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.

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.

Back to school!

Hi everyone!

The first week after autumn holiday just ended. I can say that for me and I think for the other Erasmus students, as well, was nice to come back to college after a long period of time spent it in different schools where we did our practice.
This week I started the program at the College so I met with my Danish colleagues from the Danish psychology class, and the German group. On Tuesday we attended at the Comparative Pedagogics class and we found out more about Danish, German, Hungarian and Romanian educational systems. It was an exchange of pieces of information, which gave us a perspective over other foreign education systems. Also on Wednesday we had the last lesson on weblogs and we were taught how to create labels for our blogs in order to make them look more pretty and organized. Something very interesting happened this week, we started the dance and drama course which takes place in Aabenraa. We enjoyed 2 hours of dancing and playing "icebreaker games" and doing massage to each other. The music was so great and we asked if it could be possibale to have it in the end of this course. Friday came and it seems that we missed the interaction with Danish students by the time we did our practice. Therefore me, Judit, a Romanian guy who we met here and some of the Germans went to "Fridaybar" to have some fun and to make some friends.
This is all for now!
I wish you a good week!