Simone Kildelund

2010-07-06T21:35:00.004+02:00

It has been almost a month now, and its been going by fast! We got home from tour. It has been two dirty but fun weeks! - You get to know each other very well when you are six people in a van. We were Adam, Michael, Elisha(the guitar player), Ryan(the bass player for the tour), Jon(the driver/mechanic) and I. And it has been fun to get to know all of them a lot better. They are all great guys, and i enjoy hanging out with them!

It has been two weeks with a lot of experiences. We have been at 11 shows in 7 different states, and for me 4 was new states.

One of the cool things for me was seeing Elk Horn in Iowa, which is a danish city. There were a danish Windmill which is originally from Nørre Snede in Denmark. Adam got the 2 other bands to stop too and drive 12 miles longer to go see this small little city. So we got a few cool pictures from there, and i bought some ”rugbrød” and ”remoulade” :-P

It has been great helping out with the band, and i have enjoyed it a lot! - But what i have enjoyed the most is just the company of Adam, and knowing he is around and by my side finally. And to get to know the things about him you cant talk about over the phone. That has been awesome. And i am so happy i dont have to think and worry about going home for the next long while, i can relax and enjoy it in a whole other way than the other times we have been together:-)

A few days ago we got home from Cornerstone Festival. This was my second year. It was a good week, but it was sad that so many people who used to go was not present this year. A Hill To Die Upons shows were great though! - There were quite a lot of people at their shows, and people were excited about it. They were too, the only black/death metal band at Cornerstone this year.

But it has been good. Now we are back home. I am realxing, editing video from tour these days.

2010-06-14T17:52:00.003+02:00

Finally here in Monmouth, Illinois...I felt so at home as soon as i had crossed immigration in Chicago. Here to stay for 6 months:-)

These days we have been preparing for tour and the guys played two shows already. I have been organizing the merchendise, so everything is ready.

Today we will be leaving to go on tour the next two weeks. And then Cornerstone the week after. So it will be 3 intense weeks, but i am really looking forward to it!

That will be all for now:-)

Update! - Finally:-P

2010-05-04T17:57:00.004+02:00

Its been awhile since i have been writing something in here, actually about 9-10 months.

Since i returned home form the states last summer i have been working in the restaurant in IKEA in Odense, where i still live. It is a very good place to work and i am very thankful i have gotten this job. I have some awesome co-workers!

But because i have been so occuppied by work it seems like i havent been doing much with Sanctuary. But we did make a decision to lay low for a while. But i am very excited to start working on everything some more in not too long:-)

Besides work, and a little amount of Sanctuary work, my mind has been in the states a lot. I meet Adam last summer and we have been together since, so in 4 days we can celebrate our 10 months anniversary:-D Through him i have learned so much about guys, about the states and culture but especially about myself. But the thing i am most excited about is i have really realized how much God loves me since he would give me such an awesome guy, to give me so much joy.
It is of course not always fun to have the love of your life soo many miles away. But through Gods love and support we have grown stronger.

Adam came to Europe in October. We went to Destruction Fest in England and Nordic Fest in Norway. Both trips were amazing and we had so much fun. It was my first time at Destruction Fest, i always enjoy experiencing how things are done in different places and cultures, and just meeting new people and hanging out. Nordic Fest was a pleasure as always and this was my 4th time there:-) Adam of course spend some days here in Denmark too between the two festivals, which was amazing too:-) Its great to be able to show him where i come from:-)

In January i went to the states to visit Adam and his family for two weeks. I was able to be there for his birthday:-) This was too an amazing experience, the worst part is having to leave:-P

Since then i have been working and working. But now i can look forward to spending 6 months in the states from the 10th of June. So there is a little more than a month left now. And i cant wait! - I will be going on tour with Adams band A Hill To Die Upon, and help out with merch. And end the tour on Cornerstone like last summer:-) Then i will be spending time with Adam, and the 17th of September i will be in Nashville at a dicipleship conference, Pastor Bob is the head of. It will last 80 days. So 80 days of getting to know the bible some more:-) After that i will return to Adam for a weeks or so and then return home. I am really really looking forward to get going:-D

Day 31 and 32!

2009-08-01T07:03:00.005+02:00

Today Adam was called in earlier to work, and got of earlier. In the meantime i spend the day playing Wii and sitting at my computer:-P
Well when Adams mom Patricia came home i helped her make dinner and we got a great talk. Then Elisha came. The other guitar player from A Hill To Die Upon. Him, me, Patricia and Michael picked up some stuff. The family is selling kitchen and bathroom cabins.

When Adam came home we went to his grandparents to pick up a couch. They are really nice people! It was cool to see a bit more of the area too as we were driving.

After the couch was put in place Michael, Elisha, Adam and I walked to the "Dairy Queen" which is a place where they have really good ice cream!! On our way home we rented some movies.

The next morning we spend 4 hours in a car driving to Chicago. I had to fly back home to Denmark, which went very well:-)

It was sad leaving! - But i know i will be back not too far away in the furture. All in all, it has been an awesome trip!!

Day 30 - Catch, movies, and Wiiii....

2009-07-29T09:20:00.003+02:00

(Where i am at in Illiois)

Today Adam woke me up and we spend some time together before he had to leave to go to work. I then put all my CDs into my computer, and then on my iPod. Now i should have enough music to listen to on my way home in the plane:-P
Then iplayed some Resident Evil 4 on Wii once again:-P And then rode the bike to Adam work to eat. I really like the bike! - And it is so nice after i have not been riding mine for a month, and i am use to it every day normally.
In general i really like this place! - The weather is so nice, and i enjoy being surrounded by cornfields. It is so different and nice when you are use to live in a big city. So i really enjoy it!

When i returned i spend some more time on my computer, and playing a lot of Resident Evil 4. When Adam came home, Michael, him and me whent outside tp play catch for a few minutes.
Then we all went to the barn. Adam and i played some different games on Wii and xbox and then watched Shaun of the Dead:-)

Michael:

Me, gaming: Resident Evil 4...

Day 29 - Fireworks, wii, and so much more!

2009-07-28T19:01:00.002+02:00

I woke up today to the sound of Adam coming up the stairs and a goodmorning.
I spend some hours playing some Wii - Resident Evil 4, and checking e-mail and so on. At 3:45 i rode a bike to Adams work which is very close to where he lives, to spend some time together eating:-)

After a while of being home Michael came home from work to pick me up to go get some things done. We went to a CD store and i bought 10 CDs:-P Many used ones, it is just so cheap here!

We went on to drop of a pillow to an older lady, and then to drop of Adams pictures from Cornerstone to get developed. Then we can see them tomorrow.

When we came home Adam had just returned home too. We spend some time firering fireworks, and then we played Wii, xbox and saw a movie:-)

It has been an awesome day!

But i have no pictures though:-P

Day 28 - Going to Illinois!

2009-07-27T08:56:00.004+02:00

I started the day very early today! I got one hour of sleep, and then Andreas drove me to the airport, because today i was going to Illinois. The last 5 days of my stay here in The States, i will spend with Adam:-) I have been looking so much forward to see him again, after we decided to take the next step and be more than just friends:-)

Well, i took my first flight from Nashville at 7:10am. I pretty much slept the whole way to St. Paul. I was sooo tired! - Then i found the next plane very easy, and left St. Paul at 10:15. I was in Peoria at 12:00, where i was picked up by Adam, Michael and James. We went to get something to eat in Wall-Mart and then went in to a Baseball game!

That was fun to try! - It is really a cool part of the American culture. I tried to keep up with the rules, who are quite complicated, but i learned a lot more today!

After the game we went home to Adam and Michael, to change car and drop off stuff, and i got to meet his parents, and got to see where i have to sleep. Then Adam drove us to a Wall-Mart where Michael and I hung out, until Adam returned. And then off too the theatre to watch Harry Potter 6:-)
It was really good!! - Then we drove home to his parents house, and Adam and Michael showed me the barn where they live. A really cool place!!

Day 27 - Hanging out with the Schertz!

2009-07-27T08:49:00.002+02:00

Today we slept until 12, and then i got ready to be picked up, but fell asleep again on the couch. Andreas was supposed to pick us up at 2 but he fell asleep for two hours:-P So we were picked up a little later, to go to Bobs house to help out a little with packing up all the things that they had not sold at the garage sale.

Then we were just hanging out at Bobs and helping out a little until we went back to Jims house to hang out and clean up a little before Amanda and her parents came to hang out at about 9 o'clock. Her parents went almost straight to bed. I went to make a phone call and when i came back out the guys had made a bonfire in the yard, and was making meat:-P It was really nice!
Later Jonas, Levi, Asbjørn and i went inside to watch "Underworld 3". When it was finished i could get an hours sleep, before i had to go back up:-P

Day 26 - Garage sale and hanging!

2009-07-24T19:33:00.003+02:00

Today Andreas brought Levi and me to Bobs house to get some internet. We stayed there for some time, and helped a little bit with the garage sale.

Then we went to pick up Asbjørn and Jonas to go to Good Will to see if we could find them something cool to their photoshoot on monday. We pretty much failed and went to buy clove/black cigarettes, and then went back home:-)

The internet was up and running again since Jim had called the company and complained:-) Really nice!

The rest of the day was spend in the house, hanging out wathcing TV and so on.

I am sorry i dont have any pictures from the day, but there really has not been much going on to take pictures of:-)

Day 24 - Nathan Lee and studios!

2009-07-23T02:53:00.004+02:00

Today has been a very exciting day, case it really made me think!
We went to hang out with Nathan Lee, who has this very cool place in a warehouse, were he is writing his songs and so on. When we arrived we all went in Nathans van to get coffee and donuts, and then right back to his place, which is the most inspirering place! - He has so many cool things and instruments and so on! We talked, and Bob and him talked about how it is to live their lives without a regular paycheck, but just living by whatever God gives you. An you dont always know what comes next! - And in many ways that is what i will probably have to do now. Een though it is a though way to live, it just made me so excited because you really learn to appreciate what you have, and see what God is giving you! - So i left the place feeling very encourageed, and filled by the love of God, and his excitement for my. And now i just feel so ready to get started! - And some things that i have been wondering about just makes sense now!

After spending some hours at Nathans place we went on to see a place in Nashville where they have 32 practise rooms, and is building studio and so on. A really cool place! - And 2 guys showed us around. One of them is making musicvideos with some other guy, and he showed us one of them they had done for Jonas Brothers. Pretty cool!

Then before we went home, we went by a grocery store to stock up:-P

We had a little weird and very funny experience today! - Levi was lying in the bed and wanted to take a nap, which the animals found great, so they were all lying around him. Jonas and Asbjørn walks in the room, and Jonas noticed a little poop in the bed, pointing at it. I guess the dog took that as a hint and kindly removed it for us, by eating it! - That was so funny!! - Asbjørn just could not stop laughing which made the whole episode even more fun!!

Day 23 - Tattoos and piercings!

2009-07-22T04:09:00.004+02:00

Today we went to the tattoo shop Lone Wolf Tattoo, so Asbjørn and Jonas could get their tattoos:-)
I got a piercing while we were there anyway, that i have been thinking about for some time:-P I decided to finally get it done last night, so i did today! - I am very happy about it:-)

Levi got his ears pierced and Asbjørn got his left nipple pierced too! - Jonas got a tattoo on his arm which is so so awesome!! - Asbjørn got a lip tattoo with the text: nåde which means mercy. It looks really cool too! - He was supposed to have his arm done too but there was not enough time even though they spend 7 hours in the shop:-P So he will go back on thursday.

Levi and i went back to Bobs house when Jonas outline was finished. Levi helped Bob set up his parent computer and so on, and i looked through Bobs old tapes which he just did not have the energy to do. And i found some really interesting stuff, from Rock history!

Bob went to pick up the guys at the tattooshop and then came back to pick up Levi and me to drive us back home to the La Verde house.

The evening was for me spend video chatting once again:-)

Day 22 - Hanging and Mac store!

2009-07-22T04:05:00.004+02:00

Today we got up at about 9, to go to the Mac store with Bob. We met Phil there, and went to lunch at one more of those all you can eat - places. It was pretty good, but i liked the Daily Buffet with the chinese food better:-P

We went to Bobs to stock up some food, and then went back to Jims house to chill and hang out with a movie and just tv in general. We were all pretty tired because we have gone to bed so late the last couple of days. So later on we took naps:-P We had a lot of fun just hanging around though!

I spend the evening video chatting on skype before i went to bed.

Day 21 - Sleeeeep, chill and Nathan Lee!

2009-07-19T21:19:00.007+02:00

Today we woke up a little before 2!! - We were supposed to go feed the homeless at 2, so we missed it!
I knew i needed a lot of sleep because the last days i have gone to bed way to late! - But i really wanted to go feed the homeless.

The last two nights we have had the cats lying in our bed at night. They just come by themself and join us:-P I have started to enjoy it. I didnt thinjk i would cause i am normally not that much of an animal person. Not that i dont like them, i have just not been used to having more tham a rabbit around:-) But i have learned having 1 dog and 2 cats around for a while, that indoor cats like these are actually much nice'er than dogs:-P

We spend the day at the house, where we were just chilling and hanging out. We watched CSI, and some other different stupid tv shows and series. And i spend time on the internet too:-)

At 8 we were picked up by Pastor Bob. We went to a concert with a guy called Nathan Lee. He is a christian musician, and the style is some soft rock mixed with some more:-P I had a great time there! - I really liked his music! - He has a great voice and he is really good t playing the piano. He had a band with him too:-) Afterwards we hung out for a bit talking to some of the people we have already met here in Nashville, and got to meet more people. We also got the chance to talk to nathan Lee. He is a cool guy! - And he just got a tattoo in L.A by Kat Von D from L. A. Ink!! - A back piece. So i have seen a Kat Von D. tattoo in real life! And it was really good! - You could actually see it was her work! - Maybe i have seen too much L. A. Ink, and Miami Ink:-P

One of these days we are going to visit Nathan Lees studio and hang out. I am really looking forward to that!

