miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009

THE LAST TRAIN OF HADERSLEV

Hi everyone!

So many years ago, there were trains in Haderslev, so even nowadays we can see the train’s tracks. Something similar happens with us. Everything in that life left some signs and I’m sure that this journey will left a little sign in all small heart.

As I said many times in my posts, I started this trip with strangers. I took this train last first of February, and day by day I was knowing the people who travelled with my in that adventure, and today you are almost a new family.

I don’t know exactly why I choose Denmark, but I don’t regret of anything of this experience. I had good, bad and also awful moments in Haderslev, but in all these moments, all of you were there. And I will bring to Spain a lot of memories and good moments with you.

Today we are living together exactly two months and 29 days; it is something really quickly to say, but it is almost three months.

During that time we spent a lot of time together, we lived and we did a lot of things. And now all of you are part of my life, and I hope to be a little part of your life too.

In my point of view, these few months were a really good experience. Probably it is one of the best experiences of my life, and everything because I knew you. When I will go back to Spain, I will be a little bit Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Belgian, Danish and of course Polish. I’m totally International.

Actually, our train is ready to left Haderslev in few days, and with this last train our journey will finish. But I have to say you that for me it is not a “GOOD BYE”, it is simply the typical “I WILL SEE YOU SOON”, because if we could found ourselves many times in Copenhagen, I’m sure that we will see us again in somewhere

I now that is so difficult to be all together again. Probably not, but nothing is impossible. I am going to miss all of you a lot. Really thank you to be here.

PS: I hope that we will enjoy all together our last days here. And also I hope that you enjoy my last Spanish omelette.


martes, 28 de abril de 2009

MEXICO´S CONSEQUENCE - SWINE FLU -

Hi everyone!



This morning I woke up immediately when the mobile phone rang. It was Jette. She told me that I had to go to the Doctor. Maybe I was infected of swine flu.

Why swine flu???

As you know, I was in Mexico, exactly seven days ago, and news says that one week ago started to die people about this flu. And also I had a cold, one day after my back.

Then everybody was worry about the flu, and they were afraid of me, I felt like a big bacteria. But I was absolutely sure that I had only a normal cold. As I said, I went with Jette to the Doctor.

This man was so quickly, he introduced a stick in my nose and then he did the test with a special liquid. After fifteen minutes I was safe!!!!!!

When I arrived home, I sent an e-mail telling that to my friends, who came with me to Mexico. In two hours most of them had the test done. And we are totally safe. But the swine flu is growing UP in Spain. And there are more than 20 affected, and they don’t know if they have exactly the awful flu.

I can understand all positions, because people are worried about to take this flu,and also I was working with children during my teaching practical. Otherwise I know that TV is totally morbid, and they are all day telling the same. And people are obsessed with the flu, like chicken flu in that time or the crazy cow sickness.

These sicknesses are around the world many years ago, in that moment everybody was afraid, and today everybody is afraid of swine flu, why??? A sickness is really difficult to catch.

PS: If you are worry about the flu, you have to forget it, and think about Cancer, it is worst, and probably we took less protection against it.

lunes, 27 de abril de 2009

ROCK STAR FOR A WEEK -MEXICO-

Hi everyone!

I KNOW THE REAL PARADAISE!!!!




After my Copenhagen Holidays, I went to Spain with my parents, but not for so much time, I was there exactly two one day. That day, I felt like a rock star, I will tell you why.

I arrived at 14 pm, and at 17 pm, I had people at my door, everyone wanted to know about my Erasmus experience. Then I went with some friends to a café and I shown them pictures from Haderslev.

At night, I had booked a table for me and for most part of my family in a restaurant. I enjoyed of my cousins, and my grandmothers. But the night with them finished early, because some of my friends had ready a kind of party for me. That Friday I didn’t go to the Disco, because a I had other duties next day.



When I woke up, I had a little of handover, it’s normal when you sleep less and you drink enough alcohol. But at the end, like a Rock Star I went to the Beautician, after two hours I was perfect to holiday. Now I had a perfect hair style and two waxed legs with a shaved thorax.

I know what you are thinking at this moment: “how did you wax your legs?” I have to tell you, that this action is totally normal in Spain. Most of men do it during summer.

After that I went home and I did my summer luggage. After that I went to Valencia, I spent all night with friends. We couldn’t sleep during all night, we were so nervous, because we were preparing us to live one of the best experiences of our life.



We were waiting at the same time that we were drinking, and at the end, we took a plane. That plane was enormous; it was going to CANCUN (MEXICO).



After 10 hours, we were on the paradise. There were whites and really clear beaches, green spaces, and also 35 degrees.

