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Er der nogen der vil rette denne stil og evt. komme med lidt kritik og en bedømmelse? Skal lige siges at jeg ikke er den vildeste til engelsk!

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Welcome to our school

Dear Anthony.

Our teacher has talked a lot about you, and she explained how difficult it is to relatively fast move to another country with its positive and negative sides. With its people, its school system, its ways to handle thing on, its nomination, and maybe the most important, its culture. I have thought a bit about my teachers little “prayer”. In the start it seemed silly, but now I am anyway sitting in my room on this sad autumn-raining day switching between to look out at my window on this boring weather and trying to formulate a fairly understandable letter, which I hope will help you to prepare yourself to meet the Danish culture.
Well, I think the best to begin with is to tell you about the possibly most important things especially about the Danish school and how it works. In Denmark we have a whole school were everybody learns just the same little bit, which means that everybody no matter technical level or IQ goes in the same classes. Enough critics, lets go to the essential things such as times, subjects, rules and so on.
Our school I pretty big and we are about 730 pupils. I do not know how many teachers we are, but I think it is about ***100***. Every single day the school starts at 8.15 a.m. and then it is mostly finish about 13.45 a.m. I guess we nearly have the same subjects as you have, but as a matter of form I will mention our subjects: Geographic, Media, Mathematic, English, Danish, History, German, Religion, Sport, Biology and Physic/Chemistry.
Our school has not so many facilities, because we are progressing a bigger rebuilding. But one of our school’s facilities is the sports hall. It is there, as the name says, where we are making all kinds of sports such as football, basketball and badminton. Of all sorts of sports in the world football is the most popular in Denmark. When two top-teams meet each other many buys a ticket to see the game live, and even more are watching the mach at home together with their families and friends. Generally the Danish people love sport. We have also computers on our school about 75 who is always connected to the Internet. Mainly we are using them to assignments, but it happens that we at some time use them to have fun. We do not have a canteen, but instead do we have a kind of stall, where you can buy healthy food such as coarse wholemeal bred, juice and fruit. And because it is my little brother’s class who are ruling the stall, my big influence on him, do that they now also are selling kebab pizza (Kebab is a kind of spicy ox meat who tastes very good). Apropos food the most traditional the dish, which also characterize the Danes, is potatoes with brows sauce. Another well-known dish is also roast pork as we eat a lot at Christmas.
For the most we do not have so much homework in our class. We have most homework in mathematics and least in history where we never have homework because our teacher is apathetic and do not handle the subject serious. All our other teachers are good and nice enough as persons with one little exeption. Our German teacher. She is a very good teachers professional and she will learn you a lot of German, but she is a bit special as a person in the start because, she got at very high moral and it stands clear to her what is right to do and what is not, and sometimes she can be a little dogmatic. But must confess that I, over time, agree with the most things she says, but that is also just because she nearest forces me to think rational. But as I said before: Our teachers are okay, and I am sure you will enjoy your new class.
Another thing is the relation between the teachers and pupils. In Denmark (I think it stands in the law) are the teachers always there for you, if something is wrong or you just need somebody to talk with. It is their duty to have their fingers on their pulses to ensure that everyone in is well mentally (and physically in case). But beware of Rita, our form master, she is “the devil in the sky”. In the start she is okay and very nice too, but in the long run she will beat you up and taunt you the rest of you days in school. Well, that is not true. I am sure that Rita (and my classmates off curse) will give you a warm reception with her positive nomination and crazy humour, which very often is unable to understand. So you have nothing to fear. No doubt.
In Denmark we do not use uniforms in school. Denmark are Actually a relatively liberal country, however, we still got at bottom with economical support for the weakest in our community. So our country is in fact social-liberal and we got a democratically monarchy, where everybody have the right to vote when they are 18 years old, but we still have our proud and popular queen, Magrethe the second. So you do not have to worry about uniforms. If your clothes stile is like on the picture at you, I can guarantee that there will be no problems
We do not have some specials and totally unfair rules in Denmark and on our school either. That means that if you just behaving as you hopefully do in your own country, without doing any crimes and “bad things” there will be no troubles.
Well, what can I more write to you to make it easier to move to Denmark and maybe avoid a “culture shock”? Oh, yes there is the Danish irony. It is a bit special and I think many newcomers have difficult to understand it. The Danes do sometime say comparatively strong words to each other, but do not worry they are mostly not meant like that. And I think that you will stand in situations in the start where you do not know about the situation is serious or not. And at least to find the point is for you like to find a needle in a haystack
Let me tell you a little more about Denmark. Denmark is at little country with only about 5,5 millions inhabitants. In the biggest city, which also is our capital, Copenhagen, live about 1 million people. Denmark lay in the north temperate climate belt, which means that we temperature is between 20 to 30 degrees in the summer, and between minus 5 to plus 5 in the winter. In Denmark the four seasons are also very clear and visible, and many people, specially the old ones, persuade that much, because ***for eksempel*** a spring in Denmark can be very beautiful with its yellow/orange leafs falling slowly down from the threes, and gives the forests a beautiful ground walk and look on. Denmark is also a very open-minded country where few things are taboo, and things like sex are quite normal to talk about. The Danes can also use long time to converse about totally normal and banal things like the weather or the wonderful lunch you ate yesterday.

I am hoping my letter will help you to understand the Danish culture and that it will prevent unpleasant surprises. I am looking forward to see you.

Best wishes
Bo hansen