Not much has been happening but today is a special day. I finally took off all the Iceland pictures and will try to post a few on here. It was truly an amazing place and I highly recommend to everyone if they get a chance to visit DO IT!!! M and I are already talking about planning on next trip there sometime in the future.

It's my birthday.

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When this time rolls around every year I can never decide what I want or what I really want to do. I think the best birthday and birthday presents and just spending it with family or close friends sharing a good meal and laughs. This birthday M and I will be have a quiet night together just the two of us. Eating take out from my favor place from down the street, our first attempt to making brownies from scratch, and just enjoying a lot laughs together on this rainy day.

A year ago today

We were getting married! Here is to a year of marriage :o)

We will be spending our first anniversary in Iceland. We are both super excited.

And I would like to leave this post with these few images:

To brighten your day

This morning my wonder Father in law brought me this from their garden.

I feel quite lucky. He is also currently helping me grow my own peonies (pink and white ones) Hopefully next spring they will be just as beautiful.

:)

And I passed!!! Level 2 here I come

Test i morgen :(

Tomorrow is my first Danish test. It is level one and hopefully tomorrow I will turn in my level one books and get my new level two ones.

The test is in three parts, but I don't have to do all three parts. Tomorrow when I go into the testing classroom their will be 6 sheets of paper flipped over. I must chose one and this is what I will have to talk about.
One of the categorizes I could have to discuss is "the Novel"
We had to read three short novels/stories and write a summary about them and be prepared for questions if we were asked.
The three books I read were:
Jan kører bus, Du må hjæple Tea, og En gave til min kone
Jan drives the bus, You must help Tea, and A gift to my wife. I'm sure you can tell by the title they were very exciting.

The second category was a small summary about your family and where you live.
This is probably the easiest of the two since I just have to talk for a minute about one of these.

The third and last category is something I have to do and is the "Picture and question" section.
I will be shown a picture and based on this picture I have to come up with questions. Once I asked a question the tester will answer. Based on his/her answer I am suppose to try to come up with another question or/and ask another question. I think this will be the hardest part since I can't prepare totally for it. The other hard part is when asking a question the subject and verb are switched around in Danish. So not only do I have to think of the write words, but make sure I say them in the right way.
I have been practicing with Martin and hopefully it has sank into my head.

It should only take around 5 minutes which doesn't seem that long. Both my teachers have said that it is the easiest test and no one in our class has to worry. But I am still nervous.

Tomorrow or well (Sunday evening) if you could send some good vibes/ don't be nervous I would really appreciate it.

I will let you know tomorrow how it goes :)

And back again

M and I are now back in Denmark. We had a wonderful visit back home and also drove to see my sisters wedding. We had a really great time, but as always it was way too short. I always think when I am planning my trip back home that I will have enough time, but then once I am there I feel like I never do have enough time. I must now remember this and plan better.

I have a lot of pictures to download from my camera. I need to write about our trip to Jutland and Germany before we went to the states and of course about going back to the U.S

Stay tune for some pictures soon.

Lookin' pretty good

It's looking pretty good for we are going tomorrow :)

Today 81° | 49°

Tuesday 79° | 52°

Wednesday 83° | 54°

Thursday 80° | 49°

Friday 75° | 52°

A break through

Yesterday I had my first full Danish "conversation" (a few sentences) with a Dane, a Dane I didn't know, and she didn't switch to English on me even though I totally pronounced most of it wrong or at least with a accent.

It was at Fotex.

This is a major breakthrough since most of the time I stand in line repeating to myself over and over again what I am going to say in Danish. I get up to the front of the line and the person says "Hej" and than I completely forget everything I want to say in Danish and just say it in English. But not yesterday :)

What's on your night stand

Growing up I always had a pile of books on my nightstand. Call me a book worm, a book lover, someone that spends way too much time reading etc.... I have a wide range of books I enjoy reading. I tend to go in phrases or topics in reading. I don't judge books by their covers or discriminate against reading non-fiction. But lately my night stand has taken a whole new look.

My latest reading is the following:

Danish Childrens books,Læseværkstedet/ short books, and my two favorite red books

Yes, you know you want to read Jan kører bus as much as I do
(Jan drives the bus) though Jeg er ikke nuttet I am not cute and cuddly is a great book ;)

Mor's Dag

Happy Mother's Day

I wanted to wish my mom a very happy mother's day. I just want to say that I am so incredibly blessed to have such an amazing mother. She is one of the most beautiful people I know and she has been an amazing example to me. A little sad I can't be there, but I guess in less than two weeks I will be :)

I am also so very lucky to have such a wonderful mother-in-law! I feel so lucky to have such two wonderful, caring, and generous women in my life.