I'm Full

I have been experiencing so much in such a little time. I think that it might be interesting for me to talk about the differences I have seen. Although there are differences I seem to find Denmark more alike to the U.S. then different.

1. The youngest son, Jebbe, who is 5 has a lot more freedom then a five year in the U.S. He has a big cardboard box he plays in and a couple days ago he wanted to add a window in his pretend house. He grabbed a steak knife and started to cut out a hole in the box. Most parents upon seeing this would take the knife away from him thinking that he will somehow stab himself. The parents let him and in the pictures you will see Jebbe hitting the ground with a hammer and the parents didn't mind. It may not seem like a big difference but to me it was.
2. Where ever we used periods for writing out a price they use commas and where we use commas they use periods. For example $5,023.25 would look like: $5.023,25. Its a minor difference but it still looks odd to me.
3. Believe it or not, there is a higher percentage racist people in Denmark then in the U.S. There are a couple of reasons for this. The Danes believe heavily in Freedom of Speech but there is a large Muslim community here as well, who do not hold Freedom of Speech as an important value. You may remember that ordeal a few years ago with a Danish comic making fun of the Muslim faith. So there is a conflict of ideals. Another reason is because they are isolated, most live in a couple huge apartment complexes. These apartments are run down and inhabited mainly by Muslims and blacks. This place has a name that in English would be "violence town", actually its real name is something close to that but many like to call it that. From what the host father has told me a police station was built next to the apartment complex. The police had to abandon it to build a police station somewhere else because the youth kept burning it down. Isolation, lower income, conflicting values, and violence are some great ingredients for racism pie. Mmmm pie.
   Although don't take my word for it, this has just been what I have seen and heard.
   
4. Red rooftops, almost all the roofs are red.

Well that's enough differences.

Today I went to the beach, we left at around 7:00 the sun was already getting low but the beach was still full of people. The water is shallow for a great distance, which is great, but it was cold. The father said that it should have been warmer, but it was still fun, we didn't spend much time in the water. Later David met up with us there and he, Inger, and Jebbe went to pick up some pizzas. They brought back 4 pizzas that hold about 6 slices in each. They were the best pizzas I have ever tasted, none compare and I can say that while hooked up to a polygraph test. Real Bacon, good cheese, delicious peppers, and one had this amazing what seem to be steak on it. I thought I didn't like pizza but it turned out I have just been eating terrible pizza.
After pizza we went and got Ice Cream at Wafflehuset or waffle house. I got the keterminde special. It was huge: 3 scoops of Ice Cream, dipped in chocolate, with soft serve, and a chocolate covered treat on top. It was the largest ice cream I have ever eaten, and I didn't even finish it, but now I feel sick.

Hello

Today has been my 2nd full day here. It is amazing here: the family is great, the scenery is beautiful, and the food is tasty. I had a 8 hour flight from Detroit to Amsterdam, during which I watched Star Trek, which was good, and Dragonball Evolution, Which was not good. While in Amsterdam Milly and I meet an exchange student going to Germany. We talked while waiting for our next flight to our final destination. Milly and I left Amsterdam for Billund around 3:40 PM Danish time and arrived 4:40ish PM, or 1640ish. When we landed we meet a Canadian Exchange Student coming to Denmark as well. We talked, exchanged pins, and picked up our luggage together. We struggled to find our way out of the airport, it was a well hidden exit. When we walked through the door we saw three families waiting for us. I found the Nissens and left with them. We arrived at their house about an hour later. Their house is amazingly beautiful, I will be posting pictures because it would be too much to explain. We had a typical dinner with pork, potatoes, sweet potatoes, french potatoes(chips), and something red. After dinner the family showed me a common Danish comedy, klovn(clown). It was a common Danish comedy because it pushed the envelope, if you know what I mean. I was a bit shocked. The father told me that the Danish value their freedom of speech, which contradicts what the Muslims value causing some unhappy international relations. After that I went to bed, I am sleeping in Anne's room, while she is still here she is sleeping with her brother David.

The next day I woke up around 8:20 AM, luckily I believe jetlag has only effected me slightly. Anne, David, Jebbe, and I had breakfast, which was just cereal and milk we got from a dairy farm next door. The parents left and we sat around the house and eventually got the cards to play a round of asshole, a card game. I lost all but one of the times. Later we rode bikes to a cherry farm where Anne used to work, and got to pick all the cherry's we wanted. They were good and we had a fun time. We came back and the father then took me on a short bike ride to exercise the three dogs their have. When we were riding down the street he lives on, out off nowhere a hedgehog appears and just sits in the middle of the road. The father used his boot to move it to the grass, the whole time it was hissing. It was so funny to see because it rolled into a ball while he was moving it so it was like he was playing soccer with it.

When we got back the father went into the back where a fence has been laid in a rectangle about the size of a small house. Inside this rectangle lived rabbits as if the lived in the wild, with holes and every thing. There are tons of them and so adorable. So the father takes some earmuffs, his dog, and his shotgun inside the fence and the next thing I saw was a clump of fur flying up from behind a small mound. He has to keep them from over populating.

Today I went to the shopping center with Anne and her two friends, we had a good time and the place was huge. This shopping center had tons of stores. I amused myself by learning some Danish from Anne. We had fisk for dinner, it was delicious, and watched a film that normally comes on every new years called "Dinner for One".

Well I am tired so I will go to bed, night