Chill pictures:

Day 20 - Scream the Prayer!

2009-07-19T09:59:00.003+02:00

We got up early to go pick up fopod at Trader Joes, for the homeless. Afterwards we drove back to Bobs to unload and sort through it all:-)

Later on Steve came. He, jonas, Asbjørn, Levi and i were going to a concert event called Scream the Prayer at a pretty known venue called Rockettown in Nashville. Michael W. Smith, a famous christian artist who makes worship music owns the place:-) All of the bands were christian metal bands and most of them pretty huge too!

Bands:
Corpus Christi
Agraceful
For Today
Gwen Stacy
Oh Sleeper
Sleeping Giant
A Plea For Purging
Project 86
The Chariot
Haste the Day

It was a great night, with some really good shows and some not that good shows:-) But all in all a great night:-)

Some of the great long line in front of Rockettown:-)

For Today:

Day 19 - Moving boxes and Chinese!

2009-07-18T08:41:00.002+02:00

Today we got picked up at a 9:30, to go help Bob move some of his boxes and stuff from his brothers house where he use to live to his parents house where he lives now:-)
He had a lot more than he thought but much of it is these really cool things which are a part of the christian Rock n' Roll history:-)

Afterwards we went to the Daily Buffet which is this all you can eat Chinese food, with dessert and everything!! - So awesome food and so cheap!

Then Bob dropped us off at a mall were we spend some hours. We especially spend time in the Gibson store:-P

When i got home i spend 5 hours talking on skype:-)

And then i joined the guys who were watching the movie: "knowing", quite good and scary:-)

Sorry about the short blog post today, but it is very late at the moment:-)

Taking a break:

Moving boxes:

Day 17 - Hanging in the La Verde house and hanging at Panera Bread!

2009-07-16T09:00:00.005+02:00

Today we could sleep until late! - So nice:-)
So we got up a little while before 12 today:-)
I started the day with walking the dog Maggie. It was nice to get out a little but the humidity is so crazy here!
Afterwards i joined Levi who was watching Ed, Edd and Eddy - a crazy cartoon:-)

Pastor Bob picked us up at about 4 and we drove to a cafe kind of place were they had wifi, called Panera Bread. We met up with a guy called Jason who know almost about everything there is to know about Macs:-) Pretty cool!
Later on his wife joined us. She is a lawyer and specializes in immigration, so Bob asked her a lot of questions on getting citizenship in the U.S. :-P Hmm.. maybe there were some kind of agenda behind:-P
Well, we stayed there pretty late. And were home at around 10, after some extra time on the road because there had been a car accident on the road we had to go to get home.

When i got home i chatted a lot on facebook, and then went to bed pretty late:-)

Me, doing something weird:

Working:

Jason and Bob:

Notice pictures of other people than Levi:-P

Day 16 - Transformers and Gibson!

2009-07-15T01:51:00.005+02:00

Today we woke up to the tunes of A Hill to Die Upon:-) Nice way to wake up!
Then we were picked up at 9:30 to drive Andreas to the airport so he could go to visit his new girlsfriend Amanda in Peoria:-)

Right after Pastor Bob drove Levi and I to the movies:-) We started out in the Gibson store! - That is a great store!! - A cool guy named Brian showed us a guitar that can tune it self! - So awesome! - We also found a great great guitar! - Made for metal music! - It has the greatest sound!

Well, then we went to see Transformers 2 on IMAX. It is this huge huge screen! - 10 times as big as a normal screen. The movie was so awesome! - There is a lot of action in it, but it is also very fun:-) I would recommend it if you are into action:-)

Afterwards we went to do some grocery shopping:-) And coming back into the house was so weird. It felt like we had our own house with a dog and 2 cats:-P

In the evening we watched some CSI and then i watched a All Star Baseball game while chatting with Adam on facebook, so he could tell me what was going on! - Wow Baseball is a complicated game! - But i actually think it is pretty cool:-) I learned som culture:-)

The selftuning guitar:

The awesome guitar:

Levi forgot where to put shaving foam:-P

Levi with Max:

An yeah all my pictures are of Levi today, now that Andreas is gone:-P

Day 15 - Cafe and housewatching!

2009-07-13T06:23:00.006+02:00

We got up a bit before 10 today, because at 10 Jim La Verde cam to pick me and Levi up. We went to his house to see everything because we are going to stay there for some time to look after the house, cats and dog:-) They are going to visit Jims father who is dying of cancer at the moment. So a rough time for the family. So we were filled in about how to feed the 2 cats and the dog, and stuff, and they have 2 bikes and a Nintendo Wii we can use, so i think it will be fun to stay there. And oh yeah lots of swings of different kinds:-P

Jim drove us back to Bob, and we then went to a health store called Whole Foods. It is also a cafe. We met a girl there called Tamara who is in charge of womens ministry. The store was also a cafe and had wifi, so that was cool:-)

Then we drove to the Mac store, were i got new headphones, and then we drove back home:-)

So we hung out at the computers until about 8 were Levi and I moved to Jim La Verdes house. They have a modem for internet but by using levis computer as a kind of a server we made it work so i have wireless internet and he has internet two but is attached to a certain place. The internet was our first priority and the first thing we did when we came in:-P

Levi started the Nintendo Wiiand did some singing! - And i spend some time on my computer:-)

And the rest of the time we were just checking out the house:-)

Levi working on his computer at Whole Foods:

Playing Rockband:

Getting a Black:

Day 12 - Hanging!

2009-07-10T19:45:00.007+02:00

Today we got up early, and started the day in front of the computers:-P Were we were sitting for a lot of hours. Later on we went to get a nap because we got up so early, i didnt sleep as long as Levi and Andreas though, but it was nice to get some more sleep!
Afterwards Levi and i went out to get a Black cigarette, and got the idea to do it in the water wheeler, you know that kind of boat were you paddle with your feed:-P That was kind of fun, and relaxing! - I love the huge lake they have in their yard:-)

The rest of the day until later we were still just hangning in front of the computers. Afterwards we watched the movie Doomsday which we bought in the airport in Amsterdam, just to have something to do:-P We didnt see it though:-P We saw Shot em up:-)
So now it was time to see Doomsday:-) It was so much better than i had expected it to be! - It was actually pretty god:-) When we had seen it, we went to bed.
Even though we have not been doing a whole lot today, it has been a great and really fun day! - These guys are so much fun to hang around:-)

Levi returned from the motorcycle store, which he visited today:

Day 10 – Tattoo day!

2009-07-09T05:31:00.003+02:00

Today has been wild:-) I woke up and were just lying in my bed trying to get my self to get up when someone knocked on my door. It was Trish, she said that she was in labor and they would go to the hospital soon:-) I am so happy for them! - I spend the morning playing with Brydan their son, so they could get things packed and go. He is so cute! - I also woke up with my eye all swollen. It had started to itch a little the night before. I got some pills for it that made me real tired, but it helped:-P
At noon Pastor Bob and Levi came by to pick up Andreas and I to go to the tattooist:-D ”Lone Wolf Tattoo. We had from 12 to 6 to get some stuff done, so six hours:-)
I was the first one to go. I got two lonestars/punkstars behind my ear. The reason is that i have been to Texas with my class for a month, and we had such a good time, and i really want to have a memory of that. We also found out that it was a dane called Charles Zancko who added the star to the Texan flag:-) Besides that, punkstars are always cool:-P
It turned out much better than i had expected! - I am really happy about it:-)
While Levi was getting tattooed i got two more piercings in my ear, sooo nice:-P I am very happy about them too! - It has been a wild day of pain:-P

Levi got his tattoo fixed up with some thicker lines and some color in it too and some background, looks real nice!

Andreas got his left arm finished up around his shoulders with some shades and stuff, looks real good too!

We had until 6, but stayed longer. So we have been hanging out in the shop for 8 and a half hours today:-P
The guys in the shop was very nice, we talked to them, and they are christians too. That was kind of fun to see so many christian symbols hanging on the walls, instead of the many nasty ones in regular tattoo shops:-)

I also got some more mosquito bites today, they seem to love me over here! -The last two years in Denmark they stopped liking me, but I guess the American mosquitos has another sense of taste:-P

When i got home(Jamie and Trish) i spend some time on my computer:-) And then i talked on the phone with Adam from A Hill to Die Upon whom i meet at Cornerstone for a couple of hours, and when we were finished talking we could go on facebook and change our relationship status:-) So many great things happened today! I am very excited and so happy! - I could not have wished for a better guy:-)

Andreas tattoo:

Levis halfway finished:

Mine all bloody:

The place i got my ears pierced:

When i was about to get tattooed:-P

Day 9 – Movies!

2009-07-08T17:25:00.004+02:00

Today I was picked up at Jamies and Trish at 10:30 to go to the movies. Andreas should have come along but he did not feel very well. Levi, Bob and me saw Public enemy, the new Johnny Depp movie and afterwards Ice Age 3 in 3D, that was quite fun:-)
Afterwards we went back to Bobs to work and do some more catching up and chatting on the computer and stayed there for the rest of the evening:-)

Day 8 – Hanging out, working at Bobs!

2009-07-08T02:28:00.002+02:00

Today Andreas, Levi and I spend the whole day at Bobs house. We were eorking on our computers all day, catching up on e-mails, facebook, myspace, blog and so on:-) There were a lot of work to do and I did not get it all done, but I got to chat with some people back home and new friends in the States:-)

Levi and I feeding geese:-)

Bobs house from the yard:

Day 7 – Travelling to Nashville!

2009-07-08T02:02:00.005+02:00

Today Levi, Andreas and I were picked up at 8 by Pastor Bob as i said. We drove while sleeping mostly and grabbed some lunch on the way at ”Amishland”. We arrived to the place were Bob is living, and meet his parents, one of his brothers, his wife and kids. When we had gotten something to eat and fired some fireworks because of the 4th of july yesterday, we went to the place were me and Andreas will be staying. Levi will be at Bobs. Andreas and I will be staying with a really nice family! - Trish and Jamie. Trish is pregnant and can have her baby any day now, so that is kind of exciting. They have a son who is 3 and a half years old called Bryndan. He is so cute! - He called me pretty and kissed me on the cheek when he had to go to bed. Andreas knows the family. He has stayed with them for about a half a year and some more month at another time.

Levi:

Andreas and Bob:

Day 6 – Cornerstone!

2009-07-08T01:21:00.004+02:00

We woke up in a tent quite chaotic – more than usual. Water had started to come inside the tent. And the many Skittles which was bought had a tendency to disintegrate as soon as a small drop of water came near. The whole place was very muddy and i decided to walk barefooted the whole day.
We spend a long time in the tent. None of us wanted to go outside in the rain. I finally went to buy some merch and Kevin gave me and umbrealla! - So nice of him! - he is one of the guys at the Sanctuary stage.
I was hanging out with Adam from A Hill to Die Upon and we went to see War of Ages and Living Sacrifice. Two awesome concerts!
In the evening i went to the Sanctuary worship once again. Afterwards i ran into Adam and we walked around talking, and sat down talking, we were basicly just haning out all night talking. So i did not get any sleep at all. A very nice night though! - We went to our tent to pack everything, and then Bob came to pick us up, to go for a 6-7 hour ride to Nashville. So we had to say goodbye to everyone. So sad!

A Solace show at the Solace stage:-P - Asbjørn:

A couple of people from Cornerstone:

Day 5 – Cornerstone!

2009-07-08T01:08:00.003+02:00

We started the day with a Solace show at 1:20 at Solace stage. A generator stage with a small stage and a tent, so one of the bigger generator stages. Solace borrowed gear from A Hill to Die Upon again. It was very hot so after the show Levi, Asbjørn, Andreas and I went to the beach.
Later i went to see a split show at a generator stage between A Hill to Die Upon and Consumed.
Later on I hang out, Phil, Amanda, Brian, Stefan. Then we went to main stage to see mewithoutyou.
Afterwards i stayed for worship in the Sanctuary tent. Levi and Andreas was playing. I then spend some time with A Hill to Die Upon and went to see the Crucified. Andreas, Levi, Jonas and i went to The Asylum tent. It is a tent were the goth people are hanging out. Though it has been dry weather up until now it started to rain today. We had to be offering some clothes and towels to prevent the rain from coming into the tent too much. It worked pretty well:-)

Jonas at the beach:

The Beach:

Jonas packing out his drum stuff, and Adam from A Hill to Die Upon who helped out:

Levi tuning his guitar:

Day 4 – Cornerstone!

2009-07-08T00:36:00.003+02:00

I started the day at the merch stands with David one of the other 3 danes here. I got to buy a lot of merch!
Afterwards Solace the day had a show at High Volume Stage at 2. Also a generator stage. The show was so crazy! And drew a lot of attention. When we arrived at the stage another band was playing. There were only us looking at them.When Solace started playing a lot of people came. About 40 were there and that is a lot for a generator stage. For the first time i missed Andreas guitar, but it was okay:-)
Solace borrowed gear from the band A Hill to Die Upon. They are really great guys!
Andreas, Levi, Asbjørn, Jonas and I went to the ”beach” to cool down. The weather is pretty hot, but everyone keeps telling us that this is cool weather compared to what it is usually like at Cornerstone. Well to explain the ”beach”. It is a big lake, and instead of sand its dirt. Its quite nice! - We spend a hour or two there, just hanging, some bathing. Afterwards some of us met up with 3 of the guys from A Hill ti Die Upon, together with, some of the other danes. It was really awesome! - I enjoy getting new friends. I have met many new people today. Adam from A Hill to Die Upon wanted us danes to learn to play catch with the Base Ball glove and everything, fun. When the time came we all went to see Project 86 at the main stage.
Later on i meet Pastor bob. He has just arrived today, and was sitting in his big american car, which has the limusine outline. It is a Lincoln. Looks nice:-) I sat in there with him and talked about how the festival is going and so on:-) Jonas joined and soon after we went to see Impending doom. That was one of the greatest concerts i have seen it was so heavy especially because of a really nice effect they had put on the drums. Awesome experience!
Afterwards we went to Sanctuary Worship. Andreas and Levi was playing.
meet lots of new people
Levi, Jonas, Andreas, Amanda, Annie and I went for Brian Welch at main stage. He was in the very famous band Korn and became a christian. – awesome to see a man that has lived in that kind of abuse and more scream his heart out in praise to God.
We quikly headed for HM Magazine stage were The Satire was playing. We saw the last couple of songs and waited for The Chariot to go on. They are a very chaotic band and i like their music.They have a crazystage show, unfortunately i couldnt see much. We stayed for 3 or 4 songs and went to the Flatfood 56 concert. Its a punk band, who has an amazing gift to get the audience going. Im not that found about the music but man that was a party! - They apparently has a theme for each concert, this time mexican. Most of the tent was one giant circel pit! - Crazy! - And people were having so much fun and looking out for each other. It was a great experience!
And then straight to bed.

