WEB EXClUSIVE: Day in the Life of Alida Eide
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May 3, 2011
I have never been a morning person in the states and that has not changed being all the way over here in Denmark. I start my day at 6’oclock by getting out of bed and trying to throw something on that would look like something a European would approve of. I say “God morgen” to my host mother and sit down for some coffee and cold oats. Maybe if I am lucky, oatmeal or bread with cheese and jam.
I have lived with three different families to experience three different Danish ways of life. With this current family, I live on a little island. I take a little walk down to the harbor to take my ferry to the mainland of Denmark. It is an hour-long ride in which I drink my tea and maybe work on some homework. Once on the mainland I have to take another mode of transportation, bus. Another 30 minutes and I am in my schools town, Horsens. I take another walk or I bike to school and arrive a bit late.
School here does not have a set schedule but it varies from day to day. Some days I start at 8 and some days it starts at 12. But for the most part I start school at 8 and end at 1:30 Monday through Friday. It also works the same with classes. I never have the same classes in one day. I am taking Danish, English, Spanish, History, Biology, Chemistry, P.E., Math, Religion, and History. But I have all of these classes with the same classmates. We have a half an hour break in between every class in which everyone in the class gets to talk and have a bit of a break. Lunch is in between 2nd and 3rd class in which I bring a packed lunch. We can buy lunch in the cafeteria. It is pretty much the same choices as DECA store has.
My day continues after school by waiting until a bus drives down to the harbor that I can take my ferry and take the same route as I do in the morning.
Once home it is afternoon coffee time. Sometimes I sit with my host parents if they are home and drink a cup coffee and other times I sit alone just relaxing catching up on a good book . I it is a good day I go on a run or take one of my families horses for a ride.
Dinner starts just around 7. We have a variety of food from day to day. One day we have Indian food and the next we have traditional Danish food, red meat with potatoes and sauce. Not much planned of evenings on the island but just maybe watch a good movie. Bedtime doesn’t really exist here but you have deal with it the next morning yourself whatever time you go to bed.
Life is just a bit different from Colorado life, but still woderful.
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