Hej everyone,
This week was the fastest I have ever had. So many things happened. On Tuesday we had an International day, on Wednesday I had an "exam" on comparative education, I wrote a paper based on comparing Learning Envrionment in Denmark and in Hungary. I had to present this paper on Wednesday, and also I talked about my experiences here in Denmark a bit.
On Wednesday afternoon we opened our "doughnut factory", I'm just joking but seriously, we made doughnuts for Thursday English class, where I got to say good-bye to my classmates. And we made doughnuts on Friday morning where I got to say good-bye to my art class. On Saturday afternoon we made doughnuts for my "bye-bye" party. So, I think I won't eat doughnuts for a while, instead I would run a lot, if you know what I mean. :)
On Friday night, we went to "Jule-party" where we met with Danish Santa Claus and got a Fisk drink from him, but before this party we went to our friend's house, Line, she invited us to her house, so we had some "hyggelic" night together. At the party, we had fun, we danced a bit, and we talked to our friends. On Saturday, Ioana was sooo mysterious, no wonder why, she organised a big surprise party for me, I think no one has ever surprised me with party, but she did. I really appreciate her for this. So, German students came, our buddy Carsten, his friend, Martin, Ovi, Nils, Cami, but I was so surprised when Soren, my classmate showed up at my party. We couldn't say good-bye on Thursday because he had to catch the bus. So it was nice from him to came. Anyway, all people, we spent a very nice "hyge" time together with talking, and making jokes, having fun.
So, thank you Ioana :))
Today, we met with our Erasmus coordinator, Jette, and she took us to a Christmas market, where we got to taste the Danish hot wine, and some apple cake. It was delicious. We got a Nissa, the Danish Christmas figure from her, and we spent a very nice afternoon together.
At night, I got to say good-bye to our friends from the church :)
So, Farwell Denmark, see you next year.
Soon, I'm going to Hamburg, and when I arrive home I will let you know some details and then I will finish "blogging".....
Have a nice day!
Sunday 30 November 2008
Thursday 20 November 2008
"Stomp" in Aabenraa
Today, we went to Aabenraa to the Pedagogics College and we had dance class. We learnt some African dance and used "conga". I liked it a lot. I don't have to mention that I like music a lot, when I was in primary school, I started to play on piano. Sometimes I play drum in the church.
So, today I really enjoyed using the drums again, I felt the rythm...
Take a look at this video, we tried to play music with plastic bags, sticks, broomstick etc.
So, today I really enjoyed using the drums again, I felt the rythm...
Take a look at this video, we tried to play music with plastic bags, sticks, broomstick etc.
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Sct. Severin Skole
Hej,
However, we don't have a great weather today, it is very windy, rainy, stormy, etc. we had a great day today in another way. We went to visit a school near to our home. This primary school has got 800 students, this is the biggest school in Haderslev! So we met with Lasse, the English teacher in the morning and got to see an English class in the 9th grade. Ioan, the teacher asked us to give a presentation about our country and we did. I talked about Hungary a bit and students had questions, like how do we celebrate Christmas? One of the students has been to Hungary, I think she was in Visegrád, as she described me the place she has been to. After, our presentation, they continued to work on their project, the theme is violence in school and they looked the film, Elephant, previously, and today, each group read different articles about violence in school. After, students got free lunch, because now in the school, the local government provides lunch to students for 8 weeks for free in order to advertise a place where they can order food at dinner time. Do you get what I'm saying? When I heard this, I thought, ohh jee, they get hot lunch, but actually it was only a sandwich with chicken meat inside with some dressing on top. Well, better than nothing...After, 40 minutes lunch break, we went to the 4th class, where we talked about our country again, and then the best programe of the day started. We went to another 4th class, where they had music lesson. Kids were very excited to meet with us. They asked us to sing something in our own language. I sang "Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt" and "Kiskarácsony, nagykarácsony". ...Suddenly, these two songs came to my mind. :)
I recorded songs what they sang in Danish, it was very nice to listen to those songs. A new song was introduced to the class, which is from the Beatles, "Merry Christmas". The teacher played the piano and the kids followed the rythm. Cool! After the music class, we visited the afternoon club, where kids hang out after school. It's like "napközi" in Hungary, but not exactly the same, because here kids just hang out in fact, they don't have homework or not a lot. On one of our classes at the college we talked about giving homework to kids, is it useful or not? Actually, the teacher said that there is no strong reason for giving homework to kids, they won't be better students if they have lots of homework, at least that's what the statistics says. Well, I don't know about this, but I'm sure that in Hungary, kids have got more lexical things to do than here. And I'm not sure if it's better. I think practice is more important than to know lots of books. But this is just my point of view.
After all these classes, we said good-bye. I really enjoyed being in the school. It was a nice day!
Here is a video, when kids were singing a song by a famous Danish composer, Kim Larsen. In Denmark, everybody knows his songs. "Jutlandia"
However, we don't have a great weather today, it is very windy, rainy, stormy, etc. we had a great day today in another way. We went to visit a school near to our home. This primary school has got 800 students, this is the biggest school in Haderslev! So we met with Lasse, the English teacher in the morning and got to see an English class in the 9th grade. Ioan, the teacher asked us to give a presentation about our country and we did. I talked about Hungary a bit and students had questions, like how do we celebrate Christmas? One of the students has been to Hungary, I think she was in Visegrád, as she described me the place she has been to. After, our presentation, they continued to work on their project, the theme is violence in school and they looked the film, Elephant, previously, and today, each group read different articles about violence in school. After, students got free lunch, because now in the school, the local government provides lunch to students for 8 weeks for free in order to advertise a place where they can order food at dinner time. Do you get what I'm saying? When I heard this, I thought, ohh jee, they get hot lunch, but actually it was only a sandwich with chicken meat inside with some dressing on top. Well, better than nothing...After, 40 minutes lunch break, we went to the 4th class, where we talked about our country again, and then the best programe of the day started. We went to another 4th class, where they had music lesson. Kids were very excited to meet with us. They asked us to sing something in our own language. I sang "Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt" and "Kiskarácsony, nagykarácsony". ...Suddenly, these two songs came to my mind. :)
I recorded songs what they sang in Danish, it was very nice to listen to those songs. A new song was introduced to the class, which is from the Beatles, "Merry Christmas". The teacher played the piano and the kids followed the rythm. Cool! After the music class, we visited the afternoon club, where kids hang out after school. It's like "napközi" in Hungary, but not exactly the same, because here kids just hang out in fact, they don't have homework or not a lot. On one of our classes at the college we talked about giving homework to kids, is it useful or not? Actually, the teacher said that there is no strong reason for giving homework to kids, they won't be better students if they have lots of homework, at least that's what the statistics says. Well, I don't know about this, but I'm sure that in Hungary, kids have got more lexical things to do than here. And I'm not sure if it's better. I think practice is more important than to know lots of books. But this is just my point of view.
After all these classes, we said good-bye. I really enjoyed being in the school. It was a nice day!
Here is a video, when kids were singing a song by a famous Danish composer, Kim Larsen. In Denmark, everybody knows his songs. "Jutlandia"
We love cooking :)
Hej everyone,
Hvordan har du det? How are you? So, again, food: On Saturday when we came back from Odense, we went to Aabenraa, Carsten's uncle house and they asked us to cook something traditional for them. They were excited about our cuisine, and we were very happy to cook for them. Ioana made traditional Romanian cauliflower cream, called conopida, and some doughnouts, called, gogosi with jam. I made chicken with nutmeg and milk cream plus mashed potatoes. I don't think it's very traditional Hungarian food, but I told them that's we prepare at home especially at Christmas time. I told them how to prepare chicken with pepper, but in Denmark you can also buy pepper so that they can make it. I have to tell you we had a great success. :) They loved it. They asked me to give them some nutmegs because they don't have it Denmark. We were happy that they liked our cuisine and we spent a very nice "hyggelic" night together.
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Saturday
Odense
Our buddy, Carsten, took us to Odense on Saturday, where we went to see H. C. Andersen's museum. I was looking forward to see his birthplace. Before I came to Denmark, I read stuff about his life, and of course, I grew up on his fairy tales. Everybody knows his stories, like Little Marmaid etc. We can say that Danish people are proud of him and his work. So we went to see the museum and we found it interesting. However, the museum was a little bit expensive, it was definietly worth visiting. There was a room in the museum, I think this was my favourite, where you could read his stories in your own language. So obviously I chose Hungarian and I read a story.
Train museum: another museum we visited was the Danish railway museum. It was very lively, you could just go into different types of trains and see how it is inside. One train which was from the 1940s looks similar to the Hungarian "slow" train type. I mean we have trains in Hungary which need to be recovered very soon. They are fine, but let's say not the best quality. :)
After the two museums, we took a walk in the downtown, and enjoyed a falafel.
On the way back home, we stopped at the bridge near Fredericia, and took some photos.
It was a very nice trip, we got to see a lot. I put pictures on my picasaweb album and later on more pictures will be coming.
See you later.
Our buddy, Carsten, took us to Odense on Saturday, where we went to see H. C. Andersen's museum. I was looking forward to see his birthplace. Before I came to Denmark, I read stuff about his life, and of course, I grew up on his fairy tales. Everybody knows his stories, like Little Marmaid etc. We can say that Danish people are proud of him and his work. So we went to see the museum and we found it interesting. However, the museum was a little bit expensive, it was definietly worth visiting. There was a room in the museum, I think this was my favourite, where you could read his stories in your own language. So obviously I chose Hungarian and I read a story.
