Globalix - Language week

The final day of the language week - and therefor also the final day of the Globalix game - is upon us. During the last three days the entire school has been turned into 16 headquarters in two different worlds. The gallery and 'Spejder' has worked as the UN headquarters of the two worlds.
We have been playing five rounds of five years, starting with the year 2000 friday morning. Each round is three hours long. Wars have been started, regions have gone into revolt and other regions has rised from the ashes.

As a citizen of the North America (in the world that didn't belong to Conny), I've been making deals and supporting the poor countries all weekend. It's not until this weekend I've realised how hard it is to manage an entire (powerfull) continent when you also has to help all the poor continents.
Well that is except for today. Today I've made sure that we would get some pictures of all the great costumes and all the beautiful headquarters, so Henrik and the teachers will be able to show others how amazing the students at The Spejderskole is. Or actually it was Conny who 'hired' me to do it... But it's kind of the same thing anyway.

South East Asia with their money in the beginning of the year 2020 this morning

A representative from Europe negotiating with a representative from Africa

Three indians from South America with their babys

By now you are properbly wondering why this blogpost is in english in stead of danish. And I've actually got the answer for you right here. Since it's called language week, we have all (of cause) had to speak english (or french or german) the entire weekend. From midday thursday till today at 4pm, we will be speaking english. My mom will agree on this, since I've only been comunicating with her in english... Well that is aside from when she wrote me back in german. So just a short massage for my mom: please call grandmother and ask her if she can understand this, otherwise you may translate it for her.

To just completely change the subject in the end of this blogpost. Last night was the 50th anniversary of the british television series Doctor Who. If you don't know what Doctor Who is, you've clearly been doing something wrong. To celebrate the 50th anniversary, the eight Whovians (Doctor Who fans) gathered in the Pejsestue to watch the anniversary episode live on BBC One. As true Whovians we ate fish fingers and custard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo2RKAHu-kI) before watching the legendary episode.

The 50th anniversary trailer

Stilhed efter stormen

Så er det to uger siden vi her på sydfyn blev ramt af en storm der vist nok bragte vinde på orkanstyrke med sig. Fedt. Lige siden har jeg så gået rundt med Tøsedrengenes sang "Skoven falder" i hovedet hver eneste gang jeg er gået, løbet eller cyklet forbi et træ der har måtte bukke under for naturen - bogstaveligt talt. Og det er overraskende tit man ser det her på sydfyn. På trods af alle de væltede træer, og de utallige gange jeg ser dem, er det endnu ikke lykkedes mig at få taget så meget som et eneste billede af et væltet træ... Øv.
Størstedelen af eleverne her fra skolen sad i en og samme bus på vej hjem fra brobygning den mandag under stormen. I kan nok gætte at det for mange ikke var en særlig behagelig affære. Jeg har altid været ekstremt bange for vind (det kaldes ancraofobi), og det hjalp ikke at jeg fik lov at tilbringe to meget lange timer i en bus under en klasse4 orkan. Buschaufføren klarede det godt omstændighederne taget i betragtning, men kammeraternes snak og begejstring for hvad der skete lige unden for vinduerne af bussen mens vi kørte, var ikke sjovt at høre på når man i forvejen græd og fortrød man var taget med bussen i første omgang. Og så var der jo de 2-3 elever der måtte overnatte på søfartsskolen i Svendborg...

Nok om storm - der er heldigvis sket andet på spejderskolen de sidste to uger. Som jeg før har nævnt, er lærerne på skolen rigtig glade for at vi selv tager initiativ til- og planlægger arrangementer i weekenderne. Lørdag d. 2. november blev der derfor holdt Uniforms Galla på Spejderskolen. Det var efter idé af to drenge på skolen: Christoffer og Mads, der selv stod for planlægning og afholdning af Gallaen. Der var frivilligt fremmøde, som de fleste andre weekender, men fremmødet på 39 elever ud af 57, var alligevel ret godt gået. Uniformer var selfølgelig påkrævet - hvis man altså havde en.

Under gallaen blev der holdt taler om de forskellige spejderkorps, af spejdere fra de forskellige spejderkorps. Repræsentanter fra DDS, KFUM, De Grønne Pigespejdere, De Gule Spejdere og De Sorte Spejdere (se billede ovenfor) underholdte hinanden med taler aftenen igennem.
Hvad angår maden, var den selvfølgelig lavet af eleverne selv. Menuen var planlagt af Christoffer, Mads og undertegnede, og bestod af Kartoffel-hvidløgs-suppe, burgere med pulledpork og pandekager med hjemmelavet is.
Alt i alt et hyggeligt arrangement, desværre kun med et lærerfremmøde på tre. Men uniformer var der nok af.