Global and citizenship with Torbjǿrn Ydegǻrd
Globalization in its literal sense of process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together.
Citizenship refers to a person's membership in a political community such as a country or city. It has different legal definitions in different countries. In countries with democratic institutions, usually only citizens are allowed to vote, or to carry a passport from that country.
We had to prepare presentation about educational system in our countries, how it looks like. After this presentation I saw many differences between countries. For example we have grades, and we have test every week, our studies are shared for two levels 1)it is bachelor degree and 2)master degree. Usually it takes 5 years to get higher education.

Special needs is a term used in clinical diagnostic and functional development to describe individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological.
We had special needs in week 9 ,we learned how to work with children with learning difficulties especially with attention deficit disorder. Teacher showed us how to make children relaxed on lessons if they have such problems. They have special massage for children called tektil massage. Every time when student starts to became uneasy teacher turn on the music , strike a candle and do special atmosphere which helps children get relaxed.
We saw movies and pictures how teachers works with children, how classrooms looks like ( students have to have special separates places in each class to be more concentrate on lesson).
Another thing was that we sit in a circle and play a lot of different games. I think that sitting in ring is good solution because everyone have to take part in conversation , and everybody is equal.

We have Danish lessons since we came here, our teachers Christine M.Olsen and Signe Bekker do their best to explain us basic worlds from this difficult language( the second hardest language in the world after Chinese of course).When first lesson begin they invited us very warmly and baked a cake even for us which was so delicious. Then we started to learn hardly Danish language. Here are some worlds which I succeeded to learn :
Hvem – Who , Hvornǻr- When, Hvad hedder du ?means what’s your name , Jeg kommer fra Polen – I’m from Polen , Jeg hedder Marlena – My name is Marlena, Jeg er 22 ǻr, Tak –Thank you, Mǿjn – see you (typical only for this part of Denmark).
It’ is obvious that three months it is not enough to learn Danish, but anyway I’m so happy that we had this lessons not only worlds and grammar , but we learned a lot about culture ,habits, traditions of Danish society it gave me bigger knowledge how does it works.
Thanks to Christine for all that she did for us for this three months.
Tak.

Since Monday we started our practice in Fjordskolen in Aabernaa. All of us (three polish girls)were shared for each department. I had practice with one physiotherapy women who take care of me for whole week, than we will change that every girl can see everything in each department.
Now I'm working with children with PDD( pervasive developmental disorders) , Autism, Asperger's disorder .
Children with PDD has reduction in developing functions within areas of:- social communication ,- social imagination in playing and flexible thinking - social interaction
I'm so glad that I have possibilty to see and learn how children and physiotheraphiest are working.Gitte( my "keeper")explains my everyting in detalil so there is no way to not understand even little thing.In department A physiotherapiest works according to sensory integration programme.
Theory in Sensory Integration is relationship between deficits in interpreting sensation from the body and the environment and diffculties with academic or motor learning. Sensory integration cannot be observed. It occurs on the basis of evidence from neuroscience.

We were in Aabenraa twice to see how we can work with children by music and movement. It was so interesting act and feel like an actor for a moment. We were shared for two groups and we had to prepare performance. The most interesting thing was that we had to use masks and white overalls. Firstly we thought that this is a piece of cake because of mask , we thought that nobody will see if we are ashamed or nervous. But later on we realized that it is much more difficult to express yourself with mask. If you want audience to understand your feelings you have to use more body language and it is really difficult for someone who had never contact with theather.