Day 3 - Cornerstone!

2009-07-07T16:44:00.005+02:00

Today i have meet some friends and meet a lot of new people. Besides that i bought some merch and went to a concert with a british band called More Than Dust. They are really cool people and a great band. Later on Solace had their 3rd concert at Sanctuary stage. I saw a bit of a concert with The Burial, nice band! I also discovered a very cool band called The rose hill. They are a female fronted band. And she has the collest growl:-P I talked to her a bit afterwards and she was very nice too, so no rockstar attitude. And the coolest is that they really dedicated thier concert to God! - A band i diffinately have to keep an eye on:-)

Day 2 - Cornerstone!

2009-07-07T03:48:00.004+02:00

We woke up at 8 and got breakfast at the Schertz families house. We then drove to Cornerstone. On the way we went shopping in Wal-Mart, to have something loads to drink and a bit to eat. I of course bought some real american Dr. Pepper:-P
We came to Cornerstone and went for a walk to see the place. Solace had their first show at Passion Brand stage, which is a generator stage. A small place in the open on grass:-) I was filled in with the details and my job during the concerts here will be to catch Andreas guitar when he does not need it anymore, and give it back when he needs it once again. And i will take some pictures and film too. Afterwards I will be selling their merchendise.
I was hanging out with Levi and Andreas until the next Solace show of the day at Sanctuary stage which went so much better than their first show:-) It was an awesome concert.

Day 1 - Travelling day(s)!

2009-07-07T03:08:00.011+02:00

The trip has begun. I drove from Odense to Hamburg, and picked up the 3 guys from the band in Fredericia. Levi, Jonas and Asbjørn. We continued, and left Hamburg airport at 6:30pm. We arrived in Amsterdam about an hour later, and had to wait for 13 hours, to catch our next flight to Detroit. We must say the Dutch people are very nice! - And we had a really good experience!
We stayed awake the whole night to avoid jetlag when we arrived to the States. The flight to Detroit took 8 hours and 30 minutes. When we arrived we had to go through a lot of checks!! - And of course we were pulled aside to get the BIG check or so we feared. A family in front of us had to take everything out of their luggage so it could be checked. The officers started by asking us a lot if questions we had already answered about were we were going and so on. - Our guess is they had to make sure the band are not going to earn any money while staying. You have to have a special permission to be able to do that. 7 officers were checking out the Cornserstone festivals homepage and Solace the Days myspace:-P One og them told us he is a big Slayer fan:-)

The process took so long we missed our flight, but we got rebooked to the next one rigth away, but luckly we did not have to emty all of our suitcases.
It was a miracle we did not miss our bus in Chicago. We won an hour because of the time differens and just caught it:-)

We were all very tired of showing passports and emtying our handbaggage. Now it was finally over!

When we arrived 3 hours and 40 minutes later at Peroria, we waited a while and were then picked up by Andreas and his friend Annie.
We drove to the Schertz familys house were we met up with 3 other danes, Pastor Bob, the rest of Annis family and friends of the family. We got some great food and had a nice evening! - Their house is in a really nice place! - There are a lot of forest around it and there is fireflies! - I looked at them and i couldnt help thinking that they are like we as Christians should be. Lighting up the darkness around us.

We(me and Solace the Day) got settled in, in a storage building on their property. We talked about tomorrow and the festival, and how things are going to work and the band practised acapella:-)

The perfect table:

USA!

2009-07-07T00:41:00.000+02:00

This next month I will be in the United States. I am travelling with the danish Christian Metal band Solace the Day, to help them sell their merchendise. Just to sum up what i will be doing, and were i will be:

The first week i will be at the christian festival Cornerstone in Chicago, Illinois. The band has many concerts, and there are loads of bands to hear!

When the festival is over i will go on a roadtrip in Pastor Bobs car to go to his home in Nashville, Tennessee. We will spend some time working on different projects, see the town, and meet the homeless people Pastor Bob is helping to feed.

Along the way Solace the Day will have some concerts:-)

So more details to come:-)

An era has ended!

2009-06-25T02:08:00.004+02:00

What i have started 3 years ago i have now finished.
I started 3 years ago at HTX a gymnasium as it is called in Denmark. A mix of highschool and college i am told.
I have to admit that I am a bit proud of myself. When i started this education I started on another school. I was thinking: if this is HTX I am out! After 2 months I found another school with HTX and the same majors as I was studying already, so I transfered to that school. I was very nervous when i called the school to ask if i could transfer. I told God that if there were a space available I would transfer, and there were. So I ended up in a class with only boys. It has been a challenge in many ways, but I have learned so much and gotten so much insider information, about guys that you would normally not learn as a girl. I have seen how they change behaviour as soon a girl walks in. Real fun:-P
I feel very privilleged and blessed. And I now for sure knows, that God has planned this very carefully, since the ministry he has called me into is a guy-world, but more girls are coming all the time:-) This ministry has showed me why God has created me exactly like I am, and why he has let me face the kind of trials i have faced. God ALWAYS has a purpurse with what he lets you go through. That is one of the many lessons I have learned. Even though a situation can seem very bad and you might think: ”why is God letting this happen to me?” - He always has a plan. It reminds me of the saying: ”what doesn't kill you makes you stronger”, and you know, I have to say I agree. Sometimes it can be years before you understand why you had to go through that hard time, sometimes you never will. - But there is a purpurse! - And i thank God for learning!

These 3 years has been a struggles at times, and I have had my doubts and I have wanted to just quit it all, but I got through, and I would not have if I had not had God right beside me all the time. He provided me with some awesome classmates, who i am going to miss very very much! - He provided me with a fellow Christian by my side, which has ment a GREAT deal too! - And what will hopefully be a friend for life.

So it is with mixed feelings i have graduated today. I am happy about finally being finished. That I do not have to take anymore useless classes and I can do whatever God wants me to do! - That is amazing! - But I am also going to miss my dear classmeates, whom I have spend 3 years with and whom have accompanied me on my very first trip to the States for a month, not that long ago.

Anyhow, that was a lot of writing and nostalgia:-)

Acension day Ralley!

2009-06-11T17:32:00.004+02:00

We had a great and fun day with the church at the Acension day ralley!
We started at 10 o' clock in the church to get instructions, and then headed out on the Fynske roads:-)

We had a fun trip in the "Metal Tour Bus" as we were called:-P
We answered questions along the road and had a few problems with the directions, but we made it:-)
We ended up at a camping area which one from the church manages. We were remined of what this day is all about. That Jesus Christ went home and send the Holy Spirit to help us communicate with God. An amazing gift!

Some pictures from the day:

Trying to find the way:-P

Hard question:-)

Sanctuary Groups!

2009-05-19T23:26:00.007+02:00

It seems like everytime i write in here a whole lot has happened in the meantime!
One of the things i would like share is the Sanctuary Group Fyn!

The Sanctuary Groups are groups different places in the country which we have been starting since March. We hope to get more groups started over time whereever they are needed. At the moment we have one in Kolding, Vejle, Århus and Odense, and we are working on other cities. The groups are ment especially for metalheads. We talk about God and metal music! - We hang out eat together, go to concerts or whatever we can come up with and just have an awesome time together!

In Odense we meet wednesday every 3. week at 6:00PM and have had 4 gatherings so far.
We have a great time together talking about what is on our heart. We have a open fellowship where we can share good things and the things that worry us, anger us, and so on. And we talk about the music we love and hear a PodCast or read a blog from Pastor Bob Beemen, and talk about it - Its awesome! - I always feel encouraged and happy when i leave.
You know, we have the two things which we all have a special passion for in common: God and metalmusic. Which is, to be honest not a combination that you see everyday:-) So it is nice to once in a while gather with people who you have those two things in common with.
Two things which also describes our group on Fyn very well: food and food...:-P

The next event will be: Acension day-Ralley! - And i will most likely be writing about it:-) Hopefully with pictures!

Here are just one more of not-that-great pictures taken by my cellphone from our last meeting:

Thrashed night at Kansas:-P

2009-03-14T02:51:00.002+01:00

I have just returned from a night at Kansas City, and i have never been so thrashed from a night there as i am now. There has just been so much to do! I wanted to write this right away so i don't forget what i want to write by tomorrow:-P
Well, it was a big concert for a place like Kansas City tonight. Mercenary was the headliner with two suppoting bands: Unbelief and Submission. Unbelief is from Odense, so they had a great deal of support from the crowd! - The vocalist is a ”responsible” as it is called at Kansas City. It means he is the boss at the night he is ”on duty” at Kansas:-) He is a great guy and i have worked with him some times, so it was a cool experience to hear his band, and they were actually the best band:-P They were really good!! - In general the music tonight was just in a higher level than it usually is:-)
The good bands also attracted a lot of audience! - And that is why i am so amazingly tired, but i love to come home from a night at Kansas and feeling tired and thrashed, then it has been a great evening. The position that i use to have at Kansas is in a team of three in a night like this with these bands. Tonight it was a team of two because the third called in sick. And more crowed means more to do of almost everything. So my teams to do list looked like this:

- Checking the bathrooms once in a while
- Doing the dishes(whatever the band has used for dinner, and glasses in general during the night)
- Cleaning up bottles, and glasses from the tables during the night.
- Cleaning up after the bands in our two backstage areas.
- Cleaning the stage from bottles
- Stand in the door during breaks
- Make sure there is beer and soda in the bar or else fill it up! :-P
- Clean up if someone splashes beer or the like on the floor...

Its a challenge when you are two people:-P But i love it!
And i got an unexpected surprise! - A guy from the Danish Christian Metal Forum Assulting Vanity showed up! - I was so busy so we did'nt get to talk much though.

When people was almost out and i was sweeping the floor a security guy walked up to me and said: ”you did the hard work”, and gave me 20kr. Very nice of him. I had never even meet him before that night!
Well, i better go to bed before i pass out:-P

Picture later...

20 years old with a new tattoo!

2009-03-12T15:31:00.003+01:00

Yeah, that is crazy! - I really cant believe that i have lived in 20 years!
I could not help but thinking a bit about my life so far. God has made it an amazing journey! And i can see as i look back that some of the things i have experienced has been a preparation for what is going to happen, and what has happened the last three years of my life. The three years of my life where God has invited me into a very exciting time filled with his amazing and undescribable love.

To celebrate the 20 years, me and my father went to the tattoo artist Gert at Magoo Tattoo in Silkeborg a couple of days later. And i got a tattoo on my foot with the text: MADE BY GOD...
I am very happy about it, and reminds me, that i am a child of God, and he has ceated me in his image:-)

Green Light District Festival 2009!

2009-02-17T13:54:00.007+01:00

Admonish

I truely dont know where to start! - 2009 has started in the most amazing way ever! - There has been so much to do. In the good way:-)

23-25th of january, has been an awesome experience! We had the 3rd Green Light District Festival, and God made it so unique! It is the greatest honor to serve God this way!! - To see him working through so many people, and working in so many people:-)
There were people who gave their life to Jesus, and many were encouraged to follow God even more. The fellowship was so blessed, and i loved to hang out with all the awesome people there:-)

This years bands:
Sacrificium (Death metal, Germany)
Admonish (Black metal, Sweden)
Morgenroede (Black metal, Norway)
Conduit (Melodic hardcore, England)
Eleos (Metalcore/rock, Norway)
Solace The Day (Southern metal, Denmark)
Amplified (Melodic death, Denmark)
Magtesløs (Metalcore, Denmark)
Servants Of The Immortal (Deathcore, DK)
Amorém (Actioncore, Denmark)
Exuviae (Death metal, Denmark)
Forgiving Acolyte (Death, Denmark)
Selah (Metalcore/rock, Denmark)
Fallen Walls (Metal, Germany)
+ Sanctuary Worship Band (USA)
+ late night acoustic gigs

There is so much i could write about this but i can not put this experience into words! - I can only say, come and join next time:-)

Pastor Bob beeman from Nashville, Tennessee, one of our guest speakers and greatest encouragement!

Home and New years!

2009-01-14T19:55:00.004+01:00

This is my first blog this year!
I have returned save from Greenland a couple of weeks ago, and I now have a lot of awesome memories from it:-)

The day after i cam home I went to Thisted, and then Bjerget to celebrate new years eve with a bunch of metalheads:-)It was a great night, i went to bed a bit early though. I was pretty trashed from Greenland:-)

The next day i spend with some of my friends from boarding school who had been celebrating new years close by, we went to see the new Jim Carrey movie "Yes!". Very nice to hang out with them again!

The day after I went straight to Vejle to meet with the GLDF-coregroup since the Green Light District Festival is not that far away and we need to get the last things done:-) That was a great time with the guys!

Check out: www.gldf.dk

Day 12 - shopping and skiing!

2008-12-27T22:10:00.006+01:00

Today we got up early to go shopping for the stuff I would like to bring home:-)

Some of the things I bought, besides the wristbands. I got them from Ulla(Hannes mother)who have made them! - They cost 250kr. in stores, and are a small part of the Greenlandic national costume:-) I was very honored!

