2007/12/18

The rebuilding of Fredericia Gymnasium is moving ahead.

For more than a year ago a rebuilding-proces started in Fredericia Gymnasium.
The whole central meeting area was tored down because we wanted an open space with 3 levels.
A first floor has been established and increases the number of square-meters dramatically.

The plan is to finsih the rebuilding in April.
Everyone is looking forward to use the new facilities - for sure it will be inspiring.
Please visit our homepage with pictures from our school:

www.fredericia-gym.dk/forside/byggeri_billeder_november07.htm

2007/11/18

Lancier at Fredericia Gymnasium

Fredericia Gymnasium is a place with strong traditions. One of them is an evening where all the final year students dance lancier.
Every student puts on fine clothes and celebrate .
1700 people were watching their dance and the atmosphere is very special just after the dance is finished - the students are now relieved after weeks of tension.

If you are interested in seeing how the evening went please link to:
http://www.fredericia-gym.dk/forside/skolebal_07.htm

This year the lancier was in a nearby sportshal because of our rebuilding.
Everybody had a nice evening.

2007/10/27

The exchange was a good experience


We send greetings to our bosnian hosts.
The revisit in Denmark is essential to the project.
We are looking for fincial support in public and private funds so the transport will be possible in April 2008.

2007/10/17

Biology class at Mostar Gimnazija, October 8th



As a part of the exchange, bosnian and danish students did biology-excercises together.
The excercise was instructed by Mirsada - supported by Uffe who made drawings on the whiteboard.
Host and visitor in pairs, was equipped with a microscope, lent from the IB-school. The main purpose was to discover the differences between human cells and plant cells.
Biology sometimes brings you closer to your own body which caused a lot of laughs.

2007/10/14

Sunday 14th October - Sightseeing in Sarajevo

The students gathered in the hall 10.30 am and Tommy, our History teacher, distributed an excercise. The 4 groups, which were made before the journey begann, were going to visit 10 spots around the bascarsija area. On each spot we had to take a fotograph and answer 1 or 2 questions. We visited among others "Latinska cuprija" the bridge where the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Prinz Ferdinan, was killed in 1914 and "Vjecna vatra," the internal flame, which is a memerory of all the Bosnian who died in the fight against Fascism during the second world war. After we had hand-over our answers we were free to enjoy our last day in Sarajevo.

2007/10/13

Sunday 7th of October - trip around in Herzegovina

We started the trip in the mountains and the weather was cold and it was raining. The first stop was at the second most holy place, Medugorje, where we joined the mass in the church of St. Jacobs. The sculpture of Virgin Mary is very impotant for the roman catholic church.
Then we went to the Kravica-waterfall. It falls 25 metres down and it stretch about 100 metres.
We stopped to eat at the Hutovo Blato bird sanctuary and because of the bad weather we couldn't get a tour at the sanctuary. The nature guide held a speech about the global changes in the world which also has an influence at the sanctuary.
It was still raining a lot but we kept on drivining and stopped at the roman village and military camp of Mogorjelo.
The last stop was at Radmilja were there is a necropolis (burial place for the dead). Here we saw some of stecci-tombstones showing the graves from around 13-15 century A.D.
On the way home we had a lot of fun in the bus where we tried to teach the students some rimes in english and some in danish
  • Three witches watch three swatch watches. Which witch watch which swatch watch.
  • Økølogisk gulerødsrugbrød
  • En glad blå gadeplakat
  • Fem flade flødeboller på et fladt flødebolleflad
  • De hvide ville vide hvad de vilde ville vide og de vilde ville vide hvad de hvide ville vide
  • How much wood would a woodchopper chop if a woodchopper could chop wood
  • Stativ, stakit, kasket
  • Jeg plukker frugt med en brugt frugtplukker

In the evening the most of us where gathered at Damir's house where we had fun.

Written by Helle Schubert and Malene Dellgreen



From Mostar to Sarajevo 13'th October

We had to wake up early in the morning - 6 o'clock AM. The Tanovic drove us to the train station (one of the only railway connection in BH). Everything was alright but people where a bit sleepy. The trip along the river Neretva was very beautiful and relaxing. We drove sooooooo slowly.
When we arrived in Sarajevo it was raining, but the Hotel was alright. It has a swimmingpool :O! (but it cost money to use)
Tommy took us to the old town and we went on a shopping spree. This evening we will all eat at a local restaurant. And we will probably go to a disko later.

Written by Mads Olsen The Great.... Cao...

