So what have we been doing so far?

For the first month, we have worked at lot in groups, getting to know each other, and it has been GOOOOD!

Even though there is a lot of similarities to the way that we work with children and young people, there is also a lot of differences that I didn't know. For an example, the amount of time we spend on educating our self, variates within 1 year, depending on which country you look upon. And the possibilities we have afterwards, is also very different. In Denmark we take a bachelor in social education, which means that we can work pretty much anywhere we like, when we are done. But in Spain, you become a primary teacher if you want to be a teacher, and then you have to read further on, if you want to be an English teacher.

We have made a lot of culture-exercises, and it has been fun to see or maybe realise how much we judge a person before we even get to know them. We all have a lot of prejudices, and that can never be chanced, but the exercises has helped me, trying to chance my own prejudices into something good and unknown, when I meet a new person.

We have looked at the differences and similarities between the history, traditions and way of working in all the countries, and the good thing about making that comparison, is of course to get a bigger understanding for one and other, but also that we learn the English expressions of what we are doing, and becoming. Because I might know what I am doing in Danish (at least I should know), but that doesn't mean, that I know to explain it in English, or that it is understood in the same way as I want it to be, if I just translate it, because the terms very often is used differently in other countries. And of course it's also nice to repeat some of the things we were taught at the 1. and 2. semester!