I got my ears pierced! - Again:-P

This is a whales tale made out of stone. It is a symbol that is in earings, necklaces and so on here:

After we had been shopping we went out to the skilift:-) I have been skiing once before in Norway, but I had forgotten a lot but quickly remembered some of the most important techniques...It wasn't pretty though:-P But fun!

My day card to the lift:

Straight after we came home we went to a "Kaffemik" at Elisa and Aqqalu. It was Elisas 61 birthday. She is working in the church, with counseling and much more. She is the mother of a Greenlandic girl I went to boarding school with, whom I actually meet in the church christmas eve:-)
It was a very cultural experience! - I tasted some very typical Greenlandic fish dishes while Hanne was filming, with her brand new and nice camera:-P...Interesting!

After dinner Hanne, Lene and I went into the church room and played some music:-)

Then Rosa came by and we dressed up to go to "Heath", which is tree clubs/pubs/discos that has been joined. The first of them is a club were the youth(14-25) of Nuuk is hanging, the second a pub,(25-45) and the last place (45 - and up)
Hanne wanted me to meet some more of her friends and the fun of seeing me dressed up. They have a very strict dresscode! - We made it a "trip of prayer". We went down there to pray for the youth. We observed while we prayed sitting, walking around so on...I observed this guy with long hair and black clothes, walking alone looking like he was in the wrong place, and I just felt very strongly that I needed to do something, and he kept walking by no matter were I was! - So I ended up giving him the website for our danish christian metal forum on a trashed sales slip:-P The music was very loud so I could not say much, but he was very open, in his body language:-) I really hope he has kept that note!

Day 11 - Café and more snowcave...

2008-12-26T21:38:00.004+01:00

We were supposed to get up early to go to the lift, but it was snowing a lot so the lift was probably closed, so we chose to stay home and sleep a bit longer:-P

When we finally got up we went to a café called "Barista" to join one of Hannes friends called Rosa. A very nice couple of hours:-)

Then we went home to relax but ended up building some more on our snowcave:-)

Afterwards we ate homemade ice-cream:-P

Day 10 - Snowcave and "The Dark Knight"!

2008-12-26T04:41:00.004+01:00

Today has been a day of relaxation. We got up a bit late and then Hanne, John and I saw "Batman - The Dark Knight" - One of my christmas presents. I have been looking forward to see it again ever since I saw it in the theatre:-) It is really good!

Then Hanne and I went outside to build a small snowcave:-P Very fun, and Hanne is really good at it! We did not finish so we hope to continue another day:-) We made dinner, very easy since most of it was leftovers from christmas eve. I made caramelled potatoes for the first time in my life:-P

In the evening we played 2 boardgames. The first is called "Sequence and was one of Hannes christmas presents. The other one is called "Alias" - and is a wordgame.

They were both quite fun:-)

Day 9 - Christmas Eve!

2008-12-26T04:40:00.007+01:00

We got up early to go to the hospital here in Nuuk(were Hannes mother work) were we ate breakfast at 9 o'clock. It was snowing! - For the first time while I am here:-P All other days it has been clear and beautiful weather...
At 10 Santa Claus arrived at the hospital in a fire truck. Normally he arrives in a helicopter, but it snowed too much for him to land. Then he walked through the hospital with gifts to the patients:-)

When we got home we had to clean the house and church before the christmas service, which was cool! - We sang christmas carols in Greenlandic, which was fun:-)

Afterwards there were "kaffemik" in the house, a tradition were some of the people from church come by to get coffe and talk:-)

After that the preparations for christmas eve started and about 6 o'clock a guy named Ulrik walked through the door singing in Greenlandic, very cool:-) He was invited to celebrate christmas by the Østergaard family. He is from the
church and his family lives far away in another city in Greenland.

After a lot of eating, which I have to say has been a huge part of my vacation with this family:-P(well it is christmas)
we prayed after Lene shared something from her heart, worth remembering:-) Afterwards we sang chriatmas carols while dancing around the tree:-)

Then presents. I got one from the Østergaard family. Very nice of them, and unexpected! - It contained a necklace and earrings. The necklace was made out of raindeer and formed as Greenland. The earrings was made out of whale:-)

When we were finished John, Ulrik, Hanne, Lene and I played a new game called "Olsen bandens 14. kup" - It is a boardgame based on a series of 14 danish movies with 3 guys trying to rob different people, but they always fail and one of them ends up in jail everytime.

One of the tree almond-gifts which i got(Lene had planted it in my portion, very nice of her:-))

Day 7 and 8 - Homework, relaxation! - Sightseeing and more christmas stuff:-P

2008-12-23T15:27:00.009+01:00

Day 7 has been a quiet day. I have been doing homework most of the day while watching O.C, which I saw for the first time last night. Hanne has all the episodes:-P

Day 8
Today Hanne and i was sightseeing in Nuuk. Hanne drove me around so I could see the places I had not been before. Now I have seen it all:-) We found out the small ski lift has opened so we hope to get some time to go skiing one of the days:-)Right after we went sledging for a few minutes before going inside:-)

After a delicious dinner the christmas tree was decorated and we saw some homevideos of the family, very fun! - With apple dumplings, and homemade cookies:-)

Afterwards Hanne, Mette, Lene and I saw a movie(The Wedding Date)

Day 6 - Christmas baking, sledging and church!

2008-12-22T04:47:00.001+01:00

Today was the 4. sunday in advent, and when I came out into the kitchen a small present awaited me. Hannes mother had bought it for me:-) So nice of her!

We started the day preparing a flee market with some of the stuff we took with us from the apparment we emtied. The money went to the lady we helped:-)

After that we went to church. Three got baptized by Hannes father John, very cool and very moving! - It was so cool to see how happy these three people were! - They shined so much:-) It was very fun to sing in Greenlandic! - I have catched some of the sounds of the language now, with good help from Hanne:-)
They really have a nice church, people are very happy and you can feel God is here even though you dont understand the songs:-)

When we were finished with the meeting Hanne and i went for a walk. This time I saw a new part of Nuuk. The old part, which is very nice!

When we returned we ate very delicious food once again. The evening was spend baking, making candy of different kinds:-)

Hanne with the family bird "Skidtnik":

Me all wrapped up:-P

Day 5 - More cleaning and christmas cards!

2008-12-20T23:10:00.007+01:00

We started the day christmas shopping in Nuuk. Afterward we were supposed to use the day making cookies, baking, and just relax with the family. But when you are a missionary things dont always go as planned:-)

We went to clean and empty an appartment here in Nuuk for a lady. Her mother lived in the appartment and had just died. She had travelled from Denmark, with her three children and her husband. Her husband had been out drinking all night, so he was sleeping when we arrived...Let's just say that she has not had the most easy life!!

We cleaned for about 3 hours, and thenwent home to eat the most delicious dinner! - We got musk ox. The first time I have ever tasted that, and wow it was good! - I would gain so much weight if I lived here, their food are so great:-)

It is such a great experience to see how this family serves God! - They live in the church, and set themselves aside everytime anybody needs help, I really admire and respect their work here!

We spend some of the evening writing more christmas cards - not done yet though:-P

Hanne driving:-P

Weird/fun thing of the day:
Hanne was driving, and suddenly they could hear sirens. Mette sitting beside her encouraged Hanne to pull over because they thought it was an ambulance, that needed to pass. But it didnt pass...They found out that it was the police who wanted to pull over their car! - Hanne was driving to slow:-P(she just got her drivers license a month ago, which amused the policeman)

Day 4 - Vacation and christmas cards!

2008-12-19T23:46:00.008+01:00

Today Hanne got up very early to finish her assignment, which had to be turned in at 10am. Lene, Hanne and I went to her school to turn it in. Hanne and I stayed to go to the community church with the rest of the school, while Lene went home. So I got the chance to meet some of Hannes classmates.

When we got home Hannes sister Mette had just arrived from Denmark:-) It was nice seeing her again! - Now the whole Østergaard family is gathered:-)

Later we went to buy christmas cards, and then went home to write them:-)

In the evening we all gathered to play "draw and guess"(very directly translated) - "tegn og gæt". It was a very fun and nice time with the family! - They are real fun, and I enjoy being around them:-)

Wierd/funny things of the day:
1. A guy in the church from the school had to sing with the rest of his class, in the end he had to sing alone: "vi kan ikke vente" - translated: we cannot wait(until christmas) and his expression was so funny because he really hated that he had to do it:-P

2. We were walking near the harbour at a place where they sell freshly caught fish and birds and so on. We walked by a table with some birds and i said " oh look its pingvins" - Hanne started laughing..First of all there are no pingvins in Greenland, second of all pingvins are very large and these birds were absolutely not large...

3. Hanne started a christmas card, with the words: "Very Happy Christmas" - "Mange gange tillykke med julen"

4. In the evening when we played "draw and guess" Hannes mother Ulla had to guess what her husband John was drawning. He drew the frence flag, the eiffel tower and the country seen from a map, and the answer was france, but her guess was toaster:-P

Day 3 - Cleaning, studying and snowcats!!!

2008-12-18T20:35:00.011+01:00

Today Lene, Hanne and I went cleaning a house here in Nuuk. Hanne normally cleans this house every week. Today she took the S.W.A.T-team with her:-P

In the evening two guys Hanne knows came by on snowcats to take us for a ride. That was an amazing ride! - Wow!
We went through Nuuk and up into the mountains which was the most beautiful part of the ride! On one side there were the most beautiful northern light!!! All around us was the clearest stars! - I have never seen so many stars so clearly as tonight! - wow! - It was truely breathtaking, and an experience I will never forget! - Just to see what our creater has made was incredible! - I could really feel his peace! - It was so overwhelming!
When we were on the edge of the city Hanne and I were asked to drive! - So we did! - That was a whole new experience for me:-P And I do not have a drivers license or anything like that so i have no experience what so ever with anything that moves beside my bike, but it was so much fun!
Thomas one of the guys, works with the kids in the church, he was the owner of the snowcats. He is going to Denmark and parked his snowcats here at the house:-P So we might go for a ride another day:-)
The snowcats can ride 130km/hour so when its -14C it gets really cold when your riding one, but the adrenalin made it warmer:-P I do hope my toes will stop being cold some day:-)

Me on a snowcat in the mountains:

Wierd/fun thing of the day: Hanne drove a van...

Day 2 - Church and sightseeing

2008-12-18T19:28:00.008+01:00

Today we got up to do some homework. Hanne has a huge assignment which needs to be turned in on friday.
I am very much behind after our trip to Texas.
At lunch time we went to af café called Prego to eat. The food was good:-)
Afterwards Hanne needed to pick up some stuff so she told me more about Nuuk and showed me the different places she has spend her childhood:-) I really enjoy to see all these places she has been telling about,seeing "her world".

Culture house, formed as Northern Lights:

In the evening they had a prayermeeting in the church. We missed some of it because we had to move some boxes for someone to come pick them up.
The meeting was mainly in Greenlandic, and the songs were in Greenlandic. Fun to try to sing that:-P

Afterwards we did more homework. Hanne has a huge assignment to finish, and i have a lot of smaller assignments to turn in as soon as possible.

Hanne gave me this chokolate advents calender when i arrived:-P

Weird/funny things of the day:
1. A package arrived from our friend Vikki with christmas presents to both of us. Outside she had spelled the city we are in N-U-K-K(its NUUK) and crossed it out:-P

2. I fell twice today! - first outside on the ice, just walking i fell right on both of my knees! - The second time was inside i fell up the stairs to Hannes room...

My first day on Greenland!

2008-12-16T22:57:00.011+01:00

Today was my travelling day to Greenland. It started very early were I meet up with Lene(Hannes sister) in Copenhagen
Airport. I was very happy to have her as company, especially because I have not been flying a lot, and never alone:-)
We went to Starbucks in the airport, which is the only place in Denmark we have a Starbucks. And since I am a bit americanized after my trip to Texas I had to go:-P

Just a picture of me and Lene with our Starbucks and breakfeast:

I have to say that Greenland together with Switzerland is the most beautiful country I have ever been to!! - We had to change flight when we reached Greenland, Kangerlussuaq. As soon as i got out I could besides the cold weather(-20C) feel
that the air is so much cleaner than in Denmark! - That was very cool!
The plain we changed to was very small with space for about 45 passengers, and did not have that much altitude. There were very few clouds so the 55 minutes we spend in the plain I spend looking out the window on the beautiful nature they have here! - It was so overwhealming!!
It really struck me that a God who can create that kind of nature can do anything!!

Here are some pictures i tried to take from the plain, but it does not do justice!

We were welcomed in Nuuk by my friend Hanne. She showed me their house/church, and I am looking forward to see the church in action:-)

So today I have seen Nuuk which is actually very small. I have also seen northern light for the first time in my life:-)
One thing I have been looking forward to is to eat raindeer again, and at my first day here I got it, and it was good:-P

I have not yet really understood that I am actually here! - Maybe I will get it tomorrow:-P

Unloading:

The church/their house:

Weird/fun thing of the day: When Hanne parked she could'nt get out again! - Her friends dad had to drive the car out for her...

Greenland!

2008-12-15T19:32:00.005+01:00

These last 2 weeks has passed by so fast! - And tomorrow very early in the morning I will be leaving to go to Greenland!

I have been waiting for this trip in almost 3 years, and now its finally here:-)
I have always wanted to go to Greenland. I have some family there, but they moved to Denmark some years ago.
At boarding school I got a good friend who lives in Greenland with her parent who run a church in Nuuk - They are doing some awesome work!
So i am going to Nuuk tomorrow to spend Christmas with her family:-)Hanne has two sisters(Mette og Lene) who lives in Denmark normally, but are coming back for Christmas this year:-)
I am looking very much forward to spend my time with my good Friend Hanne, her family, seeing Greenland, their work with the church, the nature, skiing(maybe), riding a snowcat and so on:-)

I will of course write and post pictures in here:-)

Here are a picture of the little family a lot of years ago, with the church in the background as it was at the time:-P

Newer picture of Hanne:

The Mosh Room!

