Time goes fast when you're an Erasmus student!

Hello everyone!

It seems to me that winter has come, so my stay in Denmark is going to end very soon :(. Well, I am getting a little bit sad because I have to leave. Now when things are going better and better, when I've got used with people and people've got used with me, in one word when I started to fit into the system I have to leave. It is a kind of pity but this is life...at one point everything ends. The fact that things end at one point is something absolutely normal, but the good part here is the following: each new experience brings into your life many changes both personal and professional level. Having this opportunity of living for 3 months abroad, in a new country, a new culture, my perspective of life has changed. I've gained many knowledge. Some of them are:

- an improvement of English language (it has been a challenge for me to speak only in English and I have to confess that sometimes it was hard and it made me tired but now I am very happy because I can see that mz English has been improved).

- knowledge and methodes of work concerning my study area

- general knowledge about other countries ( Denmark, Hungary, Germany)

But I think that the most important achivements are those in my personal life. I discovered my person more and more, and also my abilities of getting easily adapt to another culture. I didn`t have enough confidence before to think that I am able to go by my own to another country and live there for a long time. But now after 3 months of living in Denmark and trying to assimilate with the culture and also trying to get in touch with Danish people I can say that maybe I become more open to diversity.

My thought that come into my mind now is that it was worth being an Erasmus student in Denmark and I am sure I will never forget this experience. And I am pretty positive that I can built another good experiences from it.

Tak for everything Denmark! :)

St. Severin Skole!!!

Wednesday, 19.11.2008




Hi everybody!



It seems that this period of time is very crowded with activities. Many things are happening for me in this time: visits to danish friends in my spare time, projects for school, etc. This week I have been enjoing my time at school very much. First of all because this week I had a meeting with Bjane, my psychologist teacher. This meeting was very challenging for me because I learnt some methods and tehnics used in cognitive therapy. Another nice event which happened this week was the visit to the biggest school from Haderselv, St. Severin Skole.



I visited the school in company with Judit. We went together to Severin Skole where we met with Lasse, the teacher who took care of us during our visit. The school is very big, around 800 pupils study there. We attended to the ninth and the forth degree on their English and Music classes. In the begining we started with the ninth degree where we presented our power point presentation about our countries. The pupils were curious about our culture and they asked some questions. Especially the girls they were interested in our language. They wanted to know how sound our language therefore they asked us to talk something in romanian and in hungarian. After we finished with the ninth degree we went to the forth degree where we also talked a little bit about our countires. In that class was a girl which is half romanian and she could recognize the food when I was talking about some romanian food. She also can speak some hungarian and Judit changed some words with her in hungarian. The last class was music with Lasse. It was the nicest class because we song some danish songs and they had the possibility to listen a romanian Christmas song and a hungarian song. The children were so enthusiastic because we were there. Judit recorded them while they were singing, they were really cute and funny:).




We spent a whole day in the school from 9:30 until 14:00, but we couldn't realise how the time just flew because was a nice experience being there.

Cooking!!!

Saturday 15.11.2008,

Hello again!

How are you doing? I hope the grey weather doesn't get you sad. On this cold weather is nice to stay home and to have a hygge time, isn't it? Actually, me and Judit have been doing this for a week. In the last week we took part at many hygge breakfasts and dinners. Last Thursday we had a german breakfast cooked by our friend Sarah. To be onest was a really big breakfast with salmon fish, omelette, jam and bread, and we didn't need to have lunch, we were enough filled up. We spent a nice time eating and having a girls disscution:). And I was quite curious to taste a german breakfast.

This time we were served by Sarah, she cooked for us, but on Saturday we cooked for Carsten's uncles some traditional food. They invited us to their house and they've got all the ingredients we needed for our meals.

So we went in Aabenraa on Saturday evening and we had a big romanian-hungarian dinner with Carsten, his parents and his uncles. I cooked cauliflower with mayonnise (made by hand) and garlic as an appetizer and romanian doughnuts as a dessert. I could have the opportunity to taste a delicious hungarian meal prepared by Judit: chicken (prepared in oven with nutmeg) with mashed potatoes and pickled cucumbers. It was a great meal and a great evening. Carsten's family enjoyed our food they really liked it. We ate quite much that evening but we also had timeto talk a little bit about the culture of our counties. And of course we are verry happy that we could show them a part of our cuisine.

