Lessons Learned: A blog about my life

Sunday, August 29, 1976 This morning, when Mom and Bent had gone to the Hospital to visit Elisabeth, Lilly and Agner, came from Sweden. I told them Mom had put food in the fridge and they were welcome to help themselves. Lilly brought some food in from their car that she had prepared before she…

Tuesday, August 17, 1976 The medicine is helping me, and I can tell my fever finally went down. I got up and started to do chores so that mom wouldn’t get upset. While mom walked Elisabeth to school I hurried and wrote a letter to Nick telling him what had happened, and that I could…

Tuesday, August 10, 1976 Just when I thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse, I came down with a boil. I hardly slept last night because of the pain it caused. The boil is in the middle of my back, so every time I turned over, I woke up because it hurt. I have had boils before,…

Wednesday, July 28, 1976 I thought living in Canada was bad.  At least there I had a radio with lots of different stations to choose from and a black and white TV with lots of channels. There is an old radio here, but there is never anything worth listening to. There is an old black…

Going back to Denmark. Wednesday, July 21, 1976 After living in Canada for almost 5 years, Bent got the news that his mom had passed away. He was also told his father was not in good health and had been brought to live in a nursing home. It was written in the will that Bent…

High School 1975 Summer was over and I was to start in 7th grade. There is no such thing as middle school in Canada, 7th grade was still in elementary school. It was a new school that was right next to a high school. On the first day, I saw a girl, we both seemed lost at…

Going to Church with Kjeld, the Home teacher. Our home teacher, Kjeld, came over on a regular basis. He invited me to go to church with him. I knew you had to wear a dress for church. I didn’t own a dress. I started to save up for one. When I had finally saved up…

Sander and I outgrew our clothes. Sander and I outgrew the clothes that we had brought with us from Denmark. We told Bent that we needed new ones. Then Bent showed us his clothes and said, “See this shirt? I have had that since 1956 and it is still as good as new. I know how…

Thursday, December 23, 1971 It was now almost Christmas Eve and still we didn’t have a Christmas tree. Sander and I asked Bent if we could go buy a tree.  Bent told us that there was a parking lot about 3 blocks from our house where a man was selling tress. He told us that the…

Wednesday, July 7, 1971 When we landed in British Columbia, Canada it was still my birthday because Canada was eight hours behind Denmark. I felt special because not everyone gets such a long birthday. I couldn’t wait to get back and tell my friends all about the longest birthday ever. When we got out of…