Once we got off the plane, we went off to get our bags. Two of the American girls were getting picked up in Copenhagen so their luggage came through the baggage pick-up. Oregon guy, Idaho, Canada, and I had one more connecting flight to Aarhus and where we'd be picked up by our families.
We told the Rotarian who came to aid us at the airport that we were told we would have to recheck our baggage one last time in Copenhagen so we waited, and waited for our bags to come through. The line signaled that there were no more baggages coming so we had to figure out what was going on.
The Rotarian called some people and found out that we didn't need to recheck our luggage and that we should've already been on our plane! We rushed to try and catch the plane, but we missed it by only five minutes. I mean the bus was driving so fast I was surprised we didn't hit a curb!
After a few calls, where we didn't know what was going on, because we didn't speak a lick of Danish, we were lead towards the train station. We were going to ride the train to Aarhus! This was exciting for me. I'd never been on a train before.
We were given our first class train tickets and the Rotarian waved us off. The train lurched forward and off we went on our adventure. We drove across the country of Denmark, going through underwater tunnels we were unaware of and stopping at stations with weird names we could not pronounce.
Oh, except Middelfart! We could read that one pretty well. I couldn't help but giggle, and even though the others chastised me on my childishness, the man sitting across the aisle from us did get a kick from my amusement. We also passed through the city of Skanderborg, where I would be going to school and living for the year.
At 1 or 2 AM on August 2, 2009, I was finally received my first family. HC and Marianne, had smiles on their faces, and welcomed me with hugs. I was only going to stay with them for the first week but that just added to the adventure. On the drive home, they told me how there were many of them at the airport waiting for us to arrive, and that they were very worried when they found out we would be arriving by train instead of plane. I would have loved to speak, but I was speechless. I was shocked by their hospitality and so grateful they stayed up so late to come pick me up.
The first thing I did when I got to the house, was take a shower. After over 50 hours of traveling, I felt dirty. As soon as I was scrubbed clean, HC asked me if I would like to call my parents to let them know I had arrived. I explained that it was during the middle of the day and no one would be home so we settled on calling the following moring. As soon as I was tucked in bed, I was out like a light.
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