FIRST WEEK

Wednesday, 30/01        ARRIVAL:

I went out from my house at 4 o'clock in the morning to go to Alacant's airport. My flight took off at 8 o'clock, so I should stay there at 6 o'clock. My boyfriend came with me and we had a coffee together, we said us goodbye and I boarded with a lot of pity because I was very scared of this new adventure.
I arrived at 11 o'clock to Billund's airport and then at 12:20 I took two buses to Haderslev. At 14:17, my roommate María picked me in the bus station and finally, we went to my new home.
At 15:30 we had lunch and after rest a short time, we went shopping in order to know more or less the place where I live and where are the supermarkets.We came back at home very late!!
The university is 30 minuts walking and the closest supermarket called KIWI is 40 minuts walking!! It is all very far and I will need to walk a lot.
After that we had dinner, I went to sleep early because I was very tired. Today has been a long and a hard day.

Thursday, 31/01         MY FIRST DAY IN CLASS:

I slept very very bad...I think it was because there are a lot new things and I'm not used to this place yet. Today I was very nervious because I start my classes. All my classmates started on monday, so I and and other girl Tana, we are the last students to incorporate in the rythm class.
In the Erasmus group there are 31 people (28 girls and 3 boys). All the people speaks very well English and they have a high level, even the 4 spanish girls, because they already stay here 4 o 5 months before me. So I'm very worried about this, because only I can understand a 30% and I'm missing a lot of information. Maybe this situation is normal, I don't know.
My first day in class I had Global Cityshenzip class with Lars Holbaek Pedersen. He is a good teacher and teached  us about how to use the Google Drive in order to share all documents between us and how to work all together in the same document. It has been an interesting class because I don't know this program and this form to work. Besides he teached us some information about the cultural competence I think, but I did not understand very well.

We did groups and read page 45-47. My group defined "the internal outcome":

Group 8: Dominik, Nuria, María, Alexiane and me
The internal outcome is a process to acquire attitudes, knowledge and skills to get the intercultural competence in interaction with the others.

• flexibity (open your mind to different point of view)
• Adaptability (be able to change yourself to be part of a group)
• Ethno relative perspective ( accept and learn about all the other cultures that are different to ours. the ethnocentrism is the opposite concept, it is when you think that your culture and country is the best one and that no one is better than you). then, ethnocentric means that individuals judge others based on their own cultural experiences and point of view.
• Emphatic (look through the eyes of someone else, and fell like them. In consequence, you treated them like you want they treat you).

 Friday, 1/02        VISIT TO "REAL SKOOLEN":

At 8 o'clock in the morning, we visited this school, because is close to the university. Then, we have done teams and have seen 3 diferents classes and ages. My team is number 6 and I have been with María.
At 8:10 we went to phisics class with 16 years old teenagers. We explained who we are and where we come from and then the teacher continued with the danish class. There are a lot of people that didn't want to speak in english and 4 or 5 person have told us that they have been in Mallorca, Madrid and Málaga.
At 8:50 we went to maths class with 9 years old children. They have a dressing room in the hall for taking off their shoes, their jackets, their scarfs...For enter the class, they go without shoes, because the class is very warm and conmfortable. The class is very furnished with lots posters and groupworks and they have a digital blackboard.
The teacher is Tina, and teaches them one mathgame very interesting for me:

In this game, the children have to do a lot of operations in order to get the addition from the black numbers, using the other color numbers. I think this game is very funny and the pupils learn a lot while they are playing.

CLASS:

At 9:30 all students went to he teacher's living room and they invited us to breakfast. Then we have been watching a presentation in Power Point about the history of this school. The director has told us that the values of the school are distribuided in 4 columns:

• High standards of teaching and learning
• Extensive cooperation
• Respect for the human individual
• Solidarity and fellowship

In the end, we visited the last class of design. This experience was very exciting because in Spain we haven't this kind of class and it is very strange for me to look how boys and girls work together and do a lot of works like cooking, ironing, knitting, sewing with a machine...

DESIGN CLASS:

Finally, in this day I could observe 4 more curious things :

• This school have 20 people in a class because is a private school. In state schools can be 29 students in one class.
• All students have laptots, tablets, macs, iphones and all kind of good mobiles, and they can used these things without problems in class, but in a good way. If they used its for go in facebook o for something wrong, the teacher can confiscate and send a note to their parents.
• The ages in this school go since 7 until 16 years, 0-9 courses, but it also exists one more group not obligatory (course 10) in which can go wherever how wants at 17 years old.
• The groups who have children with especials needs are more limited.

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