2008-12-15T19:25:00.002+01:00

A week ago we had a metal concert at Kansas City with:

Solace the Day(DK)
Immortal Souls(FIN)
Deuteronomium(FIN)

...which we were 3 people from my church to organize. It was a great evening! - And we are very happy about it:-) It has made a lot debate about Christian Metal here in Odense, which I think is very cool and healthy:-)

That was the short version, sorry:-)

Kansas City at Magasinet!

2008-11-29T19:28:00.002+01:00

Friday night was spend at Magasinet in Odense. Kansas City had booked another venue(Magasinet) to do this concert with a popular danish band called Volbeat. At Kansas we can have 300 people, here they can have 800 people and the concert was sold out!

It was cool to try something new! - I was managing the wardrobe together with Vibeke and Jonas. It was the first time Vibeke had a watch and the second time Jonas had one, so i did not know them. It was very nice to get to know them! - Really cool people:-) That is one of the things i enjoy so much about Kansas, to get to know new people!

...And we had A LOT to do:-P
We were not quite prepared for all the jackets we had to have in the wardrobe, so our number system were all messed up...So during the concert we spend all the time trying to re-do the system. Well, it got better with some help from some of the other volunteers:-)

It was a very busy night, were we didnt get to relax, but that is how i like to work:-)

Besides the wardrobe i had some small jobs to do to, one of them was cleaning up back stage, so i got to say hello to the Volbeat guys very quick before they left - Very nice guys:-)

Once again a GREAT night with the Kansas crew! - I am looking very much forward to the next one, which will be very special! - More about that in a few days:-)

Nordic Fest 2008!

2008-11-17T20:51:00.005+01:00

Just had an amazing weekend in Oslo, Norway.
I got picked up very early Thursday morning to drive to Frederikshavn(3½ hours) to take the ferry to Oslo, with a bunch of danish friends! - It was a 8 hour trip, so we had time to talk, sleep and have fun:-)

It is the 3rd time I have been to this festival, it has become a tradition, that i would not want to miss. It is a Christian metal festival. Metalheads gather here from different countries to hear music, known and unknown. Too meet new people, old friends and just enjoy the special fellowship, that centers around metal music and God!
I met people from Holland, Finland, Sweden, USA and of course Norway. It was great to get new friends and see old friends!

A festival like this, with the fellowship of other christian metal head gives me something very special. It fills me up with new and fresh energy. I am so thankful that God has given me these festivals and these people to be my church! - With the greatest Pastor, Pastor Bob Beeman, whom i got a great talk with too! - He has a very special heart! - And i can not descibe how much he means to me:-)

Back Home!

2008-11-08T19:51:00.002+01:00

Now i am back home in Denmark. I am very tired after the long trip! But the flight went well - I have had a really good time in Texas:-)

I am going back in school on monday. We have a lot to catch up on, but we have a easy week. We have no english lesson:-)

Day 27 - Last day of school and Rock concert!

2008-11-07T00:06:00.005+01:00

Today we had our last day of school. In gaming we had to present the game screenshots, and idears of our game, to our teachers, Doug Prince(gaming teacher, and headartist in NC soft), Spencer(U.S. Governement teacher, and gaming teacher), Jennifer(english teacher), Mette(english teacher), Alicia(instructor in an animation program called Poser, and 3D studio max + helping out with different stuff about computers, and artist), K.C(a journalist writing articles to ACCs homepage) and a guy from a gamecompany, whom i can not remeber the name or title of:-s
K. C, has been following this blog, while we have been in Austin. She Interviewed Morten and I, about our stay here. Very cool:-)

I have started to realise that we are going home tomorrow. It is really weird. I have enjoyed this month so much more than i had expected! - God has really blssed me with wonderful experiences that i will always remember - I will come home very thankful! - And tired:-P

At 6:00, we went to a restaurant called "El Sol y La Luna" with the whole class, and most of our teachers to say goodbye. The food was not fantastic, but okay:-)

When we were finished some of us went to a concert. Jennifers sisters boyfriend was playing in this band, called "Flawless Escape". It is Eksperimental Rock. It was okay, not so much my style, but they had some good instrumental pieces once in a while. It was cool to say hello to them, they did a great job!

After their show we went home by cab to pack the last things. I was really tired.
By the way...Last night Morten and I were sitting in front of our computers until 2 at night. Then he left and i started getting ready to go to bed. Suddenly Morten comes in very confused. He had seen a cockroach in his and Mathias bathroom, but it had escaped, and he could not find it. So he was very much panicing! Mainly because something that looked like cockroach poop was on his toothpaste. So we had to remove it and almost sterilise it to make peace in his mind:-P That was so funny! On top of that when he had left, he came back about 15 minutes after because he could not get into his room. Mathias was apperently fallen asleep and Morten had no room key:-P

In the morning Mathias told me he had dreamt about cockroaches. None of them dared to use their bathroom. I had so much fun watching them like that! - To see boys be so afraid of a small animal like that:-P Many boys wont admit that kind of fear, so that was cool they did. They just could not understand how i had been able to kill one some days ago. Well, that was just a small weird stoy for you:-)

Day 26 - Church

2008-11-05T21:03:00.001+01:00

Today we once again had classes. We had our last poetry lesson, which we have only had two times.
In our break Morten and I went to Highland Mall and ate at "Potato Club" to try something new.

Later, Michael, Mathias, Morten and I went to 6th street. I had to buy some more packs of "Black":-P Now i think i am set:-P

Afterwards Morten and I went to church in "The Mount Sinai Baptist Church" once again. It was not a normal service, but their pastor showed pictures from a trip to Ghana. We said goodbye to the poeple we had talked to in the church especially a lady by the name of Joy. She told us that we should come back sometime and we could come live at her house:-)

Morten and I went by Fran's to grap a burger to go. Then we as always relaxed with our computers and had some great talks about church and so on:-)
(sorry for the missing pictures, but there have not been much to take pictures of today)

Day 25 - Election day!

2008-11-05T07:09:00.007+01:00

Today is an exciting day! - Its election day!
Well i will get back to that:-)

First we had to go to school. Our first class was Texas History with our very cool teacher Larry. He gave us a lesson in music history focusing on Texas music. It was very interesting!
"Open Lab" was short today. We had to go early to go home and get ready to go to "The Driskill Hotel". It is the most expensive hotel in Austin. That was were the official Democratic election party was held. When we arrived we had to eat there. The food was very good! - Especially the dessert which was a REALLY great chocolate cake:-P Afterward the election stuff started. There were big screens sat up so everybody could follow the results. A lot of people showed up, and the atmosphere was awesome! - And the great result helped a lot in that way:-) It was a huge experience to be in the United States during an election where the first Afro-American president is elected - in a city where everyone has voted democratic. When we got outside the hotel which is in the middle of the city, cars were driving by honking their horns and people shouting out the windows:-)

When we got home my head was all messed up:-P There had been so many people at the hotel shouting and clapping:-P
We relaxed while having the TV on to follow the final results for each state.
This is a very excited Jennifer when Obama won:

Day 24 - Debate!

2008-11-04T05:43:00.008+01:00

Today was the day of the dabate.
But before tha started which was the last thing of the day in school Morten and i went to Highland Mall to do some shopping to people at home:-P We ate at "Great Wraps"
Well, the debate: I was not as nervous as i had expected to be. I think it is because we I had practised the speech so much. My teachers from Denmark knew how i felt about the whole thing and our teacher Spencer did too. They all saw me make a really lousy speech last week, were i was sure i could not go through with it. But i have really found strenth in God and trying to see it as a challenge even though i thought it was way to big! Well, i made the speech in front of my class and a teacher who organize and control debates on UT(Texas University). I was shaking when i left and found my chair again:-P It went okay, im very satisfied that i went through it! - And the class and the teachers were very supportive and actually a bit surprised too:-P So a very nice experience:-)

Just a picture of the selected:

Now we are all ready to the election tomorrw. It is going to be a very exciting day! - And here are a lot of exciting things planned for us!! - But more about that in my next blog:-)

Right after the debate Thomas, Michael, Morten and I went to "Texas land and cattle steak house" which is one of the more expensive restaurants. It was pretty good, and we got a lot of food!
Michael at the restaurant:

Then a short trip to Target and then back home to the hotel to relax with the computer, like all the other evenings:-)

Day 23 - Churchday!

2008-11-03T06:47:00.012+01:00

Today Morten and i got up very early to go to a service in "Mount Sinai Baptist Church" at 7:45.
That was a very cool experience. We were there last wendsday where the service was combined with "Austin Cornerstone Church". This time it was their own service and it was COOL! Morten and i made up 50% of the white people there:-P They had a pretty huge gospel choir, and they were really impressive!! - They were so good! - I have once been in a small gospel choir on my boarding school for a year and that was really fun, so being in a choir like that must be so much fun!
I would upload a video here if it was not for the extremely slow internet we have here at the hotel:-P But here are a picture:

People were again very nice and came to us and talked. Some recognized us from last time. They filmed the whole service and a nice lady made sure Morten and I could get a copy each send home to Denmark when it is ready. And we got it all for free!! - Very cool! - We both started thinking we had giving to little collect, but then agin it just shows what God tells us in the bible: That when we give something to him he will give it back to us many many times(sorry about the missing correct quote).

When we were finished in "The Mount" as they called it, we went directly to "Austin Cornerstone Church". We had been looking forward to this service, because we liked it so much the last time. But we went to get disappointed:-P Well it all ended up in a "Christian Circus" as i would call it. People crying and laying on the floor and so on. It was too much:-)
They had a cool wall painting we did not notice last time though:

Well, afterwards we went to McDonalds and home to check out how to get to the 3th service of the day:-P It was in a church called "Austin Stone Community Chruch", we had never been there before. The only thing we knew was that Chris Tomlin, who is quite a big name in Christian worship, are one of the founders of the church. We got on a bus and hoped it went in the right direction, which it almost did, but we still had to walk across the center of the city and a bit longer, so we got exercise for the day:-) The music was quite good, there were just not enough of it:-P The biggest differens in this church and the others we have been to was the fellowship. In this one they have 4 services in one day, and there are room for about 600-700 people at each. So it is not easy to notice if someone is new:-P It was a very cool and special experience, like all the other churches!
Outside of the church(they have their services on a high school):

We found our way home by bus again after some walking. Before we got all the way we stopped by Panda Express(once again).

When we got home we started preparing for the political debat tomorrow that i am very nervous about. But Spencer who is our teacher in the debate, had left the questions to us the same day. We went through the questions and then prepared my one minute speech which i practised to learn by heart. I feel a bit better about it now, and Morten has helped me a lot. He is really good at politics!

Day 22 - Country dancing and Pow wow!

2008-11-02T05:52:00.008+01:00

That maybe sounds a bit weird:-P Well today was a special day. We took a Shuttle from the hotel at 9:00 to go to Austin Pow Wow, which is a Indian gathering. They come together and have this dance competition, with these huge colorful outfits on. Outside they had a lot of food stands and other stands with jewellery, books and so on. It was cool to experience, and see a bit of their culture.

We headed home at 1:00 where we had aome time for ourselves for a change:-P That was nice. We did some homework, and relaxed and got an hour or two more sleep:-)At 6:15 we took a shuttle to a placr called "Broken Spoke". A lot of famous persons had been there. Olivia Newton John, John Travolta and so on. It was a small eating and dancing place. We ate and afterwards got dance lessions, in a country dance called 2-step. That was quite fun:-P When the lesson was over a live band came to play and we could dance if we wanted, and a lot of older people came to dance and have fun. They were just what you picture real Texans looks like: COWBOYS:-P
Morten and I dancing:

Mette(our english teacher) dancing with some guy who asked:

My class watching football, unfortunately Longhorns lost in the last second:-(

Day 21 - Bible shopping, Museum and Halloween

2008-11-01T05:54:00.008+01:00

(The Museum)

Finally friday:-P Actually the week as past by so fast i cannot believe it! - We started the day at Texas History Museum, where we watched a short movie in a huge IMAX theatre. That was pretty cool. The movie was about some of the things Texas is known for all over the world. Very interesting. The rest of the museum was actually not so interesting, but okay:-)
Thomas and I waiting outside the museum:-P

Afterwards we had a lot of hours free. Morten and I decided to visit a Christian bookstore we had found on the interenet. It is called "Family Christian Store". It was quite large and had so many books, bibles, study materials and so on. I walked out of there with 4 new bibles, another book and a new neckless with a cross and a note:-P
I got the Amplified bible which was one of my goals to find while i am here, The Message, NIV(New International Version)and NKJV(New King James Version. The other book is called "Hope and Healing for kids who cut". I have some friends who have done those things once, and i really want to read some theory about since i got it all very practical:-P
Here are my new books:

Besides that I found myself a new cross! - It says it all about my faith! - It is a cross combined with a note. My fath in Jesus Christ have evolved mainly through music, and music and my faith is combined very closely, so this was so perfect:-)
I tried to take a picture but it didnt turn out that great, but it gives and idea of how it looks:

It is so cool that you can go into almost any store here in the states and then find christian musicand books in a very different way than back home!

Well when we came home we were a bit in a hurry. It is Halloween today and we had to go downtown all dressed up. So we had to find something quick. Our teachers had made sure we had lot of weird clothes:-P I ended up in a black "dress" that was made out af black fabric, with a blonde wick that was VERY long, and black make-up.
Then we had to go to Stubbs which is a restaurant in town. It was okay. Stubbs has a small concert area where we were and heard some concerts. Very special music, and kind of cool, but i came to miss a metal concert:-P But i will soon be going to a festival in Norway again:-)
When we did not want to hear anymore music, we went down to 6th street, which is were all their livemusic is, that they city of Austin is very known for. Everybody was dressed up on 6th street, but also at the concert. Very cool and fun to see how much the americans loves this tradition. On 6th street there were A LOT of people who took pictures of each others costumes and so on. There were not much for ud to do since we are all under 21. We walked up the street to watch the many cool costumes and then decided to get some cabs and go home.

