Thursday, 27 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
"Bringing it to the public": DONE!
Mette, Eszter, Zane, Zsofi and Marina: CONGRATULATIONS!
All DNS 2011 team passed on the exam "Bringing it to the public".
P.S. - Romas also passed.
All DNS 2011 team passed on the exam "Bringing it to the public".
P.S. - Romas also passed.
Monday, 24 September 2012
We name "It" by Marina
What is IT? The reality that don't pass on the TV, newspapers or media in general / The faces behind the statistics and the History / The reality you do not meet outside Africa
Why should we give IT to public? The public are persons like us and like we met in Africa. Bring persons to persons is a way to create a better world, because we give to them the opportunity to get to know each other, showing that their differences are not so big and even if they are big they are not reason enough to promote a detachment. With our travel to Africa we gave them the opportunity to know us also and show that we are not just white and rich people, tourists from Europe. We made sure that some negative stereotypes were destroyed by our behavior and attitude. Now, it is the time to show in Europe that Africans are not just black and poor people, victims from Africa history. Now it is time to bring another point of view to our colleagues, neighbors, to the strangers on the streets. It is time to break down these old stereotypes that keep surviving over the years.
We will not bring the people, because we cannot, but we will bring their histories, their conversations, what they taught us, from what and how do they live.
I believe that the fact that we help to interconnect cultures creates empathy and space for understanding ourselves while citizens of a country, a continent, a world.
Bring this message, in this way, is our biggest weapon to fight against inequalities and start to change and open minds.
What does public gain from you and what do you gain from public? First, the gain knowledge. Knowledge that is not in the books and knowledge that nobody else can give them. Nobody can give them this knowledge because what we saw is unique: facts can be related in the same way, but experiences are always different from person to person. However, this question produces another questions: Why it is important explain politics to the European kids? It is important because, actually, they don't need to know political concepts or political history from Africa continent, but they SHOULD know what are the inequalities present between their countries and African countries and WHY the inequalities are there. Why should we explain African tradition or religion for an old lady? Because most of them have conservative minds that needs to be confronted with other conservative realities, and there is a need to explain that traditions are different and all of them are important. Why should we talk with a "normal standard person" with a job, house, car and kids? To explain them how lucky they are to have the life that they have, and show them how lucky they are to born in a rich part of the world.
We don't want to explain nothing in particular because we don't own the truth, we also don't want make judgments or attribute guilt, what we want is show them the other angle of the world.
Morning Assembly experience by Eszter
Morning assembly:
The main idea of morning assebly is that
usually in this time all the teams in Tvind could make time for a common lesson
and gain new knowledge together. Somethimes we have special occasions, when one
of the team can not participate in the morning assembly or we have some other
common activities. Normaly the morning assembly is from 9.15 to 10.30 ,but
sometimes we need less or more time than this.
Normal week plan for
morning assemblys:
- Monday: Science
- Tuesday: Freestilye presentation about what is interesting for the presenter
Common Common meeting
about ownership areas and other common issues
- Wednesday: Politics ( Big Issues/ Worlds News)
- Thursday: Singing practise for Winter Concert learn new songs in different topics
Eg:
work, peace, christmas, fight for rights etc..
- Friday: School management (from the morning until 5 in the afternoon)
Morning assembly is a
good way of starting a day. We had morning assembly about:
-PTG
-Dayschool
-Villas
one from Wang Jing another from Romas and Bjarne
-Recycleing
-Use
of our Common Hall Kitchen and Dinning Hall Kitchen
(instructions
from Marcel and Marianne)
-TCE
Conclusion:
We learn different
things in each morning,and with this we practise how to be flexibly,how to be
resbonisbly person and pay attentiuon to different issues in our world from
recycleing to wars and protests.
School management experience by Eszter
School management:
What is it actually. This is one of the best
way of basic maintenance of our school. Each Schoolmangement first we are going
to the Common Hall and the School Management leader distribute the task between
DNSers,teachers,villas and PTG students.
