Meating our host families

After a 4 days of information, orientation, lots of impressions, japanese lessons, new friendships and fish for breakfast the day finally arrived, the day where we were to meet our host families.
However, the camp ended with a fairwell party the night before. The party was basically a bunch of presentations from all the countries represented. The students from each country had to prepare something to tell or show the rest of the 120 students. It was really interesting and we got to see the best of each country.
The two Korean students wore tradition Korean clothes and danced a traditional dance. The students from Finland presented the probably longest word in the world.
The Australian introduced us to "Aussie" (being Australian slang). The Swedish danced a folk dance as they do in the summer, and the Norwegian telled us a tale. And we Danish people (we were only two that night since Simon was ill), me and Kahtrine, of course made the entire crowd say "Roed groed med floede" (For those who don`t know, in Denmark it`s a joke to make foreigners pronounce the Danish dessert `Roedgroed med floede`). And then we sung something that should`ve been the Danish national Anthem but we couldn`t quite remember it so we made some of it up.


Efter 4 dage med information, orientering, en masse nye indtryk, japansktimer, nye venskaber og fisk til morgenmad, kom dagen endelig: Dagen hvorpaa vi skulle moede vores vaertsfamilier.
Men men men, lejren endte selvfoelgelig med en afskedsfest aften foer. Festen var i alt sin enkelhed en raekke praesentationer fra alle de repraesenterede lande. Studenterne fra hvert land skulle forberede et eller andet at fortaelle eller vise resrten af de 120 studenter. Det var virkelig interessant, og vi fik set det bedste ved hvert land.
De to studenter fra Korea gik op paa scenen i traditionelle koreanske dragter og dansede en traditionel dans. Studenterne fra Findland praesenterede nok verdens laengste ord.
Australierne introducerede os til "Aussie" (som er australsk slang). Svenskerne dansede en folkedans, som de goer det om sommeren, og nordmaendende fortalte os et eventyr. Og os danskere (vi var kun to den aften, da Simon var syg), mig og Kahtrine, fik selvfoelgelig hele salen til at sige "Roedgroed med floede". Og saa sang vi desuden noget, der skulle have vaeret den danske nationalsang, men vi kunne ikke helt huske den, saa vi fandt paa noget af den selv.


Here`s Kathrine preparing for the big show - rewriting out national anthem.

Her er Kathrine fuld i gang med at forberede sig til det store show - omskrivning af den danske nationalsang.

Anyway, It was a really nice night and everyone was in good mood. Here`s me with my roommate Sei (in his Korean clothing) and a German girl.

Det var en rigtig dejlig aften og alle var i godt humoer. Her er jeg med min vaerelseskammerat Sei (i hans traditionelle dragt) og en tysk pige.



The returnees had also prepared a little something. They made all 120 students dance a traditional Japanese dance - most of the returnees were dressed in Kimonos. Here are a few pictures.

Returneesene havde ogsaa forberedt noget. De fik samtlige 120 studenter til at danse en traditionel japansk dans - de fleste af returneesene var klaedt i Kimono. Her er et par billeder





Next morning we woke up really early (like 6 am) and packed all our stuff and cleaned our rooms. Since all the students were gonna go to every corner of Japan, we were divided into groups. Some were gonna go to the airport, others to the train station and the rest would stay at the orisen where their host families would meet them (that`s me). Before we would all split up we all gathered outside the International Exchange building and waited for the busses to arrive (for the airport and train station). Here are a few pictures from our final hour together. Time to say `Good bye`.

Den naeste morgen vagnede vi enormt tidligt (omkring kl. 6) og pakkede alle vores ting og gjorde rent paa vaerelserne. Siden studenterne skulle du til alle hjoerner af Japan, blev vi delt ind i grupper. Nogle skulle til lufthavnen, andre til togstationen, og resten skulle blive paa Orisen, hvor de ville moede deres vaertsfamilie (det var mig). Foer vi forlod hinanden, samledes vi allesammen ude foran International Exchange Building og ventede paa at busserne skulle komme (og koere videre til lufthavnen og stationen). Her er et par billeder fra vores sidste time sammen. Tid til at sige farvel.





To be continued...

Fortsaettes...