Wednesday started pretty early, especially after a sleepless night, at 9AM. It ended at 8PM, after three classes with no real breaks in-between. (English, Danish, Globalisation & Professional Change)
I was pretty knackered by the end of it, but as always, the classes were very interesting.
During English, we worked on our project for the next day, which shaped up nicely.
In Danish class, we interviewed a Dane, using the best of our Danish! Which was fun, but also showed our limitations in the language.
In Globalisation, we honed the interviewing skills we worked on last week as well, and we talked about the "Third Place", which is a necessity in intercultural meetings. To practice achieving/going to this "Third Place", we played a game without words:
Three balls were thrown around in a group of around 8 students, the goal was then to make all three balls go in a pattern, without talking to each other, nor signaling or anything. To achieve this, one had to look at the situation from a neutral point of view, the third place, from which we could analyse and adapt the pattern.
Anyway, I arrived home around 22.00, but I foolishly decided to watch a movie before going to bed. It was ultimately 1AM before I fell asleep, and my alarm clock was set for 5.30AM, a mere four and a half hours later. Auch.
After hitting the snooze button a couple of times, I eventually did wake up (in time, sort of), showered, and headed out. I arrived at Blaagaard with time to spare. We set up our little workshop booth, and we were ready to go. It wasn't long until 54 8th graders arrived. They were warmed up, both physically and mentally, by Lucinda & Camille, dancing to a Limp Bizkit song. And loosened up they were!
They then got an introduction on some dance styles by two professional Danish dancers, and after that they watched a shortened version of the movie Rize, which teaches them about American culture, values, and of course, dancing.
After that, the pupils spread out to the various workshops. In our workshop, they learned how to express their emotions without speaking, so just by using facial expressions or body language.
After two groups passed our workshop, and left positive remarks all around, I had to hurry to the city centre for the RE excursion with Nils. I met up with the rest of the group just after 1PM, and we headed out. (I still hadn't eaten a thing all day) Among other things, we -of course- visited churches, but also the Danish Jewish Museum, as well as getting full access to the "black diamond" because one of the curators/librarians/... happened to like us!
At around 17.50, we parted ways with Nils at Copenhagen H, so I rushed home, grabbed my laptop, and headed to Jolien's apartment for our movie night. Since there were only 3 guys and 4 girls, we had to watch a "chick flick" (The Sweetest Thing, which is actually quite funny) first, and later on we watched Yes Man with Jim Carey.
I arrived home around 1AM, and after a good 13 hours of sleep I'm now ready for our three-day-weekend!
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