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Published: February 7th 2009
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I could see these from the courtyard of one of the museums we visited. I know that these buildings look really grim, and most Danish people hate them, but I am in love with this style. I've now been to school for 3 days (although one of those days was an excursion), and I'm really surprised about how different the school system is. When I was in Japan last year I went to school for two weeks and I thought that that was different, but this is in a whole new league.
First of all, it's no where near as strict as in Australia. You call your teachers by their first name, there are no uniforms, and in most of the classes you are basically left to your own devices, so if you don't want to work, you don't have to. Most people do though, which I think's pretty interesting. Also, you can just walk out of the class whenever you want, you can eat in class, and you can go outtside for a smoke too. In Biology we're doing the affects of drugs on your system, so the other day we conducted an experiment where a few people smoked a cigarette or drank a couple of beers, and we measured their reaction times etc. before, during and after. This was in school!
The classes are in 'lines'. So you choose a subject area and you get
Round Tower
The Round Tower that Reshwan ad Michael took me to in Copenhagen. We climbed it :D
My lens hadn't opened properly when I took it... Oops! a whole bunch of classes revolving around that. I chose the Social Studies line. I'm also doing two English classes (one with my usual 2nd year class, and another with a 3rd year class). I was really surprised by how advanced the English classes were (though I suppose I shouldn't have been, as everyone here is really good at English). In my 3rd year class they're doing Shakepearean sonnets, and in my 2nd year class they're doing rhetorics in speech writing. So, obviously, I'm having fun there.
Anoter thing that I find pretty interesting is that they don't have relief teachers here. If a teacher is away for some reason, his or her class is simply cancelled. So every day you have to log on to the school website to check your timetable. Sometimes, people don't even have to go to school at all, if all their classes have been cancelled. Also, the timetables usually change from week to week.
Yesterday we went on an excursion to Copenhagen to look at some museums and an old authentic Victorian house. That was awesome. My teacher explained to me that the richest family in Denmark used to live there (a mum, a
Church
This is attatched to the Round Tower. It wasn't open to the pubilc yesterday, but we could see it through the glass door. dad, and their two daughters), and when the parents and oldest daughter eventually died, the younger daughter gave the house (and all the furniture that was in it) to the national museum. It's so cool but I found it a little bit creepy because I kept thinking that people lived here and died here and the whole place is exactly as they left it. Particularly in one of the girls rooms, there was this picture of her on the mantle. She was so pretty and looked so happy but I kept thinking about how there were probably times when she bawled her eyes out and thought about how much she hated her life, and other times when she thought about guys that she liked with a little smile on her face, or laughed her head off with her friends, in this very room. Bit weird.
After seeing the house we moved to a different museum, and then to another one. When we were leaving to go to the second museum the teacher noticed that about half the boys in my class had gone missing, so we just left without them. It turned out they had just gone to a cafe,
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View from the top of the Round Tower. so they arrived at the museum about half an hour late, and they weren't in trouble at all.
We finished our excursion at 1, so Michael, Reshwan (a guy and a girl from my class) and I went to a cafe for lunch, and walked around Copenhagen for a while. They left at three and I did bit of shopping for an hour before I met Bridget. Bridget is another exchange student from Brisbane. We walked around for a while then we went to the Museum of Erotica. We were in there for about an hour giggling like children at everything. We both absolutely laughed our heads off when we found out there was a special museum discount for school groups. But it was actually kind of interesting. I liked the wall full of descriptions about famous peoples sex lives. There was Hitler, Carl Marx, Freaud, Marilin Munroe etc. We were a little creeped out by the mini cinema room where there was 24 hr porn. There was a man sitting in there when we got to the museum, and he was still there when we left :S.
After that, we went to get a hot chocolate and a waffle
(yes, terrible, I know, but it's so hard to resist stuff like that when it's freezing). They were AMAZING. I had chocolate sauce and strawberries and banana on my waffle. And with the hot chocolate you just get hot milk, and two sticks with pyramids of chocolate on the end, which you stir through. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.
Our plan was to go to a bar or nightclub but neither of us could be bothered, so instead we went back to her house and watched Sex and the City. We're on the same train line, which is pretty convenient because it meant that when I went home I only had to catch one train. I only just got the final train for the night. I got home at about 1 in the morning, which was rather cool, as I'm not allowed to do that in Australia :D.
This morning I got woken up at about 9, because we always eat breakfast as a family, but I felt absolutely wrecked. Today Marc is having his birthday party - it starts in about 2 hours - so I'm bracing myself for lots of screaming children.
Ooo geezzz, just
had a look at all that I've written, and I'd say I've said enough for today...
:D <3
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