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Op bezoek in Kopenhagen 21 t/m 28 april 2012

Na maanden wachten is nu eindelijk de week in Kopenhagen aangebroken. Tussen de week in Den Haag, in november 2011, en deze week in de hoofdstad van Denemarken, hebben onze leerlingen en de leerlingen van het Rysensteen Gymnasium regelmatig contact met elkaar gehad. Vooral ook om te bespreken hoe ze hun projectonderzoek moesten uitvoeren. In groepjes van 2 Nederlanders en 2 Denen maken de leerlingen vergelijkingen tussen Nederland en Denemarken. Daarvoor namen zij enquêtes en interviews af. De onderwerpen zijn Drugs, Education, EU and Euro, Monarchy, Immigration and Integration and Youth Culture.
Het is nu donderdag. Eerder in de week is het parlementsgebouw bezocht en is kasteel Ilsenor bewonderd. Van hieruit werd het eertijds grote rijk Denemarken bestuurd. In het museum voor modern kunst Louisiana is avant gardistische kunst bekeken. Straks volgt een gesprek met de minister van Justitie uit de vorige regering. Verder steken de leerlingen veel tijd in het verwerken van hun onderzoeksgegevens. Vrijdag presenteren zij als groepjes hun resultaten.
De Nederlandse leerlingen logeren bij de Deense leerlingen. Ze hebben veel tijd om de stad in te gaan en ’s avonds gezamenlijk leuke dingen te doen. Zij vermaken zich uitstekend en leren de Deense cultuur goed kennen.
Hiernaast zijn de weblogs te lezen, die door de leerlingen zelf worden gemaakt.
mevr. Smit en mevr. Heukensfeldt

UITWISSELING VCL-RYSENSTEEN GYMNASIUM

Voor het tweede jaar uitwisseling tussen het VCL en het Rysensteen Gymnasium uit Kopenhagen.

Vorig jaar heb ik voor het eerst, samen met mijn collega’s Jeanette Bot en Isabell Heukensfeldt, een uitwisseling georganiseerd tussen 12 leerlingen van het VCL en 12 leerlingen van het Rysensteen Gymnasium uit Kopenhagen. Dit was een groot succes.

Deze week (26 november t/m 3 december 2011) zijn daarom weer twaalf leerlingen van het Rysensteen Gymnasium te gast bij twaalf leerlingen uit 4vwo van onze school. De leerlingen zijn allemaal geïnteresseerd in politiek, in sociaal en juridische kwesties en zijn internationaal georiënteerd.

Het doel van de uitwisseling is dat leerlingen kennismaken met leerlingen uit een ander land met een (deels) andere cultuur, zij leren functioneren in een vreemde omgeving en leren een (wetenschappelijk) project op te zetten en uit te voeren in gemengde groepjes van 2 Denen en 2 Nederlanders. Uiteraard zullen de leerlingen ook hun Engelse taalvaardigheid vergroten.

Ter voorbereiding hierop zijn onze leerlingen twee weken geleden door de Deense ambassade ontvangen.

In de uitwisselingsweek worden er allerlei activiteiten ondernomen. Op zondag ligt de nadruk op ‘elkaar leren kennen’. Maandag is de dag om de school te leren kennen en een start te maken met hoe je een wetenschappelijk project in elkaar moet zetten. Dinsdag wordt ’s ochtends Shell als multinationale onderneming bezocht en ’s middags zullen de leerlingen de wethouder van onderwijs interviewen over het onderwijs in Nederland en de positie van Den Haag in Nederland en als internationale stad van recht en vrede. In het verlengde daarvan vindt op donderdagmiddag een gesprek plaats met rechter Orie van het Internatonaal Tribunaal voor het Voormalige Joegoslavië (Joegoslaviëtribunaal). Woensdag is de dag in Amsterdam. Op donderdag kiezen de leerlingen de onderwerpen waarmee zij een vergelijking gaan maken tussen Nederland en Denemarken. Aan het einde van de week presenteren de groepjes hiervoor hun plan van aanpak.