Dance and Drama

Hello everyone!

I am coming with news about this wonderful course, because as far as I know I just mention about my first class. Since then many things have happened. On one of the classes we actually played a drama. It all started by looking at an image with a girl. According with the image we were asked to create a story about the girl. On the first picture the girl was a child and we had to put a past behind her. In the second picture the girl was a woman and in this situation we had to create her story between the period when she was a child until the period when she became a woman. After the story was created, we put it in movements and played it. In my opinion all what we've done was to work with our imagination and we did well. It was really nice :).

Another interesting thing, we did was to play a stomp. I have never played stomp before but it was really cool. We enjoyed it a lot. And we also learnt some dances and played at drums.

Let the art speak...

Who thought, when I come to Denmark I will discover my talent of drawing?:) Of course I am joking a little bit because I am not so skilled at this field but I am not bad at drawing like I thought earlier. After the art classes what we had for 2 weeks, I realised that I am able to draw and maybe if I practice more, who knows I could do nice drawings.

Art is a good way to express yourself, your emotions and feelings. It may be easily reflected on your drawings only by combining properly the colors. I like art, everytime I have the chance to see some exhibitions of drawings or paints, to be involved in some art projects or visit art museums, I gladly do these things. For example, this Summer, me and my friend made some earrings from clay, it was my first time when I did something like this. But I enjoyed it a lot working with my imagination, let it free to create. We spent 2 weeks with working on those earrings and when we finished we went to a Mediaeval Festival where we could sell them, of course for a symbolic amount of money, because the purpose of that trip wasn't to do business but to spend a nice time enjoying the mediaeval atmosphere. Although, I was so happy when my earrings were bought by people, it meant that we did a good job, and actually I was proud of me in those moments.

Going back to my art classes, we learnt how to draw a portrait and we were asked to draw our own portrait by sitting in front of the mirror. If I relate this to psychology, it is a good exercise for people to find out their own perception about themselves and also to be aware of their feelings. Again I had a nice sentiment of satisfaction because I had the courage to draw myself even if I haven't done it since I was in primary school. And I was glad about my drawing, it wasn't entirely similar to me but I managed to catch a few features. The following photos will show some of my drawings.

Psychotherapy

Cognitive psychology class

Last time when I met with Bjane I learnt how to lead a cognitive therapy session. Bjane surprised me by telling this: "Ok, now you have to talk to the person who comes and I will just stay, observe and guide you". My thought was: "great, I was waiting for this moment, and now is here...but how I should start, how I should behave, I have never done this before...it's ok, I said to myself, I will handle somehow. Having this thought in my mind I started to focus on what I have to do. And it was good, I think I did a good job because Bjane gave me a positive feedback. Now I need to prepare for the next meeting when I`m again "the psychologist". It was such a nice feeling to be in this position without any diploma, as you all know I haven't graduated yet:). I am proud of the activities I do here, through them I can improve my skills at Cognitive Psychology field.

My birthday in Denmark 04.11.2008

A really nice surprise!!!

Eh eh...another year is gone, it seems like I am getting old:). But this time was different, I've got one year old in Denmark... I think I will remember this day forever just for the simple fact that I didn't spend it in an usual way, in my country surrounded by my old friends or by my family. Now, my new friends, I' ve made since I am here, organized a surprise party for me. Judit was the head of all this, she was so mysterious in the last days before my birthday, that I could have a clue something is going on. She talked to the Germans and to the others friends of us (Carsten, Ovi) and they all came to our flate. Ines and the other girls baked a cake and until they prepared all inside the flat, Sarah invited me for a coffe just to avoid the possibility to get home on that time. Everything was so good planned and they succeeded to surprise me. Was such a good feeling to come home and to find a lot of people, a big cake, candles, wine...

On the evening, Lona, the owner of our flat brought me a birthday Danish cake, so I've got two birthday cakes... lucky me:). And I forgot to mention that my birthday started on Monday evening when Judit cooked a Hungarian meal and we (me, Sarah, Niles and a friend from school) could taste the delicious Hungarian food.

The whole week was so great, a lot of happiness, smiles, and celebration atmosphere surrounded us.

Here ends my nice birthday in Denmark!