Camilla Terkildsen is 12 years old and lives in Denmark.
Camilla is at the top of her class in all subjects and is active in sports as well as theatre.

My family consists of my mother, Kaisa and my father, Dan and my little sister, Annika. I see my grandmother and my grandfather a lot too. My Swedish grandmother lives in Sweden so I don’t see her that often.

Denmark is a little flat country, where the capital is called Copenhagen. I live in a small town outside of Copenhagen called Lyngby.

A lot of people believe that the vikings came from Denmark.

It is very difficult to write this because I feel like a very ordinary girl because I go to an ordinary school in an ordinary fifth grade. In my spare time I play volleyball and badminton and I also go to a theatre workshop where we learn to play theatre.

How was it to get hearing aids? I was born with a hearing loss such a long time ago so I have never tried anything else.
I have been told that when I was in day care and had just got my hearing aids I hated them and tried to flush them down the toilet. Much to my annoyance I didn’t make it before my speech therapist came and stopped me.

In pre-school there were gutters on one of the school buildings and when it rained one day I of course had to stand under one of the gutters where water came pouring down. But that wasn’t so smart because my hearing aids got wet and didn’t work anymore. I couldn’t hear anything the rest of the day because I had to wait until my hearing aids got dry.

It can be a little annoying sometimes when I visit with my girlfriends and spend the night. When we decide that we are going to go to sleep I take my hearing aids off. But maybe my girlfriends don’t sleep right away, they talk or watch movies all night or something like that. That is not so nice to find out the next morning.

Sometimes my battery dies. It most often happens in school and when I don’t have a new battery I have to take my hearing aid off. Then the other battery dies and then I don’t hear very well and the teachers will have to look at me all the time to make sure that I can lip-read. I think it can be a little tiring for the teachers as well.

At the swimming pool it can be difficult to hear what the coach says so I need a friend to tell me what’s being said.

It has been very difficult to write this because I feel like a very ordinary girl because I go to an ordinary school in an ordinary fifth grade.