Vervolgens werken zij de projecten verder uit in de periode tussen de Haagse en de Kopenhaagse week in de week van 21 april en aan het einde van die week presenteren zij hun resultaten.

Nu ik dit schrijf is het maandagmiddag. De leerlingen hebben de eerste dagen bijna achter de rug en zij doen het geweldig. U kunt hier meer over lezen in de weblogs, die hiernaast iedere dag worden gepresenteerd door de leerlingen. De groepsfoto laat alle 24 deelnemers zien, samen met de 3 docenten van het VCL en de Deense begeleider, Peter Brink Thomsen.

Marijke Smit
Coördinator internationalisering

Foto's

Weblog uitwisselingsproject VCL-RYS april 2012

Sunday, April 22 2012
After the first evening with the Dutch students in Denmark, we met at 10 o’clock in the morning at Rysensteen Gymnasium. Casper welcomed the Dutch students and teachers and introduced the bike we were going on later. The Danish students should then pair up with other Danish students whom they didn’t know so well to form groups for biking. Casper had created a puzzle and to solve that we had to go to different interesting places or monuments around Copenhagen. The questions varied a lot from how many pillars were on a building to which law the monument in front of the central station celebrated.
The puzzle led us through the different neighborhoods of Copenhagen starting around Vesterbro where Rysensteen is located, then leading through the inner city and out through Nørrebro. The last part of the trip was in Østerbro, and when the questions were answered we were able to get the solution of the puzzle, which was “Nemoland Christiania”. Nemoland is a part of the “free city” Christiania located in Christianshavn, Copenhagen. It is known for open-minded inhabitants who build their own houses, but also for the distribution of cannabis.
At Nemoland we drank a little coffee, got some food (the famous Christiania Shawarma or Falafel), and walked around the place.
Made by Andriws, Eva, Willemijn and Aksel

Monday, April 23
We started out by having a tour of the school, the Danish students guided the Dutch and it was grrrrrrrreat. Afterwards we attended lessons which was very interesting but the Dutch students did not understand much. After lunch we went to the Danish parliament and we had a tour of the building and we saw all of the paintings of the prime-ministers. This was interesting and we had a lot of fun.
Made by Maria, Anouk, Esther and Asta

Tuesday, April 24
Today we started at 8.10 in a big-space building of the Rysensteen to work on our projects. It went really well and the most of the group finished at 11.30 to have lunch. Some went to the salad bar and other went to a pizza bar. After that we had to be back at 1 o´clock, because there was a man who wanted to tell us about the drug users in Denmark. He told us about his project to let the users inject the drugs safely, so they won´t die because of the dirty needles. He also told about an old ambulance that is being used by the users, so they can use their drugs in a room where they feel comfortable. We went to this bus and saw some material that is being used by them. We also saw the house where they welcome the drugs dealers. In places where the users feel comfortable, the police can speak more relaxed to them. After this we had free time. The most of us went to the centre. The Danish students wanted to buy a prom dress and the Dutch just wanted to go shopping, like in the Abercrombie & Fitch store, because there was a male model where you could make pictures of. In the evening we had a party at Asta´s (the teachers weren´t allowed). She had prepared a delicious Indian meal. During the party there was this soccer game: Barcelona-Chelsea. It was really stunning, because first Barcelona scored 2-0, but after Chelsea came back with 2-1 and in the last minutes of the game they played 2-2, what meant that Chelsea had won the match and Barcelona was out of the competition. After the match most people went home. Unsatisfactory it was raining, in opposite to the whole day, because the whole day the sun had been shining.
Made by Floor, Amanda, Sjoerd and Jonas.

