Day Two

Internet at home has been down so I am posting things written since our internet woes began.

Another day at work, today I got my key, was assigned a photocopy code, and generally became more familiar with the school and my assignment in it. There were students today but mostly just the first years and the senior students who have agreed to be part of the welcoming committee. There seems to be a bit of an initiation process as the first years are made to sing a song about frogs as loud as they possibly can. Apparently all first years are called frogs and at times froglike hopping accompanies the singing. They also engage in other behaviours that were less audible so I’m not really sure what they were. This will continue for the next two days, I am involved on some level tomorrow supervising a run but it appears that most of the work is done by senior leaders. It all sounds and looks like fun because of the levels of participation and leadership, a good reminder that we should start with fun, plenty of time to get serious later.

I learned about the textbooks students will use for the classes I teach, because English is not the first language there are exercise books on grammar that contain instructions in Danish. One book contains a lot of translating exercises, Google translate to the rescue! I spent some time typing out the Danish which gave me a pretty good idea of what kind of problems Danes might encounter when dealing with English grammar, not everything comes out in the right order.