Day 20 - The day where nothing happened:-P

2008-10-30T20:22:00.006+01:00

Today: school...In the break we(meaning Morten and I) once again went to Express Panda. It is quite good food:-P

After school we went shopping in Target. The rest of the evening we relaxed, had a great talk and did some laundry at the hotel:-P

Well if i have to say something that happened today, it must be that i tasted a Dr. Pepper Cherry Vanilla. My teacher Jennifer who is from Texas are almost never seen without one over here. She actually gave me one so i could taste it. I liked it:-P There are not many of my class mates who likes Dr. Pepper, but i think it is okay:-) Just not too much of it at the same time:-) It has e very unique taste:-P

Day 19 - Church

2008-10-29T20:40:00.003+01:00

Today we had class, and in the break we went to Panda Express to check that out. It is a Chinese fastfood retaurant. It was actually pretty good! - We got it to go, and there were a lot of food so we had for two meals:-P And very important: the coke tasted good!!

Right after school Morten and i went to church in Mount Sinai Baptist Church. We had two churches to choose from. This baptist church and Austin Cornerstone church which we were in last sunday. We choose Sinai, and got very lucky! - When we arrived we found out that the two churches had a service together that night in Sinai:-P
A nice lady called Joy were one of the people welcomeing us and got a nice seat for us:-)The church were gospel inspired and i have never heard so many people shouting stuff doing a sermon:-P He said some really cool things! - So i really got something to take back home as an encouragement. All in all a very cool and unique experience! - Poeple were so nice and came up to talk and say hello and goodbye and so on. Again i can conclude that we can really learn something from the American church in Denmark!

The Pastor at Mount Sinai:

When we were finally home after some shopping we relaxed with the computer to be in touch with friends and family:-)

Day 18 - Texas Capitol and Chili!

2008-10-29T06:43:00.011+01:00

Today we were in school of course. In the break we went to Wendys, which is another classic fastfood chain in America we needed to try. Some of our classmates had tried it some days before and had not recommended it, but you know, we have to try:-P I got a salad which was okay. Morten got a burger which were not that good:-P

The rest of the break was used on reading a book we have to read for literature class on wendsday. It is called "Evacuation Plan" and our teacher Joe O'Connell has written it. It is a very interesting book when you first get going.

Right after school we went to get a tour of the Capitol in Austin. The building looks a lot like the Capitol of Washinton D.C.

It is a very cool building!! - Very beautifully made. There are many small details. The Lone Star that i wrote about earlier are everywhere inside the building. It is in the lamps, walls, floor and so on. Places where you really need to be looking for a while to see it. Ths is a picture of the floor underneath the dome. I think the design is awesome!

This is the House of Representatives in Texas. In here are 150 members during sessions:

This is the senate, where 31 members sit:

The dome, with the star:

The doormat in the capitol:

Morten having a press conference in the Capitol:

When we were finished we went to a Restaurant called: "Texas chili parlor". Jennifer one of our teachers love the place and wanted us all to try it. It is very spicy food. It was cool to try but it was not something i would go back to:-P The place was very cool though!! Very western, and trashed! - The restaurant has been in a Quintin Tarantino movie called "Death Proof". I dont think i have seen it, but now i have to. I like his movies:-) Kasper got xxx which is the hottest chili they got. That was crazy:-P

In the evening we had to practice politics. We were askee to prepare a one minute speak last week for tonight. So our teacher Spencer came to the hotel. I was very nervous and had felt kind of bad about it all evening. I tried to get out of it but there is no way back. I have to perticipate in that debate. Now i am trying to see it as a challenge and try to learn as much as possible but i know i will be very nervous. I am happy to have some suportive friends!

After that me and Morten had to read to finish the book for wendsday. We did not finish, we had to stop at 2 at night, to get some sleep:-P Coke(Cola:-P) was not enough to keep us awake...

Day 17 - Evacuation and MUSIC!

2008-10-27T20:29:00.013+01:00

Today while we were in school having Gaming class we were asked to evacuate the building! - Something apparently had started the firealarm, which we had not heard, So we all went outside, but only few minutes passed by before we could go inside. Nothing had happened, luckily:-)
Here we are all standing outside the ACC building:

After school Michael, Thomas and I went downtown to the biggest musicstore in Austin called "Waterloo". We were prepared to spend quite a good amount of money:-P The place was really big, and they have SO MUCH music! - I do not know how much time we spend there but it was quite some time, and we did not go through it all. I spend 111 dollars in there on CD's. Here are a picture of what i got:

And i forgot to menation that i bought these in San Antonio the other day:

I also got to buy some very special cigaretts called "Black":-P They smells like christmas and tasts relly nice:-) I am going to bring home as many as i may since we cannot buy them in Denmark. I know i have some friends at home who will be very exciting about getting some:-P

I also got this rose from some guy in town:

When i came home a surprised waited for me:-P Some of the guys had accessed my room and had a bit of fun in there...hmm:-P
We have all gotten this nice file with all the info we needed and mine now looks like this:

(Sorry about the language in the picture:-P)

A lot of other things happend in my room, quite funny actually:-P

(sorry about the pictures, my blog is teasing me)

Day 16 - UT Tower, Segway! and...church?

2008-10-27T05:02:00.014+01:00

Today we went to another hotel in Austin called "Holiday inn". We had to go on a Segway Tour by that hotel. A Segway is this machine that you can stand on. It has two wheels and a handle:

It is actually fast to learn how to control it. We went out in a area with a beautiful nature and also into the American neighborhoods. This was one of the poorer once. It is something you would not see anywhere in Denmark like this.
In the learning process:

At the end, we are about to race each other:

AMerican house, all ready for Halloween which is next weekend: (our American teacher Jennifer has her hotel room filled with Halloween stuff:-P)

Afterward we went into one of the campus areas in Austin, to go up into the UT Tower. It is the highest tower together with the capitol building(which we are going to see this week too) in Austin. It has been a campus library some years back, and has a beautiful view over Austin:-)
Waíting outside UT Tower:

UT Tower:

Some view from UT:

The statium where their precious football team Longhorns play. Their t-shirts are all over town and they are in a tournament now. It is going pretty well:

The special sign for the Longhorns team is actually the Rock n' Roll handgesture(performed here by president Bush, who is from Texas and has been the governor of Texas):

And this is their logo which is everywehere as mentioned before:

Morten and i had once again planned to go to church this time to an evening service, but the churches homepages is not always trust able:-P So there were no service. We wandered a bit to figure out if any of the other churches had something, but without any luck. Instead some guys who i found a bit creepy pulled up beside us and started to say "hey baby" and stuff like that! - luckily Morten was the one who were walking by the road, and he did the talking. They asked where we were going and he said home and they asked where that was and he said Denmark, and then they offered us a ride there...haha, they had no idea where it is:-P
They disappeared for a while but came back still saying all this things! really creepy! - It is not the first time at our stay here. They are not afraid of giving you comments like that here, sometimes it is a bit too much:-) I am just happy that i am here with 16 guys! - Well we got away from them, a creepy, but also funny experience:-P

The rest of the night we were reading. We have a book that our literature teacher has written that we need to read. And also 3 novels for tomorrow. The writer for two of them will come tomorrow and talk about them.

Day 15 - San Antonio and The Alamo

2008-10-26T03:57:00.017+01:00

Today we went by bus to San Antonio. The weather was really good! - Lots of sun and heat:-)
We first went to the Alamo:

The last couple of days in school we have been told a lot about its history and the Spanish Missions. Very interesting history! So it was cool to see. We found out that a Dane had been there and died there in the battle. And also that he had been one of the guys designing the Texas flag, which looks like this:

The star was the danish guys idea. They have it everywhere here in Texas. On trashcans, in the pavement, everywhere! - When it is not on the flag it is drawn like what we/I know as the punk-star:

Here it is called "The Lone Star". I think its pretty cool:-)

After wards we went to see and old Spanish mission called "San José". That was also very interesting!
Here the intrance to the catholic church in the mission:

A window were the priest read out loud from the bible, to the indians who were not yet Christians and could not be inside the curch:

When we were finished at the Spanish mission we proceeded to the famous River Walk in San Antonio. We ate lunch at a boat going up The River Walk. It was very beautiful sight in a special way. A very nice trip!! - Our guide was very funny and knew a lot of stuff from Wikipedia:-P
Our boat:

When we were done we got a couple of hours in San Antonio by ourselves. The city is very special and beautiful i think in some very special way! - I enjoyed seeing it, and i really want to go there some other time and have some more time there:-)

Morten and I meet some people in a park there with red T-Shirts on, with a text on it saying something like "Sharing the love of Jesus"

Day 14 - Football, Diversity workshop and real cowboys!

2008-10-25T06:23:00.018+02:00

(the sight i woke up to)

Today we were in the hands of our two new teachers who came to take over from the other two. Our new teachers are Mette and Jennifer. Mette is our English teacher. Jennifer are an American citizen and she is from Texas. She has been filling in for Mette when she was in maternity leave. Besides that we had her to socials studies for half a year in 1.g.

Today we got up early to go to the "Diversity Workshop". It is a group of minorities in the U.S that is gathers for this day to tell about what they are doing. It is the collage that we are on (ACC) who has arranged this day. The theme was: "Speak Out!" We(The Denmark Group) had a workshop. Me, Thomas and Michael had to do a presentation were we presented the danish education system. Our classmates had gathered information to us about it:-)It went pretty well, and people there were very interested, especially by the fact that we are paid to go to school. Being in America makes you think about how lucky we are that we can take whatever education we want to without paying - or worrying about it.

When the presentation was over Thomas, Michael and I got a T-Shirt, and we all got a diploma. The T-Shirt is in a campaign which tries to get all young Americans to vote at this election.
Looks like this:

I meet an interesting and cool guy at the Diversity Workshop. He asked about the band that i had on my T-Shirt which was Norma Jean, and i found out that he was a Christian. So he got my myspace and e-mail, and i am looking forward to talking to him!
Morten and i went to a workshop called "Crusader for Christ" it is a group of Christians who is in the school, a bit like KFS in Denmark, but they are reaching out a lot more, in an very alternative way by art. I need to do some more research on it, but they seemed very cool:-)

I am starting to miss the danish food a lot:-P Everything over here is sweet even their bread. We have been talking about baking some ourselves oneof these days:-P

After the Diversity workshop we went to our literature professors house(Joe O'Donell). He lives out in the country of Austin. He had invited a journalist and some other Americans who wanted to talk to us, so that was pretty cool:-) All this time we have been here we have been told that Austin is very different from the rest of Texas and the US in general, and going to Joes showed that. He lives still in Austin but in the outskirts. The geographics was real cowboy-like.
At Joe's:

And especially the place were Joe took us to eat showed what many of us were thinking of Texas before we came here. It was a club were people were dressed like cowboys, and country music was played:-P I got to talk to a nice woman there about Texas and the culture compared to Denmark in many areas also religion.
Many years ago that was the place to go to hear music and meet people:-)Apparently a bit of a famous place at the time.
This is the "logo" from it:

After the visit there with GREAT and cheap hamburger we had to go to a high school football game. Tigers vs. Bulldogs. That was cool to experience the atmosphere at a game like that. There were cheerleaders and everything which the boys from our class enjoyed A LOT! - The cheerleaders came up to take pictures with them and yeah, that was fun! - They act so different when there are other girls around:-P Quite funny!

And i have to mention that Morten was feeling much better today and with us all the whole day:-)

Day 13 - School and a goodbye to our two teachers!

2008-10-23T23:18:00.007+02:00

Today we again went to school. I just want to mention a very special teacher that we have. He is a professor and has written textbooks. He teaches us Texas History. He is a really great teacher, and he is really cool! - He has a lot of humor which he uses a lot! - He can almost keep me awake for two straight hours were he is just talking! - Well, almost:-P I am a tough crowd though:-P

Today Morten has been feeling better so that's great! - I have to admit that i miss him in school already:-)

Right after school we all(except Morten) went to the restaurant "Chilis" to have a final dinner with our two great teachers Line and Karin. Line is our psychology teacher and Karin is our danish teacher. It was a cool way to end there time here with us in the states:-)
(hopefully the pictures will be coming soon)

At 8:00 we had a visit from one of our teachers at ACC, who teach us "U.S Government", his name is Spencer and he is very funny!
I am not the strongest person in politics but i have been chosen to be a candidate in a debate. I am quite nervous about that:-P

Day 12 - School and...well not much more...

2008-10-22T21:45:00.008+02:00

Today we of course went to school. I checked on Morten in the morning and it has not improved much. I tend to get very much motherly when my friends are sick and no parents are around to take care of them. I did that on my boarding school too. It is very weird since i really not like being sick like that, so when my brother is sick at home i always isolate myself:-P But here were there are no parents, i just cannot help myself:-) So i am just praying and hoping that we will all be shielded from more sickness, and that Morten will SOON get better!

School today has been a bit hard because me and apparently most of our class are very tired. We are talking about that the food here is very different from the danish food, and maybe it messes up our health. I will try to get many hours of sleep tonight and see if it helps:-)

We had to skip church. We were supposed to go to a mid-week meeting in Sinaid Baptist Church but we will have to save that for another day:-)

Mathias and I made some quick dinner and i went to bed pretty early to try to catch up on some sleep!

- Sorry about the missing pictures, but there were not much to take pictures of today:-P

Day 11 - School and homework!

2008-10-21T23:27:00.010+02:00

Today we of course went to school again. We can really start feeling the load of homework coming. We have to write a lot of articles to our newspapers to keep people informed, and read some books and stuff. I am together with two of my classmates going to make a presentation of the danish school/education system in front of some students here at ACC. We do not know how many yet. Besides that i have been selected to act candidate in a debate about politics the night before the election. I am not so fond of that, because politics is not my favorite subject, but I guess i will learn a lot:-)
So there is so much to do with very little time:-)

In our break today Morten and i went for a quick trip to Highland mall which is right behind the school. On our way there a car pulled up and called us over. In it were a bunch of military people. The guy who rolled his window down interduced himself. His name is Larry. He started to ask us were we were headed, were we are from, about our study and so on. When he left we were quite confused. we did not really know why he had asked us that, but it was quite fun and he was really nice:-)
Their uniform looked a bit like this:

After school I went with Kasper, Morten, Mathias and this days birthday boy Stefan to a restaurant called "Chillis". The food was really good, but once again the coke tasted to much of chlor.

