Surfing on the first day on a hawaii.

In Denver airport, ready to leave. I was so excited!

Yesterday afternoon I arrived in Honolulu airport in Hawaii. It was at least 25 degrees Celsius, so I changed into shorts right away. That evening we got our hotel rooms assigned and ate a nice dinner. I am sharing a room with three sweet girls from Thailand, Italy and Germany.
I also got "reunioned" with a lot of Danish exchange students that I have meet before in Denmark. It was really good to see them again.

Me and the danish girl Mia that I met on the plane, right when we arrived in Honolulu airport.

The next morning we went down to get our breakfast which we could bring with us to the beach just across the street. We sat on our towels, looked out on the water and fed the many birds that were all around us. It was so cool! After putting on a ton of sunscreen we all went down to the beach again. There is 116 students but we are sometimes divided up into 4 groups. We were usually in the groups when we did activities but on other times we could hang out with whoever we wanted.
So we were just hanging out on the beach, swimming and eating ice cream until it was my groups turn to go surfing.

Me, Emma and Caroline

 First we had a short surfing lesson with our surfboards laying on the sand. Then we went in the water and laying on the surfboards, we paddled with our arms all the way out to the waves. It was seriously good exercise for your arms! Out by the waves we got send of on the wave by a surfer instructor and then we had to slowly stand up on the surfboard. Then after the surf you had to paddle all the way out again. The first couple of tries were difficult and I fell off the board before I even got to stand up. But then after some tries, I got better and better. Of course the photographer left right when I started to get it... So in most of the pictures she got of me, I'm falling.
Even though the surfing was really hard for the arms, it was one of the most fun things I've ever tried! It was so much fun when I finally got to stand up on the board and to be honest I felt pretty cool. I was so eager to surf as much as possible in the time we had, but I that had some consequences... The front of my legs and knees where totally red and almost covered with blisters when I came in from the surfing. It was stinging pretty bad, but it was worth the surfing.

This was one of my first tries.

And here I go... falling off the surfboard.

After lunch my group went out on a catamaran boat. We saw a turtle a little bit away while we were jumping of the boat and into the water. There was also a big shoal of black fish close to us. The guy on the boat threw some food for the fish right next to a group of girls, so the fish came VERY near. We all freaked out and got to the boat as fast as possible. It was really funny though!

On the catamaran.

After sailing on the catamaran, we all walked back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We ate dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe, Honolulu. The roof was covered with guitars and there was loud music. I had a fun time. After that we had time to go shopping.

It was such a great and eventful day!

Benna, me and Ina at the Hard Rock Cafe

This was the view from my hotel room, and further to the right was the beach.