Well since Sunday I have been busy relaxing and chilling out. This week all I feel like I have done is watch movies.
On Sunday I watched a couple of movies and had time to myself.
On Monday I did wakeup. Leo was in Copenhagen visiting family so I did his morning shift for him. The rest of the day wasn't to eventful. Just another Monday.
Tuesday. I didn't have a staff meeting so I got to sleep in. In the afternoon I had to get 2 girls out of the girls dorm because they were trying to skip esktra idræt. I finally got to ekstra idræt with 10mins left. At 1830 I went to Bilka(kinda like K-Mart and Coles put together). I bought some new jeans and some presents for my nisse(secret santa). This was the first time I got them something even though it had been going on for a week. I made a big bag of chocolates and plant. At 2100 Crista an d I made pancakes for the guys in 9C class. This was really good.
On Wednesday, I missed dansk lektion again. I got to sleep in because Leo did my morning shift. It was another uneventful day.
Thursday, was my day off. I slept in until 1120. Just in time for lunch. Then I didn't do much just lazied around. In the after noon I decorated my nisse's desk it christmas balls and hid chocolates through their desk.
Friday, I drove to Vejle and picked up a parcel of food from this guy that sells food from other countries. I got myself some cadbury chocolate and Milo. I was on weekend duty so I had a late night.
Sorry that there isn't much to read this week. I am very tired because I was up very late last night. Hope you all have a happy sabbath.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Week 17
Well this week started with Juletur on the weekend. This was really fun. It was a bit like the kortur(choir tour) but it was with pathfinders.
On friday we left the school on a large double decker bus and went to himmerlandsgården. We we got there i had to find where I was meant to be sleeping. I found out I was in a cabin. After sorting out our gear we had dinner and then evening worship. All the guys in VHS8, the club I went with, had opvask (dish washing duties) on friday night. After thae worship we had supper and then the younger kids went out and did a night activity. I ended up staying and talked with someone the other people.
On Saturday I got woken up by water thrown on my face. It wasn't nice. It went into my ear. When I finally got up I realised I had missed breakfast and that church had started. After church I hang around and chilled out. At around 1530 I got asked if I could help make some lolly bags. I did help make them. I also ended up helping out with setting the hall up for the night. We had a big christmas dinner. We decorated the dining hall with all christmas things. The dinner went really well. The food was good too. The main course was whole peeled potatoes with gravy and potatoes that had been cooked in brown sugar I think it was and a nutloaf. I ate the potato and gravy and nutloaf. The sugary potatoes are not quite my thing. For dessert with had ris a l' amande which is rice cream with almonds and they put a cherry sauce on the top. It's not sweet like our rice cream in Aus. Well the stuff I make but it is good. The danes have this as a traditional dessert and that hide a whole almond in the rice. The person that finds that almond gets a present, so people eat it to find it. After the dinner we cleared all the tables and started playing games and dances. One of the things that I enjoyed was this story. People were pulled out and used top act out the story. None of the people chosen knew what the story was about. It was great to watch. I had to be part of it. I was a whale. All the people watching really enjoyed themselves having a good laugh. The games went all night. I ended up calling it quits at 0130.
Sunday we tidied and packed up. When we got back to the school I chilled out and lazied around.
Monday I woke up late and missed Danish class. In the evening I wasn't on duty till 1800. This was good gave me more time to do things that I needed to do.
Tuesday, just another Tuesday. Woke up and went to my staff meeting. Then I had my two english classes. The first one I had to tutor two 9th graders. In the second one I watched a movie with the 6th graders. In the evening we had a conflict with two of the students. They weren't respecting myself and one of the other sm's. We sat down with the head dean and talked to the students about how they were disrespecting us.
Wednesday I woke the students up. After wake up I went to danish. It was really good. We talked about the danish christmas traditions. After danish I was going to go work on the horse fence but it was a miserable day. I ended up doing something else. Can't remember what it was though. Probably just hang around in my room. I went back on duty at 1430. I hang around in my room and also talked with some of the students that didn't go on the Vejle trip. I was on duty until 0030. It was a late night.