Train museum: another museum we visited was the Danish railway museum. It was very lively, you could just go into different types of trains and see how it is inside. One train which was from the 1940s looks similar to the Hungarian "slow" train type. I mean we have trains in Hungary which need to be recovered very soon. They are fine, but let's say not the best quality. :)
After the two museums, we took a walk in the downtown, and enjoyed a falafel.
On the way back home, we stopped at the bridge near Fredericia, and took some photos.
It was a very nice trip, we got to see a lot. I put pictures on my picasaweb album and later on more pictures will be coming.
See you later.
Friday 14 November 2008
cuisine
At home I don't have time to cook, unfortunately. I'm always on hurry to school or I study in my room. That's a kind of boring thing to do but it's okay for the time being.
Here, in Denmark, we've already tried traditional Danish cuisine, and more: I have already tried Romanian and even German cuisine. So this Wednesday, when I went to shop with Ioana, we said that we miss soup. At home, I think, both of us eat a lot of soup, different kinds of, like: potatoe, tomatoe, cauliflower, cabbage soups etc. so for us it's normal to eat soup, almost every day. One of my favourite is fruit soup, especially in the Summer.
So, we bought broccoli, and I wanted to try to make Broccoli cream soup what we eat at home especially at Christmas time. We invited Sarah, our German friend, as well. In the afternoon, I cooked the cream soup, Ioana made the Romanian doughnuts (we call it pampucka at home), with jam and apple-cinemon mixture. So we ate a lot and chatted and watched a really good movie. Have you seen Lifet er smuket? Life is beautiful, La Vita e Bella with Roberto Benigni?
We liked this movie a lot.
On Thursday, Sarah wanted to surprise us with German breakfast and actually she did. She prepared eggs with bacon, and she bought rolls from the Skaelle bakery, which is our favourite in the town. :) Also, we had coffe and orange juice (appelsin) and salmon fish what we put in the sandwiches. It was a heavy breakfast, so we weren't able to eat until dinner.
It was good to start the day with a nice breakfast. After all, we had a nice chat, and then we walked all afternoon in the town.
It was a very nice, cultural day. We experienced Romanian, German and some Hungarian cuisines this week.
(Sarah, Ioana and the breakfast)
Tomorrow, we go to Odense to see the town and H.C. Andersen's birthplace. :) I grew up on his stories so I'm excited to see his home town.
Here, in Denmark, we've already tried traditional Danish cuisine, and more: I have already tried Romanian and even German cuisine. So this Wednesday, when I went to shop with Ioana, we said that we miss soup. At home, I think, both of us eat a lot of soup, different kinds of, like: potatoe, tomatoe, cauliflower, cabbage soups etc. so for us it's normal to eat soup, almost every day. One of my favourite is fruit soup, especially in the Summer.
So, we bought broccoli, and I wanted to try to make Broccoli cream soup what we eat at home especially at Christmas time. We invited Sarah, our German friend, as well. In the afternoon, I cooked the cream soup, Ioana made the Romanian doughnuts (we call it pampucka at home), with jam and apple-cinemon mixture. So we ate a lot and chatted and watched a really good movie. Have you seen Lifet er smuket? Life is beautiful, La Vita e Bella with Roberto Benigni?
We liked this movie a lot.
On Thursday, Sarah wanted to surprise us with German breakfast and actually she did. She prepared eggs with bacon, and she bought rolls from the Skaelle bakery, which is our favourite in the town. :) Also, we had coffe and orange juice (appelsin) and salmon fish what we put in the sandwiches. It was a heavy breakfast, so we weren't able to eat until dinner.
It was good to start the day with a nice breakfast. After all, we had a nice chat, and then we walked all afternoon in the town.
It was a very nice, cultural day. We experienced Romanian, German and some Hungarian cuisines this week.
(Sarah, Ioana and the breakfast)Tomorrow, we go to Odense to see the town and H.C. Andersen's birthplace. :) I grew up on his stories so I'm excited to see his home town.
Saturday 8 November 2008
Oscar party
Hej,
However, I missed this year's Oscar night in Hollywood, LA, here in Haderslev I got to go one. It was smaller, and not as fancy as it could have been in LA, but being a student, it was fine. Ioana and me dressed up like movie stars, or at least we tried to. She was supposed to be Amelie (I don't know the actress' real name in this movie, but everybody knows her Amelie) and I was supposed to be Drew Barrymore, Nicole Kidman, or Kate Winslet...I don't know. So, we dresed up and went to the Friday bar at the College, where we met with some Audrey Hapbourns, Indiana Jones, Tom Cruise, John Lennon, and even we met with Betty, the ugly girl. (If you don't know this one, she was in a Brazilian soap opera) :)
We had fun, we felt very special that night being dressed up. :)
Thursday 6 November 2008
All about Drama
Hej,
Today was the third time we went to Aabenraa. There is another building of the college, this town is 30 minutes away from Haderslev (in the South). We go there every Thursday until December. I'm always excited about this day because we go to Dance and Drama course. As you all know me, I love dancing. When I was a teengare I went to dance with my friends almost every weekend. At this time, it's different. So last Thursday, we learnt some Danish dance for kids.
Today, it was a little bit hard because we had to learn how to act on stage and how to use drama exercises in the classroom. We learnt how to use our imagination, communication. We really had to focus on our body language. The whole lesson was very-well built. First, we played ice-breaker games and then we got a picture of a sad looking girl, and we had to create a story and guess where she is from and what her background could be. We sat in groups and it was hard to work together because everybody had different imagination. But we did well, it worked out, After, we got another picture of the same girl, but she was grown-up, and we sat in groups again, found a story of her, and then we put the whole stories together and acted on stage. And all this procedure took 3 hours. I think that was fast, I think it usually takes a day to do such exercises, but we didn't have break so we could do it.
I enjoyed part of it, but the stories we created were very sad and depressing. Plus, the weather, today, was rainy and grey.
Next time we meet we're gonna dance. And I'm excited to be there.
Viva la Art :)
Hi Everyone,
I have attended at art course since the beginning of September. Before that I have never had art class, but I was always interested in art. I usually go to Budapest when there is an exhibition of a famous painter. So, I was excited to have this course. I like art, but I'm not good at drawing or painting. So, I was excited but at the same time I was afraid of how I'm going to do this course.
First lesson: the teacher, Dorte, told me that it is very important not to tell your body "I cannot". It is forbidden! So, I had to tell in front of her, yes I can draw, I can do it. I am able to draw. :) So I started drawing with simple things like I drew a glass and I tried to find the shape of it.
This week, I had art classes with Danish students on Monday and with German students on Tuesday. On Tuesday we had to draw our own face and then paint it on the mirror. It was hard, but at the same time I enjoyed it a lot. While you're drawing it is amazing how you discover your "hidden skills". It brings you smile on your face when you see your "ready-made art work". I really appreciate that I have attended this art course, I can see I learn lots of patience and different ways of looking at things. (We can say: I have learnt how to look behind the things)
Excited for tomorrow's art class! :)
Doro, Bine, Ioana, Sarah, Judit, Inez, Katrin, Liza, Tobias, Jenny
Thursday 30 October 2008
a sunny day
Hej
As you all know probably, Denmark is said to be a place where almost every day is raining. But thank God, whenever I have free time, the weather is always sunny. This happened on Wednesday, when I had a free afternoon, so I decided to go to the harbour of Haderslev. It was beautiful...I was walking a lot in the town and just enjoyed the sunshine.
Saturday 25 October 2008
This week
Hej,
After autumn holiday, it was hard to get back to school. But at the same time, I was enthusiastic to learn new things. On Tuesday, I had a short presentation on Hungarian education system. Unfortunately, the projector didn't work. I think I prepared a lot because I thought I 'd like to talk about the history of the Hungarian education system. So it was a "bummer" that we couldn't use the projector.
On Wednesday, we had a weblog class, where I learnt how to put some labels to my blog. I realized I don't like sitting in front of the computer a lot. Sorry...
The best day of the week was on Thursday, when we went to Aabenraa, (it's a city close to Haderslev). This town is a nice, cosy one, it has got a shopping street, and a beautiful church with plazma Tv inside. I'm serious, the church has got plazma Tvs, but I think they use it for service. :)
So we had dance and drama class at the Aabenraa college with the German students. Teachers spoke in German or in English. I think when I go back to Hungary, I'd like to find a German teacher, it's easy now, I'm always listening when Germans speak and I think I automatically pick up some expressions, so when I start to study German, I'd like to study Danish, as well. It'd be useful to communicate with people and to make friends. I also think I should learn Romanian, because my friend Ioana talks to me Romanian sometimes, you know when English doesn't work and she teaches me some expressions. (I still would like to speak Spanish) I like languages. :)
All right: So we went to College, we sent a text message to Ioan (German's Erasmus coordinator), but he didn't answer us until afternoon, I don't understand why he has got a mobile phone if he doesn't use it. So we had to call Sarah, at least she has the mobile phone, and finally we found out which building and room the lesson start. I have to tell you that we were on time, we just waited for Ioan to write us back. Oh well...
