IKEA

Hellooooo peeeeople! How are you? Guess what? I have two weeks of easter vacation ahead of me!  What a wonderful time to be alive! 
Today my host sister and i went to ikea at 9 am with my host mom. My sister needs new … stuff.
We ate breakfast there as well… It’s surprisingly good, actually! And they had kanelsnegle! And köttbollar! I do miss Nordic food! 🙂

Scandinavian!

Breakfast ♥

Picked up some small bits myself, but of course nothing big, cause, you know, it’s gonna be hard transport back home to Denmark 😉

Candles and a sketchbook ♥

Also, some of the decorators thought they were funny,  i guess… Oh Leo ♥

Leo and his Oscars...

Now we are going to eat dinner, specially requested by me – köttbollar with mashed potatoes! I miss potatoes. And licorice. And the ocean. Oh♥

Haha, have a nice evening!
Love, Bianca

Primark!

Heeey!
So my host sister and her bestfriend and I went to primark in Karlsruhe during the spring break! It was super fun and i was so excited cause we don’t have primark in Denmark, and the last time I went to one was this past summer in London. The stuff there is so gorgeous and cheap! Might have gone a little crazy, but only a tad. And don’t worry daddy, those aren’t (all) my bags! (Seriously,  dont worry!)
The trip was really great and even though we had to spend approx. four hours in a train each way, it was worth it! The landscape was so pretty as well!

♥♥

Alone in Europe

These past two weeks went by really fast!
I keep forgetting to blog about stuff, I don’t have that much time to spare. But I guess that’s good. If I was unoccupied I’d probably start thinking about how much I miss everyone back at home.

The road I cross every morning to get to the tram

The weather has been really good lately! Shot of the clouds from Augsburg city. Notice the old houses, Augsburg is so famous for.

Like, sometimes when I’m sitting in the tram on the way home after a long day and it’s raining,  I suddenly remember that time my friends and I threw a surprise birthday party, and it was raining, and we and the birthday girls where totally soaked by the time we got home. Oh, yeah, and we dropped some of the cake on the street, and how everything went wrong, but somehow turned out perfect anyway… And I remember how my sister and I would carve pumpkins every year and how she’d be my helper in the kitchen and we’d bake a pumpkin pie and how nobody actually really liked it, so we’d scoop up loads of cream on top. And then I remember that now she’s alone at home and I hope that she’s not missing me as much as I’m missing her.

Something i really love is all the trees everywhere, it's so gorgeous with all the colors ♥

It’s been really great here, I almost feel like I could just be one of them,  a part of the crowd.
You know, the thing I’ve been hearing the most about myself is: “Bianca ist so lustig/geil, geh?”
Which I think means: “Bianca is so funny, huh?”.
I’m not totally sure if it’s funny as in “special” og funny as in “a good sense of humor”,  but I’m choosing to take it as a compliment…

Traaaam 😀

Half of the people I greet every day (as in a “Hallooo!” or just a casual nod of the head) I still don’t know the names of. I feel really bad about it but it’s kinda late to ask them: What was your name again? (Besides I’m not sure how to say it correctly).
Most everyone knows who I am, cause I’m the only exchange student in the school this year. (Around 990 students) Also, I’ve got competition, cause the exchange student last year (some guy from Massachusetts) had an average of 1.0 (an A) and he could speak 7 languages!! (I only speak five… Yeah,  I’m counting french as well,  cause frankly “five languages” just sounds that much cooler than “four”).

Posing in the yard with a tree cause i can.

Last week I… I don’t really remember what I did, exactly. A lot of studying,  anyway. There was also a super pretty full moon ♥.

In the weekend I went winter-shoe-shopping with my host sister. Found some über nice shoes for when I become famous.

Also, I saw a Jysk Sengetøj!!! It’s called “Dänisches Bettenlager” here, though. Denmark♥

Sun behind the buildings close to school

It’s weird with the rest of my family being away to China. One wouldn’t think I’d actually notice, since I’m the one who’s not at home in the first place,  but actually I did have a lot of contact with them without knowing it. And maybe just that feeling that I was “left all alone in Europe” was kinda scary. But I hope they have and awesome time! Wish I’d been able to go as well, I don’t get to see my Asian part of the family enough. Or any other part of my family,  besides my parents and sister, actually. Huh. (Daddy!!! You hear that?!)

