Not Exactly My Most Cheeriest Post

I'm sitting here in my room staring at my Danish laptop's keyboard. The letters Æ, Ø and Å are not exactly clearly written. There's bloody 2 keys with Ø and Æ!! Which is which? I get it wrong everytime. I don't even know why I'm telling you this.

Recently I've been asked so many times if I'm really Danish. That is so strange to hear. All the years I've lived in Australia people have been able to tell I wasn't Aussie. Whether it was because I had a slight accent, or I didn't like vegemite or maybe it was because I loved telling people about Denmark! But they never thought I was Australian. I never cared. I've always been so proud to be Danish :)

But now that I am living in Denmark, people around me aren't seeing me as a fellow Dane. It's so strange! To everyone here, I'm Joseph From Australia, and EVERYONE can hear that I have an accent. I can't believe I have an accent but apparently it is easily detectable that I have not lived in Denmark for a while... It doesn't help that I have a weird Un-Danish name. I guess it's also a dead give-away when I walk around with 5 extra layers of clothes than everyone else!

Of course I don't mind being different to everyone else. It's just funny to think that for all that time in Australia I've considered myself to be Danish but now that I'm in my homeland I'm still considered to be the "Foreigner"!

I'm still loving life in Denmark, but yesterday I got my first little dose of Australian homesickness. Yes- I admit it! I let myself think how freakkin long it is to Australia where my family and friends are. Talking to my family on Skype made my day today, but it hits me badly everytime when they ask me with no consideration "Have you made any friends yet? Have you seen any of your old mates yet?" etc etc. "No." is my honest answer. I really want to make some new friends but you can't simply magically make friends. I'm not 7 years old anymore when I simply could go up to any random person and say "Hey, wanna come home to my place and play with Lego?". I'm fairly sure I'm the youngest person in Denmark that has finished secondary school which makes it impossible to be with your age-group. At work there's no-one my age. And there's no way I'm joining the local sports club! And I've tried reasonably hard to get to see my old Danish friends again but I've almost given up on that because they're obviously too busy with their own lives and I can't force them to hang out with me. I guess that's really the thing that's affecting me most at the moment.



Trying not to think about the fact that I am temporarily friendless, makes me think about the more smaller things in life that are really annoying. Like Kit Kats taste horrible in Europe, and I've only got 5 Tim Tams left! And although it is lovely that Spring has finally started to arrive in Denmark, it has made things so much more difficult with having to move the time one hour forward making me have to wake up one hour earlier in the morning. And biking a marathon in the chilly weather that early in the morning EVERY SINGLE DAY and back again is so exhausting.

But apart from that, I can't complain! I know things are gonna get better!