Thursday. I drove a student into Vejle at 730 to another school so she could do her science experiment. When I got back i went to work on the fence. By the time I had got the tractor and checked that it had deisel and it had enough oil it was 920. I had Leo and Daniel helping work on the fence. We got all the posts in now all we need to do is put on all the hooks that the fence wire goes through then it will be all finished. We finished working on the fence at 1430, in time for ekstra idræt. After aftensmad two of the 8th graders didn't want to go to andat(evening worship) and Daniel found them in their wardrobe. We took their computers off them. One of them didn't like the punishment that we had given them and he disrespected me by swearing at me. It was a fun night for the head dean on duty that night.
Friday. I woke up at 1000 and went to take my washing down to the laundry when one of the guys comes up to me and asks who is driving him to the doctors. I said that Mario was but I found out that Mario was sick and unable to drive. I ended up driving him and I drove for the rest of the day. I drove for about 5 hrs between the school and the doctors or Vejle. That wasn't to bad. I got paid to do it. The only thing is I didn't get to do what I had organised for my self to do. that night once I finished driving I had a big headache. I must have just been really tired. I ended up going to bed at 530 after aftensmad and tried to sleep. I ended being sick and took some panadol to relieve the pain. I got to sleep. I slept for about 14hrs.
On Saturday I called home and talked to my sister for the first time in 2 months. It was really good to catch up and see how she was going. I also talked to my mum told her about my plans for Christmas. After I called my parents I got ready for church. i went the church in Vejle. It was really good. I went with one of the staff and his family. It gave me time away from the school and allowed me to see some new faces. When we came back the family invited me over for lunch at their house. I really liked that. It was 1530 before I got back to the school. When I did I hang in my room for a little while. I had some visits from a few students and a few sm's. The program for the night was a Christmas concert. The high school choir, the little choir and the primary school choir all sang and performed during the program. After the program I hang out with some of the students in my room and we watched some movies.
Sunday, well that's today. I have been writing the blog uploading photos onto facebook and watched a movie.
Hope everyone is having fun. Hope Christmas is goes great for you all.
On friday we left the school on a large double decker bus and went to himmerlandsgården. We we got there i had to find where I was meant to be sleeping. I found out I was in a cabin. After sorting out our gear we had dinner and then evening worship. All the guys in VHS8, the club I went with, had opvask (dish washing duties) on friday night. After thae worship we had supper and then the younger kids went out and did a night activity. I ended up staying and talked with someone the other people.
On Saturday I got woken up by water thrown on my face. It wasn't nice. It went into my ear. When I finally got up I realised I had missed breakfast and that church had started. After church I hang around and chilled out. At around 1530 I got asked if I could help make some lolly bags. I did help make them. I also ended up helping out with setting the hall up for the night. We had a big christmas dinner. We decorated the dining hall with all christmas things. The dinner went really well. The food was good too. The main course was whole peeled potatoes with gravy and potatoes that had been cooked in brown sugar I think it was and a nutloaf. I ate the potato and gravy and nutloaf. The sugary potatoes are not quite my thing. For dessert with had ris a l' amande which is rice cream with almonds and they put a cherry sauce on the top. It's not sweet like our rice cream in Aus. Well the stuff I make but it is good. The danes have this as a traditional dessert and that hide a whole almond in the rice. The person that finds that almond gets a present, so people eat it to find it. After the dinner we cleared all the tables and started playing games and dances. One of the things that I enjoyed was this story. People were pulled out and used top act out the story. None of the people chosen knew what the story was about. It was great to watch. I had to be part of it. I was a whale. All the people watching really enjoyed themselves having a good laugh. The games went all night. I ended up calling it quits at 0130.
Sunday we tidied and packed up. When we got back to the school I chilled out and lazied around.
