterday (thursday), we went to the arrival orientation. I met the other AFS students from the area. There was 13. It was nice. We talked about stuff that we allready had been through at the other camps, but it was okay. We had fun.
At night, we went see the new Batman movie. With Carolina and Steven Matheson and Roberto (the other AFS'er that stays here. but he actually left today) and I. That movie is awesome! Even though I almost fell asleep at a moment because I was so tired.

Today, Carolina and Glenn showed me around at Westminster. It is huge. Really. Like nothing in Denmark. It was like.. 100 times bigger! And it was really nice looking. Very green. And just beautiful. I'll try to post some pictures one day.
Then Agnes (my AFS liason, if anyone shouldn't know yet) had arranged something for me, where 4 Westminster students came and talked to me about this year. They had all something to do with being an exchange student or host family. It was pretty nice. They are all so nice to me!
Then we went at a Japanese restaurant and ate sushi. It was so much fun!
When we got back, we turned on TV, and HSM2 was on Disney Channel! So of course, we watched it. I've watched it too many times. I know all the lines :b

I guess that is it for now..
I am really excited about starting school tomorrow! But I'm sure that it is going to be great. People seem really nice.

I hope you are all doing well, back home!

Camille

15. August 2008

Arrival!

Yes, jeg er her ENDELIG! men jeg vil liiiige fortælle om rejsen først. så jeg ikke behøver at gentage det 203920392 gange til alle der skulle spørge (:

Okay, torsdag (hvilket er igår for mig, og i forgårs for jer), mødte vi op i lufthavnen kl meget tidligt. 7.55 vidst. Der var bare SÅ mange mennesker, det var helt vildt! Derfor tog det os virkelig lang tid at komme gennem køen, for at kunne checke in. Men vi kom igennem det.
Vi sagde farvel til familierne (og ja, jeg fældede en tåre da jeg krammede mine brødre), og gik op af trapperne.
På det tidspunkt var vi ret mange. Der var gruppen der skulle til New York, og den der skulle til Los Angeles. Vi delte os op, og rendte lidt rundt i lufthavnen. Vi aftalte med den voksne AFS'er at mødes ude ved gaten, når vi skulle boarde.
Flyet var forsinket, så vi sad og ventede i ret lang tid. Cleo og jeg købte Starbucks (12$ for en Venti Caramel Frappucino w/ whipped cream) og nød det.
Efter.. ½-1 time (jeg husker det ikke helt præcis, da jeg overhovedet ingen fornemmelse har for hvor meget klokken kunne have været, eftersom mit døgn lige blev forlænget med 6 timer), kom der dog gateway op på skærmen, og vi vandrede stille og roligt derhen af.
Lige da vi så skulle borde på flyet, og vi skulle vise pas, går det op for mig at mit faktisk er væk. godt så. Jeg rodede hele min taske igennem et par gange og nåede at blive godt stresset, inden Cleo fandt ud af at hun var kommet til at tage det. Puha :b det kunne have været en dårlig start..

Nå, men vi fløj så til London Heathrow. Vi var omkring 2 timer forsinket, på den tidsplan der var fremsat. Men det gjorde egentlig ikke noget, da vi oprindeligt alligevel skulle have ventet 3 timer og 40 minutter på vores fly mod New York.
Turen var hyggeligt - ved siden af Cleo. yay!
I London nåede vi kun at gå på toilettet før vi boardede. Vi (NY-holdet) sagde farvel til LA-holdet, og gik ombord på det stoooooore fly (jeg sad på række 51. det var ikke engang den bagerste).
Det var sgu en lang tur, men egentlig meget hyggelig. Vi sad 4 piger (Kathrine x2, jeg og Cleo) på en række og vi havde det sjovt. Jeg nåede at se Kung Fu Panda og El Orfanato. To gode film!
Jeg vil ikke beskrive alt vi lavede, for det kan egentlig være lige meget.. høhø. pointen er at vi havde det rigtig hyggeligt. (til Cleo: HØHØHØHØ JEG HEDDER GERT :-) )

