Sick

Hey everyone :)

Sorry I haven't updated in more than a week. But I just couldn't come up with what to write :)

But I've become sick... Yay! -.-' I'm constantly coughing, my throat constantly hurts, and I'm constantly sweating, even though I'm not doing anything -.-

The internet here is unfortunately limited and really slow, which I'm not used to in Denmark. I have 15 gb a day, which at first sounded like more than enough. But yesterday I used 600 mb in 3 hours just listening to music on youtube, and my daily use should be around 500 mb to have some for the whole month.  So I already miss the Danish internet a bit :)

My music teacher has found me a guitar, which is almost as good as the Fender I have at home :) He bought it 2. hand, so it's quite used. It has been damaged a bit, but not too much. My teacher will restring it for me, and he found a bag and a guitar stand for it too. It sounds pretty expensive, but he bought it really cheap, so it should be around $100-150 which is not bad, since it's a steel string.

Also I'm going on a ski trip, with my sports team at the school. It will be from Wednesday - Friday, in my 7. week. I haven't gotten a price yet though. The other students will have to pay $100, because the school has some sponsors to pay most of it. But since I came halfway in, I might not get any support, but my teacher is trying to find some more money from some of the other teams going, so I might be lucky and only have to pay $100 like the other students, but since we're 4 new people (all from Scandinavia) They will have to find funding for all of us

HELLO!!!!

Hey everyone who wants to read :)

I see there has been some confusion about my Facebook usage, because I'm really bad at articulate what I really mean... But I'm not using Facebook all the time. Most of the time I'm just logged on, so people can always just text me if they want to :) I'm mostly on Facebook the first 10-20 minutes from I wake up in the morning, and right before I go to bed. Most of the time I'm with my family and the other students in the house. I haven't been together with my friends after school yet, because I don't have a sim for my phone, so it's a bit difficult to reach them. Also my phone doesn't really work over here, because there's no signal at all, but I can borrow one from my family. But I've agreed to go to some fast food thing one of the days with my friends, where they apparently serve really good food.

I haven't started on any guitar lessons yet. But I'm teaching someone from my music class how to play Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton, which I all of a sudden forgot how to play while teaching her. So I've spend the most of my weekend trying to figure out how I used to do it. The internet wasn't really any help, because my teacher in Denmark had some other way to play it than any of the musicians on the internet. But I finally, by a coincidence, got it right while not thinking what I was doing...

Some info I forgot to mention in the other updates:

The school here starts at 08:40. But unfortunately I can't sleep for longer than in Denmark because I have to walk to school, which takes about 20 minutes. I have to get out of bed at 07:35 to get ready in time (I've only slept that long 1 time since I got here... normally I sleep till 05:00).

School is over at 15:05, with 2*30 minutes lunch, and 5 subjects every day except Tuesday where we're done at 14:05, because the dean has a speech every Tuesday and then we're off.

Lunch depends on who you have. I personally don't bring my own lunch. Instead I buy one of the schools meat pies and a Pepsi. Some of the other students in the house makes their lunch here at home, but I'm too lazy to do so.

Thank you for the great questions Dorte (I hope that's how you spell it!) :) And yes, I am one of the youngest :)

Bye everyone :)

p.s. I don't know who is the active one here... but yesterday I had 48 views! Thank you for your support everyone!!!!

p.s.s. I upload my guitar stuff on Youtube once in a while. And people are more than welcome to give me some ideas :) http://www.youtube.com/user/MBechzzz is my channel :) thank you :)

First week

My first in school is nearly over, and I'm still having trouble finding where I'm supposed to be. We have this thing called group class where they announce some of the changes they have made. But sometimes this group class moves to different locations. Yesterday I came 5-10 minutes late, because it had moved to the library. Luckily I met some 11 year student, who knew where I was supposed to be. I'm still trying to figure out where people get these information.

My daily routine is almost planned out now. And I think it might surprise my father that I get out of bed at 06:40 in the morning, almost every day, without an alarm (I still have an alarm though in case of me being really tired.

I know the STS told me to stay off Facebook as much as possible. But I find it easier to deal with homesickness like this, because I in any case of homesickness can talk to my friends in Denmark, and handle it like that. This means that I'm on Facebook most of the day (and night). So if anyone wants to contact me, I'm almost certainly on Facebook. In some cases though like when I'm in school I can't answer, because I find it easier to leave my laptop at home, because I only need it in Math, but I only have 1 Math lesson per day, so it really isn't worth it. I might start bringing it when I get my new bag though.

My new bag and my power supply are taking a little longer time to arrive than I first thought. I ordered it on Ebay, and when I started to become a bit impatient, I looked up why it was taking so damn long. I then read that from America to New Zealand, it normally takes around 8-21 days -.-' Which is an awful long time to wait. But I keep hoping that it might come soon.

I'm out y'all! :D

Friends

I'm getting to know more and more people :D I have some friends I apparently have to meet everyday in the school art class, where we eat and have fun, yaaay! (they force me to)

I had a short day at school today. I went home at 14:25, right after my 2. engineering class, which was actually pretty fun today. apparently the teacher doesn't care whether we do anything or not... But I'm making a soil dipper (I think that was what people said it was oO). It is first time I'm working with Iron, which requires some pretty badass machines compared to what I'm used to work with (which is mainly a Saw and nails). But right before that we had an assembly, which I'm not used to at all... I didn't know where to go, and I didn't know why everyone was standing in different lines. Luckily one of my friends came by and helped me out.

