IntroCamp

Sunday morning I finished packing and boarded the train from Hjørring to Randers with Esther and Hunter. For whatever reason traveling to and around Denmark is not my forte. As Esther put it "things started to go south the moment I sat down next to Alex Fallon." When Esther, Sophia, another exchange student, and I were attempting to get off the train at Randers we were boxed in by the man with the food cart. Since we were unable to get off the train, we had to go all theway to Århus. We ended up having to buy another ticket to travel to Bjerringbro, the location of IntroCamp. As if that wasn't exciting enough, we misunderstood how the train route to Bjerringbro worked. At one of the stops, Langa, we thought the train had turned around and was returning to Århus, which it wasn't.It actually was going out backwards in a different direction. We decided that we should just get off the train, so we didn't end up back in Århus. Once the train had headed on its merry way to Bjerringbro without us aboard, we figured out our mistake. Luckily we had only gotten off one stop to early, sowe were less than 5 miles away from Bjerringbro. We called Martin, someone in charge at IntroCamp, and explained that we had arrived, but we needed to be picked up in Ulstrup. He s that someone was on their way to get us. Awesome! We sat down and waited. However two hours later there had been no sign of Martin. I finally got a call from him asking where we were. "Well we're still sitting in Ulstrup waiting for someone to pick us up." "Oh, um, I'll call you back." He never did, but he magically appeared 20 minutes later.

IntroCamp kept us busy with all the things that Rotary had scheduled. We would have Danish lessons in the morning, lunch and then Danish lessons until dinner. After dinner we would have various activities we could participate in such as soccer, hockey, and other games. However, the best part of IntroCamp was going on day trips. On Wednesday, we went to Viborg, a city a little south of Bjerringbro. We were supposed to visit the Viborg Cathedral, but it was closed, so we just walked around downtown Viborg. I had salad pizza for the first time ever. It's exactly what it sounds like, a salad on top of a pizza. One of my friends Emily had the biggest kebab i have ever seen in my life. That night, we had an Danish rock band, the Striving Vines perform for us. Their music was quite good. Thursday night we had a bonfire. All of us gathered together to swap pins and take pictures. We also cooked bread over the fire, a Danish campfire tradition. It was tasty, especially when filled with jam, but it also took 15 minutes since one couldn't light it on fire. The following day we went to Århus. It was an interesting museum. It was very different from any art museum I have ever seen before. After spending a few hours in the museum, we went to downtown Århus and walked around looking in the shops. On Sunday we all said our goodbyes and returned to our homes in Denmark.