A Little Walk in the Rain

I have had a fabulous day today. I did not hoerer like that Simon læs sick today. He had to go home from church after the second hour. After churh i had choir ad the hadede home. Pia ssad that i lokkede ver summer-y since i had wavy curly hair and a white dress on. After church Simon and i just hung out and watched 2 Disney movies and the end of The Other Side of Heaven. We also went for a little walk in the rain. It wasn't raining until after we stepped outside. It was actually very cute and romantic. We swung together both alone and doubled up. It was a lot of fun. When it raining a little harder we took shelter under a little patio building roof thing. There Simon held me in his arms while we watched it rain. Afterwards we headed home. The park we were at is only like 2 minutes away so we were close enough. Oddly enough it stopped raining while we were walking home. It was a really fun and romantic walk. I am really happy that Simon is feeling better. I love him so much. Oh! I gave him a hair cut yesterday. He is SO hott! He looks fantastic with his new haircut!! I love him so much it's crazy. Well its almost time to head to bed.
Hugs
Rachel

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d. 2. august 2011

so I got a new phone today. It's the samsung galaxy s 2. I really really like it. I've just been experimenting with a few things. I want to get a new laptop soon too. we had to get a bank loan today because we didn't have enough money for stuff. oh and I finished my book today. It was really good. it is called the assassins quest. I'm using the speak now feature of my phone and it is doing a pretty good job at recognizing my voice! my phone is so cool!!

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Being Sick

So last night i went to bed around midnight and Simon said he wasn't ready to go to bed yet. So he ended up playing until around 3. I fell asleep sitting up by leaning on lure beanbag. I just could not sleep laying down. I ended up waking up around 4 am!! How annoying! Luckily i was able to get back to sleep. The next time i woke up i found myself laying flat. Ugh. I must have slipped off the beanbag. After 1 more attempt at sleep i woke up with Simon around 9. I feel LOADS better today. I am truly blessed! We do.t have much planned for today. I think we are just going to relax.

I am so happy it isn't raining. <3
I love my hubby!

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Sick

I'm sick. Blaggh. I thought it was only allergies like I've had for the past week or so but this morning it was different. I felt worse. I am sure that it didn't help that i stayed up until 2 and got up at 730 to go to work. I was supposed to help Karl move but i needed a hot shower after riding the scooter in the rain. By this point I'm just miserable. Simon was very helpful. He got a lot of stuff for me. He got me water and even made me a sandwich (which i ended up not eating anyway). I love you him so much. He is so sweet.
After he went to work I txted my friend Line. She came over after she was finished cleaning the church. We talked, ate some French bread, and watched 2 movies. It was really fun and nice to have someone here with me. Simon came home a little time later. We've just been hanging out and we ate some dinner. We read scriptures and now I am watching scrubs while Simon plays some PS3. I am definitely looking forward to a good night sleep.

I just found out that I might be able to get 2 of my nursing books cheap! Yay for saving money.

I am signing off now.
Hugs and kisses xoxo
-Rachel

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Today :)

I had an interesting day today. I had to work today but i didn't ant to wake Simon up, so I acted lime a ninja and snuck out of the house. I missed my goodbye kiss but Im glad i took one for the team. :P I worked for about 4 hours today. I came home to an empty house since Simon was out with one of his best friends Dennis. I started cleaning up for when Dennis and Simon would come back for lunch. We had sour cream burritos while we watched The Big Bang Theory. Afterwards i made a few quesadillas for them and their never-ending stomachs. :D I was told they were delicious so that's good! I just got finished getting ready for a church barbecue. I hope it is as fun as last time. Frisbee Interception!! Lol. We're going to be heading out in a little bit.
Hugs and kisses xoxo

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Accepted!!!

I got accepted to nursing school. I am sooo excited. I waited to open the letter until Simon had a chance to call me from his work. I was so happy when I found out that I had been accepted.

After the happiness though came shock. I was starting to get really nervous the more I read about the first 4 days at school. I was most scared for the name-game that we would be playing. I'm good enough at danish but what if I can't understand and look like a total fool on the very first day. :/ I hope I can just laugh it all off.

Other than that first initial shock phase I was pretty much excited. I hope to keep writing on this blog throughout the school to tell y'all about taking nursing school in a foreign language (danish).

Wish me luck!! I start the 29th of august 2011 (på sygeplejerskeskolen i Randers)!!

Done with the language school

I got a 12 on my exam!!!
(no it's not 12 out of 100 like in the states) Here it is a 100!!

