16th to 20th Feb - Our presentations

On Monday we had an "Education" lesson with Torbjorn - presentations of our own countries´ school systems. It was very interesting for me. I found Belgium system very similar to Danish one, however, they have differencies in primary school system. In Belgium one teacher theaches all the subjects - he or she has the only class throught the whole year. On the other hand, in Denmark they have different teachers for each subject - though at primary schools. (The Czech Republic is more similar to Belgium system in case of primary schools. One teacher for one class, usually. However, I was shocked that pupils on primary schools in Belgium have 8 hours per day (from 8 a.m. to 16 p.m.)! It means 8 hours a day for their teachers (and preparations for next day afterwards!!!) "A min Gud!" (Oh, my God!)

I was also surprised that Turkish school system is very progressive, they are not affraid of new approaches and methods. Unfortunately in Hungary there is completely the opposite situation - the society and state are not open for inovations too much, changes go pretty slowly. And for instance if you say "alternative school" in Hungary - people still think pejoratively about that.

Anyway, it was very useful to hear about another countries´systems - the more you can compare, the more you can think about your own country system - what is good, what is wrong, is it easy to change this, why? ...etc.

In the afternoon we had a second music lesson - we listened to a Danish piece of music, sing some other songs and play different rythms...

On Tuesday the 17th in the morning we had a computer lesson - we improved our weblogs and learned about sharing photos via Flickr (www.flickr.com). I found the lessons with Hanna very helful - she initiates us into various useful internet possibilities for communication and sharing pictures from abroad. I can use it not only for school (as the weblog, you know ;), but also for my personal life. And maybe in some language lessons too?

And in the Tuesday and Friday afternoon we presented our countries! Hurray:)
I enjoyed presenting my own country to the others and also learning new things about my schoolmates´countries very much. Did you know that Hungarians are related to Mongolians some way and therefore they used to be connected with horse-riding and using a bow?
And that the average elevation of Turkey is more than 1100 metres above the sea level? Wow! :)
Some people even prepared tasting, therefore we could enjoy getting to know the countries via (almost) all the senses ;)






What´s more, Zep and Caynan prepared a puppet show, tiptop! :) I have to say that my classmates are very imaginative and interesting people, I like "living and learning" with them very much!