Some example of the
tasks:
- Potato picking in our garden
- Clean all the windows all around Tvind
- Weeding in Common areas
- Fixing the toilets
- Fixing other small things
- Deep clean and cook in the big kitchen
- Shopping for the weekend
- Deep cleaning in Common Hall and Kitchen
- Cutting grass
The newest thing is that we involve PTG and
Villas in our School Mangement. This is useful for the student ,beacuse they
can make connections with DNSrs and do something good for our school. School
Mangement is from 9.15 to 17.00 for DNSers,this in enough time to fix
everything,shop etc.
Owership areas and common meeting experience by Eszter
Common Common meeting and Ownership areas 15 hours:
Every second week on Tuesday we have a Common
Common meeting about different issues and we are discussing about our ownership
areas and their development. Each Thursday evening we have ownership area meeting
where we discuss and make new plans for the rest of the week.
Unit Coordination group
2012 team joined to the Ownership areas and
started to work in small groups together with other teams. In our group the
first step was to understand who are we working with. Unit coordination group
supposed to organize all kind of events for the different heart chambers and
DNS.
We decided our goal for this meeting is to
organize meeting with teachers who are teaching here, and make a big calendar.
The big calendar is done by Romas who already had the same idea,so we can put
all the morning assemblys,meetings,presentations etc. Into this calendar.
Meetings:
- Wang Jing -Villas
- Anne Hoas-PTG
- Bjarne-Romas-Villas
- Annica- Dayschool
Introduction for
the new and old teams about Heart Chambers and their work.
How to deal/work
together with different students.
What kind of
programs can we make for them etc.
New ideas:
·
Thirsday activity for Villas:
-In creativity
center,some DNSer not so many
-Two kind of
activity( eg.:origami and movie)
-Some DNSer who are
known in Villas and 2-3 who are not
-In this way day
the studenst starts to have contact with other DNSers,
but not like a bunch of new people are coming
to their life
·
Tuesday cafe rota each team
Ownership Area: GARDEN
FARMING
Farmers: Kenneth,
Benny,
Marcel 2010 (marce.l@gmx.de),
Andrea (andrypolachova@seznam.cz),
Eszter,
Adriana
Elo (elo17@mail.com),
Eva
Marcel 2012 (pop_mmm@yahoo.com),
Fields: Behind Music Room
garden, Potato field, Next to Kitchen garden, DNS Common Hall plant bed, South Road garden, Apple plantation;
Next challenges:
- Harvest potatoes; (Tvind) find or
construct storage facility, specially from 2013 on we might not be able to use
the stone-house anymore
- Harvest other crop;
- Take of caterpillars from cabbages;
- GARDEN
FARMING promotion;Recycling/compost;(Marcel2010)
and
Cooperation with kitchen.
- Accounting list of harvested and consumed
crop;
- Take care of DNS Common Hall garden;
Herbal Garden(Andrea)(?)
- Follow the quality of gardens, plant beds and other garden products;
- Make GARDEN MAP; (Uldis)
- set
up min. one more compost box
-
create “personal” plots for farming and small gardens?
OWNERSHIP GROUPS
GARDEN FARMING (Benny)
2009: Andreea
2009: Andreea
2010: Marcel, Natalya,
Andrea, Šarka
2011: Eszter
2012-1: Egle
2012-2: Marcel
OUTDOORS (Wang Jing)
2009: Michael
2010: Marcel, Laura
2011: Mette
2012-1: Egle
2012-2: Endija, Kerli
FOOD (Marianne)
(shopping, collecting
money, contact Marianne the Cook, menu, rota, etc.)
2009: Sara, Gita,
Minija, Louise
2010: Iveta, Alessandro
2011: Zsófi
2012-1: Diana
2012-2: Janina, Natascha
ACTIVITY CENTERS
(Stefan, Wang Jing)
(art room, music room,
gym, sportshall)
2009: David, Hunor
2010: Marianne, Greta,
Andrea, Sarka
2011: Mette, Marina
2012-1: Anna
2012-2: Janina
DEPOTS AND RECYCLING (Piotr)
2009: Minija, Angela
2010: Piotr, Laura
2011: Zane
2012-1: Laura, Diana,
Inga
2012-2: Elo
COMMON HALL AND DNS-KITCHEN
(Anne Højholt)
2009: Ruta, Minija
2010: Natalya
2011: Zsófi
2012-1: Adriana
2012-2: Michael,
Natascha
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY & WINDMILL
2009: Thomas?
