English Exam: Letter to my Rotary Club in DK
For en måned siden havde jeg nogle test eksamener på min skole i New Zealand. Da jeg havde engelsk eksamen fik jeg denne opgave: ”Skriv et brev til din sponserende Rotary Klub i Danmark, hvor du takker dem og fortæller dem hvad du har oplevet på din udveksling” Så jeg skrev en lille stil, som jeg nu har fået tilbage. Min lærer synes det var rigtig godt, og gav mig ”Excellence”(den bedste karakter). Jeg tænkte, at jeg synes I skal have lov til at læse hvad jeg skrev, for jeg mener virkelig hvert et ord af hvad jeg skrev:
Dear Rotary Club of Brønshøj
I am writing you a letter to tell you how excited I am to be on exchange in New Zealand. I want to tell you how much it means to me, that you chose to sponsor me to go on a Rotary Youth Exchange for a year. It is definitely the best decision you and I could ever make in my life.
I have been here for almost two months. Time is definitely flying when you are having fun. I have already experienced a lot, and I don’t even know where to start. Just the experience of leaving everything in Denmark: The people you love, the school, the food and the way your life was, and then to travel to a new country where you don’t know anybody is a huge experience.
To jump into a new culture is very interesting. A great cultural experience I had, was when I went to a Marae for a weekend. I went with 8 other exchange students and 8 kiwi’s who are going on exchange next year. We learned a lot about the Maori culture and it gave us a much better insight of who the Maori’s are. I also got many new friends from that weekend. Exchange students always get on so well with each other, probably because we know exactly how it is to be an exchange student and we can share our feelings to people we know will understand us. An axchange student gets these experiences that nobody else gets.
I think it’s amazing to experience living your life in a new country and experience how different it is. My life is totally different from how it was in Denmark. I live with a new family that I had to fit into, but surprisingly it just happened naturally. I feel at home with my new hostfamily and that’s one of the most important things.
Every morning I take the bus into town where my school is. And it is so much more different than school in Denmark. My new school St Mary’s College is a catholic school for girls only, which makes a big difference already. I have to call my teachers Miss and Mister and I am only studying 7 subjects where I in Denmark had a very relaxed, personal and unformal relationship with my teachers, and I was studying 13 subjects. And also: I have to wear a school uniform which I have never tried before. I must say that I prefer the Danish school, but I really love to get this experience of trying something totally different.
There are so many things that are different, but I don’t really care, because I just see it as a part of being on exchange in a unfamiliar country. You wouldn’t go on exchange in your own country or neighboring country, because the possibility that most things would be the same is big. I’m on the other side of the world now, living in a country I didn’t know anything about before I started thinking about going on exchange one year ago.
I have travelled to a country without knowing what to expect and knowing how my life would be. I have taken a change, jumped into the dark water without knowing what existed on the bottom, and now I’m seeing what I never in my life could imagine. This world is full of opportunities who’s just waiting for us to take the jump and live life.
Right now I’m surrounded by girls writing down the last words in their exam, stressing and worrying about getting their excellence. Thinking about what their parents will say if they don’t, and how it will influence their further education and future. I have realized that life is not only about education and money. It’s about living while you can, doing things you never thought you would, and enjoying every second of it.
My world is bigger now, my life has changed, I have changed and I always will. Rotary Club of Brønshøj, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, I am so grateful for what you have done for me. Thank you!
Regards from Esther van Vliet Thomsen
Dear Rotary Club of Brønshøj
I am writing you a letter to tell you how excited I am to be on exchange in New Zealand. I want to tell you how much it means to me, that you chose to sponsor me to go on a Rotary Youth Exchange for a year. It is definitely the best decision you and I could ever make in my life.
I have been here for almost two months. Time is definitely flying when you are having fun. I have already experienced a lot, and I don’t even know where to start. Just the experience of leaving everything in Denmark: The people you love, the school, the food and the way your life was, and then to travel to a new country where you don’t know anybody is a huge experience.
To jump into a new culture is very interesting. A great cultural experience I had, was when I went to a Marae for a weekend. I went with 8 other exchange students and 8 kiwi’s who are going on exchange next year. We learned a lot about the Maori culture and it gave us a much better insight of who the Maori’s are. I also got many new friends from that weekend. Exchange students always get on so well with each other, probably because we know exactly how it is to be an exchange student and we can share our feelings to people we know will understand us. An axchange student gets these experiences that nobody else gets.
I think it’s amazing to experience living your life in a new country and experience how different it is. My life is totally different from how it was in Denmark. I live with a new family that I had to fit into, but surprisingly it just happened naturally. I feel at home with my new hostfamily and that’s one of the most important things.
Every morning I take the bus into town where my school is. And it is so much more different than school in Denmark. My new school St Mary’s College is a catholic school for girls only, which makes a big difference already. I have to call my teachers Miss and Mister and I am only studying 7 subjects where I in Denmark had a very relaxed, personal and unformal relationship with my teachers, and I was studying 13 subjects. And also: I have to wear a school uniform which I have never tried before. I must say that I prefer the Danish school, but I really love to get this experience of trying something totally different.
There are so many things that are different, but I don’t really care, because I just see it as a part of being on exchange in a unfamiliar country. You wouldn’t go on exchange in your own country or neighboring country, because the possibility that most things would be the same is big. I’m on the other side of the world now, living in a country I didn’t know anything about before I started thinking about going on exchange one year ago.
I have travelled to a country without knowing what to expect and knowing how my life would be. I have taken a change, jumped into the dark water without knowing what existed on the bottom, and now I’m seeing what I never in my life could imagine. This world is full of opportunities who’s just waiting for us to take the jump and live life.
Right now I’m surrounded by girls writing down the last words in their exam, stressing and worrying about getting their excellence. Thinking about what their parents will say if they don’t, and how it will influence their further education and future. I have realized that life is not only about education and money. It’s about living while you can, doing things you never thought you would, and enjoying every second of it.
My world is bigger now, my life has changed, I have changed and I always will. Rotary Club of Brønshøj, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, I am so grateful for what you have done for me. Thank you!
Regards from Esther van Vliet Thomsen
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