some picture from the Brondby-FCK game and some stories

Here are a couple of pics from the brondby-fck game that lynsey took and was awesome enough to let me post on here.  

so, this past weekend was a lot of fun

friday night, irene, lynsey, and I prepared a huge meal at lynsey's house for her host family

the food turned out great and it was a lot of fun meeting lynsey's host family even through i spilled my glass of wine all over the table while trying to pass the bowl of chicken.  

On saturday my host family took me north to a big castle called Kronborg.  It was very cool to see the huge castle, we got to explore the underground tunnels that connected the castle and the view from the castle was great, you can see sweden across the water  (its about half a mile away).  After we saw everything at the castle we walked around town and had some famous ice cream (i'm not sure why its "famous"  but it is)

sunday morning i went with my host family to a birthday friend (one of oliver's friends).  It was a lot of fun, ate a lot of food and played lawn hockey  (like street hockey but with a wiffle ball and on grass)

The first study tour (the short one)  starts on thursday morning and goes until saturday night.  We will be touring western denmark and staying in hostels.  I think we are going to a couple business meetings, a museum, and the north shore.  I'm excited to see the denmark that resides outside of copenhagen.

I was going to try to play soccer for a copenhagen men's club but am not going to continue because the 90 minute one way commute was too long and it didn't fit into my schedule well

However, once ramadan is done i will be coaching a kids soccer team with kids from the middle east.  I am very excited for that because there are some negative attitudes towards muslims in denmark for a variety of reasons and immigration is a very hot and divided topic here.  Since they dont' play during ramadan, i will volunteer at an after school program for kids that are having trouble fitting in.  I will help with boxing and tutor kids in english.  I haven't gone yet, but am also excited for that.

and we have been playing a lot of wii sports and now we have two controls which makes it a lot more fun

oliver is really good but i finally beat him in bowling once

for the past couple of nights we have been playing a couple of games of bowling with the whole family which has been great

that's all for now