Tuesday 9th October - Trip to Sarajevo

Tuesday 9th October

Mohammed, Lotte and Camilla went to Sarajevo with two Classes from Mostar Gymnasium. One was Bosniac the other was Croatian. Both classes were third years.
We drove from Mostar Gymnasium 9.30 am and arrived at Sarajevo 12 o'clock.
No one knew what was going to happend only that we were invited to the studios of Channel Pink.
We were picked up of a lady who told us that we were going to participate in a tv-show called "The perfect couple." We found it a bit tragi-comic that we had driven 3 hours to watch a tv-show in 4 hours in a language we didn't understand. Our hostes were very nice to explain us what was happening though. The tv-show had more then one time technical problems and therefor we had many long long breaks. When the shouting finally was done we got half an hour to walk around before we took the bus back to Mostar. We were in Mostar around 11 pm.
Then Mohammeds host, Harris, father drove us to Hotel Ada in Blagaj which we were very grateful for as no taxies or buses were able to bring us.

Camilla & Mohammed

2007/10/11

Tour in Perucica

Today we got up extremely early to go to Perucica which is an old-forrest in Sutjesca National Park. A rented bus was ment to pick us up at 6 am, but was unfortunately a bit late late which ment that we was an hour later than scedualed. On the road to the forrest we pulled in to look on a war monument to memorise the partisan war of Tito in Second World War.

When we finally got to the old-forrest four hours later it was covered in clouds and fog. Actually we were supposed to see a beautiful waterfall, but the only sign of the water was the sound of it. We startet in a hight of 1200 metres above sea level, so it was very chilly. Our hiking gear didn't meet the challenge but we decided to take off anyway. Only Lotte was exellent equipped! - five hours of hiking lied ahead of us and we started going down the mountain. With us we had three guides which were really great and professional. They careed all kinds of stuff in their big bagpacks; chocolate, toffees, coffee, water, books about the forrest (mainly read by Uffe) etc.
On our road we saw, among other things, claw markings on trees from bears, interesting kinds of plants (Uffe again) and so on. Three times we crossed streams in different sizes, which caused Sandra a lot of trouble. She got her feet wet :-)
We walked in a little narrow path all the way which was very slippery and muddy. This resulted in numerous strange landings on the ground. Among others Zeynep fell down five times ;-)

All in all we got to the goal full numbered with good spirits, sore legs and wet clothes.

Now we are tired and wants to sleep - Goodnight Denmark and Bosnia i Herzegovina!
.. especially our hosts in Mostar.

Love to all of you!

2007/10/10

Biology-project at Buna

Because of Uffe's birtdayparty yesterday, we had a lay-in and had our brakefast at nine thirthy..
After our breakfast Uffe introduced the biologi-exercises in the conference room of Hotel Ada.
The first stop today was at a fishfarming restuarant where we took notes and examinated the water. Especially the visibility of the water and the makro-organisems were exsaminated to estimate the level of pollution. The conclusion of our tests was that the water in the river Buna is very clear and non-polluted. We will all like to say thank you to Tommy for the drinks.

After this we went for a long walk up a huge mountain to visit a historical fortress on a nearby mountain. The view up there was absolutly fantastic!
While we were eating our lunches, Uffe showed us different plants from the area. They were all with unique charaters and diffrences. On our way down from the fortress Uffe showed us some moss, fern and lichen on the northen side rocks. The southen side of the mouintan stood as a contrast to the northen side vegetation. Here the landscape was very dry due to the strong sun.
Written by Zeynep and Sandra

2007/10/08

Meeting between leaders of Mostar Gimnazija and danish visitors

First of all we shared greetings and realized that we had a similar meeting one year ago.

The leaders of Mostar Gimnazija thinks that our visit is well-planned and well-organized.
We agreed that the exchange-project has some strong qualitives like working for ethnic integration inside Mostar and between Bosnia and Denmark. It is also a good idea to work with Biology. The students are engaged in questions regarding recycling, pollution, and sustained growth.
Both Embassys - the bosnian Embassy in Copenhagen and the danish Embassy in Sarajevo knows about our exchange-project and supports it.

We agreed that it is very important to look for finasial funding of the revisit of Mostar-students in the spring of 2008. This visit will create a true exchange between danish and Mostar-students.

