Rats, diapers and all the other good things in life

It feels like it was Christmas just the other day, but somehow we celebrate “Fastelavn” in kindergarten tomorrow and the first two months in Denmark are nearly over. How did time go by so fast without me really noticing it? It’s problably all the things that keep me busy: some awesome, others kind of stressful. It’s so much fun to get to know the kids in kindergarten better. They always put a smile on my face, just as I enter the kindergarten each day: “Kristinaaaaa! Do we play “Hoppe Reiter” or “Wolf und die 7 Geißlein”?” (just for you to know: never start carrying the kids on your back while running through the room, because every single child wants to be carried and you won’t be able to say “no” to the fifth child you carried in a row and your back will hurt like you’ve carried a piano down the stairs the next day)

I already feel like a “real” member of the team in Broager which makes me happy, because it feels good to be able to help, as that’s what I am here for :) This month, the kindergarten received even more help: four other interns at the same time… That’s how I ended up working in the pre-kindergarten with the “little ones” as the other interns are all working with the older children. It’s…well…different to interacting with the older kids who talk to you and keep you in action all day. Sometimes when the little ones are all sleeping with their new diapers on it’s easy to get a little bored. But on the other hand I’m happy about the interns being here, it’s nice to be surrounded by people older than six and younger than fourty :D

So as the weekends slowly started to get all the same (which happens easily sometimes when it’s rainy all day…), we had some people to meet and as we have some unwanted friends as well we had enough to do: Rats decided to invade our kitchen and tried everything to get us out of our flat. That’s how we’ve ended up living in a bed and breakfast now for four weeks while our kitchen is being renovated. Well, det skal nok gå- it’s all going to work out in the end! That’s what Denmark teaches me anyway :) Maybe I’ll learn some other sayings like that, as we’re now finally learning some Danish in a local language school. I’m looking forward to understanding the kids better, even though I already know the words for “hungry”, “need a new diaper” and “can you help me with putting on my shoes” – so basic kindergarten vocabulary is already understood!