Okay, the lesson was about getting to know each other. First of all, we learnt some "ice-breaker" games and how to use it in classroom. Then, we danced a little bit with different kind of exercises, it was so much fun to listen to music and do some practice with the Germans. After all, we went to another room, where we had some massage with balls. All in all, it was great, and we're looking forward to next class. I felt like the Germans started to be open, they smiled at us a lot. Music connects people :)
In the afternoon, Ioana and me had a walk in the town, we didn't want to hurry back to Haderslev, so we decided to walk in the downtown. We had a free coffee at a coffee bar in downtown where Ioana knows the waiter who is from Romania. He has been living and working in Denmark for 3 years now, and he invited us for a coffee. It was nice. I started to feel that I should speak Romanian, I'm surrounded by Romanians :) Ioana, Ovidu (our new Romanian friend), the pastor's wife Cristina, Camilla... I think it's good to know them, being a Hungarian, I didn't hear good news about Romanians and we didn't learn good things about them. It's just stereotype, but I didn't want to start my view with stereotypes so now I have a different view on Romanians and it has been changing. Now, I don't understand those stubborn Hungarians with their fixed ideas about history and they cannot handle things and the future. I don't want to discuss it here. It's okay.
On Friday, I had English class, I enjoyed it. We learnt how to use materials for beginners in the classroom. I wish our Language Pedagogy teacher in Hungary was so enthusiastic about "teaching English" topic, but she is not. We're happy when she comes to class, not mentioning the fact that she doesn't like speaking in English with us. So, I found this class useful, I hope I can use those things at home what I heard during the lessons.
Friday night:
We were enthusiastic to meet with some Danish students so we decided to go to the Friday bar at the college. Sometimes I felt like I should give up making friends here, it's hard. Danish people are reserved a little bit, but as I said earlier, I don't want to believe in stereotypes, so we still try to make friends, I mean real friends, not just "hi, how are you" friends. :) It takes time. It's okay.
We had fun at the Friday bar, we talked to some students, and it was different because we had Ovidiu with us, (he is from Romania, moved to Denmark and he has a college degree. (economist)) So, we had a man with us, and now they were interested in how do you say cheers in Romanian or in Hungarian. It seems to me that whenever you're not alone from your country they're interested in more of your culture. So, we were surprised, but at the same time we enjoyed the situation. :) After all, we went home.
On Saturday, we went to Kolding to Bilke, it's a shopping centre, it's really huge with more than a 100 shops. We spent 2-3 hours there with Cristina and with her kids. It was nice to see the stores, however, I didn't buy anything, But a lot of things were on a good price.
That's all for today.
After autumn holiday, it was hard to get back to school. But at the same time, I was enthusiastic to learn new things. On Tuesday, I had a short presentation on Hungarian education system. Unfortunately, the projector didn't work. I think I prepared a lot because I thought I 'd like to talk about the history of the Hungarian education system. So it was a "bummer" that we couldn't use the projector.
On Wednesday, we had a weblog class, where I learnt how to put some labels to my blog. I realized I don't like sitting in front of the computer a lot. Sorry...
The best day of the week was on Thursday, when we went to Aabenraa, (it's a city close to Haderslev). This town is a nice, cosy one, it has got a shopping street, and a beautiful church with plazma Tv inside. I'm serious, the church has got plazma Tvs, but I think they use it for service. :)
So we had dance and drama class at the Aabenraa college with the German students. Teachers spoke in German or in English. I think when I go back to Hungary, I'd like to find a German teacher, it's easy now, I'm always listening when Germans speak and I think I automatically pick up some expressions, so when I start to study German, I'd like to study Danish, as well. It'd be useful to communicate with people and to make friends. I also think I should learn Romanian, because my friend Ioana talks to me Romanian sometimes, you know when English doesn't work and she teaches me some expressions. (I still would like to speak Spanish) I like languages. :)
All right: So we went to College, we sent a text message to Ioan (German's Erasmus coordinator), but he didn't answer us until afternoon, I don't understand why he has got a mobile phone if he doesn't use it. So we had to call Sarah, at least she has the mobile phone, and finally we found out which building and room the lesson start. I have to tell you that we were on time, we just waited for Ioan to write us back. Oh well...
Okay, the lesson was about getting to know each other. First of all, we learnt some "ice-breaker" games and how to use it in classroom. Then, we danced a little bit with different kind of exercises, it was so much fun to listen to music and do some practice with the Germans. After all, we went to another room, where we had some massage with balls. All in all, it was great, and we're looking forward to next class. I felt like the Germans started to be open, they smiled at us a lot. Music connects people :)
In the afternoon, Ioana and me had a walk in the town, we didn't want to hurry back to Haderslev, so we decided to walk in the downtown. We had a free coffee at a coffee bar in downtown where Ioana knows the waiter who is from Romania. He has been living and working in Denmark for 3 years now, and he invited us for a coffee. It was nice. I started to feel that I should speak Romanian, I'm surrounded by Romanians :) Ioana, Ovidu (our new Romanian friend), the pastor's wife Cristina, Camilla... I think it's good to know them, being a Hungarian, I didn't hear good news about Romanians and we didn't learn good things about them. It's just stereotype, but I didn't want to start my view with stereotypes so now I have a different view on Romanians and it has been changing. Now, I don't understand those stubborn Hungarians with their fixed ideas about history and they cannot handle things and the future. I don't want to discuss it here. It's okay.
On Friday, I had English class, I enjoyed it. We learnt how to use materials for beginners in the classroom. I wish our Language Pedagogy teacher in Hungary was so enthusiastic about "teaching English" topic, but she is not. We're happy when she comes to class, not mentioning the fact that she doesn't like speaking in English with us. So, I found this class useful, I hope I can use those things at home what I heard during the lessons.
Friday night:
We were enthusiastic to meet with some Danish students so we decided to go to the Friday bar at the college. Sometimes I felt like I should give up making friends here, it's hard. Danish people are reserved a little bit, but as I said earlier, I don't want to believe in stereotypes, so we still try to make friends, I mean real friends, not just "hi, how are you" friends. :) It takes time. It's okay.
We had fun at the Friday bar, we talked to some students, and it was different because we had Ovidiu with us, (he is from Romania, moved to Denmark and he has a college degree. (economist)) So, we had a man with us, and now they were interested in how do you say cheers in Romanian or in Hungarian. It seems to me that whenever you're not alone from your country they're interested in more of your culture. So, we were surprised, but at the same time we enjoyed the situation. :) After all, we went home.
On Saturday, we went to Kolding to Bilke, it's a shopping centre, it's really huge with more than a 100 shops. We spent 2-3 hours there with Cristina and with her kids. It was nice to see the stores, however, I didn't buy anything, But a lot of things were on a good price.
That's all for today.
Friday 24 October 2008
Strategy to make Danish friends
I was thinking a lot to write about it or not. My aim is not to hurt anyone, but just to let you know my experiences a little bit. It has been changing. This idea: to make Danish friends came from last week when I talked to Ioana, my friend and flatmate, about it. We've been in Denmark since September and we still cannot say we have got "true" Danish friends. Stereotypes: Danish people are reserved. Yes, it's true, we experience this, but we don't want to believe in this stereotype.
We had dance and drama class in Aabenraa last week (25 min from Haderslev) and we had a nice day. We liked the sport programes in school, we learnt how to use ice-brakers in class etc. On the way home,we saw one of my Danish classmates at the bus station, so we automatically thought, yes, here is another chance to make friends. :) So we went dircetly to him and kept talking to him. He was nice but a bit shy. We asked his opinion about Danish people in general and friendships. He said, it's hard to make friends here, because it takes a lot of time and people are not open. He has friends because he has been studying at the college for 2 years now, but he still finds it hard to make friends. I was thinking that even for him it's hard, what shall I say? I just here to have experience and whenever I talk to people, they are nice, very nice, but you have to do the effort to make friends. They won't ask about your country, culture, some of them do. It's really hard to write about this topic, because I try to avoid stereotypes and overgeneralizations.
On that night when I talked to my friend Ioana, (she is from Romania), we agreed: okay, this is the situation but we don't give it up. We still believe that we can make friends, and we're doing good.
Possibilities, chances to make friends:
We had dance and drama class in Aabenraa last week (25 min from Haderslev) and we had a nice day. We liked the sport programes in school, we learnt how to use ice-brakers in class etc. On the way home,we saw one of my Danish classmates at the bus station, so we automatically thought, yes, here is another chance to make friends. :) So we went dircetly to him and kept talking to him. He was nice but a bit shy. We asked his opinion about Danish people in general and friendships. He said, it's hard to make friends here, because it takes a lot of time and people are not open. He has friends because he has been studying at the college for 2 years now, but he still finds it hard to make friends. I was thinking that even for him it's hard, what shall I say? I just here to have experience and whenever I talk to people, they are nice, very nice, but you have to do the effort to make friends. They won't ask about your country, culture, some of them do. It's really hard to write about this topic, because I try to avoid stereotypes and overgeneralizations.
On that night when I talked to my friend Ioana, (she is from Romania), we agreed: okay, this is the situation but we don't give it up. We still believe that we can make friends, and we're doing good.
Possibilities, chances to make friends:
- In school: you have to "push", ask about Danish culture, and most importantly try to say some words, expressions in Danish. It works. :) When you enter the classroom, everybody sits in their own group, they don't talk to you. Lot of students don't talk at all. So it's a bit hard. However, I had some good experiences in class. :)
- Friday caffee: it's a college bar on Friday to meet with your friends. Every time we try to talk to people, however they sit in their own group, or they are drunk and when you talk to them, the other day they don't remember you. It's sad. So we stopped going there because it's all about drinking alcohol, and we don't get drunk, we don't like drinking alcohol.
- But we were thinking if we stop going there we will never have friends. So we try to go there early, maybe we can find some nice people. That's happened last Friday when we were there. They sat in their own group but at this time we were invited to sit with them. So we did. Nothing seroius talk happened, but at least we tried it. :)
- I think, we need more time, and nothing wrong about it.