2007/09/19

hello from the travel writer

Having been in touch with Tommy Skov over the past 8-9 months or so I have been following the progress of the Fredericia-Mostar students exchange. I find the project very interesting and I’m very excited on behalf of all of you who are going to explore Bosnia and Herzegovina for the very first time. I have been travelling a lot down there since the end of the 1990s and besides having a bunch of great experiences, getting good friends etc. the outcome includes the guidebook that some of you might already be reading – Turen går til …. - the first of its kind to BiH.
Tourism is still not a big industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the access to necessary information hasn’t been all that easy to get along the way – I personally think the book can get better or be refined, so please let me know if or when you stumble over something you miss or think is worth of mentioning.
I think it’s a great idea that you get to know your friends from Mostar via msn – it’s a nice and icebreaking way to develop a long distance relationship on. And I think the destinations you picked are all very interesting. I’m sure you’ll be in good hands with Green Visions in the Sutjeska national park and Sarajevo and Mostar are both highly interesting cities –

Looking forward to hear what you think about it all and feel free to ask if you think there’s something I can help you with.

2007/09/18

Exhibition at Fredericia Gymnasium

The exhibition of photos from Mostar have been presented in Fredericia Gymnasium.
Two kaospilots: Søren and Nanna told the last-year students about their education in Aarhus and their project in Mostar. Here, together with students from Mostar Gimnazija, they envisaged their future wishes for education and employment.


2007/09/12

Latest news regarding our trip in October

Our trip is develping very rapidly in these days.
  • Our stay in Hotel Ada is now in place. Efid Tanovic and his daughter Maja welcomes us.
  • There is a close contact with Green Vision, who will be responsible, for our visit in Sutjeska National Park and the oldforest of Perucica. It will be a rough day starting with a bustrip 06.00 from Blagaj. After a 4 hours drive, we will arrive in the park and start a 6 hours hike into Perucica. We will be back in Hotel Ada, in Blagaj, at 19.00.
  • Mirela Musa has managed to find a hotel: "Saraj", in Sarajevo. It is located 250 m. east of the old town: "Barscarsija". You will find further information at:

http://www.hotelsaraj.com/en/index.html

  • The students from Fredericia and Mostar are communicating via e-mail and messenger. In this way they will get acquainted with each others background.
  • If you are curios about regional locations in Bosnia & Hercegovina please visit:

http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/mapoftheheart.wbsp

2007/09/02

The planning of the danish visit in Bosnien & Hercegovina is in progress

The planning of the danish visit in Bosnien & Hercegovina October 5th- 15th is in progress.
  • Vejle Kommune is transporting us to and from the Airport of Hamborg.
  • Valentina Mindoljevic has managed to find hosts from both cirriculas at Mostar Gimnazija. Well done.
  • Some of the students are already communicating via e-mail and MSN.com. They write about their dailylife and are getting to know eachother before the visit.
  • The stay in Blagaj at Hotel Ada is OK. And we are planning the activities in details know.
  • We will stay at Hotel Saraj in Sarajevo.
  • Regarding the visit in Sutjeska National Park, contact with the people from Green Visions has been made.

In the end everything will be in place and we can hopefully only complain about bad weather.

2007/08/29

Kaospilots at Fredericia Gymnasium September 6th

Two kaospilots from Aarhus will tell about their work in Mostar last spring.
The arrangement will take place 6.9. at Fredericia Gymnasium.
Before that, an exhibiton, with photos taken by Mostar students in May, will show their career-expectations.
The exhibiton will also inform our students about the ongoing exchange between Mostar Gymnasium and Fredericia Gymnasium.
There will soon be pictures from the event and the exhibition.

2007/08/07

The schoolmaterials are now in Mostar Gimnazija

The Schoolmaterials has arrived in Mostar.
Hans Sorensen from Vejle Community wrote, in the beginning of July, that our collected schoolmaterials from Fredericia Gymnasium, have been send to Mostar Gimnazija.
We hope that they will be used where ever needed.

2007/06/24

No finacial support this time

The last days have been hard work for me, trying to raise financial support for the exchange project.
I have been in contact with the Danish Ministry of Education where they have international programes called Cirius and Comenius.
Unfortunately there were a lot of conditions and demands in connection with the programes that prevented support for our exchange project. Bosnia and Hercegovina is not on the top list of recipient countries these years. One can only wonder why not, because the country needs support in any way.
I will keep on looking for other financial sources to secure the revisit of Mostar students and teachers next year.
If any of you have ideas that can raise financial support please contact me:
sk@fredericia-gym.dk

2007/06/09

KaosPilots show photographs from Mostar in Århus

The group of KaosPilots, that have been in Mostar all May, are showing their photographs in Århus Library on June the 11.th - the 15.th.
The exhibition is a part of their project showing young students from Mostar together with interviews about their indentities, education, careers and democracy.
The Kaospilots will visit Fredericia Gymnasium in September and present their work in Mostar.