Today is also my 5. month with my girlfriend. So it has been a day with a lot of homesickness already, but I'll probably get used to her not being here as the year passes :/

Sorry I updated 2 days in a row, but I'm really bored now, and irritated on my computer and Ebay, because my new power supply for my computer haven't arrived yet -.-' So I had to rage a bit (which is what I just did, but I'm not very good at it). I also bought a new bag from Ebay (Ebay is the easiest way to buy stuff here, since there's an hours bus trip to the nearest city, where I might have a chance to find something). The bag is for my school stuff, since I only have 1 bag that's not a pain in the ass to carry around, and since it's yellow and only has 1 room in it, I prefer a new bag... And my new bag only cost around $50, which actually isn't bad.

Last. I just want to tell everyone that the sun is shining today!!!!! I didn't think I would get a look at that weird thing, but hey! apparently I'm lucky for once :D

 Bye y'all

school

I just came home from my first day of school. I only had 5 classes, so it isn't that bad. I've met a lot of new people. Apparently most of the people here likes rock and metal, which suits me fine. I could chose 6 classes I wanted to spend my time on. I chose English, Math, Music, Engineering, Computing and Sports, and I'm already bored of English... It's just like Danish in Denmark, but in English... but I guess I'll have to live with it. After all, it is kind of why I'm here.

But as I said before, I've met a lot of nice people. Apparently the whole school know who I am, so I've people asking me all types of questions, like: Are you Mat? Where are you from? Where is Denmark? Do they speak English in Denmark? What kind of music do you like? Etc.

In Music class, my teacher told me that someone giving lessons are coming in this week, so I might be able to get lessons here. Also the school has a LOT of guitars. Which are mostly better than the one I have here in my room (which is a REALLY old, and not a very good guitar).

I wanted to put a picture of my school uniform in here, but it is REALLY wet, because it rains here all the time... So I'm not going to do that :) instead, I took some pictures of my room, where I spend most of my time with Zack (the family's son), and Carlos (the Brazilian guy), and one of the families cats.

Arrived

I've arrived in New Zealand now. Apparently my host family has more students than kids at the moment (which ofcourse isn't a bad thing). I arrived around 13:00 or something like that, but went to my room to catch up some of the sleep I neglected on my way here (because the evil people designing the boring 777 (I think) installed mario super bros. on the computer/tv screen). I don't have unlimited internet like in Denmark. I have 5 gb for my use only, which I guess is good enough (I don't really know how much that is).

My power supply for my computer is broke, so I ordered a new one the minute I arrived. I searched the internet for about an hour, before realising that the only way I could make them send the one I need, was to order it on Ebay... hopefully it works.

Also the house is really cold... my host dad told me that it's like this all over the country, because they apparently aren't very good at keeping the heat inside the house (which is really clear when you look at the windows in my room which only has 1 glass instead of the isolating air between 2 pieces of glass). But I have a really good blanket on my bed, and a heat thingie under the blanket, which is incredibly comfortable. 

I'm right now playing computer with my Brazilian brother Carlos, and my host son (I haven't learned his name yet), and waiting for the rare case of eyeball cancer, caused by my computer screen. I apparently also have at least 1 Japanese sister (I think he mentioned a girl, but not 100 % sure), but there might be some more Japanese people (I didn't quite get all he said because of the accent I'll have to get used to, but I'm already starting to understand more and more)


All in all, it's a really nice family I live with, I am sure this will be 10 fantastic and wonderful months, and I can't wait to go to school Monday (which I guess is the first time in my life I have been this excited about school o.O)
See ya, everyone reading this.

Singapore

Just arrived in Singapore, after a rather long flight, which is NOT recomended. I've met some great people, and had fun. Now there is 2 houres before next flight, and then I'll finally be in New Zealand. I haven't had much sleep, but I hope I can spend the next 10 hours sleeping (although I highly doubt it). I'm looking forward to meet my family, and my roommate, who might acutally be here in Singapore

Have fun everyone :)

Preparing for New Zealand

I am now pretty much ready for Monday, where I will travel to Copenhagen. Tuesday I will fly with Singapore airlines to Singapore (kind of obvious), and then Wednesday to New Zealand, where I'm going to spend the night at a hotel, and then Thursday I'll fly to some city I can't remember the name of, where I hope my new family will pick me up.

I have had my goodbye with my girlfriend, who I look forward to see again when I return home in May. I have seen my friends for the last time these 10 months, and tomorrow I will say goodbye to my family 

Of cause I will need to wear a school uniform (unlike here in Denmark), I will need to say Mr. and Mrs. to my teachers whenever I feel like saying something in class (which I don't know what will be yet).

But of cause things are bound to go wrong today, where I have 2 days left to get ready. I have 2 laptops. My Packard Bell's power adapter is halfway broken, and my Lenovo's power adapter is gone -.-' I am supposed to use my computer at school, which means I will have to buy 2 new adapters -.-'

I'm out