General Things

Hello Readers, Kathryn here!

So you've decided to follow my adventures during my half-year doing volunteer work in Denmark.

Most of you will probably be asking:"Huh? Why is her blog called 'The Traveling Otter?' What's up with that?"

Well rest assured it has a reason.

At the second preparation week for going to Denmark we played a little game in smaller groups called "Das Tierspiel" (=the animal game).
We were supposed to describe one person in our group within a certain category and one person had to guess who it was. We had a river, a chess piece, a tree (with squirrels), a sunflower and even an Ohrensessel (Sorry I don't know how to translate that. Google it.).

And I was described as an otter.

I thought it was so adoreable that I decided to use that as a title for my blog. It didn't help that my imagination failed me completely and I couldn't think of anything else that didn't sound too cliché.

So "The Traveling Otter" it is.

A quick thank you to my group members for indirectly providing me with a title for my blog. XD


While I'm thanking people I might as well thank a few more.

Thank you AFS and AFS employees/teamers for organising my trip to Denmark and letting me ask all my questions. (Seriously though. I worried a lot and probably asked some questions more than once.)
Also to the AFS teamers thank you for just generally being awesome during the two preparation weeks.

Thank you SAP for the generous scholarship. Without your support it would have been a lot harder for me to go to Denmark.

Thank you my dear family and friends for just generally being there for me. You're all amazing.


Was there anything else I was going to say? Ummmmmmm.....
Oh yes!


A little note to my German friends reading this:

Ich schreibe lieber auf Englisch, weil meine Verwandten in Amerika das hier auch lesen wollen, aber sie können entweder gar kein Deutsch oder nur sehr wenig. Ihr hattet Englisch wenigstens in der Schule also sollte es kein all zu großes Problem sein für euch.

Außerdem gibt es immer Google Übersetzer im Notfall. XD


I think that's all for now...

Well I hope you'll all enjoy reading my blog and I hope I will have a great time in Denmark!

Until next time!

Kathryn