2010: Piotr, Gunars
2011: Romas
2012-1: Uldis
2012-2: Janina, Marcel,
Karl
Teachers: Britta,
Romas
TOILET AND HEATING SYSTEMS (Palle)
TOILET AND HEATING SYSTEMS (Palle)
2009: David
2010: Marcel, Iveta
2011: Marina
2012-1: Laura, Diana
2012-2: Kerli
TRANSPORTATION (Romas)
(bicycles, cars,
electric car)
2009: Hunor
2009: Hunor
2010: Alessandro, Iveta,
Greta
2011: Romas
2012-1: Egle
2012-2: Karl
UNIT COORDINATION AND
EVENT PLANNING (Anna Hoas, Steen, Wang Jing)
(spreading information,
entertainment, activities, highlights...)
2009: Louise, Justyna
2010: Laura, Marianne
2011: Eszter, Romas
2012-1: Adriana, Inga
2012-2: Elo
FIRE SAFETY (Pallle,
Romas)
2009: Michael, Thomas
2010: Gunars
2011: Zane
2012-1: Anna
2012-2: Michael, Endija
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT /
BUILDING WEEKEND
2009:
2010:
2011: Zane
2012-1: Uldis
2012-2: Karl
EXPENSE ECONOMY
2009: Andreea, Györgyi
2010:
Iveta, Gunars
2011:
Mette
2012-1:
Natascha
2012-2:
Anna, Laura
KEYS:
Opel:
Mette
Peugeot:
Karl
Garden
Shed:
Gym:
Marina, Janina
Sport’s
Hall: Marina, Janina
Art
Room: Janina
Music
Room: Janina
Conclusion:
We
are as teacher students have to learn how to organize people,how to work
together,be responsible for a small project,feel this thing is your own and you
want to develop it. Ownership areas are the perfect solution to run a school
and be prepared for being a creative teacher.
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Bake Cakes? Let's do it.
Cake makeing and Birthday party..:)
Let’s start in the beginning.:) I was living in Per’s house for three mounth before the Africa travel. For me was natural I would like to move back there and continue living there etc. That house is home and Per is an awsome person. Here comes the interesting part in the last week he turned 48 and is always a big thing to have a birthday. His parents came and we DNSers are also started to think about something nice for him. In this week we had some other birthday (seems like everyone like to born in this part of the year) so I already made my first birthday cake in my life. In this time I had more help to organize and bake the cake,but I’m not sure it was easier. First of all we had 3 people than 4-5 and in the end 10 people , a nice house . I can not prove everyone was doing something but mostly they did. We started to get the things at 11 in the night and actually started to do something around half past 11. Nice music,crazy people from all kind of countries with different attitude and way of helping, watcing,tasteing,mixing etc.We put a lot of love,milk,flour,eggs,sugar,marzipan into this cake. Our mood was quite good in the whole precess even when we realized some part of the cake is burned,no problem we will solve evrything. Hours are passed people started to dissapear..until just the three strong Hungarian and one Lithuanian stayed there. We finished, cleaned around 2 am and went to sleep.
Next day the magic day Per’s birthday. We were excited from the morning and over tired. At 4 we had a pencake party for Per with Villas and DNS . In the same time we had hundred of things to do,organize and not forget. I must admit without some special people help the cake wouldn’t be done for the evening party. Adriana special thank you for this amaizing DNSer..:) I had to do so many things and she managed to cover our awsome cake with marzipan. In the evening all people gathered in Per’s place with presents and the magic blue cake. Everything went well,he was really happy. My team gave a teddy bear and 3 different present card. Present card first one with a movie night, second with cinema and the last one is eating out somewhere with DNS2011. We were listening music,talking stupid things,danicing and laughing like crazy. The whole event had good mood,nice people and the perfect cake.
For conclusion I have to say:
1. If you have more people to make a cake you have more problem and much more fun!
2. If you take all the new-good challanges someone will come and help you to make them possible!
Friday, 17 August 2012
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