modules I havent mentioned yet: M3

M3: Globalization and Citizenship, the subject was taught by two teachers, Torbjorn Ydegard who is very friendly and exudes serentity and spreads peaceful atmosphere all around himself and Henrik Baekgaard whose lessons were very amusing and incetative and who uses modern means( eg. movies) to involve students and make them thinking about the problems of todays world....thats why I like both of them:)
We were dealing with many things, maybe the most important was the freedom of speech:where are the limits and where they should be, is freedom of speech endengared?----> eg. by DURAN II and the claim that talking openly about religious thinks could be outlawed.
We realized many interesting thinks, but I can give here only few examples: - that tolerance in society and at school may have something in common with religion----> Catholic( only one way of doing thinks...) vs. Protestant( many smaller churches, liberal....) countries.
- we tried to decide how the pupils could be taught in democratic way---->note: I also appreciated that Torbjorn always writtes our ideas on the blackboard and then we discussed them.
- Marshal Rosenberg and his non violent way of communication was introduced to us-----> giraffe vs. jackal + we should be familiarized with peoples NEEDS.
- we worked with Obama`s inaugural speech---- we tried to search sentences with the theme of citizenship and then we made short pocked video about democracy( arguing about the last piece of cake and how to solve it in democratic way)
- when using short movies in order to teach pupils about evil in the world we should choose characters that are complicated, not black and white, so that the pupils could identificate with them....

I enjoyed this lesson not only because it isery similar to what I study but it also gave me many topics to think about.

modules I have not mentioned yet: M1.

M1: very large module consisting of many subjects and lessons. Probably the largest one was Danish with two graduating students Christiene and Ciene who had very difficult task in front of them: teach us rudiments of Danish language. The task was difficult especially for two reasons: 1. Danish is said to be the 2nd most difficult language to learn..2. I ( I think that all of us) did not have real motivation, because 99% of danish population is able to communicate in English.
So my motivation was to learn a few phrases because I know that people always appreciate when you know at least basements of their language+ learn names of foods so I wouldnt be lost in the supermarket:) I also have to say that twice I took advantege of my knowledge of danish numbers when talking to a shop assistant who didnt speak English....so my expectations are fulfilled:)
I would also like to mention our history teacher Jorn Buch who is a really great person with enormous pieces of knowledge. We had three lessons with him, one lesson about the history in general, second one about history of the region and one extra about 2WW......I admire his way of teaching and the fact that time to time he mentiones some curiosities from the history of erasmus student`s countries. And now I also know that there is a special law in Denmark that the flag mustnt touch the ground:)

The International week:summary

The international week is over now and I must say that it was very interesting week....having in the class 14 more students from various parts of Europe was grateful experience. We also had one special guest from the Netherlands in our flat and it was really nice and friendly girl:)
In my opinion the most significant events are those:

Monday: " Get-together-evening" in the canteen with delicious food, singing and playing games....

Tuesday: Excursion to Ribe, where we visited Vikings museum and on the way there we observed " black sun"= enormous amount of birds gathering together, I must mention the weather that was briliant.

Wendesday: The very fast run with Alex along the Haderslev fjord during the sunset......:)

Thursday: Definitely " Eurovision Song Contest". I was satisfied with our performance although we had some troubles with music instruments and I can`t sing:) But Hungarien band was simply amazing and I also appreciated Polish girls......

Friday: Specialities from different countries, principal`s hot dog and beer and unplanned walk to the haderslev mill....it was nice ending of this wonderful week.......................

jette`s moving cinema.....

On Friday 7th Jette introduced us to the Danish cinematography....she explained us shortly the history of Danish cinematography and showed us many examples of various danish movies, some of them i would like to see with english subtitles, eg. " Angels in fast motion, Art of crying together, The bench, Terribly happy....."She also told us a lot about DOGME 95, the film movement initiated by LvTrier, using only natural light in their movies, hand- held cameras, present time, real locations....very interesting lesson!

The portrait day

On Wendesday 4 th we had art and were we drawing ourselves...it was really entertaining lesson and after being given several good pieces of advise I was able to draw self-portrait which is quite similar to me....it is great success:)

4th week-summary

Today I realized how the time passes fast here in Denmark(in 5 days it will have been one month since we arrived)and also that it`s quite a long time since I wrote down some new reflexions. So am going to briefly describe what has happened this week. On Monday we presented school systems of particular states and now I know eg. that in Hungary and Poland mark 1 is the worst mark that a pupil can recieve whereas in CZ 1 is the best mark:)note: in Denmark are used following marks: 12,10,7,4,2,0,-3....0 and -3 mean that the pupil didnt pass. This system has been used for few last years and it replaced older one with marks 13,11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,3,0 and some teachers liked this older one more because it enabled to appreciate students who worked really excaptionally well.
On Tuesday and Friday we presented our countries which was really interesting only the hungarian history was maybe little bit toooo long:)On Friday I also took part in the School Carnival and it was good event....I saw many wonderful costumes there( and also my buddy, which is not very common event.....:)but I have to say that in my opinion the music played there was not very suitable for an event like this....not bad for listening to, but for dancing it was not very appropriate kind of music.And today we finally reached the sea...by bus but who cares:)And also the islad Aaro and it was windy but lovely experience:))