Monday I woke up late and missed Danish class. In the evening I wasn't on duty till 1800. This was good gave me more time to do things that I needed to do.
Tuesday, just another Tuesday. Woke up and went to my staff meeting. Then I had my two english classes. The first one I had to tutor two 9th graders. In the second one I watched a movie with the 6th graders. In the evening we had a conflict with two of the students. They weren't respecting myself and one of the other sm's. We sat down with the head dean and talked to the students about how they were disrespecting us.
Wednesday I woke the students up. After wake up I went to danish. It was really good. We talked about the danish christmas traditions. After danish I was going to go work on the horse fence but it was a miserable day. I ended up doing something else. Can't remember what it was though. Probably just hang around in my room. I went back on duty at 1430. I hang around in my room and also talked with some of the students that didn't go on the Vejle trip. I was on duty until 0030. It was a late night.
Thursday. I drove a student into Vejle at 730 to another school so she could do her science experiment. When I got back i went to work on the fence. By the time I had got the tractor and checked that it had deisel and it had enough oil it was 920. I had Leo and Daniel helping work on the fence. We got all the posts in now all we need to do is put on all the hooks that the fence wire goes through then it will be all finished. We finished working on the fence at 1430, in time for ekstra idræt. After aftensmad two of the 8th graders didn't want to go to andat(evening worship) and Daniel found them in their wardrobe. We took their computers off them. One of them didn't like the punishment that we had given them and he disrespected me by swearing at me. It was a fun night for the head dean on duty that night.
Friday. I woke up at 1000 and went to take my washing down to the laundry when one of the guys comes up to me and asks who is driving him to the doctors. I said that Mario was but I found out that Mario was sick and unable to drive. I ended up driving him and I drove for the rest of the day. I drove for about 5 hrs between the school and the doctors or Vejle. That wasn't to bad. I got paid to do it. The only thing is I didn't get to do what I had organised for my self to do. that night once I finished driving I had a big headache. I must have just been really tired. I ended up going to bed at 530 after aftensmad and tried to sleep. I ended being sick and took some panadol to relieve the pain. I got to sleep. I slept for about 14hrs.
On Saturday I called home and talked to my sister for the first time in 2 months. It was really good to catch up and see how she was going. I also talked to my mum told her about my plans for Christmas. After I called my parents I got ready for church. i went the church in Vejle. It was really good. I went with one of the staff and his family. It gave me time away from the school and allowed me to see some new faces. When we came back the family invited me over for lunch at their house. I really liked that. It was 1530 before I got back to the school. When I did I hang in my room for a little while. I had some visits from a few students and a few sm's. The program for the night was a Christmas concert. The high school choir, the little choir and the primary school choir all sang and performed during the program. After the program I hang out with some of the students in my room and we watched some movies.
Sunday, well that's today. I have been writing the blog uploading photos onto facebook and watched a movie.
Hope everyone is having fun. Hope Christmas is goes great for you all.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Wk 16
Well its been a little while since my last post.
This is what happened in week 16.
On the weekend we were meant to have a Volleyball Competition. There weren't enough teams signed up to hold the competition. We still had volleyball on Saturday night though. I had duty this weekend. This meant that I had a late nights on the weekend. This wasn't to good because every night the week before I was up and on duty till 0030 or 0100.
Friday the student missionaries took vespers. This was really good. It was about thankfulness. We all talked about something that we are thankful for. I was put in charge of the video for it. I went around some of the students during the week and asked then what some of the things that they are thankful for. I got some cool answers. They ranged from being thankful for friends and family to the radiator heaters in the rooms to music. In the program we had a skit to show what the things that the students take for granted. It all started out with getting the students up out of bed and showing what they put us through in the morning. This went through the whole day up till they go to bed. At the end of each scene we showed some pictures of what kids around the world live with such as sleeping on the floor, rummaging through a tip, sitting outside under a tree being taught, begging for food, etc... The students liked the skit but I hope what we were portraying was shown through to them. After the skit each student missionary got up and said something that we are thankful for. Then we had the video I made. After the video I got up and invited Leroy up. This was pre organised but Leroy didn't have any idea that I was going to do it. I got him to tell something about his experience here at Vejlefjord. Once he had finished I also invited students to get up and share some experiences that they had enjoyed with Leroy. Some were quite funny and others were just embarrassing for Leroy. After that we got the students to write 5 things that they were thankful for. This was really good. We read the answers out once they were finished. Some of them wrote their friends and family others were being alive and breathing. At the end of the program we had students come up and thank us for the program. They really enjoyed it.
