hey everyone. tracy here. writin’ a little somethin-somethin’

so speaking of travel…. i like to travel. throughout my life i have always traveled to different states here in the US. my love of travel grew and expanded to different countries as i got older. now i’m contemplating visiting or even moving to danmark for at least a year or two. we’ll see.

so the story that i have to share takes place during the first time i traveled to danmark. actually, it was within the first week of being there. (we were there for 4 months) see.. first off, i must explain that my “overseas” travels earlier on in my life had all been to other english speaking countries. so the fear of getting around a country that spoke a different language was great, especially that first week. so we had just gotten our sound equipment and had a day “crash course” of what we would be doing the following 4 months…. and while we were packing up to head to where we were living for the weekend… i decided i would try to do something nice for all my teammates, and get all our american money changed into kroner. so i asked our contact where the bank was, gathered money and instructions from all my teammates… and headed on my way. let me explain, that it was snowing REAL hard outside, and i was in dress clothes… wearing nice shoes with NO traction on them. so i’m walking down the street… no.. SLIDING down the street… and i almost fell at least a dozen times. well when i finally reach the bank… i realized that i didn’t know how to ask the teller to exchange the money…. i had spent the whole walk trying to remember who gave me how much money. and in our “danish lessons” we had before leaving.. we learned some simple things… like how to say ‘thank you’, ‘good morning’ and ‘you smell like fish’. so as you can tell.. none of this language preparation was helpful for me at this point. so i got up to the counter.. and was the “dumb american” that i feared that i would be. she said something to me in danish…. i looked blankly at her… held up all the american dollars and said “kroner?”

i’m thankful that the people are danmark are so polite. she just exchanged the money for me.. and i said ‘tak’.. and left. it provided a good laugh for me later on.

so yea.. there’s my story. thanks for letting me post!