Also helped with a delivery for my host moms catering service. It was pretty cool.

Anyway; guitar is coming on all right, choir is nice, we performed a concert in the church this past Sunday. We have some really talented singers amongst the students! And although  at first I thought that singing in Latin was totally absurd, it’s actually super beautiful and suits their / our voices really well.
I joined another extra curricular activity: Graphic Design. It’s pretty cool. Right now we’re just drawing but i think we may move on to computers soon. The school has a few in the basement :’)
We’re only four in the class though. Oh well, it’s cozy. 😀

The unfinished portrait of my friend ended up looking strikingly similar to Diana Agron from Glee, or is it just me? 😉

Today our English teacher was really excited, cause he’d visited another school that was a bit more modernized,  and it was so fun to see how excited he was about “all the possibilities that came iPads and computers in the classrooms”. Oh, I’ve realized how lucky I was to grow up in Denmark.  But I’m soo happy I did. Never realize what you’ve got before you lose it,  ey?

Some guy had brought his street vender instrument thing with on the tram!

Anyway, have a great weekend, see yaaaaa xx

Bianca♥♥

Munich!♥

In our school, we have two big “tour day”s, where every class takes a trip somewhere. Its called Wandertag. My class decided to go to Munich and visit a music-history museum. The museum wasn’t actually that bad and we got to play on a lot of different exotic instruments (it sounded horrible…). But it was really fun to be “out” with my class cause we had a little more freedom than in the school and we were able to mess around a lot more,  which was also fun 😉 Also, us being musical students, we didn’t have a problem with the rhythms and stuff, but the teachers that came along with us teach social studies and chem and stuff, so they were totally lost and need extra help from the tour guide! :’)

I found the little tea/ coffee cup on the bus soooo cute! 😉

Great day! The train was full of Oktoberfest-seeking people as well,  all dressed up in lederhosen and Dirndls!

Yesterday, I met up with some other people and we went shopping about town ♥ This week has been pretty good, apart from a Bavaria wide math test yesterday, and although I have an okay feeling with it,  I know tjst I won’t be getting top scores… But oh well, I still got the best grades in English,  even though that’s a very small victory.  I’m still happy! 😀

Also,  got myself a new watch! ♥

Have a great weekend! Going to the Oktoberfest (Wiesn) tomorrow with my host family!  Yay! 😀
Love, Bianca xx

The land of IKEA!!

So just to clarify, I never actually got to go to IKEA in Sweden (sorry to disappoint), but I did the next best: Visited a lot of Swedish (okay, Asian) friends!

We met at summer camp in the beginning of the summer. They’re all super awesome and I had a really great time. Hopefully I’ll have time to see them again when I get back from Germany!

Thanks guys!

Oh, P.S. This guy, Erik Linder, apparently some semi-famous swedish singer, gave me a high-five after playing laser tag, cause I was that awesome!! I TOUCHED A FAMOUS DUDE!!!

Sadly, I wasn’t aware of the fact when it was actually happening. To me it was just another guy who thought I was awesome. Same old, same old.

Anyway, great trip, awesome people! Tack sä mycket!

– B xx

London, Baby!

My friend and I took a quick trip to London. That’s right – Powershopping! (Although I was actually the one shopping the most. I do feel very bad for dragging her around all those shops. Okay, maybe only a little bad.)
It was my first trip to a foreign country without parental supervision, which made it that much more exciting, but at the same time also very stressful. London is sooo busy!

Anyway, thanks for a fantastic, fun and memorable trip! We’ve been dreaming about it for ages, I’m so glad we got to go! xx

Hyde Park / Kensigton Garden

♥ Beaut

 

Topshop and Primark, I love Oxford Street xx

Hyde Park

Mini Arc De Triumph or whatever …

 

 

Lunch at Pret

Primark actually sells push-up butt pads… It’s a shame we never got around to trying them on…

Primark. Busiest place everrrr

 

We went here several times a day. Do I hear addiction?

 

This was the cutest thing ever. A couple taking wedding photos in front of Westminster Abbey and Big Ben… That little girl, aww!

We can do it too!

 

Awesome man making music with with wine glasses!

