Danish lesson and teaching!

We had a lot of Danish lessons. What could I use from Danish lessons so far? The colors, the words like what, where, when, how,… So that was very useful! I also used the sentences for introducing myself.

On Thursday I teached an art lesson in the Danish language. The pupils were 8 years old so they don’t understand English. Wow, this was hard but the pupils did understand me! First they heard a sound from insects and they had to name a lot of insects. Then they smelled and touched the grass that I brought with me. I find it very important that pupils feel, do, hear, a lot of things in real! After this they had to name the insects. I had my little paper for peeking with all kinds of insects in Danish. After this I gave my instruction in Danish and surprise surprise, everyone did what they were expected to do! I showed also one of my exemples so that they could see how it's supposed to look like.
First I was a little bit afraid that this lesson would be too difficult for them. But as you can see on the pictures, it was just for them! Now I know that this lesson works for 8 year old children, I can use this in my own practice in 3 weeks! Woehoe, one lesson more!

This was a chance to learn more Danish on my own while I was teaching!

Evalutation from the pupils:
- “She will be a good teacher.”
- “She is very sweet.”
- “The lesson was very funny.”
- “ She helped me, that was good.”
- “ She is trying to speak Danish, that was good.”

I was very happy after those comments from the pupils! I went home singing!

International week

Last week we had the international week.

Monday: I was really looking forward to meet the new students but especially the 2 Belgian girls and the girl from Holland. But when I came in the classroom there were a lot of people. Who will be the delegation from Belgium? I decided to take a seat and they were sitting next to me! Haha, found them. We immediately started speaking! They were great! After the lessons and the tour in Haderslev we had a very nice evening meal with typical Danish food, of course ‘frikadeller’.

Tuesday: We had a lesson about stereotypes. I had to present Germany. There was also a group who had to make a drawing about the Belgian stereotypes and they were very close. Watch the picture and you will see. After the lesson we went to Ribe and the old town. I went to lunch with the Belgian girls and of course, we ate some sweets…

Wednesday: We had a music lesson. It was very nice, we made music with our body, voice and instruments. I went with the Belgian girls for thee and pancakes to Kafka. Mmm… Belgian tradition: eat sweets at 4 o’clock!




Thursday: We had a morning off. The international students went for school visits. Later that day we prepared the ‘Plopdans’ for the Eurovision song contest! That was very funny! We had the most people dancing! I enjoyed it!

Friday: We presented ‘the Danisher’. Our self made newspaper with our reflections and thoughts. It was very special to see that every other country had made something different! After the presentations we had an international lunch. Eating, again! The Belgian girls left and I’m staying here for another 1.5 month, which I of course don’t mind!

It was very nice meeting all of you!

On our own initiative

We had a few days off during the holiday here. So we searched for the adventure and founded it!

1. Trip to the sea by foot

Wednesday 11th February we were really ambitious to find the sea by foot. What an idea... It was a very nice day, sun was shining,... After a few hours off walking we saw the fjord. Very beautiful! The nature here in Denmark is really something special. You won't see this in Belgium! After we had lunch we tried to reach the sea but it was to far away... We walked for 3 hours and then we came back home. This trip made me think about the 'guerillatocht' at home. Walking trough the field, crossing a little river,... Those were my first thoughts about home and my friends...

2. Trip to the sea by bus

Saturday 13th February we went back to the sea. But this time by bus! And yes, this time we made it to the sea! It snowed the night before, so the beach was all white. It was again, beautiful! Especially because the sun was shining! And we didn't saw the sun for a long time!

Aarhus

The 10th of February we went to visit Aarhus. First we walked to 'old town'. It's a place where the houses look like lots of years ago. I really likes it. Snooping around in the small houses, walking around,...

After the visit in 'old town' we went to the cathedral. Unfortunately we had to leave sooner because of a funeral.

We walked a litte bit around in the streets and then we went to 'Aros'. An artmuseum were I would like to go back a. It is really big and we didn't had the chance to see everything. I liked this museum. It's was new, modern,... not like other museums. For this museum we had given the other erasmusstudents a task. We had to organise something at each point off the excursions and I was in the artgroup. We organised a search trough the museum with a few questions. Both groupes scored 2 points at the end so there is no winner.

The first days...

I arrived on Saturday morning. We couldn´t find my place because I had a wrong number. So, its 18 in stead of 20. I was the first one to arrive. While Kris and Magali went to sleep I settled in. Tina, my buddy picked me up to visit the town and gave me a tour. She showed me the way to the school. She´s really nice, she helps me with everything. The other erasmusstudents arrived during the day and they are very nice! There are 2 girls from Hungary and 1 boy from Spain.

On Sunday we visited the town with the 4 of us. We went to find the school although we took another road then the buddy´s showed us. Ours is shorter, we hope. We need to go up on the hill. And ofcourse the school is behind the hill in a lower part of Haderslev. Time of walking: 30 minutes. I´m gonna come back to Belgium with a good condition. We also visited the town. It´s an old town, I love to walk around in it. All the typical houses, I like them. After that, we went to the lake. It´s the end of the ocean or something like that. It´s lovely with the paths for walking, the bridges, the special stairs to go the the semetary. It began to snow when we left the lake and it was getting colder because there was a lot of wind. So we went for a thee at Kafka´s. After that we went home and made dinner. And then the fun began, we had a little karaoke party till 00.30. It´s fun to getting to know eachother step by step! The 3 Polish girls arrived today. They were tired so we didn´t had to chance to know them better.

On monday, the 2th of February, we had to go to school. Tina picked the 3 Polish girls and me up so I didn´t had to walk. We checked out the cafeteria where we can eat an warm meal for lunch. The school is very big. There are 7 big buildings all over the street. And that´s only for the teacher education. The lessons starting most of the time at 9 o´clock. Jette Laursson had made us breakfast. The, coffie and little Danish bolls (´pistolleekes`). Njammie! After that we had to introduce ourselves. After that we had a class about the Danisch school system. It sounded quite familiar.

Today is the second day in school. We´re having ICT. Learning to make a weblog. But to be honest, i did read my e-mail first. I think everbody did. Finally contact with Belgium. Hopefully the internet works at our accomodation so I can keep writing on this blog. And that´s it for now!