(the sight i woke up to)
Today we were in the hands of our two new teachers who came to take over from the other two. Our new teachers are Mette and Jennifer. Mette is our English teacher. Jennifer are an American citizen and she is from Texas. She has been filling in for Mette when she was in maternity leave. Besides that we had her to socials studies for half a year in 1.g.
Today we got up early to go to the "Diversity Workshop". It is a group of minorities in the U.S that is gathers for this day to tell about what they are doing. It is the collage that we are on (ACC) who has arranged this day. The theme was: "Speak Out!" We(The Denmark Group) had a workshop. Me, Thomas and Michael had to do a presentation were we presented the danish education system. Our classmates had gathered information to us about it:-)It went pretty well, and people there were very interested, especially by the fact that we are paid to go to school. Being in America makes you think about how lucky we are that we can take whatever education we want to without paying - or worrying about it.
When the presentation was over Thomas, Michael and I got a T-Shirt, and we all got a diploma. The T-Shirt is in a campaign which tries to get all young Americans to vote at this election.
Looks like this:
I meet an interesting and cool guy at the Diversity Workshop. He asked about the band that i had on my T-Shirt which was Norma Jean, and i found out that he was a Christian. So he got my myspace and e-mail, and i am looking forward to talking to him!
Morten and i went to a workshop called "Crusader for Christ" it is a group of Christians who is in the school, a bit like KFS in Denmark, but they are reaching out a lot more, in an very alternative way by art. I need to do some more research on it, but they seemed very cool:-)
I am starting to miss the danish food a lot:-P Everything over here is sweet even their bread. We have been talking about baking some ourselves oneof these days:-P
After the Diversity workshop we went to our literature professors house(Joe O'Donell). He lives out in the country of Austin. He had invited a journalist and some other Americans who wanted to talk to us, so that was pretty cool:-) All this time we have been here we have been told that Austin is very different from the rest of Texas and the US in general, and going to Joes showed that. He lives still in Austin but in the outskirts. The geographics was real cowboy-like.
At Joe's:
And especially the place were Joe took us to eat showed what many of us were thinking of Texas before we came here. It was a club were people were dressed like cowboys, and country music was played:-P I got to talk to a nice woman there about Texas and the culture compared to Denmark in many areas also religion.
Many years ago that was the place to go to hear music and meet people:-)Apparently a bit of a famous place at the time.
This is the "logo" from it:
After the visit there with GREAT and cheap hamburger we had to go to a high school football game. Tigers vs. Bulldogs. That was cool to experience the atmosphere at a game like that. There were cheerleaders and everything which the boys from our class enjoyed A LOT! - The cheerleaders came up to take pictures with them and yeah, that was fun! - They act so different when there are other girls around:-P Quite funny!
And i have to mention that Morten was feeling much better today and with us all the whole day:-)
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