Sunday 19 October 2008
Copenhagen-Malmö-Haderslev 13-15th of October
Hello dear all,
http://picasaweb.google.com/juditpoczok
you can find my pictures here, I tried to do some nice shots, hope you like it.
It was a very nice trip, I think I will never forget it.
We got to see a lot, as it turns out from the pictures, we even went to Sweden, Malmö, for an hour, as for me, it was worth going there. :)
by the way, I had Birthday on Wednesday. I had a very nice Birthday. we started to celebrate on Thusday night in a bar, where the singer sang me Happy Birthday, and in the morning on 15th of Octobet we went to the Art museum, and then to Malmö, and then came back to Haderslev and had a pizza in the Istanbul Pizzeria (our favourite). Busy day!
On Thursday, we relaxed...
On Friday, we went to LEGOLAND, Billund...
Charlotte, she is a secretary of the school, took us there and her family came...It was very nice. We tried the rollercoaster and things...
I felt like I'm a child again, sooo much fun!
I had a nice autumn holiday.
I hope you're having fun at home, as well.
http://picasaweb.google.com/juditpoczok
you can find my pictures here, I tried to do some nice shots, hope you like it.
It was a very nice trip, I think I will never forget it.
We got to see a lot, as it turns out from the pictures, we even went to Sweden, Malmö, for an hour, as for me, it was worth going there. :)
by the way, I had Birthday on Wednesday. I had a very nice Birthday. we started to celebrate on Thusday night in a bar, where the singer sang me Happy Birthday, and in the morning on 15th of Octobet we went to the Art museum, and then to Malmö, and then came back to Haderslev and had a pizza in the Istanbul Pizzeria (our favourite). Busy day!
On Thursday, we relaxed...
On Friday, we went to LEGOLAND, Billund...
Charlotte, she is a secretary of the school, took us there and her family came...It was very nice. We tried the rollercoaster and things...
I felt like I'm a child again, sooo much fun!
I had a nice autumn holiday.
I hope you're having fun at home, as well.
Farvell Practice....
with the 4th class girls
Hi Everyone,
I haven't posted any blog for a long time, but I was busy. Sorry...I don't know how many of you follow my blog daily, I hope you still like it though...
Okay, as you see from my title, my Practice job finished. Unfortunately!!
I miss going to Faurdalskolen and meet with the students.
I had practice on Thursday on 9th of October. I had to do some teachings in the 4th class, we learnt the TIME. It's not my favourite topic, because my English is not the best, and I don't know use words like quarter to, past, half past. Instead of these, I use 8.45, 8.30. At the same time, I realised, finally I could learn it, as well. Just before getting the diploma :) It's on time :)
This was the very first time I experienced that when I arrived to classroom, nobody stood up. It was strange, or I'd say: different.
After I taught the lesson, kids went to play with computer, they had fun.
We took some pictures during break time, and we said good-bye...
On Friday: It was a national exercise day. It means that right before the autumn holiday, every school does exercise. I got to see how it looks like.
It's similar to Hungarian "Egészséges nap"-hoz, where you jump, do some sports, and competitions.
Here, Danish students are not in competition, so they didn't get prize or extra points if they did good. The whole day programe was just for fun. :)
The weather was fine, a little bit cold, but it's all right.
I finished early, around 11.30 am, and got home and relax...
with the 0E class
Tuesday 7 October 2008
Danish hospitality :)
On Monday afternoon we went to the College canteen to meet with my classmate, Kirsten. She invited us (Ioana and me) to have a coffe+cake and dinner with her family. We went to Christiansfeld where we picked up her kids and we had coffee and cake at a very cosy place in Christiansfeld and we took a short walk in the village and then we went walking in the forest nearby. Again, the weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed the sunshine a lot. :) After walking in the town and forest and got to know the history of the village a little bit, we went to Kirsten's family place. They live on a farm, a very nice one. There are some windmills near to their house, and they have got a trambulin where we jumped a lot with the kids. After all, Kirsten's husband arrived, and the dinner was ready, we ate and having a good time with them, chatting and getting to know each other. I was happy to meet with them and spent time together. Danish are hospitable nation!! Time goes fast, so we said good-bye and started to prepare for another day. (Note: If you want to see more about my time here, go to my Flickr site!)
Practice on Monday
I had a busy but beautiful day on Monday. I went to school by bike, it was a little bit chilly, but I like riding my bike, I think when I return home I'm gonna use it. :) Anyway, I started school at 8.10 with Special Needs Class, they were 12 years old and only 3 boys in the class. I like the way Tim always starts the class: First of all, he asks how was your weekend. Everybody tells briefly what they did, how they spent their weekend. It's a good way to warm up kids. :) Then, Tim introduced the task for that day, pupils had to make a photo. So, Tim asked them what's their favorite famous star, or what they're interested in general. Students have to learn how to use the Paintshop Pro program. So, we went to the computer room where they sat down and tried to look pictures on the net. Tim went to each student and helped them, explained them what to do, he showed it and then erased it so the kids should do it individually. They did a good job, I was amazed, because it's a special class, so again, a very practical thing to learn. Kids like computer in general anyway, and now, they're able to use this program and make decorations or have fun with this program. Finally, they printed the pictures and laminated. So, kids are able to use the laminator machine, (school has got one) and I have to tell you that I have never seen it in my life. Of course, I know about it, but personally I don't use it. So, I always give it to the shop assistant at home and let him do it. All right. So it was great experience again. There weren't a lot to do, like teaching, but for me it was really nice to watch this class.
After the break, kids could have the chance to make another one if they wanted to. Now, Tim didn't have to help a lot, so everybody did another one.
After this, I went to visit 9A class. There weren't a lot to do for me. They had tests in English (written part). I got a copy of the test, it's hard, they had to work hard on this.
It's still very strange for me, when the teacher arrives in the class, no one stands up. The lesson just starts. Tim said that it was the same for him, in England it's different.
I asked him about the grades in Denmark. Until the 8th class you don't get any grades.
Grade system in Denmark, in brackets you find the Hungarian version of it.
-3 it means you're completely don't know anything at all. (It doesn't exist in Hungary)
00 They use two zero because you can't replace it with any other number. You fail. (same in Hungary with 1)
02 It means you pass the exam. (Same with 2 in Hungary)
4 A little bit better than past. (same in Hungary with 3)
7 Better than pass (same in Hungary with 3)
10 Good (which is 4 in Hungary)
12 Excellent (5 in Hungary)
Different. We have grades for behaviour and hard working, they don't have it, they get comments on that.
It was interesting to visit and experience a lot in the 9A class.
Sunday 5 October 2008
Beautiful Denmark!
On Saturday, we went to Aalborg to see the town and the Utzon museum. On the way to Aalborg we saw a full-shaped rainbow. Correct me if I wrote it wrong. It was relly nice, I haven't seen rainbow for a long time, it was special to see one in Denmark. :)
The atmosphere of Aalborg is amazing. Again, typical Danish houses, which I cannot stop to looking at, I love it. We saw downtown and the harbour of Aalborg. (The building of Architecture University looks good). And my dream came true. We went to Utzon museum, it was gorgeous. I found out that in the 1950's there were 2 Hungarians (architects) in the competition of building the Sydney opera house. How interesting! Utzon won and he made the opera house in Sydney. :)
To get in this museum wasn't expensive. It costed only 30 DKK. It was absolutely worth visiting Aalborg.
After the museum, we went to Sunset Boulvard fast food restaurant and I had a coffee and an "in oven-baked" french frize. I was happy to be in that place because it was ice rain outside. Also, I was glad to have a coffee. :)
After it stopped raining we went to see the Monastery of the Holy Ghost. It's pretty, we just saw outside, it was closed for tourists.
We walked back to the car and came home. I was happy to have the chance to visit towns and travelling about 500 km at the weekend. Thank you so much buddy, good job! :)
Flensbourg- Germany
hej,
To continue: I was off from school at 14pm. and Carsten, Ioana and me went to Flensbourg. Carsten got the car from his family for the whole weekend and Ioana and me planned that we'd like to see Flensbourg, Germany, and other things in Denmark. So, we went to Flensbourg on Friday. You could tell it's Germany. Houses, streets, traffic lamps looked different. Unfortunately, every shop was closed, because it was a national holiday for Germany, East and West unioned in 1989. German Unity day: 3rd of October. But we could see the harbour of this town and it's very pretty. I loved it. We went to see a protestant church, it was nice. Finally, we went to shop, it's a border shop, where I could buy my beloved Milka chocolate. Actually, I bought two of them for myself, and one for a friend. Then we ate a fish sandwich at a fast food restaurant. When we got back, we were very tired, and we knew that the other day we had to get up early, so we said good night. ....
To continue: I was off from school at 14pm. and Carsten, Ioana and me went to Flensbourg. Carsten got the car from his family for the whole weekend and Ioana and me planned that we'd like to see Flensbourg, Germany, and other things in Denmark. So, we went to Flensbourg on Friday. You could tell it's Germany. Houses, streets, traffic lamps looked different. Unfortunately, every shop was closed, because it was a national holiday for Germany, East and West unioned in 1989. German Unity day: 3rd of October. But we could see the harbour of this town and it's very pretty. I loved it. We went to see a protestant church, it was nice. Finally, we went to shop, it's a border shop, where I could buy my beloved Milka chocolate. Actually, I bought two of them for myself, and one for a friend. Then we ate a fish sandwich at a fast food restaurant. When we got back, we were very tired, and we knew that the other day we had to get up early, so we said good night. ....
