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.