Some tough two weeks

Puha, de sidste to uger har været hårde. Jeg er utrolig glad for at være her, men der har bare også været nogle svære elementer i den sidste tid, som for eksempel tøsefnidder på mit baskethold, drenge der ikke kan forstå jeg ikke er interesseret i dem, jævnaldrende der behandler mig som om jeg stadigvæk ikke forstår noget som helst, alt for lidt søvn, alt for mange ting at lave. Nu er det hele dog heldigvis ved at falde til ro. Jeg hygger med min familie (som jeg har et rigtig, rigtig godt forhold til), er sammen med de rigtig gode venner, jeg er så heldig at have, og passer den hundehvalp som jeg pt har ansvaret for. Hun har nu boet hos mig i 1½ uge og er simpelthen så dejlig. En rigtig lille charmetrold.

Fordelen ved at have lidt modgang er dog, at man lærer så usigelig meget af det. Jeg er blevet bedre til at sætte mine grænser og sige nej, når de bliver overtrådt - uanset om modparten så bliver utilfreds over det. Men det kan jeg ikke tage mig af. Faktisk vil jeg sige, at det at være udvekslingsstudent er en skole i livet. Man bliver hele tiden sat i nye situationer, som man skal håndtere bedst muligt, og som man uden tvivl også lærer meget af. 

Phew, the last two weeks have been hard. I'm really happy about being her, but there's also been some hard elements recently, for example girl-problems at my basketteam, boys who can't understand that I'm not interested in them, people at my own age who treats me like I still don't understand anything, way too little sleep, too much stuff to do. Now everything has calmed down a little. I'm having a great time with my family (which I have a really, really good relationship with), I'm hanging out with the really good friends I'm so lucky to have, and I'm taking care of the puppy I'm responsible for right now. She has been living with me for 1½ week now and is nothing but amazing. A charming, little girl.

The good thing about having a tough time sometimes is that you learn so much from it. I've been way better at putting up my lines and say no, when people cross them - no matter if the other person is gonna be unsatisfied with that. But I can't really care about that. Actually, I would say being an exchangestudent is a school of life. You are being put in new situations all the time, that you have to handle as best as possible, which you without doubt also will learn a lot from.