Practice on Friday
Hi everybody,
I hope you're doing well. :)
I went to Practice school on Friday, but I had a short day. I helped a little bit in the 1st class. I had to cut out "I" and "i" letters for the kids. They're adorable. We understood each other. I like the way how they are taught in school. They are not in competition like in Hungary. And it makes different. They don't get grades until the 8th class. There are types of comments which teachers give it to pupils 2 times a year. Very interesting.
So I was off around 10 am and went to town. I could see the Haderslev market. It's not as big as in Eger, but still it was soo good to see fresh fruit and cars with full of cheese. I bought a quarter of camembert cheese, it was on sale. The only thing I missed the smells of grapes, ohh... it's beacuse in my town right now, everything is about grapes. I wish I could buy some fresh grapes...it's okay. :) I was on hurry, making sandwiches etc. I went to school around 11.30 pm. because I had to call Sterling. I could call them at the first trying. YES, Lord! So, they put me 4th of December's flight. Two days later...
Finally, I had Art class, we made "montage". I did some drawings during the week, and I showed it to the teacher, one of them actually, she liked. I was so happy because as you know I don't really practice drawings at home, not at all. So, it was good to hear a positive stroke. :)
Now, I'm thinking to try painting, I will let you know how it went later on....
I hope you're doing well. :)
I went to Practice school on Friday, but I had a short day. I helped a little bit in the 1st class. I had to cut out "I" and "i" letters for the kids. They're adorable. We understood each other. I like the way how they are taught in school. They are not in competition like in Hungary. And it makes different. They don't get grades until the 8th class. There are types of comments which teachers give it to pupils 2 times a year. Very interesting.
So I was off around 10 am and went to town. I could see the Haderslev market. It's not as big as in Eger, but still it was soo good to see fresh fruit and cars with full of cheese. I bought a quarter of camembert cheese, it was on sale. The only thing I missed the smells of grapes, ohh... it's beacuse in my town right now, everything is about grapes. I wish I could buy some fresh grapes...it's okay. :) I was on hurry, making sandwiches etc. I went to school around 11.30 pm. because I had to call Sterling. I could call them at the first trying. YES, Lord! So, they put me 4th of December's flight. Two days later...
Finally, I had Art class, we made "montage". I did some drawings during the week, and I showed it to the teacher, one of them actually, she liked. I was so happy because as you know I don't really practice drawings at home, not at all. So, it was good to hear a positive stroke. :)
Now, I'm thinking to try painting, I will let you know how it went later on....
Thursday 2 October 2008
Practical things??
Today, I had 2 classes with the 1st grade, and then one with the 4th grade. In school, everything is built or based on logic. Seriously, everything. While at home, we study or personally I struggle with studying linguistics in College, those 10 linguistics subjects, here I enjoy studying linguistics. I think, this is because the teacher makes it interesting and most importantly understandable for each student. Here, college students study the basic things about linguistics. (it's similar to Phrasal Syntax 1 and 2 at home)
Dear students fellowship and friends at home, especially those who already finished College: Have you ever taught clausal syntax in primary school? Do you use those stuffs, theories? I'm sure, that students at the age of 14, are not curious about Chomsky's theory, or the latest theory from sb.....So, my question, why do we study clausal syntax? We won't teach it, then for what is the aim to study it t? To have less confidence because you obviously fail the course, that's what the teacher promised and it became true. Personally, I failed the course...But I know, the rest of you guys failed, we can say it's normal to fail linguistics course. You can ask me back, why do you choose to study in Eger? All right, but just to let you know, I'm afraid of not be able to do that clausal syntax 2. course. It's okay.
How come students, if they study regularly here in Haderslev, don't fail any course? My experience is that even if I study hard, and spend time with memorizing books, and trying to understand what's going on in the books I fail the course. I just experience, things are different here. NO Stress! Enjoy what you're doing! It's your responsibility to do your job.
Practice today: I enjoyed the first 2 classes a lot. They studied the letter: I. Kids had to cut "i" letters from magazines. My job was to glue them on paper. They played games with letter "i". After, teacher brought a laptop and each kid had to sit in front of the computer and type the letter "i" and then color it in word document. Again, very practical. I'm so happy that I can visit classes like these special needs class. :))
4th class: they were singing songs, and praciced the English letters. One of the students needs help because she is almost blind. She has a special teacher, who stays with her all day. At the back of the classroom they have got a machine which helps students with special needs to study the same things as the other students do. I'm amazed....
Dear students fellowship and friends at home, especially those who already finished College: Have you ever taught clausal syntax in primary school? Do you use those stuffs, theories? I'm sure, that students at the age of 14, are not curious about Chomsky's theory, or the latest theory from sb.....So, my question, why do we study clausal syntax? We won't teach it, then for what is the aim to study it t? To have less confidence because you obviously fail the course, that's what the teacher promised and it became true. Personally, I failed the course...But I know, the rest of you guys failed, we can say it's normal to fail linguistics course. You can ask me back, why do you choose to study in Eger? All right, but just to let you know, I'm afraid of not be able to do that clausal syntax 2. course. It's okay.
How come students, if they study regularly here in Haderslev, don't fail any course? My experience is that even if I study hard, and spend time with memorizing books, and trying to understand what's going on in the books I fail the course. I just experience, things are different here. NO Stress! Enjoy what you're doing! It's your responsibility to do your job.
Practice today: I enjoyed the first 2 classes a lot. They studied the letter: I. Kids had to cut "i" letters from magazines. My job was to glue them on paper. They played games with letter "i". After, teacher brought a laptop and each kid had to sit in front of the computer and type the letter "i" and then color it in word document. Again, very practical. I'm so happy that I can visit classes like these special needs class. :))
4th class: they were singing songs, and praciced the English letters. One of the students needs help because she is almost blind. She has a special teacher, who stays with her all day. At the back of the classroom they have got a machine which helps students with special needs to study the same things as the other students do. I'm amazed....
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Culture night
We had a fantastic culture night in Haderslev. One of the night programmes took place at the lake where we live. Kids made houses (made from wood) and put candles in it, and they let it on the lake...beautiful. :)
Before it, we hang out at Lina's house where we watched the Danish dance show where famous Danish people like tennis stars, movie stars etc. show their best dance. It was fun. It's like in Hungary on the Rtl klub: "Szombat esti láz". After we went to the lake, and then we watched concerts at Tribune and then we went to dance at the caffee place called: Kafka. There was live music and the band was pretty good, they played songs like Beatles, Michael Jackson and of course some Danish songs. We hang out with some Danish friends, classmates all night. :)
Sunday 28 September 2008
First week in practice school
Hej everyone,
I had practice this week. I enjoyed it. I have got 2 teachers, Tim and Marianne, they are my mentors. Both of them teach English and Special Needs Education. Both of them are very nice. The school name is: Favrdalskole. It's a public school.
I visited 4 classes.
First one is the 9th class where there are approx. 20 students. They are 15 years old students. Here is the first difference. We have got primary school until 8th class, so until 14 years old kids and then we have high school between the age of 14-18. In this 9th class students look the same as in Hungary. Girls with make up on their face, boys are in baggy trousers or in "emo" style. That's just the fashion everywhere. They studied death penalty this week, they discussed the advantages and disadvantages of this topic. Some of the kids have strong feelings to choose death penalty for example if their family could have kidnapped. For homework they have to think about it more. I was surprised because they don't learn phonetics. At home I had to write the phonetic meaning of every new word for 12 years old pupils.They don't do it here. One of the reasons could be that in Denmark, films are subtitled, so when kids watch Tv they automatically get vocabulary and pronunciation. I think it's cool and very useful.
Second class: 9 E class. "E" means Special Needs Class, there are only 4 pupils and they're 15 years old, as well. They attend at public school but they learn everything separatly from the others. On one hand, I think it's great that they have the opportunity to learn everything in their own way in public school, however, on the other hand, they are separated from other pupils. I asked Tim if these 4 kids make friends from other "normal" classes and he said not really, it's not common to have friends from "normal classes". So these 4 kids, plus there is another speacial classes (they are at the same age) get on well. They hang out a lot, but they don't make friends from other classes in school. They do a lot together. You can find here pupils with social problems, or some kind of disabilities in reading or writing. (dyslexia, dysgraphia) They are normal and very-very nice kids. In Hungary, when you have kids with these kind of problems, they still do the same as the average do, however, they have extra lessons in the afternoon. Or they go to special school. I wonder how hard could it be for those pupils with special needs to do the same as the average kids do in public school in Hungary. And don't forget, we have grades. And if they don't do properly what they should do they get bad grades which is not fair, and they suffer from lack of confidence. All right, I think I stop complaining. I'm glad that my country is changing. Good point is that we have to know text and pieces of information when we have exams, we got used to do this since kindergarten, starting with short songs. Here, pupils don't need to know the text by heart. I think this has also advantages and disadvantages.
Relationship between 4 kids and the teacher: you can see that they're close to each other. Teacher asks students how their weekend was. What did they do? In Hungary, it's not common, only your head master ask you sometimes. So, I think here kids put more trust in their teacher than in Hungary. However, the question of authority comes up again.
Third class: Last week I got to visit the 4th class, as well. They're 10 years old students. Here, I found about 3- 4 muslims, but they speak Danish. I don't know that much about muslims and my aim in this blog is not to write about them. But I have to tell that 2muslim girls had to wear scarf on their head. I don't understand why, they're kids. But other students can accept other cultures if they see they have got something different.
