Holaaaaa :)
My name is Pauline, I’m 16 years old – currently living with my parents and my little brother Benjamin (13), in a suburb to the capital, Copenhagen. I have two elder sisters, the oldest one, Anne Sofie is studying to become a journalist, and is working on a Danish newspaper – she’s just turned 25. My other sister Frederikke (20) has finished the gymnasium, and at the time being she’s working in a kindergarten, earning money and trying to find out what she wants to do for a living. She moved out when she was 17. In Denmark most people move out when they come of age, i.e. when you turn 18 years old. Then you get your ‘freedom’ and you’re (supposed to be) responsible when you reach this age. Danes very much enjoy this freedom, and take advantage of it – they go travel, many take a sabbatical between the end of the gymnasium - equivalent to ‘instituto de segunda de bachillerato’, and the next step in their education. I plan to go on a trip through Europe with my friend, and perhaps I’ll go to South America afterwards to study at a university in either Argentina or Brazil, where I have family – long ago my grandmother’s brother moved to Brazil because of his job, and decided to settle down there. So my mother’s cousins and their children, my grand cousins, live in São Paulo. I go to a school called Rysensteen Gymnasium in the centre of Copenhagen; right now I mainly study Spanish, English and German.
In my spare time I play the harp. I’ve played for at least 3 years, and I’m fond of it – it’s a variety to the more modern music you listen to everyday and hear everywhere. I live near the sea, so I often go to the beach and swim, even though the water is freezing here right now… coming from Argentina you’d probably think it’s freezing no matter the season in Denmark, but it is really freezing when it’s spring, as it is now, where the sea’s temperatures lies between 5 - 12˚C. I go in anyway. I paint, and if I’ve got time I love to write and read short stories and novels. And then I go out and dance with my friends. I work once a week in office as a kind of messenger. It’s great to have a job so I can earn a bit for myself.
I look forward to meeting you in Argentina, maybe in Denmark, if you’ll come visit us here! :)
My name is Pauline, I’m 16 years old – currently living with my parents and my little brother Benjamin (13), in a suburb to the capital, Copenhagen. I have two elder sisters, the oldest one, Anne Sofie is studying to become a journalist, and is working on a Danish newspaper – she’s just turned 25. My other sister Frederikke (20) has finished the gymnasium, and at the time being she’s working in a kindergarten, earning money and trying to find out what she wants to do for a living. She moved out when she was 17. In Denmark most people move out when they come of age, i.e. when you turn 18 years old. Then you get your ‘freedom’ and you’re (supposed to be) responsible when you reach this age. Danes very much enjoy this freedom, and take advantage of it – they go travel, many take a sabbatical between the end of the gymnasium - equivalent to ‘instituto de segunda de bachillerato’, and the next step in their education. I plan to go on a trip through Europe with my friend, and perhaps I’ll go to South America afterwards to study at a university in either Argentina or Brazil, where I have family – long ago my grandmother’s brother moved to Brazil because of his job, and decided to settle down there. So my mother’s cousins and their children, my grand cousins, live in São Paulo. I go to a school called Rysensteen Gymnasium in the centre of Copenhagen; right now I mainly study Spanish, English and German.
In my spare time I play the harp. I’ve played for at least 3 years, and I’m fond of it – it’s a variety to the more modern music you listen to everyday and hear everywhere. I live near the sea, so I often go to the beach and swim, even though the water is freezing here right now… coming from Argentina you’d probably think it’s freezing no matter the season in Denmark, but it is really freezing when it’s spring, as it is now, where the sea’s temperatures lies between 5 - 12˚C. I go in anyway. I paint, and if I’ve got time I love to write and read short stories and novels. And then I go out and dance with my friends. I work once a week in office as a kind of messenger. It’s great to have a job so I can earn a bit for myself.
I look forward to meeting you in Argentina, maybe in Denmark, if you’ll come visit us here! :)