I'm back!

Hello people!

It is a couple of weeks ago since I wrote my last message. There happened some things and I had a lot on my mind because of that. But I am back now!

The last time I wrote, I just finished my first week and school was just started. Now I am already in my 4th week of the minor. I really like the minor, although it is a lot focused on kids. But I am learning a lot new methods and the lessons and assignments are really interesting. Yesterday we visited a primary-school in a rich area of Aarhus. It was a really big school (900 children!) and the whole area was amazing. There is place enough for the kids to play and they have a lot of freedom. The school-system looks a lot like the Dutch system, but there are also some big differences. For example, when a child don't want to join a game or a lesson, they don't have to. The teachers don't force them. Also, in the school we visited, only 5% were immigrants. But in the neighborhood were I live, it is 5% Danish children. So there is a big difference between several schools!

It was really interesting to see how the pedagogues and teachers work with the children. The children are really free and I expected a lot of annoying kids because of the freedom, but they were so brave and listening really well. The freedom gives them space to develop in several ways and gives them positive energy.

Yesterday-evening we had a prémiere of our own movies. In the first week we got an assignment to make a short movie about yourself and an important thing in your life you would like to share with your classmates. It was really nice to see all the movies (digitails) from eachother. It was a nice way to get to know eachother in a different way.

Today I went to a forest where you can walk around between deers. It was a beautiful forest next to the sea and there were a lot of deers. In the beginning they were a little scared, but we sat down for a while and the deers were coming to join us :-).

Furthermore there were some parties, some funny days at school, some eating, some drinking and a little sight-seeing in the last couple of weeks. I will post some photo's below!