Anyway, this class is a bit loud, very talkative, for example, when I had to introduce myself, kids were very curious and they interupted each other and asked me questions about Hungary. It was funny and very cute. The following questions they asked: Do you have huge mountains? Do you use chewing gum in Hungary? Do you like football? favourite football star? Do you know Sevcsenko? Do you like LIverpool? I have to say, all of the boys were in Liverpool T-shirt, there was no other choice to say, yes, I like Liverpool. :))
I talked a bit about my country and showed them postcards, they liked it.
They learnt some English songs during the lesson.
Fourth class: Special Needs class, 1st grade. They are 4 students as in the 9E class. They're cute. They asked me to teach them some Hungarian folk dance on Friday and I did. It was so much fun, and actually they liked it. We did it all together with the other special need class in that building, they're 3 grade. There were 10 cute pupils who danced together. :) Nice...
Later....
If you have questions, please feel free to ask. :)
I had practice this week. I enjoyed it. I have got 2 teachers, Tim and Marianne, they are my mentors. Both of them teach English and Special Needs Education. Both of them are very nice. The school name is: Favrdalskole. It's a public school.
I visited 4 classes.
First one is the 9th class where there are approx. 20 students. They are 15 years old students. Here is the first difference. We have got primary school until 8th class, so until 14 years old kids and then we have high school between the age of 14-18. In this 9th class students look the same as in Hungary. Girls with make up on their face, boys are in baggy trousers or in "emo" style. That's just the fashion everywhere. They studied death penalty this week, they discussed the advantages and disadvantages of this topic. Some of the kids have strong feelings to choose death penalty for example if their family could have kidnapped. For homework they have to think about it more. I was surprised because they don't learn phonetics. At home I had to write the phonetic meaning of every new word for 12 years old pupils.They don't do it here. One of the reasons could be that in Denmark, films are subtitled, so when kids watch Tv they automatically get vocabulary and pronunciation. I think it's cool and very useful.
Second class: 9 E class. "E" means Special Needs Class, there are only 4 pupils and they're 15 years old, as well. They attend at public school but they learn everything separatly from the others. On one hand, I think it's great that they have the opportunity to learn everything in their own way in public school, however, on the other hand, they are separated from other pupils. I asked Tim if these 4 kids make friends from other "normal" classes and he said not really, it's not common to have friends from "normal classes". So these 4 kids, plus there is another speacial classes (they are at the same age) get on well. They hang out a lot, but they don't make friends from other classes in school. They do a lot together. You can find here pupils with social problems, or some kind of disabilities in reading or writing. (dyslexia, dysgraphia) They are normal and very-very nice kids. In Hungary, when you have kids with these kind of problems, they still do the same as the average do, however, they have extra lessons in the afternoon. Or they go to special school. I wonder how hard could it be for those pupils with special needs to do the same as the average kids do in public school in Hungary. And don't forget, we have grades. And if they don't do properly what they should do they get bad grades which is not fair, and they suffer from lack of confidence. All right, I think I stop complaining. I'm glad that my country is changing. Good point is that we have to know text and pieces of information when we have exams, we got used to do this since kindergarten, starting with short songs. Here, pupils don't need to know the text by heart. I think this has also advantages and disadvantages.
Relationship between 4 kids and the teacher: you can see that they're close to each other. Teacher asks students how their weekend was. What did they do? In Hungary, it's not common, only your head master ask you sometimes. So, I think here kids put more trust in their teacher than in Hungary. However, the question of authority comes up again.
Third class: Last week I got to visit the 4th class, as well. They're 10 years old students. Here, I found about 3- 4 muslims, but they speak Danish. I don't know that much about muslims and my aim in this blog is not to write about them. But I have to tell that 2muslim girls had to wear scarf on their head. I don't understand why, they're kids. But other students can accept other cultures if they see they have got something different.
Anyway, this class is a bit loud, very talkative, for example, when I had to introduce myself, kids were very curious and they interupted each other and asked me questions about Hungary. It was funny and very cute. The following questions they asked: Do you have huge mountains? Do you use chewing gum in Hungary? Do you like football? favourite football star? Do you know Sevcsenko? Do you like LIverpool? I have to say, all of the boys were in Liverpool T-shirt, there was no other choice to say, yes, I like Liverpool. :))
I talked a bit about my country and showed them postcards, they liked it.
They learnt some English songs during the lesson.
Fourth class: Special Needs class, 1st grade. They are 4 students as in the 9E class. They're cute. They asked me to teach them some Hungarian folk dance on Friday and I did. It was so much fun, and actually they liked it. We did it all together with the other special need class in that building, they're 3 grade. There were 10 cute pupils who danced together. :) Nice...
Later....
If you have questions, please feel free to ask. :)
Monday 22 September 2008
First day in Practice School
Hello everyone,
I went to a primary school where I'm going to have practice for next 3 weeks. I'm excited to learn and experience a lot in my" teaching career".
I have a mentor there, his name is Tim, he is from Britain, but also he speaks Danish. (he has got Danish wife)
The school system is different here than in Hungary. And the way this primary school looks is also different. They have got different buildings according to which class you attend. So, today I went to visit 9th class, they had English lesson. I have to mention that it's different. Recently, the main topic in the class is the death penalty. They watched a movie about it last week, and today they started to work on a text and they worked in group where they had to answer some questions. I got to know the class a little bit, they were nice but also a little bit shy, I bet teenegars are the same everywhere. (they're 15-16 years old) Continue on Wednesday.
Then, I had another class, it is called Special Needs Education Class, where we had 4 kids who have some kind of problems learning or focusing during the lessons. I got to know their names and they're 15 years old, as well. They asked me questions, like why am I here in Denmark? what kind of music do I like? etc. They were nice, friendly. I'm happy that they dared to speak in English with me, it was a big thing for them to speak in English, and I think they did a good job. All right. So they asked me if I can teach them some Hungarian words. Actually, I taught them the numbers from 1 to 10 in Hungarian. They did good, they were smart to pronunce those hard sounds, like gy, ö, ő, etc. And then I said it in Danish. :)
After this, Henrik, one of the students, showed me the school, ohh it's beauiful. I'm going to put some pictures later on. Then I had a break, I bought a salad at the school canteen, you can only buy healthy food at the canteen, no chololates, no candies, etc. Just, fruit drinks, sandwiches made from brown bread, and salad. This is a kind of law from the local government.
After 30 minutes break, we had another class, where we watched movies about the school system in England. It was interesting.
Finally, I had a Special Needs class where I had to teach kids how to play card games with Hungarian cards. I brought my own cards to school, and when I showed them the card, some of them were shocked because it is different than French card. So we just tried to discover Hungarian card. We played 21. They liked it. They were nice, and I was happy to meet with them.
Impressions: school is very-well equipped with materials, OVP (overhead projectors), books. The rooms are without doors but it looks great.
It's very nice that the students can leave their stuff in school, they put their books to a big blue box (everybody has got one with their names on it) and they leave their stuff in the classroom. It's really a great idea, that they don't have to carry a lot to school every day. :)
Relationship between teachers and students are different here than in Hungary. Here, students call teachers on their first name, I think this breaks the ice between teachers and students.
We discussed it a little bit with Tim, it was strange for him as well, when he started to teach in Denmark. What do you think? I'm looking forward to your comments.
I went to a primary school where I'm going to have practice for next 3 weeks. I'm excited to learn and experience a lot in my" teaching career".
I have a mentor there, his name is Tim, he is from Britain, but also he speaks Danish. (he has got Danish wife)
The school system is different here than in Hungary. And the way this primary school looks is also different. They have got different buildings according to which class you attend. So, today I went to visit 9th class, they had English lesson. I have to mention that it's different. Recently, the main topic in the class is the death penalty. They watched a movie about it last week, and today they started to work on a text and they worked in group where they had to answer some questions. I got to know the class a little bit, they were nice but also a little bit shy, I bet teenegars are the same everywhere. (they're 15-16 years old) Continue on Wednesday.
Then, I had another class, it is called Special Needs Education Class, where we had 4 kids who have some kind of problems learning or focusing during the lessons. I got to know their names and they're 15 years old, as well. They asked me questions, like why am I here in Denmark? what kind of music do I like? etc. They were nice, friendly. I'm happy that they dared to speak in English with me, it was a big thing for them to speak in English, and I think they did a good job. All right. So they asked me if I can teach them some Hungarian words. Actually, I taught them the numbers from 1 to 10 in Hungarian. They did good, they were smart to pronunce those hard sounds, like gy, ö, ő, etc. And then I said it in Danish. :)
After this, Henrik, one of the students, showed me the school, ohh it's beauiful. I'm going to put some pictures later on. Then I had a break, I bought a salad at the school canteen, you can only buy healthy food at the canteen, no chololates, no candies, etc. Just, fruit drinks, sandwiches made from brown bread, and salad. This is a kind of law from the local government.
After 30 minutes break, we had another class, where we watched movies about the school system in England. It was interesting.
Finally, I had a Special Needs class where I had to teach kids how to play card games with Hungarian cards. I brought my own cards to school, and when I showed them the card, some of them were shocked because it is different than French card. So we just tried to discover Hungarian card. We played 21. They liked it. They were nice, and I was happy to meet with them.
Impressions: school is very-well equipped with materials, OVP (overhead projectors), books. The rooms are without doors but it looks great.