Fredericia Gymnasium is looking for financiel partners

Fredericia Gymnasium will start a coordinated campaign with Mostar Gymnazija to raise funds that support the exchange project.
It is decisive for the project that Mostar Gimnazija is able to visit Denmark/Fredericia in spring 2008.
Mutual visits will support a true exchange although we communicate on mail, blog, telephone and in letters.
Our applications are based on a wish to enhance and practise green visions, to debate democracy, tolerance, cultural indentities and virtual communication.

A new tourist-guide from Politiken

Politiken has just released a new touristguide for Bosnien&Hercegovina and Montenegro.
The students of 2.C. will review the guide from their perspective during the stay in Bosnia Hercegovina in Octber.
Fredericia Gymnasium have bought 60 guides and they will be a part of the grounding before leaving Denmark.
If you are interested in further information visit Politikens travelguide website

2007/05/29

Check out Mostar

Now we are back in Århus, it has been a great month in Mostar with loads of new experiences, learnings and fun! It was strange to leave it all, after one month you actually start to feel at home, but it was even stranger to come back to Århus. Back to normal life and work again.. anyway, now our report is beeing printet and we are doing the final selection of pictures to hand in with the report. All in all we are pleased with what we've accomplished during this project and we can't wait to tell you guys about it!

See you in the fall!

All the best from the Bosnian loving group

Søren, Nanna, Anders and Hedvig

2007/05/14

The Photoworkshop is over! The young people in Mostar are rocking us and the project! Keep an eye up for the site!

www.mostar-masunga.blogspot.com

update from Mostar

-Søren one of the Kaospilots speaking:

The first workshop with the students in Mostar went really well! the out come was amazing and a lot of them signed up to participate as photo journalists for us. This workshop we will host in 9 hours from now. We have created a blog for the students at the Gymnasium so they can continue thier ideas and debates online. there is a lot of different photos and videos from the wokshop as well, you can check it out on www.mostar-masunga.blogspot.com they have left some comments about their experience. enjoy.

i'll get some sleep before a long and interesting day tomorrow.

all the best!
Søren

2007/05/12

News from the KaosPilots in Mostar

The KaosPilots in Mostar are soon to start their workshop with the students from the schools in Mostar. Mostar Gimnazija is also participating with Valentina and the students.
Their blog is loaded with thoughtful and beautiful photos from the town of Mostar, the Youthhouse Abrasevic and the surroundings of Mostar - see them and get a good insight of what there is to see in Mostar:

http://www.mostar-must-mingle.blogspot.com/

The KaosPilots are showing how to communicate during a project. This way of passing on experinces and knowledge will be an example for us to follow in 2.C.

2007/05/10

Greetings from Valentina

I have just got mail from Valentina.
She will work on the list of host-families and it should be ready May 20th.
Valentina will give the students hosting us access to the blog.

She also told that the KaosPilots are doing their work-shop with the students of Mostar Gimnaszija.

2007/05/08

Dear users of this blog.

You are most welcome to participate on the blog.
Teachers and students are now able to write about their subjects, schools, cultures and experiences across borders.
Hopefully the blog will help develop the exchange between Freericia Gymnasium and Mostar Gymnazija.

2007/05/05

3.C.


The class is excited to present themselves to the host-families and students at Mostar Gymnasium. Here they are photographed in March 2007.

Schoolmaterials soon to arrive in Mostar

Fredericia Gymnasium have collected schoolmaterials during the rebuilding of the Gymnasium.
A lot of chairs, tables, lamps, school-boards, spotlights are ready to be send to Mostar.
Vejle Kommune, by Hans Aage Sørensen, is in charge of the transport.
Right now he is getting everything in order. Soon the materials will be in Mostar.

The Chaos Pilots in Mostar

Søren Bo is one of the Chaos Pilots who arrived in Mostar a few days ago. They are now staying in Mostar and have made contact with Valentina Mindoljevic.
In the next weeks they will interview students from Mostar. The students will take pictures which will show aspects of their view of their life.

The project will end up as a foto-exhibition. There will be exhibitions in Sarajevo, Copenhagen, Aarhus and at Fredericia Gymnasium in September 2007.

Follow their project on:
http://www.mostar-must-mingle.blogspot.com