The evening started out with homework and a surprise cake for Stefan in his room. But then my friend Morten who had been coughing these last days, you know been a little sick, but not that serious started to feel really sick. It ended in him being really sick unfortunately:-( So he was send to bed, and i hope he feels better in the morning, but we will not let him go to school!

Day 10 - School, Target, and homecooked dinner!

2008-10-21T23:15:00.007+02:00

Today we once again were at school from 9:00 to 6:30. It was a long day, and i could feel that it has been a weekend with lack of sleep. The hard thing about school here is that its lectures(except gaming of course) like in the universities at home in Denmark. So if your tired it is really hard to stay awake:-P But i succeeded and the teachers are pretty good:-)

In our 2 hour-break we(Mathias, Christian, Morten and I) went to IHOP(International House of Pancakes). I ended up having salad though. I kind of missed some of that after the food we have been eating here. The guys who had pancakes were not impressed, but everything else was good. They had a wide selection of all kinds of food, not only pancakes.
(picture will come)

Right after school, Mathias, Morten and I went to Target. Here we bought some food and stuff to keep things going. We have made a "food-arrangement" to save some money, and make it a little easier for everybody.
So when we got home we made our first meal from scratch. it went pretty well, which we were all surprised by:-P

Day 9 - Church and Birthday!

2008-10-20T06:39:00.013+02:00

Today it was Morten's 18 years birthday. He and I started the day with going to church. It is called "Austin Cornerstone Church". That was a really cool experience! - They were also very good at welcoming us. They had opposite "Church of Christ" instruments, and the music was great! - It had a great atmosphere and i could really feel that God is in that church:-)
Something very special about this church was the fact that they had a person to translate everything, songs and the sermon into sign language. That was very cool! - We both agreed that we have to come back before we go back to Denmark.

This guy was pretty cute, just standing and playing on his miniature guitar. Sends a pretty good signal to people:

Afterward we(7 students, 2 teachers + husbands and kids) went on a steam train ride. We had been told we would see different landscape, but that was not so much the case. But the trip was very nice anyway. We had some fun:-)

When we got home, Mathias, Morten and I went to celebrate Morten's birthday at a restaurant called "China Star" which is near our hotel. It is a Chinese Restaurant. The food was good:-)

At 9:00 we had to meet to sing a song for Morten and eat some cake the teachers had bought:-)

Day 8 - Renaissance Festival

2008-10-19T08:01:00.014+02:00

(Sorry about the rusty picture)
Today we went to Texas Renaissance Festival. That was a very different and special experience! - It was quite a huge place were they had all these different kinds of food, clothes, and jewelery stands. Most of the people there were dressed up in costumes, and there were parades and stuff like that! A lot of stuff did not match with the renaissance, but i guess the Americans are exhusted:-P

Something i thought was really interesting was these parts of it i could recognize from "my own culture". The Christian Metalheads. There were a lot of similarities. And i could not help thinking that it must be some of the same feelings they have for this as we have for our metal festivals, with the fellowship, and people liking the same things as yourself:-)
Just some pictures:
Here has everyone just gotten off the bus

Thomas and Kasper

My classmates had to try some of the events there. Here Michael is shooting with the old-fashioned bow

After the festival we went back to Austin, to relax at the hotel and have some fun, which we had a lot of that night:-)

Day 7 - NASA!

2008-10-19T01:28:00.020+02:00

Today we got up very early to go by bus for 4 hours at 6:15AM. We arrived at NASA, Houston to find out that the V.I.P - tour we had been promised were not booked. This was a huge slap in the face for some who had been looking very much forward to this tour. So it gave a bit of a bad atmosphere. We took the normal tour though, which were pretty cool too:-)We got to see some cool things anyway:-) Our teachers felt really bad about it, but everything was booked.The tour was now shortened from 6 hours to 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Here are some pictures from NASA. First there were a bit of a Star Wars exhibition. The picture below is a star fighter used in the movie:

The sign beside it:

A couple of light sabers also used in the movies:

They had a lot of tanks which had this written on them:

Here are a real rocket, which has been launched:

Mission control, from Apollo missions:

Our bus driver was very nice and said he would drive us to an outlet if we liked before going to the hotel. We all agreed! - He took a special road through Houston, so we could get a chance to see some of the city. We took a lot of pictures since it was very different from Austin. The buildings were taller, and there were a lot of cool architecture! - Houston is a large city. There are living 5 million people, the same as in Denmark!
Pictures of Houston:

The bus:

At the outlet:

We went to the outlet were i bought a pair of shoes(converse), which is about half the price compared to Denmark. That is the first thing besides food and a pair of flip-flops that i have bought here:-) Many of my classmates has spend thousands of kroner already!

Before going back to the bus i went to Starbucks to get a Frappucino:-P I would like for Starbucks to come to Denmark:-) (besides the two in Kastrup).

We then drove to the hotel, which we could easily see was more expensive than the one we are staying at in Austin:-P

We spend the evening watching some TV, and watching some of my class in the pool:-)

Conclusion: We got some experiences that we would not have gotten if we had been on the V.I.P - tour at NASA, so i am very satisfied with this great day!

Day 6 - Target and a lot of fun!

2008-10-17T07:23:00.006+02:00

Today after school me and Morten went to "Target" that we discovered yesterday. We shopped especially for ice cream:-P We bought 8 Ben & Jerry's and 1 Oreos:-P

We were home pretty late, and Mathias, Morten and me spend the evening having a lot of fun:-P

There is not much more to say about that day:-)

Day 5 - "Ghost Tour"

2008-10-16T07:34:00.007+02:00

Today we once again went to school. In gaming we played some more games, and we have in groups come up with idears for a game + a logo with name:-) So the process has begun.

For lunch we went to McDonald's today. We were very happy to find out that their coke does not taste like chlor! - I have started to get my appetite back which has not been very normal since we got here:-)
Right besides McDonald's we found "Target" which is some kind of a supermarket. The thing that struck us the most was that there were a shelf among the CD's, which had the label "Christian Gospel". So here were Wow hits, Casting Crowns and other different christian artists. Very cool! - That is not normal in Denmark in a normal supermarket. In Target we also found Ben & Jerry's! - One of the things i have been looking forward too! - Here it is half the price and there are so many flavors!! - Tomorrow we are going to buy a lot of Ben & Jerry:-P

As i have mentioned before we have a problem with the air conditioning. Today one was at the doctor to get some medicine, and he feels better already so that is good! - I hope we will be free from more sickness:-)

Today we warmed pizza. Well we tried it got a bit darker than we wanted it as you can see at the picture below:-P

In the evening we went to Austin city to go in a "Ghost Tour". It was a guided tour down in a bit of Austin to hear some "spooky" stories about some buildings there. Kind of weird, but we saw a hotel from the inside which was build very impressively!

Day 4 - School and chinese food...

2008-10-15T05:46:00.006+02:00

Today we started with yet another subject called "History of Texas". Our teacher is really cool and funny, so i think we are going to learn a lot from him:-)
Then we had more "gaming" and "open lab" were we played some "Tekken" "Hidden", "The Ship" and "Counter Strike".
The thing that is really a problem for us Danes here, is the air conditioning. Many have gone a little sick from it. We have jackets on inside of the college, since the air condition makes everything so cold!

In our 2 hours break me and Morten went to a Chinese restaurant nearby. It was okay, besides the cola, which once again tasted like chlor:-)

In the evening we tried to do some homework for the next day, as you can see on the picture:

Day 3 - First day of school!

2008-10-14T06:37:00.006+02:00

Today we had our first day of classes at ACC(Austin Community College). The first class was literature, very cool, but i am not so much into the book we are talking about:-)

After Literature we had 2 hours of break which we spend in Highland Mall which is right next to ACC. There we had some early lunch. The food was good, but the soda, tasted like chlor! - Here it is:

Afterwards we went right back to the school to have our first class of gaming. That is a really cool subject! - I hope i am going to enjoy it a lot:-)

Then we had two hours of "Open Lab", which is homework time:-) Right after we had a bit about the parties in the US. so that we are ready to follow the election on 4th of November...

We had a nice evening too:-)

Day 2 - Barton Creek Mall and Church!

2008-10-13T07:49:00.009+02:00

Me and my friend Morten started the day by going to church in a church in walking distance from the hotel. It is called: "Church of Christ". That was a very special experience! - We were welcomed by so many people! - They came and introduced themselves, and asked us where we are from. The service was only about an hour long. The thing that was very different is the way they sing. There were no musical instruments at all. I have a video of the church chair with the singing on, it will be up very soon.

After the service we were invited to lunch by one older lady. She was very nice:-) A very different experience!

After church we went almost directly to Highland Mall were the rest of our class were. We got a bit lost on the way:-P From there we went to Barton Creek Mall. We were actually supposed to go to Barton Springs, but we went to far by bus so we will wait:-P

Highland Mall:

Directly after 2 hours in the mall we went to Austin city once again to watch bats! - They have a bridge were thousands of bats is assembled underneath it. When it gets dark they all fly out from under the bridge. They are very proud of it, but we have to say that we were a bit disappointed:-P We did not see as many bats as they had told us:-P But it was very cool to watch the city and hang out with my classmates by the bridge....

Here we are waiting for the bats:

Day 1 - Austin downtown and Duck Tour!

2008-10-12T08:27:00.008+02:00

Today we had a information barbeque-party at the pool at noon. Very nice:-) We meet our first two americans on this trip. First Kathy who gave us a briefcase with information about what we are going to see this month and how to get there and everything, very cool! - She works on ACC(Austin Community College), and is the one we can call in case we need help to figure out something:-) The other american Ellie too worked on ACC and told us a bit about Austin and the things we can visit.

Later on we took a couple of buses to get to downtown Austin. There we went on a "Duck Tour". We got some very weird duck beak which could make this very high sound if you blow in it:-P Just like those you can buy for new years eve. The we went for a ride in the duck, which drove into the water. On the tour the driver gave information about the city.

When we where finished, we had the rest of the day to explore at Austin. So me, my classmates: Morten and Kasper decided to do so. We ended up in a Mexican restaurant for dinner, called: "Iron Cactus". Very nice. The vaitor was very cool! - He had long hair and was alternative, and he spotted my tattoo which ended in him giving me a card to a good tattooist, showing me his nice tatto! and giving me an address of a band that he was promoting and managing. - So that was pretty cool:-)

We went home to the hotel and after wards went to the local supermarket to buy what we needed. We had a very nice evening after wards were we were talking, hanging out at the pool and so on:-)

It has been a really great day! - We experience so many things so it feels like we have been here for days already! - It is really cool:-) We can not do anything else than just take one day at a time. It is hard to get an overview of everything we have to do this month:-P

Finally there!

2008-10-12T08:09:00.004+02:00

We left the 10th of october at 6 o’clock in the morning from Odense Trainstation to go to Kastrup Airport. Everything went fine, with the security checks and so on. We only had one from our class who had an extra security check because of his football t-shirt. We had a 9 hours and 30 minutes flights from Kastrup. We had a lot of weird flight-food and watched some movies. It was a nice flight even though we were tired of sitting in the same position the last hour:-P It was a beautiful view from the window, I was so lucky to get a window seat, so I could admire Gods amazing masterpiece! – We flew over countries like Iceland, Greenland and Canada. Very beautiful! Well we arrived at Atlanta were we had been prepared for immigration. That was the thing we were most nervous about, and we had gotten very strict instruction on how to behave and answer their questions. It was very confusing because the forms we had filled out at home in Denmark was not good enough so we had to hurry and fill out some new ones. Everybody got through, so that is good:-)
The last flight went fine too and we landed in Austin 8:45PM local time. We took some shuttles to get to the Hotel Extended Stay Deluxe – Metro in Austin. The hotel had arranged pizza, which was very nice after we had been awake for over 24 hours:-P They had also arranged breakfast for the next day. It was a muffin, and Danish, but I am really sorry that we are identified with what they call danish, cause well, it was not the best thing ever:-P But it was very nice of them to make sure we had something to eat:-)
Our rooms are very cool! – I am the only girl and have a room all to myself. It is just as big as the others who sleeps in groups of 2 and 3. So I have a huge bed to sleep on:-)
That was all for my first blog post from Austin, Texas!

My classmate Michael enjoying his pizza in the flight:

Here are we outside the airport trying to figure out where we are going and how, luckly the teachers came to our rescue:-P

Here you can follow our activities too: http://texas.otg.dk/

The United States of America!!

2008-10-06T18:37:00.001+02:00

As some of you know i will soon be going to the USA for a month on a schooltrip. To be exact: from 10th of October to 8th of November.
I will be staying at a hotel with my class mates in Austin, Texas. We are going to school every day at “Austin Community College”. We will be studying primarily 3 subjects that are especially designed for us: "English Litterature"(includes a lot of reading, which we started on doing when we started this year of school.) "Texas History" and "Gaming and Design graphics". (The last one is the one I am most excited about. The class before us, who went on this trip had homework like: “Guitar Hero” and “World of Warcraft”. And our teacher has a cool philosophy that is very different from other teachers:-P “Counter Strike” is not just sillyness but research:-P) In gaming we will be making and designing a real game. In the end of the stay, directors of some of the biggest game companies will be coming to judge our work!

There will besides school be a lot of places that we will visit. We will take a trip to N.A.S.A to get a guided tour and see a bit of Houston. We should have gone to the small island Galveston, but as you probably know, there is not much left of that island, so we will stay right outside of Houston.
We will also take a trip to San Antonio and see The Alamo and some other tourist attractions. We will experience a football match, Halloween and the presidential election the 4th of November.

