Comenius - rød grød med fløde - Byggøl

On Wednesday, I really had a busy day: I had the 9th grade for 2 hours normally but I only followed them 1 hour. The next hour I went to see a Danish lesson. Jørgen wanted to teach the Comenius pupils some Danish and I thought it would be fun for me as well. I ended up, not following the lesson, but assisting! Apparently my Danish is good enough to do this. So they learnt to introduce themselves (my name is ..., I'm from ....)
They also learnt to ask each others name and where they from. Jørgen and I did the role-play first and they the pupils had to do it. They also learnt to count to 10 and say good morning/good evening/ good night. It was really fun. Then Jørgen sent the pupils to the 2nd grade. They are around 8-9 years old and the Comenius pupils had to talk with these pupils to show what they had learnt. In the afternoon we all went to the city hall to see the major's office. Then the 8th grade had to guide the Comenius pupils through the city and the Comenius teachers were guided by a teacher of Sct. Severin. I followed the last group, because although I've been here now for over 2 months, I still discover things. In the evening there was a dinner for the teachers and I was also invited. It was really huggy! The food was really good and we laughed a lot. Especially when the dessert arrived. There was lime pie but also a typical Danish one : rød grød med fløde. Try to say it ! It's almost impossible if you're not Danish. It's really nice but it's a very sweet dessert.

On Thursday, I only had cooking class because the 8th grades were doing presentations for the Comenius people. So only cooking class. We made chicken with potatoes and cucumber salad. As dessert we had French waffles. These were really good!
In the evening I had to be back at school. There was also a delegation of the UK and the headmaster of that school, Paul Prest is a really inspiring man. He told us about Academy 360. It was really interesting. Especially the way how they encourage pupils to read was inspiring. They use iPads. And when the pupils read the book on the iPad, things happen. If it's a horror story, blood is dripping from the pages and so on. How longer the pupils stays on the page and reads it all, the more happens. They also introduce Second Places/Life which is a virtual world. I also followed a session of this yesterday and it's really interesting. The 8th graders have their own virtual world with the Comenius pupils so they can still be in touch even though they are miles apart. They can also share materials. Maybe a good idea to do this as well?

On Friday, I didn't have any of my regular classes. The Comenius people were going on a trip and I was invited as well. First we had a lecture about energy and how Denmark is provided. This was actually a bit boring. Normally we would be going to a power plant afterwards but due to some issues in the power plant, we couldn't go. Instead we went to Byggøl. It's an old town and it's famous because it's the place where in 1864, the war was held between Germany and Denmark about the border. Denmark lost the war together with a large part of the country. It was so interesting, especially for me. Too bad there was a little storm outside. The wind was blowing so hard and it was really cold. Around 15h we had lunch in the local gym of Haderslev. I also exchanged email addresses with a Comenius teacher from Greece because that's what Comenius is all about. Exchanging things and gather new things.

Pictures of Byggøl will follow.

Friday evening I went with Anke to the Friday café. It was really nice although it was a bit dangerous outside. They mentioned on the news that tiles were flying of the roofs. But nothing happened!