The Begining!

This is my fair warning for any teachers that may be reading this, that my grammar and my spelling may not be perfect! "COUGH COUGH," (Ms. Deal & Ms. Roberts)! Hopefully everyone will enjoy this and get a kick out of the adventures i am having here in Denmark!



Can you only imagine sitting at the airport awaiting to depart on the flight that will take you to another country for 1/2 a year. You think it would be exciting! Wrong! It is so NERVE RACKING! Having to think of budgeting money, making your connecting flight, meeting your new family and attending a school where you only know 15 ppl. Yet, once my flight did touch down on the island of Bornholm; located off the coast of Denmark, I learned that it all sort of disappeared. My frets and worries seemed to drift away and that feeling of excitement Finaly arrived. The first few days were mostly about settling in and getting comfortable with my host family. I have a whole room to myself and my own bicycle. That bike will now be my new best friend!! hahaha. There are no Range Rovers driving around this island. AND NO!, they don't drive on the other side of the road.

When the weekend arrived, the parents had to go to Copenhagen for a wedding so Nicolai (My HOST BROTHER) had the whole house to ourselves. We went to this big paintball festival for his work that day and got to play paintball all day. It was soo funny because i think everyone saw me as the target because I was the American!! Yet, they were pretty surprised when the American was the one getting them out! I managed to come out of those battles with only 3 bullet wounds. Which in paintball, it is marble size welts that turn black and blue for days. That night Nicolai decided to take me out for a welcome party. lets just say it began with a long bike ride, and ended with a long bike ride!!!HAHAHA

The weekend brought so much fun to my life, and really made me not think about home. Yet on Monday i had to begin School! Surprisingly evrthing went great but i cant understand a word their saying. It is all in Danish!! I got to see many old friends from the Spring, from Emma to Kion to Nanna! I was tested with my Danish by them trying to get me to say ROD GROD MIL FLODE! and no it is not as easy as it looks. The o's have lines through them but the English keyboard doesn't have them.

Finally today i was going for my second day at school and i can say that saying with practice from my host family! Let me say Everyone was pretty impressed. But to start my day you will not believe what happened. I went to hop on my best friend (aka my bicycle) AND THE TIRE IS FLAT!! It stunk so bad. The resolution to this problem was i had to take this neon yellow bike to school today! I swear everyone was looking at me bc 1st of all i look foreign and 2nd of all, imagine a pretty neon yellow bike with a basket on the front being rode with a guy like me on it!!! LOL I DON'T THINK SOOO!

Although this is all quiet exciting for my first few days i wonder what adventures will await in the upcoming months I'm here.

Keep in touch!
Kyle Lyon (USA2Denmark)