I am so happy. I am all done with the language school. It feels weird knowing that I'm not going to be going to school tomorrow.

We are going to celebrate at one of our teacher's (Susanne) house. I'm looking forward to it!

Tonight Simon and I are going to celebrate by ordering pizza and maybe seeing a movie too!

Hugs
Rachel

Letter to Grethe #1 - Trip to the states

Howdy Grethe!!

I got your letter!! Thanks Grethe. It totally made me smile. I have been really busy over here, but I now have a Saturday morning to just sit and write (well type) but you know what I mean. :P Simon says hi. He's working right now but he still says hi. :D

My trip to the states was AWESOME!! We were soooo busy. We did so much while we were there. In the first weekend alone we went paintballing, swimming and ate pizza!! The next week we stayed at my sister's house all week. The only problem was that she didn't have airconditioning. It was so HOT! She did have a little window unit that worked to cool the living room down so we stayed in the living room (where the TV and computer) was. During that week, my sister Becky and I went to Six Flags Amusement Park. It was a total blast!! We went early enough so that we didn't have to wait too long in all the lines. I was (by this point) already burned sadly but luckily it was too much to slow me down. Later in the week we went swimming again and played cards with the family. I went shopping a lot too but that was mostly in the second week.

The weekend of the first week Simon, Melanie, my mom and dad, and I drove up to Arkansas. It was like a 5 hour drive. We were going up to see some hot springs. We checked into our hotel (Mom had gotten Simon and I our OWN ROOM!! - this was the first one we had ever been in alone) and then afterwards go ready to go to some hotsprings. It ended up that we just went shopping and looking around. We didn't see anything that we wanted to pay for so we ended up just going back to the hotel at swimming at the pool they had there. Earlier in the week Simon had bought an underwater videocamera. It is soo cool! It has sound and everything. We played with that until it had no battery left. lol. That night mel hung out in our room until it was time to go to bed.

Oh and I forgot. Earlier on Saturday mel, dad and I did a treetop zipline adventure (which basically had a lot of ziplines to slide down). It was really fun!! Simon and my mom didn't dare try it. I thought it was fun! I'll have to send in some pictures too.

Well, Sunday morning we drove back into Texas and later had our big family game night. It was great to see everyone and we did our Sunday golf ball hunt... except it got dark so early that we couldn't really see any golf balls to pick up. It was still fun playing catch with becky, her husband ariel, melanie, and becky's two boys.

The next tuesday my sister Jenni, her husband Eric, and their 3 kids drove Simon and me out to their timeshare resort. It was AWESOME!! They own a presidential room right on the lake. They even gave us the lake room so that everytime we looked out our window we saw that lake. It was gorgeous. We went swimming a twice and watched some cartoons with the kids. It was a very relaxing trip.

We drove home (only 2 hours) Thursday around noon so that I could get to my brother's apartment (John) to do his fiance's hair (Lexie). She was getting married Thursday night and I had agreed to do her hair in an updo. They lived so far away!! I drove for like an hour before I got to their house. I will never complain about how far away you live again. :P I did her hair and made her a little late since I was done only 5 minutes before they needed to go (and she still needed to get dressed and put her make-up on... whoops). It was a private wedding (so only her parents and my parents) but they had a reception on Saturday that everyone was invited to. I did her hair again Saturday before the reception and i even put on some clear nail polish! I barely had time for that though since she needed to get out to greet the guests. :P The reception looked great! I'll have to send some pics of that as well. :D The food/snacks tasted great and I had fun seeing some of my aunts, my great uncle mike, and my Grandma. I also got to dance with Simon, my dad, and great uncle Mike. It enjoyed myself a lot! :) Funny story - Some of our clothes were at my moms place and some at beckys so that morning I went and picked up Simon's clothes and church shoes and took them to beckys before I headed up to Lexie's apartment to do her hair. Later at the reception Simon shows up in tennis shoes because he said that he didn't have church shoes (which I had put in a bag on the bed next to his suit) but he didn't see it. So he ended up walking around in black socks without any shoes on! he he. You could hardly tell though - luckily.

Oh that the night before the reception every on Ariels side of the family (Becky's husband) went camping so that gave Simon and I the house to ourselves. That night we drove our to Becky's parents-in-laws house and swam in their pool without all the little kids. It was very relaxing not having all the kids around. We got home afterwards (oh and we saw 4 cars parked under the freeway that looked way toooooo suspicious - so we called the police) and fell asleep (actually instead of sleeping in the hot room in the back we pulled their 2 couches together and slept right under the window airconditioning unit. he he. Well around 3 in the morning becky and ariel come home. They said that some ants found a dirty diaper in their tent and swarmed the tent. Luckily enough they weren't the kind of ants that bite. It was awful anyway. But they still had a good time.

