Drama and theatre

Thuesday 6 of April

We went to Aabenraa to the other campus of University College South Denmark.
We started with icebreaking exercises.
For instence: the teacher says 3 colors, you choose one in your head, then all the people who took the same color, change from place.
It looks a bit stupid but it's a nice way of changing people from place and make them meet other people by sitting near to them.

We also did some improvization games.
One of them was to pass an imaginary box, which was very haevy...it was a good exercise because most of the people were not use to do such exercises, but this one was simple and funny!

What I want to remember about this, is that before working with a new group of people, or to start something new, it's very important to feel good in the group. It's important to have contact with the people by doing simple things (that makes you laugh, interact and that's able to be done by everybody)
What I could also add is that we often changed the seize of the groups (groups of 2,3,6 people, sometimes alone)thats is very benefic (and less annoying).

After a very little moment you already feel more confident and ready to work (in a better mood and spirit).

Language and identity

My language portrait

We had to made our own language portrait, choose a color and a place for each of our languages.

French:
-green: it's my natural language
-the leg: I grow up half in French
the brain: it's my mother tongue, it's the one I speake best and it takes the most place in my brain.

Dutch:
-red: it was the language that I spoke in my primary school, I had to work hard and it was a difficult time for me
-the leg:I grew up half in Dutch
the brain: I don't think a lot in Dutch anymore, it takes less place in my head.

English
-blue: it's my favorite color, I've had very good experiences in my life with English speakers. It's an important language for me and the world, it takes a lot of space.
-the dress: it's the first language I've learned in my life. There is still a lot of white, because I would like to improve it and there is place for the other new languages that I would like to learn later.
the brain: it takes more place in my head today.

Spanish
-yellow: it's a sunny country, a happy language, I like the culture and the Spanish people.
-the dress: I learned this language, I know it a little.

Danish
-black: it's a very difficult language, I don't really like it because it's very hard for me to prononce.
-the dress: I'm learning this language.

German
-grey: all my sisters talk german, I don't (sometimes I'm a little jealous).
-the dress: I understand a little.

Analyse of the activity:
I think it's a great idea to do with kids, today there is a lot of nationalities in the same class (really usual in the Belgiam cities).
By doing this excercise children can be aware of the knowledge of all they langages, and take time to think about their place in their lives, it's another way of knowing yourself and your identity.
For once the children who have more difficulties at school because they get confused by all the langages they know, are highlighted.
It helped me to put my life in order...

Danish and European stereotypes

Danish and European stereotypes

On the 10.02.2010 we had a lesson called "Danish and European stereotypes",we discussed about what we tought about Denmark before we came at this Ersamus.

What I thought about Denmark before I came here:

Firstly, I have to admit that I had not a lot of ideas of what it would be like, I was excited to go in a foreign country where I only new very little about the country and the culture, so I didn't have so much special expectations our ideas.
Indeed, mostly when you try to imagine how it's going to be, you are usually disappointed, I wanted to discover everything in Denmark and I'm not disappointed at all!

But of course I had a few ideas and images, what I thought about Denmark before I my Ersamus:

1. I had read a article about the Danish happiness. So I though everybody was always happy, all the time. I thought it was like a perfect country in all the fields, but I realise that it takes sometimes a long time to be get treatments when you are ill, which is important problem to me, my country is performant for that point.
It's true that people are simling much more, they look more confident and satisfied about their life (even little job's).

2. I thought it will be a very ugly country, because it's flat country (if there is a ugly building you see it from far away like in Flandres)and I thought there will be windmills everywhere (and I think that's really ugly, in my opinion it destroys the landscape) but I haven't seen any (they are more near the sea). In reality the buildings are quite nice and there are a lot of fields and there aren't as much houses as in Belgium, the town is pedestrianized, the houses are mostly colorful.

3. I thought Denmark liked his royal family a lot, but I didn't imagine that it was that much (nearly in every lesson, we talk once about them) for me it's very surprising, when you compare to Belgium, where we use to make fun and destroy our royal family daily.


Belgian stereotypes

I'm Belgian because:

1. I don't take myself seriously. I easily make fun of myself.

2. I always criticize the chocolate, chips and beer of other countries. When I leave my country for a while, I've always a stock of Belgian chocolate in my suitcase. I always eat my chips with mayonnaise.

3. When I travel more than a hour, it's already a long trip.