I’m still absolutely loving school! The students love to talk with us and the teachers are glad because it’s great practice for them! I spend a lot of time just working with them and asking them questions to get them to use their English. Also, today in math they were working on volume and surface area of cones and cylinders, so it was fun to help with that! They do a lot of independent work time instead of a structured lecture so I just went around and helped the kids. They are learning math in Norwegian, so some of the words are different, but we were able to translate so that I could help them. Once I can read the problem, it’s pretty easy to explain. Also, a lot of the students have been asking us to come to their activities. Kristina is teaching elementary and she has kids ask her to come to their sports/music performances like every night…so cute! She tries to go to as many as she can. The soccer field is right behind our cabin and apparently their club team has a game next Tuesday so I’m going to try to go. A couple of my 10th graders are on the team and the team has players up to 35 or so, so that should be pretty fun. I think they just play against a team from a town around here.
One thing that I didn’t expect is how much they know about the culture of our country. Because they know English so well, they actually have seen a lot of our movies and read some of our books. I had a girl talking with me today about how much she loves Twilight and Nicholas Sparks books and how she reads them in English because it takes too long for the Norwegian copies to come out. Also, they listen to a lot of our music and know about our celebrities. (during their crafts class…they were listening to artists like Eminem and Akon unedited..which was pretty weird!) I told them about some of the musicians that I have seen in concert and they were completely jealous…especially because I have seen Travie McCoy, whom they love. I was happy to find out that they also love the Script, which makes sense since they are from Europe! They’re pretty excited because Linkin Park and Rihanna are both coming to Norway this summer. One student told me that their radio stations won’t even play Chris Brown because of the whole ordeal with Rihanna, I thought this was interesting! Another thing I found out today is that the crime rate in Rosendal is apparently very low, they said they never have anything bad happen. I was very excited to know this! Also I found out today that a lot of the students work a couple hours a day and they make around 100 kroner an hour…that’s about $17.54 an hour! No wonder everything is so dang expensive here! When I told them that kids at home usually made around $8 an hour or 45.6 kroner, they thought that was hilarious. I made sure to remind them that our stuff is way cheaper, though J
I told the kids today that I tried cross country skiing, and they were impressed! They did laugh when I told them I fell down about 10 times though…apparently they think skiing is pretty easy. Maybe that’s because most of them started learning when they were about 3-4 years old! Guess I’m going to be pretty embarassed if we go skiing with the school!
Some of our teachers told us about a small restaurant/bar that they go to sometimes on the weekends, so we decided we would try it out tonight. It was a great time! We learned to swing dance, and they were having open mic night so we got to hear some great singers. Also, Ashley is a music teacher and she has a great voice, so she sang Brown Eyed Girl which was really fun to watch!
Fredag = FRIDAY! (the kids tried to teach me the days of the week today)
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