So its been 3 months since I left my home in the States. These 3 months have flown by. It has been 3 weeks since I last wrote a blog because we had a week break and I knew I wouldn't have anything important to say.
It was weird to have a break so early. In the states we usually have ours in November because of Thanksgiving. But since they don't celebrate it, obviously they will have it much sooner. I literally did nothing on me break. It felt so great to be able to just relax and I was able to talk to friends and family back home. I started to knit a scarf (which I still have not finished) and I bought the book Fifty Shades of Grey (which I still haven't read...)
I will say that I can feel the homesickness starting to set in. Though not as badly as I thought it would. I try not to dwell on the negative because I only have a limited time here. And its not that I miss "home" I just miss the USA. People had said that I would end up missing the sun, and to an extent I do but not enough to truly count.
It has gotten easier to adapt to the culture and my host family. At first they were shoving the culture down my throat and giving me no time to adjust and they don't really understand just how much we exchange students' have to go through.
As far as language....its getting there. I can understand when someone speaks directly to me but I can't respond full sentences yet. The grammar is absolutely insane! So at the moment I'm not looking to speak because there are grammar rules that we don't have in English and I can't put words into sentences if I can even get them into the right forms.
I was also able to see more of my second host family and I absolutely LOVE them!!! I can;t wait to switch in 2-3 weeks!
Though the greatest thing happened; I GOT NETFLIX!!!! It was probably the greatest feeling to be able to watch my favorite movies and catch up on my shows. All while I was on break :)
I'm not too crazy about school though...Its just a boring day for me. And one of my teachers tried to get me to do work!!! Yeah, no... That is not happening. Teachers forget that the books and work are in Danish...I can't fully read Danish so it is almost impossible fro me to do the work. Yes I can Google translate and then try to figure it out but that is such a hassle! AND I already took the classes that i'm in, I hated them the first time and I hate them even more in another language for a second time.
The Rotary students here in the Faroes (there are 3 of us) and the AFS kids got together to go for a walk/hike thing? There were AFS students who had already been on exchange (like Rotex) and there were about 4 of them. We walked along the river and to the "beach" where we then had some crappy hot cocoa and bread with butter (I still don't understand how people here eat SO much bread!!!) and then we went to the "fish aquarium/museum" I didn't even know it was there... and coming from FL, I have been to my fair share of aquariums and this wasn't really an aquarium but if the Faroese want to call it that then so be it. We ended up coloring for about 45 minutes....Then we finally went to one of the previous exchange students' house to eat dinner.
When you eat at someone's house in the Faroes, don't be surprised if people just randomly pop up... Everything here is so casual. Like is someone says they will pick you up at 18:00, they really mean they will pick you up at 18:45... That is one thing I can't stand! Everyone is always late or picking you up 45 minutes after they originally said they would! But I guess I will just have to get used to it or deal with but damn it sucks when you end up waiting 45 minutes in the rain fro said person to come get you...
I'm going to have to write another blog on more differences because I have come across even more since I wrote my last blog!
But that is all for now :)
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