Once all the students went to bed the SM's held a late night get together. We enjoyed some food and talked abit. After this we went for a swim. We thats what we told Leroy we were doing. What we really did was set the pool up in a relaxing setting and had lots of tea light candles lit around a massage table. We had Leroy come down once we were all ready. We had 11 people giving Leroy a massage. He was quite wiry and worried that we were going to do something to him. After 6-8 minutes Leroy finally relaxed to enjoy the massage. After ten minutes he was nearly asleep and very relaxed. To his surprise, 2 of the guys went and got 2 buckets of ice cold water and poured the water over him. He was really shocked and had no idea what really happened at first. After we told him to jump into the pool to warm up but he was worried that we had done something to the pool also. We had to turn the lights on and jump in before he was willing to get in. I ended up calling it a night at 0300. The others were still up until 0430 in the pool and just talking.
On Saturday I had to make sure that the students that were at the school on the weekend went to Sabbath school and Church. In the afternoon Leo went on duty. This allowed me to have time off. During this time I went for a walk with Leroy, Nat, Crista, Vanessa and Mario. We walked in the woods around the school.
While walking we did a few things. One of them was to follow Leroy through a black berry patch on the side of a hill. this was very thick and hard to get through. Leroy ended up falling backwards to squash them all down to create a path. After walking for awhile we found a hill with lots of leaves on it and we put them into a big pile and was jumping into it. That was fun. We kept on walking after awhile and went past a frozen dam. We threw dead branches into the water and it broke the ice. After we went to a lookout that looked over the school and the fjord. It is really nice looking over everything. I left everyone there and headed back to the school to be back on duty and help Leo out.
On sunday, I was woken up by Jenny to help her find someone to do brunch pligt. One of the guys who had the pligt wasn't here. I was on duty for most of that day. I spent time in Leroy's room and chilled out with him and the out people that were there.
Monday I chilled out. Talked to Leroy for a bit to find out how he was doing. It was his last day at the school. In the afternoon I went on duty at 1630 in time for pligt. At pligt I found out that 2 of my pligt workers were put onto another pligt.
Now I only have 2 kids to do outdoor pligt with me. I got a book for all the students to write something in. They were all meant to have written something in it before 2200 but they didn't. I had to go around to all the guys and get them to write something. The girls were still writing in the book until 2300 so by the time I got through all the guys it was 0030. After all the guys were in bed alseep I headed up to Leroy's room. There were all the guys in Skrænten and some of the Sm's in there. We all stayed up because Leroy was leaving the school at 0330 to go to the airport.
At 0330 we had Crista, Vanessa, Mario, Jenny, Christopher, and myself going to the airport with Leroy. The reason why we were going to the airport at such an insane time was because Leroy's flight left Billund at 0700 and he needed to book his bike in at the airport with him. After booking we sat around the airport until it was time for us to leave. It was sad to see Leroy leave. He was and is a great guy to work with. Leroy if your reading this, Thanks heaps for everything you have done here at Vejlefjord.