On Monday, we had cooking lesson and everybody had to prepare something from their countries, fortunately we were so lucky that my parents came on the weekend , and they brought dumplings called: pierogi . Even if they won’t come , we couldn’t do that on our own cause it is so difficult, and in Denmark there is no white cheese .So our task rely on preparing fried onion on it.
Firstly we had little introduction about eating habits. How it looks like in our countries , what nation loves to eat the most, and it was very interesting. Our teacher showed us pyramid equilibrium, what we should eat and what is unhealthy , how long do we have to make sport to burn our fat.
We spend some time to prepare food :
- Carlos prepared as usually his omelet and what I have to say it was really delicious I ate it three times and this last one was the best:)
-Czech Republic prepared bramboracki, and I thought it is similar to polish traditional food but later one when I saw how they prepared it I realized that it is completely different meal.
- Anja did fried apples with sugar I tried a little but I couldn’t eat more unfortunately but there were delicious.
- Canan and Zep did Burglar(?) meal with kind of rise which is only typical for Turkey.
- Hungarian people did a lot of delicious food, and I think in my second life I’d like to be Hungarian their food is so delicious! I really enjoyed gulasz soap and makielki were the best for me with this special vanilla dip! I couldn’t stop eat it, until I realized I’m enough.
TAK!

I really enjoyed week with international students, we had so many things to do .Through this week we learned how to express ourselves by music, language body movements. On Monday 9th We met in school with Jette , and other teachers with i.s and Erasmus students. There was an introduction how living in Haderslev looks like, we get to know each other. Then we had Danish lesson with Christina, as we used to have more Danish lessons we helped her with basic things , it was quite funny.In the evening we met in the canteen for “hygge” we song typical Danish songs, and had a little lunch, then we played games as Annette learned us. Later on we were in Andy’s bar drinking beers and singing international songs. On Tuesday there was an excursion to Ribe to Vikings museum, we saw how they used to live in that ages, then we visited old town it was a little town but very charming, and the sun was shining. We saw Ribe Cathedral which was originally build as a three –aisled church with two identical towers .In 1283, one of the towers collapses and the square Commoners’ Tower is erected as the town’s, using the material and the style of the day. When the spire collapses in 1594, it is replaced with a flat roof. Each century has marked the church either by changes in the construction or changes in the ornamentation; between 1982 and 1987 Carl- Henning Pedersen redecorated the apse.


Today we had very interesting music lesson with our new friends from international week. We had to listen to the music and with a lots of different instruments try to translate it:)It looks quite funny but we managed it. By this lesson I understood that I have no sense of music,I have to work a lot to repair it.:)

On Friday we went to Esbjerg to see University College of physiotherapy. We woke up at 5 o'clock to don't miss a bus to Kolding. Fortunetly after long journey with two changes we got to Esbjerg and what I have to say -there is much colder than in Haderslev.We got off from the bus and then we caught the taxi to the University, I have to say that the campus made for me a big impression.It'is very big and has a lot of departures for example :nursering or social education.Each department has his own bulding.We had to go to Susanne -international coordinator, when we found her she invited us very warm and offer a cup of coffe.5 minutes later we were sitting on the sofa talking about university, pupils, physiotheraphy and about diffrences between danish and polish system of learning. It was really nice because Susanne were in Poland even in Poznan as a teacher so she knew how polish system works.Later she guide us around whole university. Later we had pracitse lessons with students of second year.In spite of we are on the third year , we learned a lot and we teached a lot:).What we had to do was teaching people with spastic how to peel the orange.I was quite suprised because teachers has diffrents technic of teaching on which about I had never heard before.The most suprised thing was that when you help people with diffrents problems you are not allowed to speak to them, becouse you teach them how to do things not only when they are with you but even then when they are alone(and then they will not hear any voices).


After practise lessons we went around of the campus to see all departments accurately.Its reallllllyy big , later on Susanne waited for us to give us a lift to the centre exactly toursit office.We really wanted to see big white mens looking at the sea. In the tourist office we found nice women who explained us how we should get there which bus and so on.It was so windy on the seaside that we wanted only to take some pictures of big white mens and go back to the city centre.Unlucky we ,next bus was in an hour time, so we didint have anything else to do like take a big walk anlongside seaside.Anyway it wasn't so bad idea to stay there longer , cause we found a lot of nice shells, took good pictures and we had little picnic on the stones.:)

No later then one hour we were sitting in the restaurant in the city centre drinking cup of tea,because we were so cold!We decided to go around the market in the Esbjorg and then go back to Haderslev. However we were really cold and tired of this busy Friday but when I was lying in the bad trying to fall asleep I felt so joyful of that day.