Besides that we will probably go to a concert or two in Austin and me and my Christian class mate Morten, will visit some churches. I love visiting different churches to see how they do things different, and get inspired by it. I have been travelling a lot these last two years and seen a lot of different churches. It is really interesting and i am looking forward to see some american churches.

The class consist of 16 boys and me:-P So it is going to be a challenge, which i am looking forward to!
We have been preparing this trip since we started this summer. One of the subjects that we have on the highest level we can have(A) is Communication and IT. Here we have been divided in 3 groups. Each group had to make a website to a decided target group.

Group 1: Parents and teachers(my group) – in Danish
Group 2: Young people, friends of us – in Danish
Group 3: The people we meet in the US(teachers and so on) – In English

There will be posted pictures, video’s and we will be writing articles. You are of course very welcome to check it out:-)
I will be blogging here as much i can. I hope it will be every second day, or at least when something exciting has happend. And I will post pictures and video’s here as well:-)

Here are a picture of the hotel we will be staying at:

Kansas City! - Once again:-) aaand... New Breed Festival!

2008-10-05T19:09:00.003+02:00

This friday i once again spend the evening/a bit of the night at Kansas City. Everytime i have been there im so excited and just have to blog about it:-P This time Illdisposed, Insickina and Grimmthurs were playing. I really enjoy being a part of the fellowship there is on Kansas City, the people there are very cool!
It seems like i work better and harder when metal music is filling the room, that i enjoy very much too!

Saturday evening i spend in Herning at New Breed Festival, with 6 hours of metal:-) Just what i needed and cool and great to see some of my friends before i will leave to go to The States(More about that soon)!

It has been a bit of a tough week though. Besides all the packing and other stuff to do before leaving for Texas, my grandmother has gotten sick. In the beginning of this week she had lost her will to live and it was not looking good. But now things are starting to brigthen. She is in the hospital, which is a miracle in itself, and i am very thankful for it, and i visited her today. She looks so much better so thats great:-)

Power performance

2008-09-06T11:56:00.004+02:00

Today we had a rather unusual day at my school, called power performance. It’s a day of alternative sports of different kinds. Last week we had a normal “gym-day” where you can run and play football and things like that, but im not that much into sports so I choose to take that day off:-P Well today me and my classmate Morten had applied for stomp , which were very cool and really made everybodys pulse go up, and made me even more excited about starting to play drums(which I am thingking about) We had also applied for "Folk dancing". That was very fun too and very hard! – Im very happy that I choose to go today. It has been a lot of fun, and im very happy that God has given me this fun experience:-)

Stomp:

Parkour(where you use your body freely, to run up walls and stuff):

And here we are dancing:-P

Green Light District Festival and Intense Extreme Radio!

2008-09-04T15:47:00.003+02:00

This weekend we had the first core-meeting about the next festival: 23-25th. of January. It was great to see them all again and get started on the planning! - We are kind of untraditional about the way we have our meetings which i think is very cool:-P

Besides planning the festival, my friend Andreas and i made some organization plans for Intense Extreme Radio, which im very happy about:-)

So now i have a lot of work to get started on with those two things, which i am very excited about:-) It is a huge blessing to me! - God is SO good!

Kansas City!

2008-08-24T19:52:00.002+02:00

We have just started up again at Kansas City. Well actually first officially september 6. with "The Psyke Project", "Foot to Face" and "Road to Manila". But this weekend we had a special arrangement. Two girls had their birthday party at kansas. So it was a private event this time. We have never tried that before, but it was a VERY fun experience:-) We all wondered why these two girl had chosen Kansas City. It's a place thats very underground, we have almost only metal, rock and other very alternative music concerts. The whole staff is alternative people who loves alternative music in different ways. That day must have been the first time ever that we have experienced two DJ's and six hours of popmusic and a hundred mainstream people walking in and out of Kansas City:-) + We have never sold so many Bacardi Breezers before in one night:-)
So very different from what we are used to, but thats also very nice to try something different once in a while:-)
The people there were very nice and we(the staff) had a lot of fun:-)
There are a lot of staff on Kansas City so everytime im there, there is a new face. This time i was in the wardrobe, with a guy called Frederik. That was very cool to talk to him and get to know him a bit too:-)

I feel so blessed that i have found that place! - God has really been good to me! - I love being there, the poeple are so cool and we have a lot of fun, and get a lot of great music experiences! - I think im going to be there a lot this year:-) For now i have to great concerts i can look forward to:-)

Mallorca!

2008-08-04T16:15:00.009+02:00

In this years vacation, my family and i was invited to Mallorca by my grandmother and grandfather, because of my grandmothers 80 years birthday:-) So we were 10 people:-)
It was a great week! - So many cool experiences:-) I have never been on this kind of vacation before and have never tried to fly before, so for me it was something brand new for me:-)

Above you will see the "Mini Disco" which was every night at the hotel! - 2 members of the staff had some children-songs in english, german and spanish, which they had made some moves too:-P That was pretty cool, that they had that every night for the kids:-)

Above: Live music by the pool...

As citizens of Odense in the very small country of Denmark, we were kind of proud that we meet the name of our football club in Spain:-P

Above: What this vacation was all about! - This cake was given by our guides on the trip:-) Very nice of them!!

Påruplejr 2008!

2008-07-08T15:04:00.006+02:00

Like last year i spend the first week of my vacation together with a lot of children. Apostolic church has this summercamp each year for children in the age of 7-12. I have been on it as a child and now im there to help out. There were 80 children there...Our visions with it is to tell the children about Jesus, and have fun with them.
One thing that really struck me is all the problems kids have! - They struggle with stuff that adults have a very hard time dealing with! - So we want to give these children a week of good experiences and new friends.
It has been really fun, and a learning experience!

Just a picture from this years activity day, were we have one big game that we play all day, were we dress up and stuff...This year we were in space:-P

Here is the picture from last year...If you are in any doubt we were pirates:-P

TeenMax weekend!

2008-06-15T16:28:00.006+02:00

I have been working in with the teenagers in our church for 2 years now. This year the whole group execpt one is leaving to go to boarding schools and one for Highschool in California. So we spend this weekend from Friday to Saturday with them one last time as teenagers in our chuch-group called TeenMax! - A bit sad to say goodbye, but we have had some great times, and we will see each other again:-)
It was a nice weekend, and as always we do some, well different things:-P
This time we camped inside the church, as you may be able to see on this dark picture:

We started the day eating together and then we went to see a outdoor concert with Odense Symphony Orchestra. They played move-music! There were: Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, and best of all: The Simpsons!!
Quite an experience!

We rented a move called Balls of Fury...

It was quite fun, very black humor if you can call it that in english:-)
When we got home before we watched the movie, some just wanted a bath:

I dont know what to say about that, other than we have a very cool youth Pastor, and you can guess for yourself what we usually use this pool for:-P
He is the one in the picture...Actually the youth Pastor, the youth leader, and 2 of the teenagers were all under the water, both before the movie and after:-P The rest of us were just walking around in the water:-)

Im looking forward to starting up with a new group of young teenagers after this summer break:-)

HardRockHalleluja!

2008-06-09T22:06:00.005+02:00

Once again i had an awesome weekend!
I went to Germany with Solace The Day, Pastor Bob and two more friends(Martin and Jared) to a concert event in a church called Hard Rock Halleluja. Fantastic company to have! We were welcomed with loads of food and a lots of love:-P
I felt very welcome, and it was very sad to leave again! - They had done a great job, and a lot of people worked together from the church! - Really cool to experience that!
The 3 great bands did a great job too! - The bands and all the german people were so nice, and cool to hang out with!

I got this bracelet as a gift to remember a new friendship from one of the girls i meet there! - She was very nice, and hope to see her again soon!

Pantokrator:

The crowed:

Just some fun(or what the swedish called crazy danes:-P):

I just seems like everywhere i go, Jonas is always sitting in a tree:

Thank you God for a great weekend!

GLDF! - Green Light District Festival!

2008-06-03T17:41:00.013+02:00

What a huge Blessing!
This weekend it finally happend! - We had the second Christian Metal Festival in Denmark!
I have really enjoyed working with the festival, and to see people enjoying the festival so much just made it even more worth it! - So many people came to help, and to support it, it was incredible! - And so encourageing! - There is so many people to say thank you to!
None of this could have happened without God! - Everytime a problem came up, God send the solution right away:-)He has just made me so happy, and confirmed me in that the direction im going in is the right one!

This weekend have been blessed in SO many ways! - I have no words that can describe it:-) Im even more excited about the future of the Christian Metal scene in Denmark after this weekend!

Here is just a few pictures from a fantastic weekend in Fjellerup:
Some hard working people:

Jonas:

Lars, Signe and Nivi:

Here is a band called Drottnar! - They were probably the most extreme band we had this year! - It was great having them there:-)

.....

2008-05-20T17:58:00.002+02:00

So many things are going on at the moment!

One of them is Green Light District Festival, that is going to happen in just 9 days now! - That is so amazing, and im looking very much forward to it - We just meet this weekend to get an overview of what we have to get done. It is all very exciting and there is lots to do, but i love doing it! :-) God has given me so much joy in doing this! - I love him so much!

The days are flying, im in school for 8 hours every day at the moment to finish an exam-project, and it takes up my times at home too - Im just looking forward to being finished now:-)

- www.myspace.com/greenlightdistrictfestival

Ascension Day!

2008-05-01T18:57:00.007+02:00

Today we celebrated Ascension Day with a tradition that started in our church some time ago. It has not been held for 11 years until today. I actually remember that i was with my father and some of his friends on that ralley 11 years ago. Today we did the first Ascension-ralley in 11 years! - It was very fun, and a great way to do something with your family and friends from church. We drove 100km just around Fyn. It has been a while since i have seen Fyn like that. I had forgotten that it is not only Jylland that has beautiful nature like that:-P We had to answer 25 questions on the way, and make sure we spend not more not less than 3 hours and 30 minutes on the route. It went okay my family and I ended up in a shared 3rd place out of 12 cars:-)

My mon and dad by the car...

Some nature:

My dad again, looking cool:-P

One of the questions...nice color:-P

Kansas on the road:-P

2008-05-01T18:49:00.004+02:00

Yesterday i went to an Asian restaurant here in Odense. Its called Djengis Kahn. Im not use to eating that much Asian food so it was nice to try something different:-)
It was an invitation by Kansas City. It was very nice to meet and talk to the people who work there under different circumstances than usual, and to get to know them better - Very nice and cool people!

DrEAds!!

2008-04-28T11:42:00.006+02:00

Last weekend i got dreads again! - I have missed it very much, so im very happy that they are back:-)
I had a good friend to come and make them. Very nice of her to use 2 days of her weekend on making them! - I am very happy with the result:-)

Just made:

Crazy pics:

Crazy Easteregg/bag

2008-04-11T15:36:00.005+02:00

My grandparents have the tradition to give us "kids" an easteregg. So last week we went to my grandparents house to celebrate my grandfathers birthday. Me, my brother and my 2 cousins got A LOT of candy that we should share! - It looked like my grandmother had bought half of Føtex candy-deparment, it was crazy! - I have never seen so much candy in one place before! - So we did not get a easteregg, but what i would rather call a easterbag - A thing that my grandparent diffenately are is generous, that they have always been:-)
My candys weight is just over 1kg!! - Thats crazy! - I diffenately cant eat that alone:-)

The very nice decoration that my grandfather made:-P

Great, amazing week!!

2008-04-05T14:33:00.004+02:00

A lot of things has been going on this past week:-)
It has been a REALLY great amazing week, so great that i have decided to blog about it:-) I have had a lot of time off from school, so i skipped doing homework last week.(which now means that i have 7 missing assignments, but hey, its fine)I just had a lot of time to hear so much music, while being in my own little world focusing on God and the projects he has blessed me with. One of them is the Green Light District Festival which a lot of my time goes to. It is really exciting at the moment. And it starts forming and looking like a festival now! - I love working on it:-)

Besides that i am getting ready to get my dreads back!! - That is going to be very very great:-D I miss them soo much! - So this week i had a friend over to color the back of my hair black....looks very weird, but thats good:-P
The picture below pretty much says everything:-P

Easter! - Part 3

2008-03-23T21:59:00.006+01:00

The last days of the vacation i spend in Esbjerg with my good friend Vikki. We made what i think would be called a "girls night"
We were hanging out watching some movies the first night. Apparently we are very bad at chooseing the right movies:-P But we had besides the movies also rented some episodes of Gilmore Girls which we always enjoy watching for some reason:-P
We had also bought Ben & Jerry's ice cream, very american:-)

We got really tired that night and took a lot of crazy pictures with us having in (my opinion)A LOT of make up on, well it was fun:-P

Sunday we went to church. I like to visit other churches and see how they do things, so that was a cool experience too:-)

Easter! - Part 2

2008-03-23T21:32:00.004+01:00

Thursday evening i had another shift in Kansas City - It is only my second one, but it seems like everytime i go there i get something really great out of it! - It is truely a blessing!
This time a man named Claus Hempler was playing and a New Yorker named Niell C. Furio(could'nt find a picture of him)was supporting.

(Claus Hempler)

I was working right next to the bandroom, were the musicians were walking around making ready to go on stage. I litterally almost tripped over Claus Hempler...ups...but it was quite fun:-) It is cool to see how they each appriciate the voulunteer work. The supporter Niell was very cool and always had something to say as he walked by. He was really friendly in a way you dont find that often. He travels to Denmark once a year to study danish politics, because he finds it fun:-P
Cool fellow:-)
All in all a great night!

Easter! - Part 1

2008-03-23T20:45:00.004+01:00

Another vacation is over now, and it has been great! - I have been able to spend some time with friends i don't see that much. First my good friend Nivi was here to visit me.

We were hanging out, watching movies, fixing computers and taking a trip into town. That was a lot of fun, and we ended up spending a little money, and checking out a new peircing and tattoo shop:-P It was great seeing her again!