We had some good talks on Sunday in sacrament but since we were so worn out from being so tired and busy we went home after sacrament. Later we had a family dinner and games. That sunday night we didn't go golf ball hunting but we did have fun throwing a HUGE frisbee and TINY football around. It was hilarious. Me and becky would run towards every ball trying to get to it first. We laughed so hard. Sadly enough monday came and it was time to start getting ready to go home. Luckily I packed most of monday so that we wouldn't have to do so much monday.... that didn't happen. We were SOOO busy. We had several stores to go to, we took my great uncle mike out, and met some of my family at the mall for some chinese. In the end I had forgotten to pack the last check-on luggage that all the food that I was bringing home but luckily enough mom had a box from the wedding in her trunk. I brought home Macoroni and cheese, some poptarts (the real kind :P), some sour patch kids candy, and some cream of mushroom soup. (oh and like 5 boxes of good ol' breakfast cereal and 2 HUGE jars of cruncy peanut butter) ha ha.

Overall it was a REALLY busy vacation. There were only 2 days were Simon and I were alone. :P I loved it. I'm so happy Simon got to go with me this time. Oh and the flights were ok. Sleeping in the airport was ok (not the funnest) and on the way home we slept the ENTIRE way. lol. It's crazy that we were still tired when we came home.

So I finished half of my Danish test. I got a 10 in the essay part and a 12 in the læseforståelse!! I'm soooooo happy!!! Yay!! I have my last mundtlige exam on monday. I'm a little nervous but not too much (yet :P). I had a practice test yesterday with the two girls that are going into the exam room with me. It went well and I have high hopes for monday. I'm praying that Heavenly Father will continue to help me. :D

Well, I know this letter is getting pretty long but i didn't want to leave anything out. :P I miss you and I hope you are having a total blast!!

I know that this church is true and I love how one could travel all the way across the world and the church would still teach the same principles and ordinances. I love my family and my Heavenly Father. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

I'll write again when I figure out what grade I get for my mundtlige exam! Have a great week!!

Med venlig hilsen
Rachel

PS This letter is so long that I haven't gone through to correct it. I hope you can understand it all. :P
PSS Say hi to Sister Brown for me!! :D :D

Final Danish Tests

My 2 final exam tests for my Danish class are coming up. They are :
d. 24. maj - written exam
d. 20. juni - oral exam

I'm a little nervous for it but I also feel pretty prepared for it.

I'm also excited for our trip to the states!!! I'm soooo looking forward to being there and getting to see John's wedding!! :D

See y'all soon!!
Hugs and Kisses XOXO

Inspirational Program : Personal Progress

I LOVE personal progress!! I was working on Virtue #5 this evening and I really felt the spirit very strongly. I was able to pray and receive an answer to my prayers. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and wants me to be the best I can. I know that I can receive a forgiveness for my sins through Jesus' atoning sacrifice.

Tonight I really felt the importance of Personal Progress. It is a program set forth to help the Young Women throughout the world learn of God. We learn that He is there and that He loves us all dearly. I felt very strongly that Personal Progress is a true program inspired by God.

I'm am grateful that I get to work with the Young Women of the Randers Branch. I am so blessed and happy. I love my loving husband and my caring family. Jeg er så taknemmelig for alt jeg har og alt Gud har givet mig. Tusind tak alle sammen for jeres kærlighed og hjælp.
Jeg ved at disse ting er sandt. I Jesu Kristi navn. Amen.

Translating Education

I'm thinking of applying to nursing school. The only problem is that I have to translate my American Education over to Danish. They application deadline for nursing school is March 15 so I'm not sure if I can get my "Danish Equivalent" paper back in time to apply. If I can, I'm totally going for it.

Birgit, Ole, and Simon all helped to make sure I had all the papers I needed. I'm going to send it in tomorrow's mail. I'll let ya know how it goes! :D

Blizzard in Texas 2011

There's a huge blizzard thing going on in Texas right now (oh and a cyclone in Australia - wet and winds up the 300km,/hr). It looks cold and snowy in Texas. I had a great winter here. We had the snow, ice, and ice skating. I am looking forward to Spring though. I have a bunch of capris I want to wear outside but it's still just a little too cold for that. I least we got out of the negative celsius numbers. :P

I love my family!!
-Rachel

Just Dance 2

Simon brought home a surprise from work the other day! I was so excited!!

