The bosnian ambassador in Denmark visits Fredericia

Last May students and teachers: Mladenka and Tanja visited Fredericia Gymnasium.
The bosnian visitors had a good meeting with Fredericias mayor: Uffe Steiner Jensen.
It almost succeded to establish a meeting between Uffe Steiner and the ambassador of Bosnia & Hercegovina from Copenhagen.

The new ambassador, Muhamed Hajdarevic, is now invited to visit Vejle February 19th. Here there will be talks with the mayor of Vejle: Leif Skov.
The next day, 20th, the ambassador will visit Fredericia. When he visits Fredericia Gymnasium there will be a dialogue on issues like integration, democracy, education, international activities and the importance of the European Union in Denmark and Bosnia & Hercegovina form the perspective of young students.
Later that day he will be together with mayor Uffe steiner Jensen.

Fredericia Gymnasium is looking forward to welcome the ambassador.

2.c and the Balkans

2.c has started to prepare the visit in Bosnia and Hercegovina next October.
They will work with the Balkans in different subjects.
The students have just finsished a written paper with emphazise on the period 1870-1945. Major periods in history were:
- Imperialism 1870-1914
- First World War 1914-1918
- the inter-war period 1918-1939
- the Second World War 1939-1945
The main issues were:
- "How does small states like Denmark and Yugoslavia manage to stay independent and free in an increasing political hostile Europe?"
- "What were the political and military similarities and diffenrencies between the Nordic area and the Balkans?".
In the subject, Danish, the students worked with: rhetoric and war as a topic.

Until spring, the clas will study the communist state of Yugoslavia 1945-1980, 1980-1991 and the civil war 1991-1995. One of the main issues is on forces that seperated and united the state. The subjects religion, psychology and english will represent important tools in analyzing the the period of civil war.
Later on we will compare the Nordic welfare state 1957-1998 with communism in Yugoslavia.

The exchange between Mostar Gymnasium and Fredericia Gymnasium is shaping a main thread in our curriculum. The Visit in Mostar makes up a gathering between the real world and theory in class.

Fredericia students will visit B.H. Oct. 2.end.-12.th 2009

The danes/danska are visiting B.H. next October.

We have booked flight-tickets now. The danish students will travel by bus to Hamburg airport and fly to Sarajevo.

Our plan is very similar to the last danish visit.This means 4 days in Mostar with exchange. 4 days in Hotel Ada at the river Buna - here we have the oppertunity to visit each other.
The last two days will be in Sarajevo before returning for homeflight.

The next step is to establish relations between the danish visitors and the hosts in B.H. Hopefully it will bring about some good communication before the visit.

The B.H. Ambassador: Muhamed Hajdarevic',in Copenhagen, is invited to visit the Kommune of Fredericia and Mayor Uffe Steiner Jensen. Vejle Kommune will also participate in the visit. We hope that the politicians and the diplomats will visit
Fredericia Gymnasium.
The agenda ,is among other things, how to enhance industri relations, students-exchanges and education.

The Danish Ambassador in Sarajevo is currently briefed about the relations and we hope it will support the relations and activities between the countries.

A new exchange has started Oct. 2008

Dear students in Mostar and Fredericia

A quick review shows that after a danish visit in Mostar Oct.2007 and a revisit of Mostar-students, May 2008, it is now time for at new start of the exchange-project.

A new class in Fredericia Gymnasium, 2.C, is now working with the history, culture and enviroments of the Balkans with emphasise on Bosnia & Hercegovina. Working with the Balkans gives the students in Fredericia a wider perspective on Europe.
During the next year they will prepare the stay in B.H. during different projects.

The class will fill out indivual profiles so it can be matched with hosts from Mostar Gimnazija. Communication before the exchange is important so everyone feels save and welcomed - both ways.

We are planning to do the visit Oct.2. untill Oct.12. Our stay in Mostar will last from Oct.2.- Oct.6. After the stay in Mostar, the danish group will move to hotel Ada
near the river Buna until Oct.10. The last days will be spend in Sarajevo.

The class is saving money for the trip individually and as a classs.
The students are looking forward to travel in B.H.

Leaving Fredericia Friday

In the early morning everybody assembled at the station of Fredericia.
The exchange was in its end-phase. Loaded with good memories every-one said goodbye.

I hope that all the participants enjoyed the exchange which have lasted for more than 1 1/2 year. The mutual visit in both countries and the continuous writing between the students have made it possible to enlarge our visions and insight.

I hope it will be possible to continue the exchange with a new class.
This coming Friday I will present the idea to them.

Thanks to all who helped in making the exchange possible.

Thursday 8.th

The last day together - and the programe was full of activities.
Every host took their visitor to Arla Foods. Uffe had arranged a visit that contained a presentation of this international large company, a guided tour, tasting Arla-products and the producing of cheese on a experimental basis.
Arla did a nice presentation although the smell of cheese was harsh. But as one teacher said: "It is the smell of money".
Thanks to Arla for a informative and educational morning.

We were also invited to the city-hall of Fredericia by mayor Uffe Steiner Jensen.
He welcomed us and gave a short historical introduction to the history of Fredericia.
After that we had a good dialogue about the danish welfarestate, problems with integration and the importance of being open-minded in a global world.
The mayor gave presents and autographs. Although his hair is grey he is popular among the students.

The nearby bowling-hall was a good place to unleash some energy. Everyone took part in the great battle of striking the skittles. A nice sandwish ended the day.

Wednesday started with some lessons - the weather was still very good and therefore having sport outside was a good option. Christian one of our new teachers took care of introducing the group to soft-ball. Once again competition and cooperation gave a good lesson in how to do your best although you can loose the game.

