The second day in the United States

Sunday

Our day started with breakfast at the hotel, we had a lot of time this morning which was very nice after we did not get enough sleep saturday. We went out for some shopping at the forenoon in local shopping centre, called “East towne Mall”.

At noon we walked to Reindahl Park, where we were going to meet with our mentors. We found it awkward in the beginning,  when we all were sitting in the shelter and we did not know who our mentors were. However the atmosphere got better in the shelter and we found our mentors except from Signe, Tanya and Cecilie.

The park where we meet our mentors. 

Mentor experience:

Emilie’s mentor experience:

My mentor was very friendly, I am in a group of three students and one mentor, we got along quite well, she understands our danish humour and was very excited to learn about our danish traditions, mentality and values.

We had a great time talking to each other, we asked a lot of questions and joked with each other. Afterwards the welcome lunch in the shelter, our mentor (Sarah) asked us if wanted to go somewhere. We decides together to go to the farm, sassy cow, which is located on the countryside, 20 minutes from madison. The farm was very exciting to see, and their ice-cream was even better.

We talked with few of their animals they have on the farm. This experience on the farm made the relationship with Sarah great.

"The sassy cow farm"

"Birgit smiling at a sheep"

Signe, Cecilie and Tanyas’ mentor experience:

Signe, Cecilie and Tanya have the same mentor which is why they are writing our mentor experience together.The mentor we were supposed to have did not show up because of some personal things. So in the beginning we did not have a mentor, but after a short time a very sweet teacher from Madison College and her sweet daughter started a conversation with us. We were with these two lovely persons the rest of the afternoon and we had so much fun. They told us so many things about America and their culture and values, and we told them about Denmark and Europe. As an example they told us about the american tradition “Homecoming” which is a huge thing in the american high school. We are exactly going to see a homecoming football game on Friday. They were so open-minded and friendly and we really couldn’t ask for more. We already know that we will see them again when they are coming on a visit in Denmark with some other people from Madison College which we are looking very much forward to.

"From the left to right Cecilie, Brenna, Signe and Tanya"

Maja's mentor experience:

Afternoon/evening

At the evening we went out to eat and some of us girls ate at a good restaurant called Friday’s, where we got real American food. Afterwards we went on a little shopping in the East Towne Mall. And as perfect end of the day we have some relax time in the pool before we went to bed.

"Real American food"