Da vi var ved at være i New York, gik der meget lang tid, med konstante opdateringer fra piloten, før vi fik lov til at lande. Der var nemlig problemer med JFK pga vejret. Hvilket gjorde at vi rent faktisk ikke fik lov til at lande der. Derfor landede vi i Newark.
Det kunne selvfølgelig være fint nok, hvis bare de der AFS mennesker fra USA fik besked om det, og kom og var klar dér. Men nej, vi blev i flyet indtil det fik tilladelse til at lande i JFK.
Vi ventede i mindst 2 timer i Newark (I FLYET!!!) og der var MEGET varmt og MEGET klemt. Der begyndte jeg at få det.. ikke sååååå godt igen. Jeg havde sådan set også været vågen i 23 timer på det tidspunkt. Men jeg tog mig et powernap og så gik det fiiiint.
Vi ankom, ret forsinket, til JFK, hvor der stod et par AFS repræsentanter og ventede på os. Vi ankom på samme tid som et portugisisk AFS hold.
Så vi kørte ud på et hotel (Holiday Inn) hvor vi fik en konvolut med nøgle til værelse og tidspunkt hvor vi skulle rejse videre.
På min stod der at jeg skulle møde i lobbyen 7.15 -godt så..
Jeg nåede nok at få 5 timers søvn, i en seng som jeg delte med en fra Finland. Men den seng var fandme luksus i forhold til det flysæde jeg havde siddet limet til i 20392039203 timer. Så det var læææææx!

Næste morgen blev jeg vækket af en der bankede på døren. Kathrine (som skulle til Ohio og op samme tid som mig) åbnede døren og dér stod en AFS mand og sagde klokken var 7.30 .
Vi havde så ikke hørt deres wake-up call til os. Så vi LYNEDE os i tøjet, og ned i lobbyen, til de andre, i fuld tro om at der stod 15 andre og ventede på os.
Vi kom ned og opdagede at der kun var to andre. Så såååå pinligt var det ikke alligevel. Ham AFS gutten tog det også ret chill. Det ville en dansker ikke have gjort :b
Vi kørte så ud til lufthavnen hvor der ventede os 928393904872 timer kø. Der var psyko mange mennesker. Vi blev også nød til at komme foran alle mulige for at nå det.
Jeg rejste med en gut fra Portugal og en fra Brasilien (begge AFS'ere). Vi løb gennem lufthavnen efter at have været gennem security-check for at nå flyet. Vi nåede det, og fløj mod Atlanta.
Vi snakkede ikke rigtig sammen, så turen føltes en smule lang. Især fordi jeg var så wasted. Jeg tænkte også bare "noes, hvor jeg bare ikke gider en orientering lige nu. jeg er for træt!"
Da vi så ankom til Atlanta, stod der 3 AFS-USA mennesker og ventede på os. De tog os over til Bagage Claim (jeg kan ikke huske hvad alle de der ting hedder på dansk), hvor vores værtsfamilier også ventede.
Eller de to andres gjorde, for min er stadig i Kina. Til gengæld ventede min kontaktperson, Agnes der. Dér gik det op for mig at der ikke var en AFS-orientering lige efter ankomsten.
Vi tog min bagage med ud i bilen og kørte hjem til Agnes.
Hun er rigtig sød! Og det er hendes familie også! Og så bor her en anden AFS'er, som er fra Mexico. Han hedder Roberto.
På vej derhen, kørte vi gennem Atlanta downtown. Det er fandme en flot by! Jeg er hel vild med den! Og NEJ hvor er her smukt! Det har jeg godt nok aldrig set før.

Vi har lige været nede i en Target. Det er en stor butik der sælger lidt af alt. Det var meget sjovt at gå rundt der med Roberto og sammenligne priser. (Starbucks Caramel Frappucino - 4.50$. det er en forskel på 7.50$!)

Så jeg er rigtig glad for at være her. Det skal nok blive fantatisk!

Jeg håber i har det godt i Danmark!

Camille

11. August 2008

Så er der 3 dage til afgang.

Jeg har pakket mit tøj nu. Det meste skal nok bare vaskes inden.. men wtf. så har jeg en ide om hvad der skal med. OG der er 10 kg tilbage. dvs jeg ikke behøver skære alt muligt fra. yayy!

Jeg ved ikke rigtigt hvad jeg kan sige, andet end at jeg glæder mig!

Camille

ps. skrifttypen hedder Georgia 8D høhøhø

OH MY!

Så er der 9 dage til afgang!