The 4'10" Faux-Dane : Different aspects of exchange+ Getting into the 'meat and potatoes' of exchange

Hej alles!
So, now that I've been in Denmark for a while(a bit over 2.5 months) I've gotten over the 'honeymoon' stage, and have had some time to figure out what my life is going to be like while I'm here, and feel a bit more secure and stable with different aspects of my life. I could write this in a formal kind of blog post, but list format seems better.

1. Danish. So, the ways that I am learning danish have changed a bit. I used to be taking just one danish class designed for exchange students twice a week for about four hours a week. Since then I have enrolled in another danish class(a harder one) that is more designed for adults who have immigrated to denmark and are now working on learning this rough language. My house family and I are also pretty much exclusively speaking dansk now, and in my class I am trying to incorporate more danish into my conversations. I have also progressed from little kid's books to tweenage/young adult books. Yay for progress! Also I can now understand pretty much all small talk, and participate in some of it.

2. Art! I am staying with the billedkunstskolen(BGK) for the whole year! I am so excited about this..it's hard to describe. The people I have met in BGK are some of the best people I have interacted with in denmark so far. Like-minded people get along with like-minded people, I guess. Haha. We just finished a pretty big project(a halloween parade/performance art thing), and so now we're getting on to more individual pieces. Expect pictures soon!

3. Friends. Venner, på dansk. Friends are probably one of the biggest exchange student concerns(and for good reason. it's not all that easy to make friends in a country where you don't even know what friends DO together), and I'm feeling pretty good now with my mates...both in my class, from BGK, and also from an lgbtq cafe that I attend occasionally. Of course you also make friends by making friends-- what I mean by that is, the more friends you make, the more of THEIR friends you meet and get to know, and it's just kind of a snowball effect. Going to cafes, hanging out at people's houses, and doing various things around with people I really care about is probably my favorite part of exchange.

Sorry for the unorganized nature of this, but here are some photos from recently!