He bought me Just Dance 2!!

Last Sunday Birgit held a 2nd day of Christmas party and Benedicte brought over Just Dance 2. We had SO much playing it together. Almost everyone tried it too! Check out the pics!

It was hard, yet fun. I even went over to Birgit's again today to play it with her. It is a really great work-out since it's easy and fun.

Hugs and Kisses XOXO

Rachel Anne

Pre-Christmas Post 2010

I think I'm ready for one more blog post before the holidays. It has been crazy busy here. Simon has been working this crazy long work schedule (usually 9:30am to 8:00pm if not more) and I had my receptionist job and my cleaning job with the language school on top of that.

Still that's all normal for us now. What's been so hectic is that we are having family over for Christmas. There will be 12 here tomorrow. We've had to plan out what we want to do and go shopping for presents and pakkeleg (christmas game) presents. I think I am mostly all done. The only thing I have not bought is something to go on the top of our Christmas tree.

Well for Christmas this year Simon and I both got a LARGE present along with a few small ones. I got a violin and he got a Brand New SLR Camera. He's going to get it today.

I'll post again when I find out all that we get for Christmas.

I still don't know what to do for the untalent show. I've been wracking(?) my brain and I haven't come up with anything spectacular. I hope I find something soon. :P

I hope y'all all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
XOXO

IKU Work

I want to start off by just saying how blessed I truly am. I get so much help it is incredible.
So I had a cleaning job that I did for like 5 hours a week but then I got a call (while on the Temple Trip 2010) about maybe taking a 2 hour (monday-thursday) receptionist job. Their receptionist works until 14.30, so they would like me to work from 14.00 - 16.00. I was so excited and nervous at the same time. I wasn't sure if I understood enough Danish for that. Well I went in and it I talked with L.P. and we arranged a time when I could come for training. I met them Monday and it was Wednesday that I was to have training.
So I came on Wednesday and started training. It was easy enough. L.I. took most of the phone calls but then she had to go out and buy some koffee milk. I then had to take the phone calls. The phone rang. I was nervous but I had a job to do. I answered "IKU det er Rachel" and the words that I heard in response sounded like this... .............. . I couldn't understand a word of what he said. Not a word. I'm also totally new so I had no idea what he might be saying too. He was getting pretty angry with me too. Luckily L.P. came to the rescue. She answered the phone and talked with him. Later C.N. said that he apoligized for that. I understand now why he felt the way he did.

Later I teared up about it but I got over it. :) I love this job so much. I'm starting to get the hang of it. I've still got SO much to learn but I'm learning quickly.

(Little insert: I'm at work now. (I know... I'm working really hard.... or is it hardly working... lol jk jk) I just made a joke in danish!! I love when I can do that. There is a koffee machine that you pay 3kr for a cup of chocolate, tea, or coffee. The key was in so you can get free coffee and a man came up and put 20kr in the machine. Since the key was in he didn't have to pay for the coffee. He then turned to me to see where the 17 kr were (and 3 kr for the cup). I went over and pushed the return change and took the key out and I handed him the 20kr (He was expecting 17kr). He was a little surprised about it and I was like "you won! :P" He laughed. Ha ha ha. I know it's corny but it was funny and in Danish. Lol. I remember my mom and dad saying that you know you know danish when you can joke in Danish. (I'm on my way to understanding enough). There is one here that jokes in Danish a lot and it is so hard to understand if he is serious or joking. I'm slowly learning that he is mostly always joking. This was just a side note whle I was writing my update).

I come in to work every weekend except Friday. I love it! I take the phone calls and prepare the mail/stamps and things. I also great the kandidates when they come in. I love working here.

L.I. was sick so I got to come in earlier than I usually do. Tuesday I came in 12.08 until 16.18. I loved it. This morning they called again. I was supposed to clean but I called Grethe and she took my cleaning job. I hope that I don't get in trouble from my Cleaning boss. I tried to call her to ask but she didn't answer. :/ We'll see. :)

I've been here at work from 10.15 and will work until 16.00. I'm glad I had my work. I'm happy they called too. I missed my language school class but that's alright because we had a sub anyway.

Well time for a little more lunch. Just in case I didn't say it enough. I LOVE my receptionist job!!!

Knus
Rachel

Simply Put

I love Simon Holm Bendtsen.

Cleaning Job

I got a job!!!