Friday, April 27
Today was the last whole day of the exchange, and it was today that we were going to present our final projects. We made an early start on our projects. We would only have a couple of hours left to work on it before the presentations and worked hard and efficient. Taking a break from the project work, we attended the morning-assembly in the gymnastics hall. It started out with all of the students and teachers dancing to the BGs, then everyone sang a Danish song, a couple of students who had won the International Olympiad math competition were congratulated and of course the exchange students were called to say a few words to the school. The Dutch students were very amazed with the assembly. After doing the final bit of project work, all groups were called forth one by one to present their results and conclusions. One of the school leaders also attended the presentations. For every presentation the students and teachers gave feedback, things that needed improving but also things that were good. Finally, the teachers gave out an questionnaire about the exchange itself to the students. The day ended late in the evening with a marvelous farewell party.
Made by Kasper, Sigrid, Kamma and Willemijntje

Weblog uitwisselingsproject VCL-RYS november 2011

Sunday November 27th

On Sunday we had to be at school at 10.30. When we arrived we were welcomed by the teachers and after that we went into a class room, where we got our instructions for the day.

Because we didn't know each other, we had to do all kinds of games. We first started in a circle, where we had to introduce ourselves. After that there were games including memorizing each others names and standing in a row, sorted by height and then by birth date. When we finished the games we were divided in groups, which we would spend the day with. During the day we had to cycle through The Hague and come up with some questions, which we would talk about in the group, later that day.

The first thing we saw on the cycle tour was the World Forum and the Yugoslavian Tribunal. The thing that struck us most were all the flags of the different countries at the World Forum. After the WF we cycled further and took a picture in front of the old city-hall. We ended up meeting another group in town and had lunch at Bagles&Beans.

After lunch we passed the Binnenhof and saw the Ridderzaal and the Hofvijver. Then we went to see the Vredespaleis and the eternal peace flame. We liked the eternal peace flame a lot, because around it were stones which represented all the countries.

Around 15.00 o’clock we returned to school to evaluate our day. Esther and Floor showed a short film about the Netherlands. After that we had to come up with possible questions for the project. Then we called it a day and went home.

By: Eva Devantier, Andriws Gonzalez, Willemijntje Heesen and Aksel Vester Augsburg

Monday November 28th

Today we met the principal, and we talked about what we had done so far, and differences between the Dutch and Danish school systems.
We had a tour of the school, and we explored the auditorium.
Then we attended different classes, one taught in Dutch and one taught in English, it was very interesting to observe the differences and similarities in teaching in Denmark and Holland.
Then we had lunch in the Oranjekamer and we tasted some very extraordinary Dutch specialties.
Then we had a lecture about surveys and research, and we discussed the plan for the projects, in the Haag, in between and in Copenhagen.
Later we went glow in the dark mini-golfing.
After the mini-golf we went to Juliet’s place, where we had a delicious dinner.
It was really nice to get to know each other in a less formal way, we had a lot of fun and it was really nice of them to open their home to us like that.

By: Anouk de Roos, Maria Cecilie Barkholt, Esther Speksnijder and Asta Christensen Otto

Tuesday November 29th

When we came to Shell we had to show our passports. So you see the security level is really high. They told us what Shell does and their Goal Zero. They already reduces their amount of deaths at Shell per year from 80 to 20. Teamwork was also a very important part of the tour.
We had to do several exercises. One of them was choosing the right method for an oil drilling project in the Philippines. Another was defending an egg from breaking when it hit the ground. We had a really good lunch which was paid by Shell. At the end we had a tour in the building. There was a interesting monument of people who died during WWII.

At 15.00 we arrived at the City Hall and got something to drink and to eat. After that, a guide explained us about the building and its functions. He told that it’s famous for the architecture and he told about the good organization systems.
He guided us to a room where we met Ingrid van Engelshoven. She is Deputy Mayor, the Hague's alderman for Education and Public Services as well as the Haagse Hout district. We could ask our prepared questions and she answered those well. Those were about the difference between the school system in Holland and Denmark. EG: the use of computers and the relation between the teachers and pupils. We also told about the problems with the integration and The Hague as a city.
When we were finished we watched 2 short films about The Hague. It was without a speaking part, just with photographs and music. It showed beautiful The Hague.
After the films the guide showed us The Hague Municipal Council. Major plans in the fields of spatial development, the economy, welfare, infrastructure etc. can be implemented only if voted for by a majority of the Council. The Council also decides how the munipality's resources are to be allocated.
Then we went to the roof by elevator. In the elevator there was a transparent wall, so we could see how high we went. That was quite spectacular!
On the roof it was getting dark, but we could still see a beautiful sight of The Hague. That was also about the lights of all the buildings around us.
We went down again and said thank you and goodbye to the guide.

