The Denmarkian in Daneland

... after battling the elements.

This is something I wrote to Phyllis about the weather.

'This weather is freaking CRAZY.

Okay basically I bike to the bus stop every morning and afternoon (or night if I'm out). It takes 20 minutes in the morning because the wind is going in the same direction and it's more kinda downhillish.

In the afternoon it takes me like 40 minutes because... the wind is CRAZY and FREEZING and going the OPPOSITE WAY and it rains so hard the drops feel like needles and I feel like my face is going to fall off from cold and wind.

I am still currently in recovery from when I got home an hour ago.

Thank goodness I have hot cocoa..'

Copenhagen TOMORROW!

I går, Caroline, Stinna og jeg var (I don't know the plural form?) i Aalborg, fordi vi wanted til gå ice skating. Men det var CLOSED. Then we basically went round the shops a bit, og den Julemarked næste til Aalborgs stor kirke. Dansk pølser er såååå god!

Haha yay for Denglish!

In one of my previous posts I wrote about how there was an apparent mix up in the cards and SEA had given me the wrong one.

It turns out that I was right - I've been told to destroy my other cards and they're sending me new ones.

Apparently the issue was labelled 'oops - Travelex card mixup' by SEA!

-Stella

Everyone with SEA gets a Cash Passport card, which is a pin-protected, prepaid currency card useful for travelling overseas with, as you don't need any cash and all you need to do is load it up and go to an ATM to use it and have money in local currency.

To confirm that you've received the card, you're supposed to fax a sheet to a number that they give you, and they will activate your card.

So that's what I did earlier this week, and yesterday I decided to ring them and check whether they had activated my card yet because I didn't receive any notice about it.

It turns out that I had been given the wrong card (hence the the reason why the system kept saying that my birthday was incorrect and that it wasn't what they had on file!) so I emailed Sue about this.

Hopefully it should clear up soon, as I'm leaving in en måned og elleve dage!

One month and eleven days!

It's so soon ...

-Stella

I just called SEA to see when I would come back from exchange, and they told me that they moved all the Denmark departures to the 18th-20th! So that means I have to wait another two weeks and do the School Certificate exams. The problem is that I have already notified the school that I will be on exchange and so would be unable to do it ...

-Stella