Maria

Let me start out with a short message that I’m sorry only Anna, Rebecca, Dag, Ellen and Alexandra will see the fun of:

“I am alive

. . .”

Anyways…

So, I've arrived at the first stop of my journey to Ethiopia: Denmark.

After having arrived to Copenhagen, Aske suggested that we take a short walk around Valby, which I agreed to. The first surprise I meet on my way is Anna and Alexandra sitting by the side of the road. Alexandra, it turns out, will be staying with us until Monday morning… Yippee! We then go into a small shop, and when I go out again, Dag is suddenly standing in front of me.
"Dag," I say. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I've come to see you,” he says with that little smile which is so “Dag-ish”.
Wow.

After having been with only three UWC since the school ended – and always only one at the time, I might add – I am suddenly surrounded by 4 of them at once. I don’t know what to do with myself.

In the evening we have a nice dinner and I slowly get back into UWC mode. When Ellen and Rebecca arrive the following morning, the weekend is complete. Being surrounded by people from the school was wonderful, but a bit painful too. It was hard having all of these wonderful people around me from a world I thought I’d lost, knowing that it was only for a weekend, and then they’d be gone again.

And now they’ve all left.

I was sad for a while, but I guess I’m used to it by now. Being with Aske again is of course nice. We’ve been shopping for things we’ll need in Ethiopia. Oh, and we received some good news: Our apartment in Ethiopia does have a shower and a place to cook. Yay.