On Saturday we had very busy day :Marysia Gosia, Misza and me went for the first time for a gym see how does it look like. It was very very nice cause gym is not big enought just right for four girls, we were doing exercises for about one hour until my muscles said "enought".By the way since today I feel attemps , that I cant do any moves.After then in the evening we went to Misza and Vasek house for international cooking we prepared some food with Carlos typical for our culture , when we said to Misza and Vasek what we had they started to laugh because they prepared the same thing!I wouldn't even think that our culture is so similar but anyway after hours of preparations rest of people from Erasmus came and we started to eat it:) When we realized that we have enough, we put all of plates to the kitchen and started to play in cards,Mete explained us how to play poker and we get started , it was a really good game because in the end I was the second just after Carlos :)

Since one week days passed one after another I lost my feeling of time. It is so nice to be here, that when Iwill live this place on May I'm sure I will be crying like a little child.It is amazing that I have possibilty to live with people from around the world, I really enjoy to observe theirs days timetables, what they cook at what time they eat its really imposibble that culture is so different.
Today we had practise day with a lots of adventures :)
We had our practise in Aabernaa , we had bus at 8 20 to be at 9 on the place, but unfortunetly we missed the bus station in Aabernaa and we reached Sonderborg. It was a disaster for us cause we were without money!!we had only for ticket from practice place to Haderslev! Thanks God my friend Gosia had credit card so she paid out money from cash machine and it was ok.
Finally we were in Aabernaa at 11 and we should be there at 9 we were a little bit terrified so we started run from the bus station to practice place. After lots od difficulites with finding a number of this place we got there about 11.30! We thought that our practice coordinator will be very angry and disappointed about our being late but she found it funny.!Louise(our coordinator)invited us very warm, she explained us everything about physiotherpiest job and showed all of rooms where are they working.!We had a little conversation about our practice time in the end of March, what we will be doing and in good humors we went back to Haderslev:)

On Wednesday we had a day with buddies so we went for a trip to Kolding with Krisztina ,Gosia and our buddy Christine we visited Castle from which top is beautiful view for whole city.After that we went to the shopping centre to buy some warm clothes!Since yesterday we have bicycles so way to our school will be only a pleasure!Byeeee......

This week was very busy for all of us inspite of having break in school we have a lot of things to do. On Thursday we were in Aarhus.It's such a lovely place!There was a lot of fun cause every of us was kind of quide who has to say something about place which we have to visit.There was 3 groups and every group have to say about one of monument.I was in Misza team we were talking about Old Town in the beginning I was very nervous but then it passed away.In Aarhus we saw Cathedral and Arus Museum which made for us hugggggggge impresion because of big boy exhibit!

One week passed since we came here. We start getting know each other day by day. For this whole week we had so much new experiences. Firstly we had presentation about schools in denmark.We had music lessson , we sang a lot and had nice group exercices which helped us to get know each other by music.On Thursday all of our erasmus friends went for practise, we stayed at home and later we went for a walk to the city center get to know Haderslev better.On Friday we had our first Danish lessons with two girls teachers (I forgot theirs names).One of teacher brought us a cake for good beginning of our learnig, the cake was so delicous I couldn't stop eating :).Yesterday we made suprise birthday party for Gosia and Krisztina in our home.We invited all erasmus people me and Mery bought cake and put denmark flags into it with candles so it was a lot of fun.Today when I woke up i saw sun!!! for the first time in denmark it gave me a lot of strenght so I redocorated my room, make it clean and go for a walk. Now we take a rest and we keep power for next week couse we will have a lot to do!to be continoued....