One Week.

With one week left, I have finally decided how to answer the question "Are you excited to go home?!" The answer is not a simple one. I am looking forward to going home. I'm looking forward to seeing my family and friends and to spend Christmas with my family and to see Keno... And to move into my apartment in Gettysburg. However... I'm not looking forward to leaving. I love Copenhagen. I feel completely comfortable here. Everything is gorgeous and I've made some great friends and will miss Amanda, Pia and Anne a lot. So, my answer is, "I'm not looking forward to leaving, but I'm looking forward to being at home." Its a complicated answer... One that many people I've spoken to agree with, though.

Something that makes the aspect of leaving easier is that I know I'll come back. I'm still young, so I still have so much of my life to travel. There are so many places I want to go that I'll never be able to get to all of them, but I'd much rather live a modest lifestyle and then travel more. And I know that I'll make it back to Copenhagen at least once. Something else that makes it easier: Amanda, Pia and Anne all want to visit. I've told them that whenever they want to come, they are welcome to stay with me. This... might be hard while I'm at school, but I'd work it out for them.

The last month has been fairly relaxed... At least as far as adventuring goes. The workload has been... horrible. Its been harder than most semesters back at home, simply to make up for the fact that the first part of the semester is decently easy. I've written two papers this week... And I have another paper due the last day of finals (Tuesday.) I have 3 finals, which isn't bad. I'm not too worried about them. This semester was more about the experiences than the work, anyway.

Christmas spirit is all around, as I've mentioned a couple times. Last Sunday, we had Julefrokost (Christmas Lunch) with many students and host families. It was a lot of fun. I tried Curry Herring... and it was actually pretty good! There was so much Rice Pudding- a Christmas staple. Always delicious. We sang deck-the-halls and just chatted. Great fun. We played a fun gift-game too... one that I might try to introduce at Christmas this year for our gift exchange. You start by having everyone pass a dice around, rolling it whenever they get it. If they get a 6, they take a dice. After all of the gifts are taken, you set a timer, and continue rolling. But, instead of taking a gift, you steal one from someone else. It was a lot of fun. I won a super-mini radio!

Leaving the Christmas Lunch... The kids all got balloon christmas trees... Great fun on the train :P

There was a balloon artist for all of the kids.

They played Christmas music the whole time.

Our table! Kara & her host mom in the front.

Entrance to the lunch...

Me and Amanda!

Me and Michael! He says he loves me and my hugs :)

Amanda pouring me some coffee.

Me and Pia and Michael, waiting for the train to the lunch.

Me and Amanda fighting over some candy... Lady and the Tramp style.

That night was all-nighter night (as in, we finished it 15 minutes before we had to leave to catch the bus...) for my big 15 page final paper for Cross-Cultural encounters. It... didn't quite go according to plan and I don't have high hopes for it... But its done and turned in, and I'm rather glad its over. Class was fun that day... haha. But when I got home, I napped, at dinner... Then we all went to Julehygge at Amanda's school! Basically, everyone in Amanda's class went and brought their parents. Some teachers came too. We sat around and socialized while eating desserts and drinking Glugg (warm red wine, that was cooked with orange rinds I think, with almonds and raisins in it.) All of the kids played a gift game and it was all hygge :D

Amanda, Me and Anne!

Me and Anne!

Some of Amanda's classmates.

Yesterday was the last day of classes. Some of my classes... I'm very glad their over. Others, Like migrants, minorities and multiculturalism and service learning class, I'm SO sad their over. I've learned a lot in both of them and the professors were AMAZING. All of the professors AT DIS were amazing. But anyway, after MMM (where we ate tasty, tasty pastries,) I went with a friend (and some of her friends that I hadn't met before) to the Christiania Christmas Market. I bought Pia her gift and another gift. Thought... I'm not sure who its for though... Today, I'm doing research for my LAST paper... doing a little bit of christmas shopping, and playing some indoor soccer with some Asylum seekers! Should be a good day.

Now, I shall leave you with some cute pictures:

Kara, Amanda, and one of those 'baby' rabbits.

Amanda and the 'baby' rabbit. (Her name is Mille.)

Amanda, with Mille on her back.