A little London spirit for you, straight from the phone box!

 

… And then there’s me… oh well

 

Denmark Hill! We’re famous!

Starbucks are amazing spellers!

Riding the tube (Yes, you’re right, that’s a Friends quote!)

The museum of national history and something

 

Late night shopping in the streets of London!

Oh, Tesco!

That’s right people! MARS MILK!

Trying to be British with my tea and pajamas 😀

 

 

So we were going to buy some donuts for the people back home…

Isabella had four espresso shots in a row!! Crazy.

So ignore my face, but looooook! I got to meet my sweet host sister as well! She was in London for two weeks studying english and so we met up! 😀

Again, thanks so much! I had a great time… And I spent way too much money… Sorry daddy! 😉

Hope you guys had a great summer as well !

 

 

 

 

 

The last day is upon us!

CANDYYYYYY!!!

So, if you didn’t know, school ends tomorrow. For me it does, anyway.

We’ve all been looking forward to this day our entire lives. This was our first goal when we started. The day of the Caramels!! (Haha)

But really, it’s TOMORROW!!! O.o It’s so weird. Tomorrow it’s our turn. Everything is ready, all we need is for tomorrow to arrive. Today, three of my friends and I walked down Strøget (loooong, long shopping street without cars. It’s awesome if you don’t have to go into 6 different shops without finding what you were looking for.)

So the tradition is this:

1. Eat breakfast together with your two main teachers and the rest of your class.
2. Advance to the school and throw a bit of candy into class rooms.
3. Gather on the big front steps of the school and make the crowd cheer your name (or, your classes name, rather) and throw candy at the cheering kids.
4. Present gifts to your teachers accompanied by speeches.
5. Play game of dogdeball against the teachers and win (of course…)
6. Play against your parallel class and win that as well (WE WILL)
7. Run along to the nearest park and bombard eachother with shaving foam.

This tradition is as old as time itself. Basically.

A picture of somebody last year… So looking forward to doing this to my friends!!!! 😀 😀

But we hadn’t managed to collect money enough to buy the presents before today, so we were in a bit of a hurry. We had to shop special meaningful presents for 8 of our teachers. It was fine to begin with, things seemed to go pretty well. But that bliss didn’t last for very long. After witnessing  a couple of young boys getting caught stealing some stuff in the 10 kr. shop (their excuse? “Oh, ups, I forgot I was still holding this.” – Noobs), we discovered that our most awesome idea for a present (a dolphin with a little recorded musical tune inside) was still missing the dolphin.

Apparently, nobody needs dolphins in Copenhagen. Nobody caaaaares 😦

We didn’t realize the size of this problem at once. Only after walking up and down strøget, looking for a dolphin, any kind of dolphin doll or statue or pencil or whatever for several hours, did we finally give up, in the toy department of a major departmentstore in Copenhagen (top floor of  Magasin). My friend just collapsed on the floor and the rest of us couldn’t stop laughing, we were so tired out and the whole situation just seemed hopeless.

We ended up buying a tiny polarbear (I know, there’s quite the big difference, BUT WE WERE DESPERATE), and at the same time supporting a good cause (WWF). But it still kind of seemed like we’d failed our missing. There wasn’t much to do about  that though, the shops were all closing, and so we comforted us with a huge sale at a shoe shop (ALDO), 70% off!! I slumped on a futon while the girls tried on shoes. We were the last ones in the shop, and I think we were actually keeping the cashier from going home because my friend couldn’t decide on which shoes to buy. (She bought both of them in the end… But it was a great bargain! Seriously.)

The one pair pretty much looked like this (or very similiar, at least) So prewtaay xx

Now lying on top of my bed, looking at my big bag full of candy, and happily awaiting the last day of the majority of my life. It’s so surreal. I can’t believe it. AND tomorrow we’re also going to see a long lost teacher (okay, he was gone for a year, on the dream journey of his life, travelling South America all by himself, meeting new people and experiencing loads.) I’m so looking forward to hearing all about it. I’m guessing that even though it’s been a year since we last saw him, it’s going to feel like it was just yesterday.

The other pair (I really want these too, actually… 😉 )

Well, I’ll keep you posted. Soon. When I’ve finished bombarding kids with candy. (Muahahahahha)

Love, B xx 😉