WEEK 8

Monday was the beginning of the new week full of adventure. In the morning we had lessons of the Danish education and Danish history. In the afternoon we visited gym for our next hard exercises and in the evening I watched a movie and had a rest.

On Tuesday we were planning our visit to Danish school for the next week with our teacher Torbjorn. In the afternoon we met another German students Finja and Borries, who are studying for 2 weeks in Haderslev. Then we had another danish lessons. We tried to learn how to say „how are you?“ „I’m fain“ and so on. We learnt some new verbs as well. In the afternoon I worked on my thesis. It will still take some more time.

Like every Wednesday it was an art day again. Dorthe, nice teacher, took us to the world full of colours and impressions. Mirrors and portraits was the name of our morning lesson. We were painting faces of each other and ourselves. We painted them on the papers on mirrors. I suppose everyone was excited and we could keep our work. In the afternoon we had a big objective, we had to cook some of our delicious national meal. I prepared potatoes pancakes, Iva cooked fruit-staffed dumplings and Kate prepared Czech potatoes soup. The others had their specialties too. It was a really nice banquet and then we went shopping with the full bellies. It was smart idea, because we didn’t buy that muchJ

On Thursday I slept for long, I was really tired. Our lessons started in the afternoon, so it was just a strain. We had an interesting presentation in powerpoint by Thosten Piske. It was called Bilinqual Language Acquisition. In the afternoon we wanted to have a rest for a while, because of the great evening in the Crazy Daisy. It’s disco club in the centre of Haderslev and it’s charge free on Thursday onlyJ We spent there only 2 hours but I think It was such a different way how we could enjoy our leisure time just for a once time.

On Friday we were a little bit tired because of our staying in Crazy Daisy, but we had history lesson in the morning, so we went to the school, but for 2 and half hours only. In the afternoon me, Kate and Iva, we went to the shops to find some surprises for our honourees (Charlotte, Daniel and Tim) for the Saturday birthday party. And then I spent the whole afternoon in bed, because I felt sick and really tired.

In the Saturday morning I went to the gym where I met Kate. And in the afternoon Iva, Kate and me, we were cooking our puddings for honourees and we packed our gifts, inflated little balloons..and so on. The birthday party started at 7 p.m. and it was reaaaaaly great celebration. Daniel, Charlotte and Tim prepared amazing dinner for us. It was tomatoe soup with cream and baguettes, after pasta with vegetables and cheese, the main dish was meat balls with rice and slice of squash with feta cheese and olives, almonds, tomatoes…it was delicious, mmm. Like desert cake made by Daniel for Charlotte, and some cookies and chocolate mouse…really exquisite. For drink just wine. We enjoyed our time together very much.

On Sunday all of us slept for very long time. Daniel, Iva, Kate and me, we left to
the Haderslev dam at 1p.m. and we had a nice walk which took 2 hours. Finja joined us. In the evening we worked on our projects for music class. It was really

funny. And I worked on my weblogs.

See you… Have a nice week.

WEEK 7

On Monday, we had danish lesson with Sheila, we took through some phrases and we leart some new words and numbers. Later on we visited a nice café in the centre of Haderslev - Papa’s café where we were supposed to try to order our drink in danish. In the afternoon we had meeting with Carsten who is our guide to Copenhagen and we planned our trip there. In the evening we were watching movie at our place.

On the Thursday morning at 9 a.m.,Carsten, Monica, Kate,Iva, Charlotte, Daniel, Manu, Tim and me, we left to Copenhagen for the next three days. We have visited a lot of historical and interesting places there. The most interesting places for me were the national library and Black Diamond, Cristiania Quarter, the national museum… and so on. We had a buffet- lunch in the amazing place called Rizraz. Did we enjoy it ?? Very much!! However Unfortunately my wallet has been stolen in Copenhagen, so I got known the danish police too. Monica and Carsten were very helpful and nice to me in this situation. I would like to thank especially to Iva, Kate and Daniel for helping me out. Despite of this horrible experience I enjoyed the trip and I can say that Copenhagen is beautifull city.

Friday was resting day at all. I tried to work on my thesis and I watched some movies.

On Saturday, Kate, Iva and me went shopping some presents for Charlotte, Tim and Daniel,who are going to celebrate their‘s birthday next week. In the afternoon we practised pilates at our place and I was working on my thesis again.

On Sunday, I was writing new notes for my weblog, and we, the czech girls, prepaired our presentation about the Czech Republic.

WEEK 6

It was really week full of experience and knowledge. We had a lot of work and fun.

Monday, it was work on our weblogs and then we had a chat about the danish school system and cultural dimensions with our tutor Jette. Danish school system is similar to ours but we can find there a few differences. In the afternoon we took a walk with Jette around Haderslev. She showed us many interesting places such shops and sights.

Tuesday was very interesting day too. In the morning we learnt something new about danish storytellers, especially about Hans Christian Andersen. We tried to retell some of his fairy tales. Kate, Iva and me, we were talking about fairy tale called „The Story of mother“.

In the same day, first Danish language lesson was waiting for us. We learnt how to say „hello“, „goodbye“, „what’s your name“, „my name is“, „I live in“ and so on in danish.

(Dav!Jeg hedder Sylvie. Jeg bor i Tjekiet – Hi! My name is Sylvie. I live in The Czech RepublicJ)

Our teachers Sheila and Lejf were very nice to us. The last lesson of this day was „Language and Identity“ with international students. It was lesson full of thinking about our knowledge of languages and about our native language. We used colors for expression of our feelings. It was really exciting day.

On Wednesday, we had a lot of fun. Within the module 2 „Aesthetic learning processes“ we were dancing, telling a story with noise, singing english and african songs, we tried mime-play and drawing abstract pictures accordance with certain piece. We also got a present – flute and homework - listen to the music and write a story, draw a picture and so on. In the evening we had lecture about using IT in english lessons.

On Thursday, we visited danish school for first time. Kate, Manu, Daniel and me, we went to Hertug Hans skole. Manu and me, we inspected classes 6.B and 7.B. They had English lessons with teacher named Helle Lind. In the afternoon, we met Jette and we were talking about our impressions. We met the cooking class too, we made agreement, what we will cook next week. And than Jette surprised us…J she gave us a quiz about Haderslev and we had to try to find the answers to tasks. In the end of this tiring adventure we gave a meed - tea and genuine danish cake. Yumm.

On Friday, we had lessons within module 3 „Citizenship and globalisation“. We were talking about nationality, citizenship, current problems in the world and so on…In the evening we went to the fancy dress party, but in the end we finished the evening all together (except Tim) with glasses of wine at our place.

On Saturday, Kate and Daniel cooked delicious dinner for us. It was salmon with spinach and rice and vegetebles. We were watching movie Knight’s tale. On Sunday we cleaned our flat…

see you in a week…

Our first days in Haderslev

So we´re here..in a beautiful town in southern Jutland. I live with Kate in a nice house in the centre of Haderslev near school, church and shops. We met another Erasmus students. It´s Daniel from Germany, Charlotte, Manu and Tim from Belgium. So we´re brave seven:-) We have already done some activities together...we visited local pub with cheap bear and magician, we were cooking dinner and we were watching movie...and so on.

The arrival

The beginning wasn´t easy...At first leave-taking and tears...but we had to go. Haderslev waited for us...Me, Kate and Iva left Praque at 3p.m (30th January). It was really long journey, it took about 15 hours. It was hard, particularly with very heavy luggage. The first surprise came...our buddy Thora thought we arrive at 6.30 p.m. but we came at 6.30 a.m...ough. but in the end everything was alright.