Excursion to Copenhagen

For me Copenhagen is a very beautiful city. I was really looking forward to see it. I heard a lot about the statue of the Little Mermaid, so I wanted to see it. We were lucky, because I heard, that they will bring it to China to the World Expo.

The most impressive building for me the Amalienborg Castle was. It was so big and beautiful, with the old rooms, paintings and furnitures.

My best experience in Copenhagen was my birthday. It was so good, that the others knew it and they sang the birthday song to me. I was so lucky to have my birthday there, because we had a great dinner together.

Stereotypes

You can tell I'm Hungarian because...
... I like hot and spicy food.
... I cook every meal with paprika.

Before I came to Denmark, I heard that the danish people are helpfull and everybody speaks English. These things are true but I realised that they are so closed at the first time. They don't use curtains, it's interesting for me and they love candels. The strangest thing is the relationship between boys and girls. When they are children, they learn that the girls and the boys are equal, so the boys (when they grow up) are going to be a bit impolite (for a hungarian).

Language and Identity

On this lesson we had a very interesting task. We got a paper with the silhoulette of a girl and we had to colour it with our language knowledge.

I used red for hungarian, because red symbolise love, it's my mother language and it's in all of my body.

The orange is the english, because I think, that this language is warm. It's close to my heart, it's in my head (because nowadays I have to think in english) and sometimes I have to use my hands and feet to speak in english.

The german language is blue, because it's cold. I don't really like this language and I need to use my hands and feet to speak in german too.

I have every coloure in my mouth, because I can speak all of them.

The next task was that we had to choose a colour and write a poem about it. There was a rule for the writing: the first line can contain just 1 word, the second 2 words, the third 3 words, the fourth 4 words and fifth 1 word again. The first line should be the colour, the 2.: something that has the same colour, the 3.: where's that thing, the 4.: where I met with that thing and 5.: the summary. My poem :

Red

My blood

In my body

I have in vains

Speaking

The visit in a Danish school

On the 4th of February we visited a privat (catholic) primary school. It was an amazing experience, because the danish school system is absolutely different than the hungarian.

For me the most important difference was that the classes in Denmark not so ruled as in Hungary. By us every lesson is determinated. Here the teacher give different activities and the pupils can choose. There were lots of individual excersises and the children could move in the classroom.

The relationship between the teacher and the pupils is unformal, the children call the teacher in his/her first name.

I like the danish school system, because they let the children learn in their own way and they teach them to be independent. But there are some bad things too, for example when somebody is bad at reading in the first years, he/she can close up just with difficulties.

My first days

My travel from Hungary to Denmark was so long. I came by plane to Coppenhagen, from there I travelled by train to Vejle, where i get on a bus to Haderslev. It was the first time I was fly and I really enjoyed it. As I get off the plane I realised that the danish people are different from the hungarians. Almost everyone speaks english, like their mother language. The biggest surprise for me was that on the trains there's not only wireless internet, but there are plugs for the computers too. I travelled alone, but everybody was helpful so I didn't miss the way. In Haderslev at the busstation Jette picked me up and she took me to the college, where I live with 7 other students. It is a little bit far away from the school, we need to walk a half an hour.