The afternoon was leisure-time and one of our young students, with bosnian and hercegovian background, invited all the visitors for a dinner. They had a great time talkning only their mother-tongue. It is very special that Denmark contains a variaty of different cultures so our country is more able to connect with the outside world.
To internationalize is not only a matter of looking outwards - but also inwards your own country and city. Thank you Leo Petrec for the initiative.

Tuesday the 6.th

Tuesday was a day with a lot of activities. The visitors joined their hosts in the two first lessons.
At twlve o'clock Uffe took everybody to Vejle for a visit a centre for ecology.
It is a place where you can touch, feel, and experience different enviroments in urban, rural and nature areas.

Almost just after beeing back from Vejle Camilla Mulvad and her parents had invited the whole group for a barbecue-party in Brejning - just outside Fredericia.
The weather was perfect and the food just good. On a nearby football-lawn girls played against boys. I think the boys won, but only because of their luck.
Indeed it was a international game.

The first day May 5th

At last came our visitors from Mostar. They experienced a tough tour through Europe and came in middle of Sunday night.
But everyone started as planned with breakfast at Fredericia Gymnasium.
Vagn Olsen took the visitors for a tour in the completely newly rebuilded gymnasium.
There was a biology-exercise with bloodtype-definition. Once more Uffe showed how natural science is international because we understood each other using the biology-terms.

Tommy took the Mostar-students for a short tour in Fredericia. The focus was on the history of the city with emphasize on the  military fortification, multicultural citizenship: jews, catholics, huguenots, protestants and modern urban life.

The hosts picked up the visitors and the need for a godd sleep was evident.

Program for Mostar-visitors in Fredericia 4.-9.5.

Sunday:
20.30 Welcome at Fredericia Station. Danish students and teachers take care of their guests.

Monday:
8.30 Welcome at Fredericia Gymnasium – Breakfast.
                      Tour in the Gymnasium by Tommy Skov.
11.55-13.25 English-lesson in B06 with Trine Laursen. Everybody
14.15-15.30 Guided tour in Fredericia with Tommy: History, religion and
                      Culture in the city. Only visitors.

Tuesday:
8.05-9.40 Visitors with their host in different classes.
9.55-11.25 Biology-lesson in E13 with Uffe Pedersen. Everybody.
12.00-afternoon: Tour to nearby city: Vejle. They have a center for ecology, (Økolariet):

                    Grillparty at the place of Camilla Mulvad.

Wednesday:
8.05-9.40 Visitors with their host in different classes.
9.55-11.25 Biology-lesson in E13 with Uffe Pedersen. Everybody.
11.55-13.25 Sport-lesson with Christian Mortensen. Everybody.
13.40-15.10 History-lesson in B14 with Tommy. Everybody.

Thursday:
8.30-12.00 Visit at Arla-foods. Everybody, See -

13.00-14.00 Welcome in Fredericia by mayor of Fredericia Uffe Steiner
                  Jensen. Only visitors.
15.15-16.30 Bowling.
                   Dinner and get together. Everybody.

Friday:
                    Leaving early in the morning for Mostar. The bus is coming from Vejle.

Further details:

Ankica Covic and Tatjana Serdaravic will stay at: Sømandshjemmet, Gothersgade 40.
Telephone: 75 92 01 99.

Telephone Fredericia Gymnasium: 0045 75 92 06 88
Mobile, Tommy: 25 38 22 22
Uffe: 75 93 33 31

We look forward to see you.

Best regards

3.c, Tommy and Uffe

We look forward to welcome you in Fredericia

Dear friends at Mostar Gimnazija

Thank you very much for the accept of our invitation in May.

We are now preparing a program which will mix activitites at Fredericia Gymnasium and in the town of Fredericia.

Our Gymnasium is rebuilded when you arrive.

The weather in May can be very nice in Denmark and we hope for temperatures about 15 degrees and lots of sun.

Please prepare a list with basic informations so we can have visas ready.
I will fax you next week.

Have a good time in Mostar

We hope to see you in Fredericia May 4th-9th

Dear hosts in Mostar

Evo, šaljemo pozdrave u novoj 2008 godini iz cijele nase fredericijanske gimnazije i nadamo se da je sve u redu kod vas u gimnaziji i u Mostaru.
Radujemo se vašem dolasku u proljece i u kojemu će te posjetiti i našu gimnazjiu u Fredericiji.
Također se nadamo da se svih onih 13 đaka čije su familije bili naši domaćini u oktobru 2007 godine spremaju na put tako da ih i mi primimo na gostoprinski način.
Naši đaci raduju se vašoj posjeti i kao pravi domaćini žele da vas upute u svoj svakodnevni školski i familijarni život kao i u svoje slobodno vrijeme.
Rezervisali smo 15 sjedišta u auotubusu za osobe iz Mostarske gimnazije.

Planirani program sadrži:

 Učestvovanje učenika prvenstveno na nastavi biologije, egleskog jezika, historie, umjetnosti i tijelesnog odgoja.
 Posjetu jednom lokalnom radnom preduzeču sa globalnim eksportom.
 Šetnja gradom Fredericije.
 Primnanje kod gradonačelnika u opštini/komuni.
 Podiči i učestvovati u demokratskom workshopu.
 Posjeta vašeg ambasador u Fredericiji i nasoj gimnaziji.

Molimo vas za brzi odgovor tako da smo u stanju utvrditi vaš periodni dolazak.
Pokriti su povratni putni autobusni troškovi a vaše prenoċište je veċ organisirano kod naših privatnih domaċina.

Inače, jako smo zadovoljni sa ovim mjenjanjem naših posjeta i u buduċe računamo da ċemo snjima nastaviti.

Mnogopozdrava

Rektor
Poul Erik Madsen                        Tommy Skov                               Uffe Bybæk Pedersen

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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