It's very nice that the students can leave their stuff in school, they put their books to a big blue box (everybody has got one with their names on it) and they leave their stuff in the classroom. It's really a great idea, that they don't have to carry a lot to school every day. :)
Relationship between teachers and students are different here than in Hungary. Here, students call teachers on their first name, I think this breaks the ice between teachers and students.
We discussed it a little bit with Tim, it was strange for him as well, when he started to teach in Denmark. What do you think? I'm looking forward to your comments.
weekend
Hello again,
We had a great sunny weekend. I have heard that you cannot tell the same in Hungary, poor you. Our buddy, Carsten, and his family invited us (Ioana and me) to spend a day with his family. Since on Saturday, the weather was great, we went to their ship in Aabenra, and we hang out a little bit there and we went to see the seaside again, we collected shells and took off our shoes and just put our feet into the sea. It was nice and relaxing. After, we went to his family's house, where we were invited to a "tea afternoon", his mom made a kind of "zsömle" and hmm we got jam, so all in all it was nice. But, it was't the end of the day. Around 6-7 pm. the dinner came. What was it? PORK MEAT!! yes, you can believe me, I ate pork meat. Yes, I did. I cannot believe, but it's true. All right, I have to tell you, It's great, it was tasty, we ate pork meat with thick brown sauce and potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and we drunk red wine with it. I'm so thankful for this tasty Danish cuisine. After dinner, the dessert came on the scene....Ice cream with waffers. Again, great...
I felt like in Hungary, when guests or friends come to our house and my mom and me are just feeding them. Now, I can know what you feel when you are at our house at home. :))
I'm happy to had the chance to experience great Danish hospitality. Thank you for the meal.:)
After dinner, we went to a farm, where we saw horses,( someday I will ride one,) and we also saw American animals, it was like "nosebears" in Danish. (I don't remember the name in English).
We got to meet with Carsten's friends and they invited us to a Danish hygge, which means you sit on the sofa, have candles on the table and you talk. :) So we did. It was nice to meet with them.
On the other day, we relaxed, and also we got a new toilet to our bathroom, I have to tell that the old one wasn't bad, but here the new one came, it's very well designed. :)) Now, we are completely spoiled.
In the afternoon, Sarah, our German friend came to visit us, again we had hygge with her, we had dinner, and we just talked about family, religion, countries, school system etc. It was nice to have her for the afternoon. By the way, the German group go to different places in Denmark for 3 weeks to school practice, so we won't see each other. Have fun there!
The day ended, and we were excited to get up on Monday, I tell you why....
We had a great sunny weekend. I have heard that you cannot tell the same in Hungary, poor you. Our buddy, Carsten, and his family invited us (Ioana and me) to spend a day with his family. Since on Saturday, the weather was great, we went to their ship in Aabenra, and we hang out a little bit there and we went to see the seaside again, we collected shells and took off our shoes and just put our feet into the sea. It was nice and relaxing. After, we went to his family's house, where we were invited to a "tea afternoon", his mom made a kind of "zsömle" and hmm we got jam, so all in all it was nice. But, it was't the end of the day. Around 6-7 pm. the dinner came. What was it? PORK MEAT!! yes, you can believe me, I ate pork meat. Yes, I did. I cannot believe, but it's true. All right, I have to tell you, It's great, it was tasty, we ate pork meat with thick brown sauce and potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and we drunk red wine with it. I'm so thankful for this tasty Danish cuisine. After dinner, the dessert came on the scene....Ice cream with waffers. Again, great...
I felt like in Hungary, when guests or friends come to our house and my mom and me are just feeding them. Now, I can know what you feel when you are at our house at home. :))
I'm happy to had the chance to experience great Danish hospitality. Thank you for the meal.:)
After dinner, we went to a farm, where we saw horses,( someday I will ride one,) and we also saw American animals, it was like "nosebears" in Danish. (I don't remember the name in English).
We got to meet with Carsten's friends and they invited us to a Danish hygge, which means you sit on the sofa, have candles on the table and you talk. :) So we did. It was nice to meet with them.
On the other day, we relaxed, and also we got a new toilet to our bathroom, I have to tell that the old one wasn't bad, but here the new one came, it's very well designed. :)) Now, we are completely spoiled.
In the afternoon, Sarah, our German friend came to visit us, again we had hygge with her, we had dinner, and we just talked about family, religion, countries, school system etc. It was nice to have her for the afternoon. By the way, the German group go to different places in Denmark for 3 weeks to school practice, so we won't see each other. Have fun there!
The day ended, and we were excited to get up on Monday, I tell you why....
Wednesday 17 September 2008
sum up on my first 3 weeks here
Hej again, Mogn (pronunced: mojn :))
Jeg hedder Judit, jeg er tre og tyve. Jeg bo i Haderslev i Praestegade nr. atten. (18)
My name is Judit, I'm 23 years old. I live in Haderslev in the Priest street 18. :) (By the way, I'm so happy to live in the priest street).
Jeg er fra Ungarn. = I'm from Hungary.
These are the first steps to talk in Danish. I have got some Danish class, so I have the chance to talk to Danish students and learn in Danish.
I think it's more fun to say these sentences than to write it, because you don't pronunce it in the same way as it is written. That's okay, whenever you call me on skype you can hear my Danish accent. :))
I decided to try to sum up the last 3 busy weeks in Haderslev. It's not easy, but I hope my writing style will be understood. I also hope that you understand my poor English grammar, I try to make the best of it. :)) Please, apologize for my mistakes and if you want to help me improve my English grammar skills you can help. Any kind of critics are accepted here.
All right: let's take a deep step in my memory and start:
First impression of Denmark: on the airplane, people were nice, and I could see the huge bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen, you know one of my dream places to visit one day. ...So I tought it looks pretty... Anyway, I was so excited that I thought I'm gonna throw up on the airplane, so I had an old married couple sitting next to me, and they thought the same, so they were so kind that they prepared the plastic bag for me, I said ohh thank you, but I think I'm just excited, nothing wrong. ...Thank God, I survived....The whole trip was a blessing, I met with nice people who helped me putting the suitcases to the train. I was very thirsty on the train, so I bought Cocio, the real Danish chocolate drink, I love it.
So I arrived to Kolding, where I met with my buddy, Carsten. he is a nice guy. He and his friend, Kim, gave me a lift to Haderslev. The weather was just amazing, and I saw Danish houses with nice doors and little cute windows from the car, I thought, Oh my God, this is beautiful.
We arrived and then I got the key, and this huge house was mine for 3 days, because the owners of the house were away...I chose my room, took a shower, and Carsten took me for dinner. No wonder we ate at a Chinese restaurant, this town has got a lot. I ate noodles with chicken, and I liked it. Then, we went to the college where there was a some kind of party, so I met with Danish students. One of the students asked me: "oh, so you're from Hungary, like Bucarest." On the first night, I taught a geography lesson, and explained patiently that no, that capital is not in my country, a little bit easter, but you were almost right. I decided that I don't want to judge anybody, so even this situation was kind of weird I got used to it, because Danish people don't really know anything about Hungary at all. Or maybe some of them: lake Balaton, Budapest.
My sweetest flatmate ever, Ioana, has got a better story. She talked to people and they thought that because she is from Romania, she is a spy from Russia. Ohh, well it's just history. Anyway, we decided to make friends and let them know about our country.
To continue my first weekend in this wonderful country, I went to shopping with Carsten, and I saw Danish people with beer in their hands and without shoes, maybe it was becuase of the weather. It was strange. I got to know the town on Saturday, the weather was like Summer, and on late afternoon, my buddy, and his friends gave me a ride to the seaside. It was a cool experience because the sea was a little bit cold for me, however it was cool, cause I haven't seen the seaside for 10 years. So I was just peaceful and happy. At night, we went to Kim's house, he and his friends, cooked Danish dinner. Oh, man it was soo nice. I had so much fun, and they knew about Hungary, they were interested in my country, we were talking about traditions in Denmark etc. After dinner, we went to a petrol station where I had the chance to try some real salty Danish liquish. (sós gumicukor). I must say I survived. :)) Surely, it's not my favourite, but it's okay. Maybe I buy some as a gift later on. :))
/me at the seaside near to Haderslev/
On Sunday, We went to a trip. Carsten's family has a ship, we went to sea and the first time in my life I guess, I got a fisk (fish). I was the only one, no one else except me. But, I have to say, that I prayed for it, I really did, and a Bible story came to my mind, where Jesus says: "Ask and it will be given to you, seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread , will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets". Matthew 7: 7-12 from the Bible
I said to my Lord, I know you love me, but this is too much. I had a great weekend, and still, I feel like I'm totally blessed here. Ioana said that she feels like she is in a Cinderella or a fairy tale story. She is right. We feel like, we're in wonderland. :))
First of September:
The school started, I was excited, soo excited that even Carsten told me on which way I should go, I got lost a little bit, and I was on late, which I don't like. I know that Danish people are always on time. I wanted to be like that, especially on the very first day. It's okay. I met with Jette, my Eramus coordinator, she is so nice, very helpful. I felt like when I said somehing she wants to do it on that day, very kind, again a huge blessing to work with her. :)
My first day was okay, I liked it. I like the way they teach here. The key word is: freedom.
In my college, we never leave our classroom without permission, here you just go to the restroom, whenever you want, I mean whenever you need to go...
Different. Being here, feels like a holiday. However, I know I study, experience a lot of things. ...All right the best part will just come...