My friends and I spend all time inside the hotel, but we had everything inside, we had a private beach, seven swimming pools, 4 restaurants, 2 free buffets, and 1 buffet for 24 hours. We also had a lot of bars is everywhere, and two discos.




We slept really less. We were all day eating and drinking at the beach or swimming pool, and when the sunset arrived, we went to the spar to have relaxed, and then we went to have our dinner and then party during all night. But the best is that everything was included.

We had a bracelet, and we didn’t need to pay. Anyway, we sometimes went out of the hotel. We went to see old buildings from Mayas, we also went to a beach where we could swim with dolphins, and the last trip was to a Disco.



That Disco, was Coco Bongo, in my point of view I think that this disco is one of the best of the world. They made a show with fire, music, and costumes. It is amazing, and they threw papers, balloons and lather during all night.



As you know, I can explain everything, the best is going and live that, because it is a really paradise only for one week. Life in Mexico is like Rock star´s life!!! Simply perfect and full of luxuries.

miércoles, 22 de abril de 2009

A WORLD LIKE A TISSUE -COPENHAGEN-

Hi everyone!

After few breaks of break, I came back. Now, I’m ready to tell you my Easter holidays.

As I said in other post, each of us, the Erasmus students, we did the same trip, but each of us by their own.

Christina, Anja and Cannan went to Copenhagen with the famous couple (Mate and Noemi). They enjoy of a really hectic week with different hostels and other problems, anyway, that it’s not my business, if you are interested you can ask them.

Otherwise, my wonderful parents decided to visit me during Easter break. So on 5th of April I went to Copenhagen to pick them up at the airport, because they don’t know to speak English and they felt more safely if I was waiting them there.

On Monday we visited Haderslev, we spent time around the lake, visiting the cathedral and also the main shopping street. They liked the town a lot, they said that it is small but nice, and really cozy.



Around twelve, we went back to my accommodation, where Gosia and Marish, my adorable friends were waiting us. They wanted to go to Copenhagen and there were place on the car, which my parents rented. So, we started a funny trip to the city.

We saw the famous bridge of Denmark, and we also crossed it. Finally, we arrived to Copenhagen and we went to strange street. But finally we found the Hostel where Marish and Gosia had a book. These friends were so grateful and generous, they give us some chocolates for the trip, and today I don’t know why, and they hadn’t to do it. Anyway chocolates were delicious.



My parents and I thought that we couldn’t see them again during all trip, but we were wrong. Next day, my parents and I enjoyed most of important buildings in Copenhagen and the little mermaid. Then we found them. It was a really big surprise. But the surprise didn’t finish there, because we also found to Anja, Cristy, Cannan, Mate, and Noemi. We were all together in the middle of the city.




Next day, my parents and I decided to go and see all places around Rosenborg Slot, and then we found Marish and Gasia again. That night, my mum wanted to see Tivoli park during the night and we went to spend all afternoon there. Walking around the park I found Anja and Cristy, they were enjoying of a wonderful sunny day there too, and we spend few hours together.



After that, I never see them again during Easter Break. On Thursday, we went to Christiania, we though that this neighborhood was different. I thought that it was about hippy style. But there weren’t any hippy, everybody were drug addicts and alcoholic people. I was disappointed of this neighborhood. But generally, my parents and I enjoyed of a wonderful city, and also with a wonderful weather.



PS: Never say no. The world is so small, like a tissue.

sábado, 4 de abril de 2009

THE MEANING OF A DAY

HI everyone!!!!

What means a day? Every day have a special meaning for each people of this world, maybe happy, maybe sad, or maybe the best day of our life. But what day is today? It is only 4 of April. What happen today?

Today is a special day, I’m sure that it will not be the saddest day of our Erasmus experience, but today everything start to change.

This morning one Erasmus group went to Billund to see Legoland, they enjoyed a lot, but they had other plans for Easter. At home everybody have different plans, at first sight it is a really funny and good experience, every body have plans for Easter. But not all together, each of us have their own plan.

We could think that we are lucky, because there are a lot of people on the world who can’t imagine or planned anything for Easter. And we have our own plan.

But tonight, this lucky moment change, all of us were having a happy and funny moment watching Legonland´s pictures, but this date means something.

This day means the beginning of the end, after Easter we will be three weeks together and then each of us will go back to our country. What can we do? We know it, but we never can’t imagine this sad feeling inside us.

First, Christy and Anja told me that they will go to Copenhagen, and Finally Cannan, you don´t want to know it, but the spring is coming, and we can feel it, but the bad thing is that the end is coming with it.

