Today Is Good.
Another exchange student a while back said this on our FaceBook group before going home: “I’ve been here for 11 months and I still have shit days with my Portugese. Any langauge that isn’t your mother tounge is always going to have up and down days until you’re literally fluent.”
I find this TOTALLY true. And the shit days, they suck. But today was awesome and I’m just a happy, happy girl :) 5 classes with my class, so fun. And we talked about our Barcelona trip (TWO WEEKS!) and ended the day with a ridiculously fun English class. I was in a group with 4 boys, you do the math. And the best part? I went through most of it in Danish. And one of my friends, Malene, complimented me and was just like “It’s so good you’re speaking Danish now, it just makes me happy!” and I could’ve died when she said that, I was so happy!
Oh, and a little PS. There’s one boy in my class, Morten, who I was pretty sure didn’t like me for a long time. He was nice enough in August/September but October/November/December, I knew he wasn’t my biggest fan. And I thought it was because he really pushed my Danish and he just didn’t like that I wasn’t speaking Danish all the time yet. He wa in my group today and turns out that’s totally not it. He was telling us about this girl who he really liked but she totes put him in the FriendZone and chose some other guy. He gave me this “knowing” look and it all made sense. The girl had chosen my first host brother over him. No wonder he was being a bit frosty towards me. Of course it has nothing to do with me, but I understand it alot better now. Regardless, he and I are on good terms agian and all is well.
My counselor also called a while ago and we had a sucessful conversation totally in Danish. And he wasn’t frutrated. Okay, it was like a 2 minute conversation. BUT STILL. I was very proud to be able to communicate without him getting annoyed.
It’s the little things.