After leaving the airport we headed back to the school. When we got back it was time for wakeup. I went down to the spisestue(dining hall) and had breakfast. After breakfast I went to the vagtlighed(vagt apartment) in the girls down and slept until we had a staff meeting. This was only for 1 1/2 hrs of sleep. After the meeting I had to go teach English. I wasn't really awake enough to tutor but the guys had some work that they had to do and I helped them out where they needed it. After that English class I went to the next one where I taught a class because the teacher was sick. I told the students some stuff about myself. Where I am from and live/lived in Australia and travelled around the world. When this class finished I went to the office and checked the SM mailbox. While I was there I also talked to the staff in there. They all told me to sleep. When I finally got to my room I found Leroy's sick card(same as our medicare card) and took it to the office and asked what I should do with it. The secretary took it and finished the paper work for it. She sent me back to bed. I finally got to bed by 1300. At 1430 I got woken up by Daniel I think for esktra idræt. I wasn't to pleased to be woken up. During esktra idræt I was falling asleep. I ended being awake and on duty until 2000. Everyone I saw told me to sleep. I must have looked like hell or walking like a drunked. I ended sleeping for 10 1/2 hrs.
Wednesday I had wakeup. I wasn't quite awake when I did it. After I had finished my duties, I went back to sleep. I missed Danish. In the afternoon I went back on duty. I was better then. That night I broke down whilst talking to one of the students. It finally sunk into me that Leroy had left and that I was going to leave here and leave all the friends I have made here at Vejlefjord.
Thursday. Not much happened. It was my day off. I did esktra idræt and also pligt. Leo moved into Drengebygning, the building I live in. Now there are two of us in drengebygning. This is great because now I have someone to talk to other than the students.
Friday I cleaned up my room and packed my bag to go to Juletur.
Pictures from the volleyball weekend.
This is what happened in week 16.
On the weekend we were meant to have a Volleyball Competition. There weren't enough teams signed up to hold the competition. We still had volleyball on Saturday night though. I had duty this weekend. This meant that I had a late nights on the weekend. This wasn't to good because every night the week before I was up and on duty till 0030 or 0100.
Friday the student missionaries took vespers. This was really good. It was about thankfulness. We all talked about something that we are thankful for. I was put in charge of the video for it. I went around some of the students during the week and asked then what some of the things that they are thankful for. I got some cool answers. They ranged from being thankful for friends and family to the radiator heaters in the rooms to music. In the program we had a skit to show what the things that the students take for granted. It all started out with getting the students up out of bed and showing what they put us through in the morning. This went through the whole day up till they go to bed. At the end of each scene we showed some pictures of what kids around the world live with such as sleeping on the floor, rummaging through a tip, sitting outside under a tree being taught, begging for food, etc... The students liked the skit but I hope what we were portraying was shown through to them. After the skit each student missionary got up and said something that we are thankful for. Then we had the video I made. After the video I got up and invited Leroy up. This was pre organised but Leroy didn't have any idea that I was going to do it. I got him to tell something about his experience here at Vejlefjord. Once he had finished I also invited students to get up and share some experiences that they had enjoyed with Leroy. Some were quite funny and others were just embarrassing for Leroy. After that we got the students to write 5 things that they were thankful for. This was really good. We read the answers out once they were finished. Some of them wrote their friends and family others were being alive and breathing. At the end of the program we had students come up and thank us for the program. They really enjoyed it.
Once all the students went to bed the SM's held a late night get together. We enjoyed some food and talked abit. After this we went for a swim. We thats what we told Leroy we were doing. What we really did was set the pool up in a relaxing setting and had lots of tea light candles lit around a massage table. We had Leroy come down once we were all ready. We had 11 people giving Leroy a massage. He was quite wiry and worried that we were going to do something to him. After 6-8 minutes Leroy finally relaxed to enjoy the massage. After ten minutes he was nearly asleep and very relaxed. To his surprise, 2 of the guys went and got 2 buckets of ice cold water and poured the water over him. He was really shocked and had no idea what really happened at first. After we told him to jump into the pool to warm up but he was worried that we had done something to the pool also. We had to turn the lights on and jump in before he was willing to get in. I ended up calling it a night at 0300. The others were still up until 0430 in the pool and just talking.