The other day I went online to look at any jobs that I might apply to. I found one that looked promising enough. The other good thing was that I could just call them and talk to them about the job. I called Gitte and (in my broken Dan-glish) I asked about the job. She said that she only had a job for 5 hours a week (in my area) and said that I could send her my info over email so that she could send me more info on the job. 

So I sent my info and after a little while she told me a little more about the job. Overall I found out that it's 3 hours on Tuesday and 2 hours on Thursday. I will be cleaning 3 different offices in Randers (and a little on my time schedule). She also said that Simon (the cleaning leader) would call me when he would pick me up for work on Tuesday to see if I want the job still.

It was a little embarrassing yesterday when work-Simon (we'll call him that so you don't think that it's my hubby) called yesterday for the first time. He spoke Danish so fast and I could not understand him at all. I asked him to speak english and at first I still didn't understand. By the end of the call I could understand what he was saying. I think was just sooo nervous that it influenced my hearing/understanding capabilities.

He called when he was like 5 minutes away from my house. I went downstairs to wait and it took only 2 minutes until he was there. I wasn't sure if it was him because I had no idea what he looked like and what type of car he drove. Luckily he rolled down his window asked if it was me and I asked if it was Simon. SO yeah, then we were on our way to our first cleaning place.

It was just a small little office with a little kitchen and bathroom. It was so easy to clean. It was nothing like cleaning in the Kindergarten (which was HARD work). It was funny when work-Simon told the office owner that I would be working there and said that it was good and that I was nice to look at (it's hard to translate it). Woohoo! :P (Don't worry this was an older guy who said this...).

So we drove a little bit and we talked about how Simon and I met and our marriage and things on the way to the next office. This place was also easy to clean. It was just one office and a few restrooms. It was easy as well. We finished and started on our way to our next and last office.

On the way I kicked myself for not having a pass-a-long card in my purse. We talked a little about the church but not too much (pretty much that I believe in God who is the same always (prophets) and how we are not like Jehovah's Witnesses. He said he didn't know what he believed in but that he wanted to figure out what he believed before going to church. (something like that). Anyway, I'll bring a pass-a-long card this next Thursday when I go again. 

The last office was 3 times as big as the other ones. They had more rooms (but not too many). I think this last one will be the hardest to clean. 

I'm excited for my new job. I'm happy that it's only 5hrs so it's not too much in starting out. 
Knus fra (hugs from)
Rachel

The Two Trees

I received an article from a church friend on the story of Adam and Eve. It is a wonderful way to show that men and women are equal and have definite roles that they each play. I'm going to attach a link from fairlds.org and let you have the opportunity to read it in full. I hope this helps give a different perspective (but same principles) on the events that happened in the Garden of Eden.

http://www.fairlds.org/FAIR_Conferences/2010_The_Two_Trees.html

Just a note:
FAIR is not owned, controlled by or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All research and opinions provided on this site are the sole responsibility of FAIR, and should not be interpreted as official statements of LDS doctrine, belief or practice.

Another Day At School

So I had another great day at the language school. Right now we have a teacher called Annette Yde. She has been a teacher for like 29 years and she is so GREAT!! I have learned so much in her classes. 

Simon made "oatmeal cookies" today. It ended up being to runny and turned into a cookie cake. It was SO sweet and of course we ate it anyway.   :P

So my best friend Majorie is due December 4th 2010. Today, while waiting for Simon to get off work, we sat in the library (it's HUGE!!) and talked about her last experience. It gave me a little bit of baby fever. I think I'm starting to get ready to make an absolute decision about having a baby. 

...I mean that up until now I've kind of not been sure if I was completely ready for a child but I think being around Majorie (who has an almost 2 year old and one on the way) had helped me stop freaking out so much. Thanks Majorie. :) Now I'm not freaking out so much and really looking forward to my turn.

Hopefully soon... we'll just have to wait and see. :P

Well, I'm going to go read the last chapter of my book. Love you all!

XOXO Rachel Anne

Brief Note

I loved reading about Melanie's college life. It is great following all of that. I can't wait to start school now.

I just did a big presentation about my life,childhood and family. I loved being in front of the class. I can feel that my Danish is really improving. I hope to be able to work really soon. I'm probably going to apply at a Rema 1000 or Superbest (kind of like Albertsons but WAY smaller). I'll keep y'all posted on if I get a job or not. :)

I have posted a lot of pictures on facebook on my recent sailing trip, baking experiences among other things. Let me know if you have questions or anything! I love y'all and miss y'all loads!!
Rachel