My Exchange to Næstved Denmark: October 2015

Month 2 Week 2: Oct 19-25

This week was particularly challenging, the days coming back from a break always suck. Mondays are always especially hard because I have a pretty full schedule on Mondays, and this Monday I had to give my presentation about myself. I'll provide a link to my Prezi Presentation below. This experience was a lot of fun. It was also really cool that all of my host families could come, by the way, I have all 3 now. :) I cant wait to be able to give it completely in Danish, and look forward to giving a presentation to my rotary club at home when I get home. :) Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty normal, just school and homework and packing again, packing really is just annoying.

Thursday was fun because I had track, but no one showed up, so I just ran on my own, and ran to the rowing club to check out when they have rowing practice. Rowing crew seems like fun. Friday was pretty good, I packed up the rest of my stuff from my first host family, and we had the most amazing dinner, we had hot dogs covered in bacon with cheese and onions and condiments :) it was amazing. :) Friday was my last full day with my first host family, it has gone so so fast, I am so so thankful that they were my first host family. :) It may not have been smooth the whole way, but they were the reason this transition was so easy for me, Thank you so much Jan, Heidi, Caroline, Fredrik, Ramses, and Big Ben for opening your arms to me and allowing me to become part of your family. It was so much fun, and I'll be sure to visit and come balk and visit. Thank you so much :) I'll miss you guys.

Saturday was exciting and a little depressing at the same time, at about 10:30 I started riding my bike from my first host families house to my new host families house with my big backpack full of stuff. I met my first host parents at my new house with the rest of my stuff and moved it all up to my new room. Then we all(my first and second host parents, and me) had coffeecake and drinks. Then When they left I went and got settled into my new room and acquainted myself with the house. Then almost immediately after that I set up my desk and turned on the PlayStation 3 that came with the new room. ;P Then later that day I met my new host sister who was just back for the weekend from boarding school for a year. Sunday was pretty much just homework and settling in, and then we went to my host cousin's 6th birthday party, which definitely reminded me of home, she reminded me so much of my little sister Samantha, but with blonde hair. That was a lot of fun. :)

So that was my week, sorry there aren't as many pictures this week, and as always if you ever have any questions feel free to e-mail(hagemanmasonrye@gmail.com) or message me on Facebook. Also it would be really cool to receive letters from home to just hear how you guys are doing. :) So if you feel like doing that just ask for my address. :) I miss you all, and thanks for being interested :)

My Prezi Presentation

http://prezi.com/wulc9x9jqhgw/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Monday: Rotary Presentation

Tuesday: Fall is here

Thursday: Running

Friday

Saturday: With Every End There is a new Beginning

My new work space :)

Sunday: 6 Year Old Birthday Party

My new host sister, Thea(right) and her cousin

I miss you all very much, especially my family, my friends in school, and definitely my girlfriend Kate. I know I may try to make this seem easy, but its very far from that. I definitely am having a lot of fun, but there are always rough spots and times alone when I miss home. During one of the rotary conferences I went to last year one of the coordinators told all of us outgoing exchange students: "This exchange is the hardest job that you will ever love," He was right. This is hard but I am loving it. I'm just glad I have the chance to share this experience. Thank you for all of your support.
-Mason

This week was a very welcome change to the crazy life I have become accustomed to in the past 2 months and 10 days, I have been pretty much sprinting non stop since Ive been here, which is definitely a good thing. Ive had a lot of fun and seen a lot of amazing places. However, it is very nice to just do nothing every once in a while. on Monday I did just that, I had a pretty great day kinda just sitting around and being not anywhere near productive at anything, it was great.

Tuesday was a little different story. Tuesday in the morning I went for a run, mostly just because I wanted to explore some more and take more pictures. Then, after I had gotten back from my run I cleaned up and changed and my host grandpa asked if I wanted to go to a bird show. I said to myself, "Meh, why not?" so we went to a bird show and got some awesome pictures. Then for dinner that night we went into town to get burgers, they were awesome!! I also got to try Blackberry juice for the first time, it was really good and it was made on Samsø. Solbær= Blackberry

Wednesday was the last day Caroline and I spent on Samsø. We went to a beach on the eastern part of the island, and took the ferry home at about 16:00. Samsø was a lot of fun, but I was ready to go home. Thursday was mostly homework, but I also went to the forest with my host mom Heidi, and two of our dogs: Big Ben, and Ramses(pictured below). Big Ben is the youngest of the 3 basset hounds I live with.

Friday was a really really good day, my host family and I all went back to the cliffs that most of us had visited a few weeks prior, but this time we didn't hike down the cliffs, we went to the Geocenter instead because it was raining. That was really cool. Then, that night I spent the night at my friend Nick's house, we played video games and talked with friends until 4 in the morning, that was so much fun, especially it had been so long since I actually got to play video games. I stayed at his house until like 15:00, then I went home. Sunday was pretty much all homework.

Tuesday: Run + (Nice Camera+ Birds)