I don't think I realized it while it was happening but during this past week I finally adapted completely to the Danish life. Yes, there are still some things that confuse me (WHY COINS WHY) and a lot other that amaze me like if I was a little kid. But if I'm going to be here for only a year, I might as well get excited about every tiny little thing if I want to.
There's something that crossed my mind while talking to my host parents... We as exchangers become professionals at adapting to change. It starts with the country, the family, the language. Those are the biggest changes. But we also learn to adapt to a change of plans during a weekend, or at school, or even a change of events in our lives during the exchange. And when our exchange years are over and we grow older, we adapt to how different our lives are now but we also learn to change the world as world citizens, because that's part of what this experience does to you. If you were a close minded person you probably wouldn't even have gone on exchange, but it opens your mind further into the unknown, the infinity of possibilities we have just at the reach of our hands, and when we, as young people that lived and experienced incomparable things, realize that there's nothing we can't do if we put ourselves to it, we become unstoppable.
Sometimes I feel like writing about what happened during my week, sometimes tbh I don't feel like writing at all... And sometimes I have so much on my mind that it's hard to put it into words. I visited some amazing places and met some incredible people this past week, and every day that goes by I'm more convinced of one of the thoughts I talked about in the latest post. I don't understand why Danes have a reputation for being cold and reserved people, it is so wrong. There has not been one person in my 15 days here that hasn't treated me as if I was part of their families or friends or whatever. Maybe I'm the lucky one, but I have only been here for two weeks and I already feel at home, surrounded by warm and nice people wherever I go. It's true that there's no translation for hygge, because there's no way of explaining how perfect that feeling is.
Have fun, be safe, don't get caught!
