A Year Since I Graduated...

A video I made with recordings from my last week of school.

I'm finding it very hard to believe that it's been a year since I graduated from high school. It's gone so fast. I remember that this time last year I didn't even know anything about what I was going to do after school. 2011 was still a huge question mark for me! That scared me. I hated that. Although I love surprises, it's not a nice feeling waking up with absolutely no plans for the future. I definitely knew that I wanted to have a gap year in Denmark but I hadn't bought any tickets or looked into it seriously so that was still only a slight possibility. The tickets weren't bought until 2 weeks before I left!

"I wonder where I'll be this time next year?" was a question I remember thinking clearly, with great excitement. Would I still be in Bundaberg, would I go down to Brisbane, or would I travel to Denmark? 

Little did I know then that now I'd be living in Denmark and experience so much this year- and that I've already begun studying again- just in Danish!

Looking back at the video I made about my last week of school makes me think how incredibly different my life has changed. To think that my friends were all around me and now they're scattered all over Australia, and I'm up here on the other side of the planet! I took school for granted, and just the  simple fact that I could be with my friends everyday was something I didn't properly think about. The temperature was 30+ and just chilling out under D block and laughing non stop was how things used to be. Now all that is over a year old! But even though it's a year ago today, nothing whatsoever will take my memories away from all the great times we had together. Well maybe dementia :P But seriously, although the times are gone now, I will cherish every memory and I'm so pleased that I made this video. It's like a time-capsule where it shows exactly the way we were. 

An Autumn Update

Jesus Kristus! Is it already November!? Christmas is just around the corner which is getting me excited- I will actually have a cold Christmas this year!! For the last couple of weeks it has really been obvious that it's Autumn :) Beautiful reds, oranges and yellows are everywhere on the trees but the leaves are slowly starting to fall now. Daylight Saving time has also gone now so sunset is already at 4:30pm! I'm noticing too that it's getting harder to wake up in the mornings because it's dark. Temperature-wise, the last few weeks have been between 6 to 9 degrees but it's expected to go below zero already this weekend. I find it funny that my mother sends me photos of how in Bundaberg right now it's already reaching 30 degrees and the temperature of the water is 24 degrees!! That reminds me of the good ol' days...

I can feel Christmas is nearing! The shops and streets in Odense already have Christmas decorations hanging!

My Danish lessons are still a real pain the neck but I'm surviving! I feel like I've gone back to High School, only that the assignments have to be written in Danish! At the moment it's assignment after

assignment after

assignment after

assignment!!

I think I'm about to go crazy with all the Danish assignments I have to write up. It's one after another with no stop! I can definitely feel though that I'm improving greatly :D

I took this photo on my bike ride through the Danish countryside.

The other day I biked for an hour from the house I live in to get to a large shopping centre called Rosengårdscentret to buy Christmas presents for my family in Australia. It was a beautiful ride biking through the Danish country side between fields and small villages. The Autumn colours were so colourful! But why is there ALWAYS headwind no matter when I decide to bike long distances?? I don't get how that is always the case. Then magically the wind turns so my hour-long bike ride back home is ALSO against the wind! But it's alright, I don't mind a work-out ;)

So now I've packed all of the Christmas presents and ready to send them to my family in Australia! Hopefully they'll get them in time! It's going to be strange celebrating Christmas without them. The GREAT news is that they have booked tickets for a Eurotrip next year where I'll be reunited with my family in Rome, Italy!! This will be in May so it's still quite some time away but I can't wait :D

One last thing I'd like to share before I go- Today I visited the place where my parents met for the very first time! It's the café you can see above. It's a scary thought to think that I wouldn't be here today if my parents hadn't gone to that exact café at that exact time... Mindblowing stuff.