On Saturday I had to make sure that the students that were at the school on the weekend went to Sabbath school and Church. In the afternoon Leo went on duty. This allowed me to have time off. During this time I went for a walk with Leroy, Nat, Crista, Vanessa and Mario. We walked in the woods around the school.
While walking we did a few things. One of them was to follow Leroy through a black berry patch on the side of a hill. this was very thick and hard to get through. Leroy ended up falling backwards to squash them all down to create a path. After walking for awhile we found a hill with lots of leaves on it and we put them into a big pile and was jumping into it. That was fun. We kept on walking after awhile and went past a frozen dam. We threw dead branches into the water and it broke the ice. After we went to a lookout that looked over the school and the fjord. It is really nice looking over everything. I left everyone there and headed back to the school to be back on duty and help Leo out.
On sunday, I was woken up by Jenny to help her find someone to do brunch pligt. One of the guys who had the pligt wasn't here. I was on duty for most of that day. I spent time in Leroy's room and chilled out with him and the out people that were there.
Monday I chilled out. Talked to Leroy for a bit to find out how he was doing. It was his last day at the school. In the afternoon I went on duty at 1630 in time for pligt. At pligt I found out that 2 of my pligt workers were put onto another pligt.
Now I only have 2 kids to do outdoor pligt with me. I got a book for all the students to write something in. They were all meant to have written something in it before 2200 but they didn't. I had to go around to all the guys and get them to write something. The girls were still writing in the book until 2300 so by the time I got through all the guys it was 0030. After all the guys were in bed alseep I headed up to Leroy's room. There were all the guys in Skrænten and some of the Sm's in there. We all stayed up because Leroy was leaving the school at 0330 to go to the airport.
At 0330 we had Crista, Vanessa, Mario, Jenny, Christopher, and myself going to the airport with Leroy. The reason why we were going to the airport at such an insane time was because Leroy's flight left Billund at 0700 and he needed to book his bike in at the airport with him. After booking we sat around the airport until it was time for us to leave. It was sad to see Leroy leave. He was and is a great guy to work with. Leroy if your reading this, Thanks heaps for everything you have done here at Vejlefjord.
After leaving the airport we headed back to the school. When we got back it was time for wakeup. I went down to the spisestue(dining hall) and had breakfast. After breakfast I went to the vagtlighed(vagt apartment) in the girls down and slept until we had a staff meeting. This was only for 1 1/2 hrs of sleep. After the meeting I had to go teach English. I wasn't really awake enough to tutor but the guys had some work that they had to do and I helped them out where they needed it. After that English class I went to the next one where I taught a class because the teacher was sick. I told the students some stuff about myself. Where I am from and live/lived in Australia and travelled around the world. When this class finished I went to the office and checked the SM mailbox. While I was there I also talked to the staff in there. They all told me to sleep. When I finally got to my room I found Leroy's sick card(same as our medicare card) and took it to the office and asked what I should do with it. The secretary took it and finished the paper work for it. She sent me back to bed. I finally got to bed by 1300. At 1430 I got woken up by Daniel I think for esktra idræt. I wasn't to pleased to be woken up. During esktra idræt I was falling asleep. I ended being awake and on duty until 2000. Everyone I saw told me to sleep. I must have looked like hell or walking like a drunked. I ended sleeping for 10 1/2 hrs.
Wednesday I had wakeup. I wasn't quite awake when I did it. After I had finished my duties, I went back to sleep. I missed Danish. In the afternoon I went back on duty. I was better then. That night I broke down whilst talking to one of the students. It finally sunk into me that Leroy had left and that I was going to leave here and leave all the friends I have made here at Vejlefjord.
Thursday. Not much happened. It was my day off. I did esktra idræt and also pligt. Leo moved into Drengebygning, the building I live in. Now there are two of us in drengebygning. This is great because now I have someone to talk to other than the students.
Friday I cleaned up my room and packed my bag to go to Juletur.
Pictures from the volleyball weekend.
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