Post No.26

The first day of our practice lessons was very beneficial. As agreed before, we visited our practice school in the morning. Before we could take some breath we were in the classroom, talking with the pupils about immigration, racism and the south part of the USA. At the end of the lesson we were invited by the teacher to join an afternoon performance of the school choir. We did and, of course, we didn't regret. Even though we didn't understand anything we were able to appreciate the sound and wonderful singing.

After this experience I really start to think that this programme is becoming to give us exactly the thing which we have asked for. Practice. Learning about the Danish educational system and comparing it with ours, as well. 

Post no.25

6th April - Wake up for the trip and see what the town of Abenraa looks like. Another part of our modules took part on Tuesday when we took the bus to Abenraa to enjoy a drama lesson. No one knew what was about to happen so we were quite excited. When we found out that the "classroom" is no bigger than a usual classroom, we were a little bit perplexed. Flemming was again in his optimistic and cheerful mood and started the lesson with the explanation of the schedule and other practical things. After the lesson really began we were taken to the process completely. We were shown many interesting activities which can be easily used as so called icebreakers. In general, the lesson was well-prepared and all the Erasmus students had a really lovely time. 

After the lesson we had about an hour to enjoy Abenraa - we took a short walk and the rest of the time spent on a beach. I am really looking forward to going there again - on FRIDAY 9th.

Post No.24

After few days of doing nothing I realized that I should start doing something useful - i.e. finish same papers for my home university, read books or update this blog.

The week after the International Week was very peaceful and calm. Nearly every lesson we attended was one of the last ones. We started the week on Monday 22th with the music lesson where we sang our favourite songs such as Singing all together. We finished the lesson with a little drama which was based on a classical piece of music. It was quite difficult - not to think about the theme or topic but to be precise. We were quite surprised how similar our ideas were.

The day continued with the last Special Education lesson where we were talking the way we are focused on special education in our countries and showed the presentations aw well. To sum this module - I think it was one of the most beneficial one. I really enjoyed the openness of the teacher and her enthusiasm. 

The following days were really relaxing and we were looking forward to the cooking lesson with other Danish students. We went shopping together and talked about the recipes. However, I  was quite disappointed with the students because during the procedure they kind of didn't want to talk to us and the teacher noticed it as well. In private, she also told us that she had expected them to be more communicative... but nevermind... the final buffet satisfied everyone and that was the goal. We had the opportunity to taste some of the very old and (nowadays) old-fashioned dished - a special type of porridge which was made of bread and beer and many other things which followed the Climate Friendly Cooking scheme. 

After this lesson we started enjoying the holidays and we planned our trips. We visited Legoland and Arhus and had a lovely time together.