Good Hope Country Day School

Thursday we visited Good Hope Country Day School. Haderslev Katedralskole and Lillebæltskolen have a cooperation with this school, and it was interesting to exchange knowledge and experiences and discuss culture, history and society. We visited different classes and the students were really good at participating and asking relevant questions - so we had several profitable discussions.

Their school system is very different compared to the system in Denmark. The studentes take different subjects and for every class they attend they change classmates. In that way the students get to meet a lot of people and practice their social skills. The students at GHCD were very interested in our educational system, and by comparing the two we found that there are several fundamental differences between the Danish society and the American society. It was fascinating to present the students to the Scandinavian welfare system and listen to their thoughts on e.g. our educational benefits, the high tax levels and the issue of social equality. We also had an interesting dicussion about the American Dream and the various challenges that our respective countries face in the future.

After that we went to our local supermarket and got the most needed. Our sweet taxi driver gave us his cd, Ain't nothing like the Virgin Isles, so we could burn it. The title from our last post is the name of the cd and our "theme song". (You will be able to hear the song later on).

For dinner we made sweet fries (made from sweet potatoes), salad, minced beef steakes and fried squash.

We were very tired after a long but exciting day.

Goodnight.

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