Otherwise, now it is too late, we will do different things during Easter, but everybody want meet during Easter break, I think that it is so difficult but we can try it.

What is the meaning of this day? Happy? Sad? what do you think? I don´t know yet. In my point of view I think that it is sad because we can count all days that we will share together, and on the other hand, it is happy, because I´m glad because I shared these last mosnts with all of you.

PS: Have a good Easter break, and enjoy your time as possible as you can. Thank you.

viernes, 3 de abril de 2009

A WEEK FULL OF LESSONS

Hi everyone!

This week I went to do my practise to “Hertug Hans Skole” It is a really old and public School in Haderslev.

Teachers there are really friendly and really pleasant. They are interested in help me when I need it. Moreover, Anja, my flatfeet is coming with me to do the practice.

That week was so stressful, because we woke up everyday at seven. Then we went to the school and we started our lessons at quarter past eight. At the beginning teaching practical was quite boring, because we was simply observers of he lessons.


But, I had planned a trip for week after Easter, so I told them that I was interested in teaching before Easter. They don’t matter my proposal, even they were glad of it.



We took part in a lot of lessons, like P.E lesson. I played with children to some sport games. It was funny.

We also been in art lessons, and we helped to children to paint Easter eggs. They crated the eggs with clay one lesson before.

Finally, Anja and I prepared an English lesson. We taught some art vocabulary to children. We also had games to practice this vocabulary. And we left them ready for next lesson, which it was about art and magazines. I unfortunately I couldn’t be there, because I was in Mexico, but I´m sure that it was a great lesson.



These few weeks of teaching practical were so useful for a lot of reasons; first I could learn how to explain or how to treat to pupils. I also learned different didactic recourses that I didn’t know before coming.

Today, I know that there are a lot of kinds to teach and methodologies, and we have to use all of them with all and each of our pupils, because some students are able to learn faster than others, and this is the reason because we can’t demand the same contents to everyone. And moreover each pupil has a different quotient, so we have to know how to treat each pupil.



Denmark thought me what is the objective of a real teacher. It is to teach pupils in an easy and funny way. In that way, children will be more comfortable at classroom and they will learn easier and faster.

Teachers’ formation grew up at the classroom with the help of our pupils day by day, because if pupils learn from us, we also can learn from them. Teachers sometimes like us, have to understand children’s mind. Only in this way we will enjoy our job, because today, as a teacher, I can say that lessons are shorter from the other side of the classroom.

miércoles, 1 de abril de 2009

A DISASTER IS COMING

Hi everyone!

Last week, we had an intensive Citizenship and Globalitation lessons. However, each lesson was different than the others lesson about it.

On Monday, we were speaking about freedom and citizenship around the world, Henrik gave us the Obama’s speech, ¿Is it something insignificant for Europe? This is the main question. It is true that Obama is USA´s President, and he can’t decide anything about Europe, but like citizen we have to be informed about it.

We read his speech and then for groups we said our point of view about it, because everyone knows politic people are always promising but at the end everything change. The most important questions of the discussion were: Is it true or false? Is he speaking about America or about all worlds?

In my point of view, I think that this lesson was interesting because I am the typical person who is not interested about this kind of speech, and sometimes we need to read them, because there are interesting questions which make you think about the world, and consider things that you had wrong in your mind.

We also made presentations about Citizenship in our countries, and how can we teach it in a future. I explained how this subject is taught in Spain, and all Spanish system, like I made before in other Globalization lesson. Here you can enjoy of it here.




The last lesson, as well important like others, we watched some music videos about the citizenship around the world. Henrik showed us “EARTH SONG Video” from Michel Jackson, this song speaks about the world, about the nature and the result of our comfortable life.



Also the song “WHERE IS THE LOVE?” from Black eyed peas, like the other song, it explains that the world is changing and the people is changing with it, the fault is from the people who don’t love the world, and it makes that the change will be worst.



These videos make me think about the world, and in that moment I remember a video about this kind of change. This video shows the result of the world in the future. It is so sad and realistic, but we have the fault of all this disaster. (If you check youtube, you can find this video in a lot of languages).



Henrik said us that we had to prepare a video about Democracy.

Finally, In Christina’s house, our splendid Danish teacher, we had a meeting, and we had our last lunch together, then one of us said that we had to prepare this video. Any of us remember it, but soon we decide make a video, and the result was a really democratic and funny work.



PS: This subject taught me that I have to learn about the others, pay attention to the world and control quotidian things, like turn off the lights, don’t use too much water… ¿And you? ¿Will you leave that the world will be a disaster? We have the solution, try to do something.