Citizenship and globalisation

Ok, to be very honest, I was physically present is these lessons, but not always mentally. I found it very hard to keep focus and concentrate. I think globalisation is a very interesting and important subject. But I just can't keep my head to it.

In this subject you can discuss all you want about the way we should live and what would be better to do for mankind and nature... without even getting somewhere. I think it's kind of useless that we discuss it because we can't do anything about it. Ok, we have to know what is going on, but I think we could learn about that in fewer and shorter lessons. That way I probably could keep focus on what's important and what is not.

The lesson I remember the most is one of the first ones. It was about language and identity. We got it from Karen Aaroe. In that lesson we had to make a little portrait of ourselves while focussing on the languages we speak, want to speak or understand. We gave each language a different colour that represents the way we feel about it. For example... In my heart i put red for Italian, because i really want to learn Italian and maybe later move to the country because i love everything about it. And the main colour was orange for flemish because it's my mother tongue.

Whit the colours we had to make some sort of a poem (an Elfchen to be more accurate). I picked the colour Red. And it was something like this:

Red

my blood

in my body

without it I die

Life

Afterwards we had to think about what word in our own language and in English we love the most. I thought that was very difficult because we have so many words. But eventually I chose 'Bloem' which means flower in English. And for my English word i chose Butterfly.

I liked this lesson very much because we did something ourselves and made a product, I think that's important to me.

International week

It started the 15th of April... The international week. I didn't know what to expect, though we had gotten a program from Jette, it was all very exciting!!! Monday morning we met all the students and teachers who came to visit for one week. Everybody introduced him or herself and it soon became very clear that this was going to be great. All the different nationalities together in one classroom. It was very strange and I knew that I was going to experience this only once. So I was going to make the best of this for sure!

During the week we did all kinds of different activities like making music, making a video and so on. The nicest thing we did was the cooking. I think everybody enjoyed that very much. We each made a dish from our country... we made Belgian Waffles. After the cooking we all sat together and enjoyed each others dish. It was very Hyggelig!!! Then we sang a song together that Vojta had translated in each of our languages. In a strange way, I felt very connected to everybody.

The second activity that was great for me was the trip to Ribe, the oldest village of Denmark. And the evening that followed on that. We ate some pizza all together and afterwards there was a eurovision contest. Everybody had to represent his country. The Belgians were divided in three groups, because we were so many. I was in the third group together with Loes, Ine, Caroline, Stefanie and Lynn. We decided to perform something of the most popular Belgian girlband for kids 'K3'. We sang and danced to 'Alle kleuren van de regenboog' or translated 'All the colours of the rainbow'. We thought it was very appropriate for the evening and the whole week. And the the most wonderful thing happened!!! We won!!!Wooohooow!!!

I really enjoyed this week, it's a really good initiative, and the organisation of it was great! Thx to Jette and Charlotte!!