Bring on the Night

The lack of updates lately was partly to busy schedule, and a well deserved vacation. Lots of stuff has happened. Besides the acquisition of a new “friend” for our rabbit, we had a 4 days trip to Copenhagen. I plan to throw in some pictures and info from it later.

More importantly C. finally got her CPR-number (unique Danish personal number) and could start school. She started 7th August, and attends classes 4 hours a day, 4 days a week. Monday to Friday with the Wednesday off. Some may say that 4 hours a day seems very little, but I assure you, it is not. Teaching is good, but the speed is fast. When you enter language school there are 3 levels, and C. was put on level 2. Level 3 is for highly educated academics with very good English. So she won’t acquire new language skills sleeping.

Every day C goes to school and come back home only to sit down and study more. I have never seen such discipline and diligence. She does great, even though she always complains that it is very difficult. Danish is a difficult language, I’d give her that. But the fact is that she is learns well, and I can hear how she improves every day. I’m pretty proud of her.

I followed her to school the first 2 days and waited patiently with a good book. C needed directions to the school, and I wanted to take a closer look at the school. She has 2 female teachers. From what I could learn, they are both very good, and I must admit that I am positively surprised by both the school, the way of teaching and the teachers.

18 students attend the class. Normally it is 16 max, but 2 students were added short before the start. 2 more makes no difference, and to C this is way below normal numbers compared to China.

I asked her what is the main difference between Danish and Chinese class, and she told me that the teachers back home never asks all the students. Only the ones who flick the booger on the finger are asked. So you can hide a bit if you want to. In her Danish class the teachers makes random “attacks” which keep them alert and not dozing off. Not that C would do so, but still new to her.

In her class there is 2 other Chinese. A 38 year old woman with a Danish husband too and a young man who as far as I can understand studies English at the university here. I’m happy that C has someone in same class who speak her native tounge. The rest of the class is girls from Poland, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, Latvia (and a few I can’t remember), and a young man from Poland.

All material needed is provided by the school, and it looks very good. She supplements it with the Danish-Chinese dictionary I brought for her some months ago.

C insist on going by bicycle even though the weather lately has been bad. I only persuaded her to go by bus one time to avoid the rain. It’s a pretty good ride with some tough hills for a girl who hasn’t been cycling much the latest years, but she hangs in. 12 km to school and back. Soon she’ll outrun me.