Good news to those who know that I cannot draw. This is not true, it's not me who said this, but my art class teacher. She said that don't tell to your body you cannot do it, it's so negative. I was just wondering how many times you can hear in Hungary since primary school this sentence: you cannot do it. So I suppose I should be a genius now, if you know what I mean...
So I have got this class, it's really cool, I can improve my drawing skills. Also, I have got English class, Comparative Education, Danish as a second language, Weblogs, where we study how to use this blogspot etc. Next week my teaching practice is gonna start. I'm excited again, I went to the primary school today where I start my week next week, the English teacher Tim, was a nice guy, he told the details, and I introduce myself on Monday, and I'm telling you the details later on.
my second weekend: We got to go to Aarhus, the second biggest town in Denmark with Kim, Frida, his daughter, Carsten, Ioana and me. We walked in the town and had a sandwich in a restaurant. Also, we had a trip to Stafet for Livet programe, fighting against cancer, we had the same kind of programe in Hungary. We had lots of fun that day. :)
Last Friday, 12th of September, we went to a school trip with he first year' students, and we had to do different kind of activities during the trip. By the end of the trip, we caught a cold, it's still pretty bad, and I thought that I had fun, but it was a little bit long and too much for me.
Around 5 pm. we got baptized, which meant you had to go through a some kind of difficulty field, tipically freshmen things to do at college. At the end we slided on the slide-way and we ended in a pool with full of stinky stuff, pasta, whipped cream etc. Yep, it sounds disgusting, but on the other hand it was fun, We looked funny after all. :) On Friday night, we went back to school to dance, we had fun...
/Ioana and me after school baptism, it was very cold/
On Sunday, we went to Ribe, west of Denmark, with the German groups. I got see the North Sea, which was amazing and again a huge blessing. I was so enthusiastic, and I was so happy and I shouted that Oh my God, I cannot believe I'm here. All the other students from Germany, except Ioana, looked at me strange, maybe they have already seen the North Sea, but you know when I'm happy, I'm really happy. I show it, you know that way....or if not you will get to know...
(me at the North Sea)
Okay, I spend this week with cooking, going to school, try to recover from my sickness, but it seems to me that the Neocitran from home doesn't work. I should do something....
Well, I think I wrote the most important things about my three weeks here. I'm just so thankful to God being here, and I'm excited to tell you more about my studies, my experiences here.
I hope you liked it. :) Talk to you soon. Have a great week! Blessings :)
Jeg hedder Judit, jeg er tre og tyve. Jeg bo i Haderslev i Praestegade nr. atten. (18)
My name is Judit, I'm 23 years old. I live in Haderslev in the Priest street 18. :) (By the way, I'm so happy to live in the priest street).
Jeg er fra Ungarn. = I'm from Hungary.
These are the first steps to talk in Danish. I have got some Danish class, so I have the chance to talk to Danish students and learn in Danish.
I think it's more fun to say these sentences than to write it, because you don't pronunce it in the same way as it is written. That's okay, whenever you call me on skype you can hear my Danish accent. :))
I decided to try to sum up the last 3 busy weeks in Haderslev. It's not easy, but I hope my writing style will be understood. I also hope that you understand my poor English grammar, I try to make the best of it. :)) Please, apologize for my mistakes and if you want to help me improve my English grammar skills you can help. Any kind of critics are accepted here.
All right: let's take a deep step in my memory and start:
First impression of Denmark: on the airplane, people were nice, and I could see the huge bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen, you know one of my dream places to visit one day. ...So I tought it looks pretty... Anyway, I was so excited that I thought I'm gonna throw up on the airplane, so I had an old married couple sitting next to me, and they thought the same, so they were so kind that they prepared the plastic bag for me, I said ohh thank you, but I think I'm just excited, nothing wrong. ...Thank God, I survived....The whole trip was a blessing, I met with nice people who helped me putting the suitcases to the train. I was very thirsty on the train, so I bought Cocio, the real Danish chocolate drink, I love it.
So I arrived to Kolding, where I met with my buddy, Carsten. he is a nice guy. He and his friend, Kim, gave me a lift to Haderslev. The weather was just amazing, and I saw Danish houses with nice doors and little cute windows from the car, I thought, Oh my God, this is beautiful.
We arrived and then I got the key, and this huge house was mine for 3 days, because the owners of the house were away...I chose my room, took a shower, and Carsten took me for dinner. No wonder we ate at a Chinese restaurant, this town has got a lot. I ate noodles with chicken, and I liked it. Then, we went to the college where there was a some kind of party, so I met with Danish students. One of the students asked me: "oh, so you're from Hungary, like Bucarest." On the first night, I taught a geography lesson, and explained patiently that no, that capital is not in my country, a little bit easter, but you were almost right. I decided that I don't want to judge anybody, so even this situation was kind of weird I got used to it, because Danish people don't really know anything about Hungary at all. Or maybe some of them: lake Balaton, Budapest.
My sweetest flatmate ever, Ioana, has got a better story. She talked to people and they thought that because she is from Romania, she is a spy from Russia. Ohh, well it's just history. Anyway, we decided to make friends and let them know about our country.
To continue my first weekend in this wonderful country, I went to shopping with Carsten, and I saw Danish people with beer in their hands and without shoes, maybe it was becuase of the weather. It was strange. I got to know the town on Saturday, the weather was like Summer, and on late afternoon, my buddy, and his friends gave me a ride to the seaside. It was a cool experience because the sea was a little bit cold for me, however it was cool, cause I haven't seen the seaside for 10 years. So I was just peaceful and happy. At night, we went to Kim's house, he and his friends, cooked Danish dinner. Oh, man it was soo nice. I had so much fun, and they knew about Hungary, they were interested in my country, we were talking about traditions in Denmark etc. After dinner, we went to a petrol station where I had the chance to try some real salty Danish liquish. (sós gumicukor). I must say I survived. :)) Surely, it's not my favourite, but it's okay. Maybe I buy some as a gift later on. :))
/me at the seaside near to Haderslev/On Sunday, We went to a trip. Carsten's family has a ship, we went to sea and the first time in my life I guess, I got a fisk (fish). I was the only one, no one else except me. But, I have to say, that I prayed for it, I really did, and a Bible story came to my mind, where Jesus says: "Ask and it will be given to you, seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread , will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets". Matthew 7: 7-12 from the Bible
I said to my Lord, I know you love me, but this is too much. I had a great weekend, and still, I feel like I'm totally blessed here. Ioana said that she feels like she is in a Cinderella or a fairy tale story. She is right. We feel like, we're in wonderland. :))
First of September:
The school started, I was excited, soo excited that even Carsten told me on which way I should go, I got lost a little bit, and I was on late, which I don't like. I know that Danish people are always on time. I wanted to be like that, especially on the very first day. It's okay. I met with Jette, my Eramus coordinator, she is so nice, very helpful. I felt like when I said somehing she wants to do it on that day, very kind, again a huge blessing to work with her. :)
My first day was okay, I liked it. I like the way they teach here. The key word is: freedom.
In my college, we never leave our classroom without permission, here you just go to the restroom, whenever you want, I mean whenever you need to go...
Different. Being here, feels like a holiday. However, I know I study, experience a lot of things. ...All right the best part will just come...
Good news to those who know that I cannot draw. This is not true, it's not me who said this, but my art class teacher. She said that don't tell to your body you cannot do it, it's so negative. I was just wondering how many times you can hear in Hungary since primary school this sentence: you cannot do it. So I suppose I should be a genius now, if you know what I mean...
So I have got this class, it's really cool, I can improve my drawing skills. Also, I have got English class, Comparative Education, Danish as a second language, Weblogs, where we study how to use this blogspot etc. Next week my teaching practice is gonna start. I'm excited again, I went to the primary school today where I start my week next week, the English teacher Tim, was a nice guy, he told the details, and I introduce myself on Monday, and I'm telling you the details later on.
my second weekend: We got to go to Aarhus, the second biggest town in Denmark with Kim, Frida, his daughter, Carsten, Ioana and me. We walked in the town and had a sandwich in a restaurant. Also, we had a trip to Stafet for Livet programe, fighting against cancer, we had the same kind of programe in Hungary. We had lots of fun that day. :)
Last Friday, 12th of September, we went to a school trip with he first year' students, and we had to do different kind of activities during the trip. By the end of the trip, we caught a cold, it's still pretty bad, and I thought that I had fun, but it was a little bit long and too much for me.
Around 5 pm. we got baptized, which meant you had to go through a some kind of difficulty field, tipically freshmen things to do at college. At the end we slided on the slide-way and we ended in a pool with full of stinky stuff, pasta, whipped cream etc. Yep, it sounds disgusting, but on the other hand it was fun, We looked funny after all. :) On Friday night, we went back to school to dance, we had fun...
/Ioana and me after school baptism, it was very cold/
On Sunday, we went to Ribe, west of Denmark, with the German groups. I got see the North Sea, which was amazing and again a huge blessing. I was so enthusiastic, and I was so happy and I shouted that Oh my God, I cannot believe I'm here. All the other students from Germany, except Ioana, looked at me strange, maybe they have already seen the North Sea, but you know when I'm happy, I'm really happy. I show it, you know that way....or if not you will get to know...
(me at the North Sea)Okay, I spend this week with cooking, going to school, try to recover from my sickness, but it seems to me that the Neocitran from home doesn't work. I should do something....
Well, I think I wrote the most important things about my three weeks here. I'm just so thankful to God being here, and I'm excited to tell you more about my studies, my experiences here.
I hope you liked it. :) Talk to you soon. Have a great week! Blessings :)
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