My last week in Denmark

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!

"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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

Oscar party

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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. :)

All about Drama

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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