Finally An Update

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Woow so much have happened since last time I wrote on here so this is gonna be a loooong post.. First, I am sorry for not posting in like a loooong time, but I have so much to do and I am so happy here, that I don't really have time to sit on the computer.
I am now sitting in the beautiful city Villa Regina in Argentina and it is such a big difference from my sweet little island in Denmark.

Let's start from the beginning. 2 o'clock the 20th of august I said goodbye to my house, my island and my dog, and we began our drive to Copenhagen. The first stop on my adventure.

When we arrived in Copenhagen we stopped by my aunt and little cousin Holger to say goodbye to them. Then we drove to the airport!

Next stop on the journey to Argentina was the whole airport thing and all the sad stuff. I said goodbye to my family (sad time) and then all us Rotary kids who was going to Argentina proceeded to the plain. Security and all that went well, no problems at all and before we knew it we were all sitting in a plane leaving Denmark. 

The flight to Frankfurt went well, to be honest I can't really remember it, it seems like such a long time ago even though it's only a week.
Let's skip to when were all sitting in the plane to Buenos Aires and was very exiting (and very tired). There were like a zillion movies to choose from on the small TV screen in the seat in front of you, so of course i planned to just watch movies all the 16 hours to Argentina.. In reality I started watching 'The Place Beyond The Pines' but the sound were so bad that I turned it off after 15 minutes.. and then I fell asleep. I think I was sleeping in 10 hours and when I woke up I read a bit in my Noel Fielding book, ate some surprisingly okay plane food and then we were flying over South America!

One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen was when we flew over Buenos Aires at 6 o'clock in the morning. It's winter over here so it gets dark very early and the sun takes forever to get up in the morning. So everything was dark and you could just see all the lights from streetlights and it was so magical and I got a feeling like I might be able to make it this year. It really gave me hope to see these lights.
When we were landing in Buenos Aires the sun were getting ready to shine, so the sky was the most beautiful colour.

None of us could really understand that we finally were in Argentina, that moment was the moment we had been dreaming of for ages! We were pretty quick to get our baggage because we were in a bit of a hurry. All bags were there and everyone was in high spirit. We drove in a muchos small bus one hour trough Buenos Aires to get to the other airport, I was really tired so I have to admit I didn't really enjoy Buenos Aires as much as i could have.

Well we arrived to the second airport and I thought that I could take it all slow and maybe drink a cup of coffee (I really needed a cup of coffee) but no no no. When we were waiting in a long line to check our baggage in a man said that everyone who were going to Neuquen should check in NOW, I was the only one in our danish group who was going to Neuquen, so I was kind of alone there. Then me and two other girls got told that we had to run ad fast as we could up to our different gates. So we ran our heels away and luckily I did catch my plane.
Okay long story short, there were crazy lot of turbulence and I was sure I was going to die and then I didn't die and win win I was in Neuquen... alive.
I don't really know why I didn't guess that it was cold, now that it was winter in Argentina.. but it was, it really was. I was the first one on the plane to step outside. And of course the moment I step out on the plane staircase my skirt flew up and I almost fell right back into the plane, the wind is really wild down here. With a suitcase in one hand and both a normal bag and a camera bag in the other I had no chance of getting my skirt down again. 'It's okay' I thought 'at least my host family can't see me' wrong again Andrea, yes the airport has a big glass wall and yes that was my host family's first impression of me..

Okay.. wow.. this is a really long post. But my auntm my uncle and three Rotary people were waiting for me with a BIG yellow sign saying "Bienvenida Andrea" and they were soo sweet (and non-english talking) and we drove through Neuquen to get to my aiunt and uncles house, and it was fantastic, it was not at all what I expected, but I love it!

Now I am with my family, Carrasco in a beautiful house and they are the sweetest people you could imagine, I am so so so happy that they are my family down here.

I started school this monday and it is the best school I could ever imagine. On my first day the school gave me a BIG flower bouquet and they had made a T-Shirt with "I love Villa Regina" and there were a big sign with "Bienvenida Andrea" and I was just so happy!

My class is the sweetest and I have already got lots of new friends and my days are so full of birthdays, ice cream-eating and going to the disco. 
I am just gonna put some photos here, because this post is turning out to be a whole novel!

Villa Regina

Taking pictures on top of the theatre with sweet friends Leo and Facu

Dulce de Leche and spanish

Empanada a definite favorite

Jan and I found Batman, so I am as happy as I can be

In the park

Jan and I at Rotary meeting

Adri, Lile and I at Lu's birthday

Leo, Facu and I found a sweet homeless dog and named it Andy

At Lu's birthday with sweet girls

Helado es muy rico en Argentina

My new guitar!

Adiós from Danny and ILove you allxoxo

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man

Suddenly everything happens ever so fast. I am beginning my journey on Tuesday and it is like my head don't truly understand it yet. I keep feeling like there is incredible many things I ought to do before I leave, but when I finally have free time I can't think of any of those things. 

I am currently in a mood that is most perfectly described by the atmosphere in almost every Perfume Genius song. They have that sentimental awareness you get at that time of dawn, just before sunrise, where you walk around enjoying the comfort of the dark, but all of a sudden the sun is rising and you knew it would happen because that is how life goes, but you weren't really ready to let go of the night and the familiar stars that are the world to you. But deep inside you know that the sunrise is going to be the most amazing thing you are going to see and you know that it will all happen so fast and you will be back in the night in only a day.

Also, this week my present for myself finally arrived. It is an autobiography/art book that is written/painted by my biggest inspiration (painting wise as well as view-of-life wise) Noel Fielding. You know that feeling when your head is spinning with thoughts and worries, everything is too loud and ugly? When you need to think of a certain thing to make everything fall into the right place, to give you that comfort of home and protection, something that takes your to your own mind palace (Sherlock Holmes reference aye) where everything is gonna be okay? For me that thing is Noel Fielding and his art. So that is the best thing to have with me a year away from home. Because traveling with that book is like traveling with a tiny bit of home in my backpack.

In other news, I have finished making my butterfly pins. It only took approximately two hours 'with a little help from my friends' in this case Ida, one of the best. For those who don't know, all Rotary exchange students make pins, then when we meet each other we swap pins and put them all on our Rotary blazer.

 One Day Butterfly                
Aren't we all one-day butterflies,
not aware of time.                
Searching for partners or honey   
until Death kisses us.            
Then in his arms, tenderly rocked,
waiting for a new chance          
to fly away again                 
and join the dance                
of the one-day butterfly          

Unknown Author

Adiós

We stood steady as the stars in the woods

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Two of my friends and I have just got home from a week in Sweden. It was a fantastic week and we did one of the most unforgettable things the last day. We woke up at 4:00 am and watched the sunrise. It was incredibly magical, I felt like I was in a fairytale and that the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland could hop by any minute.

Other than that I got my vaccines, so I am officially ready to travel now... Hooray!

These days I have been in an artistic mood, listening to Vanessa Paradis' album 'Un Monstre á Paris' and writing packing lists in my travel diary.
Mom, dad and I have started season 3 of Downton Abbey and it is i.n.c.r.e.d.i.b.l.e. Everything about that show is just perfect, so of course I painted Thomas Barrow my favourite character.
Also, I have just finished reading 'The Great Gatsby' and it is.. well.. great! No really it is such a beautiful book and I will recommend it to everyone who has not read it yet.

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Adiós