news

Hey there,

Here are some news about me being in England! It has been great since I'm here. I already love the family a lot. They're busy people but they're very nice. Kids do a lot of sports and the parents also work a lot. I try my best to keep everything going on. Well, I haven't seen anything yet really, but I'm gonna take my time and have a look at London and here also the surroundings.
By the end of the day I always get tired, but I'm thinking to put some pictures and write more at the weekend. I have been thinking about what to do with my free time I'm gonna have. For sure I'm writing my thesis, and plus I also want to speak Spanish fluent not just the basic stuff I already know, so I need to check all the courses here. At the weekend I'm going to be alone here, so please pray for me not to be frightened. That's all.

Halihoo,

Van nehany hirem az itt letemrol. Jol erzem magam miota itt vagyok. Mar most nagyon szeretem a csaladot. Nagyon elfoglalt mindenki, de nagyon aranyosak. A gyerkocok sokat sportolnak, a szulok meg sokat dolgoznak. En eddig probalom a legjobbat nyujtani, hogy minden siman menjen. Nos, eddig nem sok mindent lattam, de majd idot szakitok arra is, hogy elmenjek Londonba es megnezzek ezt, azt. A nap vegere mindig faradt vagyok, de azon leszek, hogy a hetvegen kepeket es meg tobbet irjak az itt toltott idomrol. Azon gondolkodom, hogy mit csinaljak a szabadidombn ami lesz, es arra gondoltam, hogy irom a szakdogamat, meg spanyolt fogok tanulni, mert folyekonan szeretnek beszelni, de meg kell nezzem milyen tanfolyamok vannak a kornyeken. A hetvegen egyedul leszek itt, kerlek titeket imadkozzatok ertem, hogy minden rendben menjen, es ne feljek itt. Ennyi.

up-date

Hi everyone,

I don't know who follows my blog daily, (except me:)), but I decided to continue writing it, at least it's good for developing my writing skills, I think I'm not good at it....soo again, I just hope you understand. :)
So my last blog was about my last weekend in Denmark, it was pretty busy and fun. Today, at the very last day of January, here in Hungary, I started to work on my thesis, well, it's time, I hope I can finish it on time. If not that's okay. In December, I finished my teaching practice and then, I had an exam, just right after Christmas, on that day I remember that I hurt my ankle, which is still painful (more than a month later). In January, I did most of my exams, and I have already forgotten it. No wonder, there was nothing practical, or interesting, as usual. Except one exam, I think, my favourite, Native Americans, I like the topic as such, I like learning about Native Indians in general. So that exam was like talking to my teacher, I really enjoyed it. But that's it.
On Monday morning, I'm gonna start my teaching practice at Keri, it's one of the "ghettoest" high school in my town right now, and imagine 5 years ago when I studied there, it was quite okay, but now, it has changed a lot...And I realized this fact when I entered the classroom to talk about my teaching period and things to do. So it's very normal not to say hi to me. Not even mentioning the fact, that during the class it was normal to listening LOUD pop-gipsy music, playing poker, taking photos, chatting, and planning to explode the school. So now, you can ask me, Judit what are you doing there? Why did you choose that school? you're crazy etc......even my mentor teacher considers me silly, I could see on her, but that' s okay. I know I won't save these kids' life, (you know it's not my job) however, I know that they are there to learn sth and the fact that no one cares about them and almost every teacher has already given up on them, I do not want to do that. I would like to be a good example, and a teacher kind who would like to and able to teach them for sth useful, like a little bit of English. ?? Well, we'll see how it goes.
My mentor teacher told me that she does not want to "put me" in some classes, she is afraid that I would not survive, I mean students would hit me and steal my stuff. That's her experiences. Okay, I'm gonna let you know how it went. One of the biggest challenges of my life! Whoo!!

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.