Day 26

Had nearly everything packed yesterday, alarm at 7.20. Last shower, last breakfast. Stella had offered to bring me to the train station, of course I did not turn that down, at 9 I was at Triangeln station. Used my jojo card to buy a ticket to Copenhagen and off I went. Over the Oresund bridge one more time, and then *emergency stop*, ok... A minute or so later the train pulled up again but 10 sec later *emergency stop*. This happend one more time. The driver spoke through the microphone in Swedish 'blablabla technical difficulties'. In the end, we pulled up and emergency braked ourselfs to Copenhagen airport and arrived 20 minutes delayed. The quest for the locker took a little longer than expected. On the Copenhagen airport website I had read that I would be able to pay for a locker using my credit card. Well no, these lockers only eat Danish coins. Got myself some cash, exchanged the cash to coins, coins in the locker - and then it was 10.15. I had planned to be at the aquarium at 10 :(. Decided to take the metro to save me some time, at 10.30 I arrived. Luckily it was not too busy, there wasn't really a line, the lady at the desk was kind enough to let me pay using the rest of my Danish coins ánd pin and I was in \o/. The building is rather new and has an interesting architecture, it's build in the shape of a flower (F-L-O-W-E-R, not vulva.). Each petal has a different theme with different tanks. There's one huge bioscope-screen-size tank, turn around the corner and you can walk 'through' that tank. There's a rain forest petal complete with trees and high humidity, where you can look at tanks from above, take the stairs to a lower floor and find yourself surrounded by these tanks (with piranha's, crocodiles and what not). Of course I had to check out the sea otters, they are so cute <3 but were not all too active. There was one huge 'tank' with puffins, unfortunately I only saw one, hiding behind a rock. And then of course there were tanks with puffer fish, octopusses, one cuttlefish (<3 <3), sea horses, sea dragons, herring, one electric eel (with an energy meter on the side :D), poisonous frogs, non poisonous frogs, etc. I really enjoy visiting sea water aquaria, it was a nice way of spending my last day in Scandinavia. Around noon it got really busy and I went to the restaurant for fish (haha) and chips. At one, I walked back to the airport. Got my bag, checked it in, through security, to the gate, into the plane. The plane took off in the direction of Malmö and then, right before the city, circled round. As the weather was really nice, I had an amazing view of the city all the way up till Lund (of course my phone was switched off in my jacket, in the luggage compartment above my head, no pictures), but it was great to see it all one more time, circle round and get home. An hour later I safely arrived at Eindhoven, Martin was waiting for me there, we drove home and that was it: 26 days, 22 blog posts, 16 school days, 19 observed lessons, 9 lessons taught by me, 14 interviews; 2 x 500 gram drop, 3 packages of stroopwafels and 2 pots of peanut butter traded for one bike, a Swedish design candle holder, lakrids chocolate-liquorice, a borgarskola keycord and an I <3 teaching IB pen (:D); a mountain of experience and renewed self-confidence (I really can do this!), new lesson ideas and material, 8 packages of tea (amongst others liquorice, after eight, hoga kusten, blue berry / lingoln and marzipan); countless facetime conversations, 2 movies watched, 2,5 chickflicks read, 1 unit studied, an entire day of courses in Swedish about Evolution in Lund, 1 visit to Louisiana, 1 visit to the blue planet; and of course the amazing new contacts abroad.
This was one experience or as we'd say switching back to Dutch, dit was me het maandje wel. Tack så mycket for reading this blog and enjoy the last day's pictures.