Presentations

Today we have to show and tell about our street project. Wee were two different groups and we have visited "our place", made some historic research and interviews with people.

George IV Bridge

Grassmarket

Drama

En gruppe studerende fra Schweiz afsluttede deres forløb i dag. De fremførte et skuespil, de selv havde skrevet.


Billedserien skal læses fra højre mod venstre (start forneden :-)

En grusom heks ønsker sig en flot ung mand, men det er ikke let, da hun bare er så grim. Men en heks laver selvfølgelig bare en trylledrik, der får en smuk ung mand til at falde i søvn og forelske sig i den første pige han ser, når han vågner. Men det gik bare så galt – heksen blev måtte af sted på naturens vegne – og var der selvfølgelig ikke, da skønheden vågnede. Den romantiske samtale der opstod mellem en smuk ung blond kvinde og den unge mand, forsøgte den lede heks at forstyrre på alle mulige måder. Mange nutidige og historiske personligheder dukkede op undervejs; Kong Arthur, en ægte skotte i kilt m.fl.. Til slut blev den stakkels heks arresteret af en betjent. Sørgelig historie som vakte enorm megen morskab blandt de mange nationaliteter som så på.

Afternoon class

At this days afternoon class we went to see some buildings from the 18th century designed by one of the most famous Scottish architects, Robert Adam (1728 – 92). He was grounder at the neo classicism in Scotland. We went inside to one of the buildings at Charlotte Square, a part of the New Town (18th century). Robert Adam haven’t designed the individual rows only the palace front so the houses have a "grand civic composition". A video at the museum told that Edinburgh at that time was called the "North Athens". Despite of the modern new look the rows didn’t have any facilities like water, bath or sewerage. Everything has to be delivered or taken away by hand.

Street project

In the afternoon class we had got a street project. We should chose a place or a street in the town and make some historic research, take some pictures, make interviews with different people on the street etc.
Next week we are going to make a short presentation with visuals, highlighting the most interesting things about the street. We have to design a one-page leaflet about our street for visitors to Edinburgh. My group had chosen the Grassmarket an old place where the execution had been place at the Killing Times from the mid of 17th, it also used be to a busy market spot for corn, forage and cattle.

Hard work

It have been some interesting days at university we have worked with reading, writing and listening. I have had the opportunity to work together with students from so different countries as Liberia, Taiwan and Japan and Spain. Today our group, Yi-Hsin, Keisuke and me, got a picture of an volcano and the task to write a history about it.
It was not easy and take some time, we have to discuss the history, the words and their pronunciation. Ohh... we was discussing grammar too :-((

First day in Edinburgh

Det tog ca. 20 min. at spadsere fra mit logi til universitet, hvor jeg skulle checke ind kl. 9. Men igen kunne jeg ikke finde stedet, selvom Sharon og jeg var forbi i aftes. En flink parkeringsvagt fulgte mig derhen - det er utroligt, mit lokaliseringsgen er totalt lost.
Jeg fik en fin modtagelse og blev fulgt op til en slags informationsrum med masser af japanske og korenske studerende og en enkelt rusisk pige, Nada, som jeg faldt i snak med. Vi var de eneste to nye og skulle begynde med en skriftlig og mundtlig test. Min rusiske veninde have valgt et andet engelskkursus end mig, da hun kom fra en bank og havde planer om at tage en IBM i England.

Efter testen, placering af niveau og udlevering af skema, gik jeg til 1.lektion - mundtlig og skriftlig engelsk (2 lektioner). Derefter frokost og igen 2 lektioner. Jeg deltager i to forskellige klasser og der er studerende fra Spanien, Korea, Japan, Libien og Saudi Arabien.

Vi sluttede kl. 15:40. Jeg fik et access kort til computerne og fik skrevet lidt i bloggen og lavet nogle lektier!