By: Sjoerd Berning, Jonas Ravn Trolle-Christensen, Amanda Gammelby Qvesel and Floor Englebert

Wednesday November 30th

We will tell you something about our day in Amsterdam! It was the best day we had so far we think!

We had to be at the train station in the morning at 8.45! The trip with the train took may be an hour! And then we were in A'dam! First we had to take the train to the Leidseplein! And when we got there, mr. De Graaf and the brother of mrs. Smit were there to give us a tour through A'dam! We went with the brother of mrs. Smit and he showed us a lot of things like het Begijnhof, a camp that's called ‘Occupy’ and he also showed us the red light district! The tour was really interesting!
After the tour we went to a drug church. The pastor of this church helps the drugs addicts in A'dam. The pastor and a former drugs addict told us about using drugs and the bad things it brings.
When the man finished the drugs story we had some free time! Everybody went shopping!
After the free time we went to a Chinese restaurant! The food was really good and we had a great time with each other! After dinner it was time to go home. This was a great day we won't forget!

By: Sanne Remijnse, Ursula Vossen Mandal, Juliet Parker and Marie Wittrup Jensen

Thursday December 1st

This morning our teachers said we could sleep out a bit. We had a long night the night before because we went to Amsterdam. That’s why in the morning everyone was taking it easy. There was a cycle tour planned between 10:00 and 12:00 in the morning, but also for that we were way to tired. So instead we had some more free time for ourselves. This was also one of the Danish’ people’s birthday (Aksel). We celebrated that with the teachers in the cafeteria of our school. Around twelve everyone went out to have lunch and relax for a bit. Later on we came back to the school. Mr Orie and his Danish colleague mr Aarhoff, judges at the Jugoslavia tribunal gave us a presentation about their work. When the presentation was finished we finally heard which subjects our projects where going to contain and in which groups we were divided. After that everyone departed from school. Everyone told to Aksel we were going to our own places and have a quiet night. But later that evening we gave him a birthday surprise party. We ate dinner together and after that we had a drink with all. We think that the night was quite succeeded and our day was complete.

By: Dominique Todeschini, Alice Esther Bier Zandén, Thomas van Dommelen and Emma Koppel

Friday December 2nd

The last whole day of the exchange. We came to school at 8.30, where we went to the computer room and got in our new groups to work on our projects. First, we had this big subject which we had to narrow down. Having done that, we made one main question about our topic. That question was later divided into five sub-questions. The next step was stating our hypotheses. For each question, we shared our thoughts within our group. We had many different opinions, but in the end it worked out just fine. The last step was making our time plan for the time coming. During the in-between time between this week and the final week in April, we also had some things to take care of: the actual research of our project. We made a plan for looking up information, spreading questionnaires, where and to whom, interviewing specific people, divided the roles and set the deadlines. We took a few more minutes putting all steps in a presentation: the main question, sub question, our hypotheses and the time plan.
When all of the six groups were ready, we start presenting our plans. After each presentation we were told by both the students and the teachers what was good and what needed some work on. Not only did we get feedback on the contents of the presentation, but also on the way we presented it. Rounding of the week, we used the tip-top-flop, giving a tip on what needed some improvement, saying what was the most fun part of the week and what was the least fun part of the week. We received a certificate for the exchange, and thanked the teachers.
Leaving the building, we were all looking forward to the final evening together. Three people went off to prepare dinner, and the rest went off to buy oliebollen. In the evening, we had a lovely dinner, nice music, but most of all we had a great time. At the end of the night, we hugged each other goodbye, and prepared for the final day: the day of departure.

Annemartijne Sevenster, Kamma Bay Eriksen, Kasper Uleman and Sigrid Anker Bryndorf