A SPECIAL PLACE
Šilo
Šilo in Croatia is a very special place for me. My parents bought an apartment in the town of Šilo a few years ago and we have been visiting Croatia every year ever since. The thing I love about the place is how quiet and beautiful it is. It takes away all the stress and pain from the everyday life I am used to. The blue sea, the friendly inhabitants, the lovely food and the quiet surroundings are the best ways to get new energy to continue the stressful life when I get home again. I knew absolutely nothing about Croatia before my parents bought the apartment and I was a bit confused and thought: “Why Croatia? What is special about that country?” But when we visited it for the first time all my doubts disappeared and it was love at first sight. Šilo is peaceful, beautiful and quiet.
- Charlotte Fagt |
My America
A place that means something special to me is Davis, California. Davis is a small town of 60,000 people in central California. It’s a place where I lived when I was 13 years old. It’s a place where I went to a public school together with natives, whites, blacks and Asians. Before I came to America I knew nothing about ghettos, civil rights or the difference between black and white people. But after a year I certainly learned all about it.
My first friend was a black boy named Timmy. He lived in a two bedroom apartment complex together with his mom and stepdad. He was poor, his stepdad stole from them, and treated him really badly. My next friend was a white Jew named Sam. He came from a rich family, lived in a big house and had 4 cars including a Mercedes. At first I couldn’t understand why Timmy and Sam were living so differently. But after seeing the same pattern over and over again and after many history and social study lessons I started to understand why.
- Søren Blatt Bendtsen
My first friend was a black boy named Timmy. He lived in a two bedroom apartment complex together with his mom and stepdad. He was poor, his stepdad stole from them, and treated him really badly. My next friend was a white Jew named Sam. He came from a rich family, lived in a big house and had 4 cars including a Mercedes. At first I couldn’t understand why Timmy and Sam were living so differently. But after seeing the same pattern over and over again and after many history and social study lessons I started to understand why.
- Søren Blatt Bendtsen
TenerifeWhen I was ten years old, I was on a summer vacation in Tenerife. Tenerife is a volcanic island, and the weather is very comfortable. I lived on a hotel called Los Cristianos. It was a five star hotel with a great swimming pool and the restaurant of the hotel was very delicious. When I grow up and get children I will travel to Tenerife with them, and they should have the same experiences as I had when I was ten years old.
The people in Tenerife play a lot of sports. The most popular one is soccer. I played soccer together with players from Club Deportive Tenerife. It was a great time. They taught me how to dribble, and how to make funny celebrations when I scored a goal on the keeper. The players were very approachable, and that gave me a really good indication of how people are in Tenerife. Everybody smiles to you as a tourist, and everybody wants to hear how your vacation has been, and what Tenerife as a country can make better for you as a tourist. Tenerife’s main argument for doing this is that they make money on all the tourists visiting Tenerife and I will for sure visit Tenerife one more time! - Tom Ingerslev Blaabjerg |
Pushing limits
My mom came to Denmark the 28th November, 1989 after a 2 month long escape from the communism in Romania. She was born and raised in the capital of Bucharest and she was a bit rebellious and often tried to push limits her whole life. She married a Syrian who was studying in Bucharest and was soon to become a doctor or a dentist. They moved to Damascus where she was forced to live in an Islamic manner. They had 2 girls together but my mother was never in love with her husband and only used him to push more limits by marrying a Muslim. In 1989 she had it. She explained to her husband that her mother was moving to America, so she could visit home “for a while” with her two 2 and 3 -year- old girls. They didn’t stay long before they were forced to leave since she was no longer Romanian after marrying a foreigner. With Stockholm as goal she got in the back of a truck with her girls and came to Budapest. After staying different places for one month until she could get tickets and legal passports she took her girls by train to Berlin Central Station where she had to choose between a departure in 2 hours for Copenhagen and a departure in 3 hours for Malmö. She chose the quickest one...
- Caroline Maxine Mihalcea
- Caroline Maxine Mihalcea
Variety is a good thing
Hello,
I go to Rysensteen Gymnasium in the 1.g and you can call me Fred. I am sixteen and in May I will be 17. As you already know, I’ve been wandering around the school for quite some time, and I’ve noticed something. When you go to the amphitheater or through the school, you see white people. It is a Danish school and it is very common to be white here. However, it feels like we’re missing the more multicultural people that you see in other schools. Is this because the immigrants we have here in Denmark either choose other schools or simply they don’t meet the requirements? Here, lately we’ve had a group that took action in the so-called “project two languages”. It was good and we definitely got some of our questions answered. The whole school got involved and it went even further. Does the school look at the marks before accepting the students? Does it matter what background we have and how does this affect our school socially and educationally? We do have exchange students and we also have contacts with a Turkish class who came to visit us a couple of weeks ago. It was great and from my experience a little twist in the school is all we need to be focused and it will help us adept? the system, the essays and all the homework. My mom always told me variety is a good thing in every way and that we shouldn’t judge a person by his/her looks.
- Frederik Palsteen
I go to Rysensteen Gymnasium in the 1.g and you can call me Fred. I am sixteen and in May I will be 17. As you already know, I’ve been wandering around the school for quite some time, and I’ve noticed something. When you go to the amphitheater or through the school, you see white people. It is a Danish school and it is very common to be white here. However, it feels like we’re missing the more multicultural people that you see in other schools. Is this because the immigrants we have here in Denmark either choose other schools or simply they don’t meet the requirements? Here, lately we’ve had a group that took action in the so-called “project two languages”. It was good and we definitely got some of our questions answered. The whole school got involved and it went even further. Does the school look at the marks before accepting the students? Does it matter what background we have and how does this affect our school socially and educationally? We do have exchange students and we also have contacts with a Turkish class who came to visit us a couple of weeks ago. It was great and from my experience a little twist in the school is all we need to be focused and it will help us adept? the system, the essays and all the homework. My mom always told me variety is a good thing in every way and that we shouldn’t judge a person by his/her looks.
- Frederik Palsteen