Ende Gelände

Jeg sidder her og sumper efter to ugers meget hektisk aktivitet. Vores IOT kursus er færdigt og det gik rigtig godt. Kursisterne klarede det rigtig godt og vi havde et godt samarbejde i vores nye lærer-team. Det var så superhyggeligt at arbejde sammen og hygge sammen.

Fem minutter inden kurset var færdigt, gav jeg alle en sidste opgave: De skulle have noget gult på til afslutningsmiddagen. Gul er nemlig tema-farven for hele TCE 1 konceptet, som kursisterne nu er parate til at undervise.

I am sitting here and looking back on the last two weeks of hectic activity. Our IOT course is finished and it went really well. The course participants really did a great job and our new teacher team really worked well together too. I really enjoyed the team work and all the time for nice fellowship. So I am a really happy (but tired) camper.

Five minutes before the course finished I gave everyone a last assignment: They had to wear something yellow for our last lunch together. Yellow is the theme colour of the TCE 1 course that the participants are now ready to teach.

IOT

Det går slag i slag her på Kilchzimmer. I disse uger holder vi IOT-kursus, som kort fortalt er et efteruddannelseskursus for vore medarbejdere.
Og det går rigtig godt. Her på billederne er det Brigitte fra Østrig, der underviser. Hun er supercool og har vildt meget erfaring.

Hele dagen knokler vi med undervisning og des lige og om aftenen hygger vi max. Det er selvfølgelig en ekstra glæde at have tre ”danskere” på besøg også: Hanne, der er EB-medarbejder i Jylland, er ny lærer her på kursus, og hun har taget sin walisiske mand med. Derudover er Magreth her for at hjælpe i køkkenet. Hun er oprindeligt fra Schweiz men har boet i DK i 50 år. Så hun nyder at være lidt tilbage i de schweiziske ”bakker”. Forleden, da hun var ude at gå en tur, stødte hun på en alpehornsspiller, der sad midt i naturen og spillede. Mere schweizisk kan det vist ikke blive.
Tak også for jeres forbøn for lærernes rygge, nakker mm. Vi har det bedre, selv om nogle stadig har smerter.

It’s a busy time at Kilchzimmer at the moment. At the moment we hold an IOT Course, which is a training course for our workers (to put it short). And it is really going well. In these pictures you see Brigitte from Austria teaching. She is super cool and has a lot of experience. All day long we (students and teachers) work very hard and in the evening we relax with games etc.

It is obviously an extraordinary pleasure to have three "Danes' visiting also: Hanne, who is a CEF worker in Jutland is a new teacher here at the course, and she took with her her Welsh husband. Moreover, Magreth is here to help in the kitchen at the moment. She is originally from Switzerland but has lived in Denmark for 50 years. So now she enjoys being back in the Swiss "hills". The other day when she was out going for a walk, she encountered an Alpine horn player who sat in the middle of nature playing her Alp horn. It doesn’t get any more Swiss than that.

Than you also for your prayers for our backs etc. We are all doing much better although a few still have some pain.

En stor fan a Føn-vinden - A big fan of the Foehn-wind

Forleden lod jeg mig jo forlede til at skrive en lille forårsinspiration her på bloggen. To dage efter vågnede jeg op til 15 cm sne. Uf! Men næste nat begyndte det at blæse, rive og ruske, og da jeg vågnede næste morgen, var sneen væk! Det var så vildt. Det var Føn-vinden fra Afrika, der havde blæst.

Personlig er jeg en stor fan af Føn-vinden, for da jeg lige var kommet til Schweiz, fik vi masser af sne, og jeg turde ikke køre ud og følte mig ganske indespærret på et bjerg langt væk fra genkendelig civilisation. Så jeg ringede hjem til min far og tudede, og kort efter begyndte Føn-vinden at blæse og al sneen forsvandt og kom først igen langt senere. Og jeg var ganske overbevist om, at det var Gud, der havde ladet den blæse forbi Schweiz kun for min skyld. Så Føn-vinden har min fulde opbakning.

Med til historien hører dog, at vi i denne omgang ikke fik så meget glæde af Føn-vindens bedrifter, da det en lille dags tid senere blæste op til snestorm og nu har vi igen et vinter-Wonderland udenfor vinduerne.

Ja, det er svært at gennemskue vejrforholdene, når der er helt andre faktorer med i spillet end man er vant til.

The other day I was stupid enough to write a little spring inspiration here on the blog. Two days later I woke up to 15 cm of snow. Uf! But the next night a storm began to blow, toot and shake and when I awoke the next morning, the snow was gone! It was so wild. It was the Foehn-wind from Africa, which had blown all night.

Personally I am a big fan of the Foehn-wind, because when I had just come to Switzerland, we suddenly got plenty of snow, and I did not dare to go driving and felt very trapped on a mountain far away from familiar civilization. So I phoned home to my father and cried and shortly after the Foehn-wind began to blow and all the snow disappeared for a while. And I was quite convinced that it was God who had send the Foehn-wind all the way to Switzerland only for my sake. Yeah, the Foehn-wind really has my full support.

However, to this story there is a little appendix because this time we did not get very much out of the accomplishments of the Foehn-wind, since later that same day a blizzard came by and now we once again have a Winter Wonderland outside the windows.

Yeah, it is quite difficult to predict the weather conditions when there are so unfamiliar factors in play than what I am accustomed to.

En lille hilsen - A wee note

Forleden fik jeg en sød og opmuntrende hilsen på Facebook. Så jeg tænkte, at jeg lige ville dele den med jer. Den er fra Claire, en kursist fra i sommer. Hun skriver:
"Hej Dorthe, tænkte lige på dig og synes, at jeg lige ville sige hej. For nylig blev jeg nemlig mindet om noget, du sagde i sommer, og det fik mig til at bede for de børn, som er stoppet med at komme i vores børneklub. Så jeg sendte dem en lille hilsen med datoerne for klubben fra nu af og til påske, og så bad jeg ellers løs! Og 3 børn, der ikke har været her siden vi holdt et sommerarrangement, kom tilbage i løbet af de sidste 2 uger:) Når vi beder, så sker der tilfældigheder :)"

The other day I got a nice note from Claire, who was a student this summer at our Leadership Course. So I thought I'd share it with you. She says,
"Hi Dorthe, was just thinking on you and thought I'd say hi. Something you said in the summer really reminded me to pray for the children that have stopped coming to our kids club. So I sent out new wee notes with the dates of the club between now and Easter and prayed lots and 3 children that haven't been since the holiday bible club in the summer came back over the last 2 weeks : ) When we pray coincidences happen : )"

Forår?? - Spring??

Sneen smelter og løber ned ad bjerget
Solen skinner mens den lytter til en lille fugls stille fløjteri
Hestene vrinsker, danser en kåd forårsdans og blinker hemmelighedsfuldt til hinanden
Fluerne udklækkes lystigt
Og stanken fra nabogården slår mig i møde, når jeg åbner vinduet
Er det sandt?? Er foråret virkelig på vej?

The snow is melting and running down the hills
The sun is shining while listening to a tiny bird’s melody
The horses neigh, dance a giddy spring dance and blinks secretive to each other
The flies are buzzing around again
And the stench from the neighbouring farm fills my nostrils when I open the window
Is it true?? Is spring really on its way?

IOT

Om en uges tid starter vores IOT kursus her. IOT står for Instructors of Teachers og det er et kursus, der løber over to uger, hvor vi træner folk til at kunne undervise EBU (Effektiv BørneUndervisning). EBU er et kursus på 39 lektioner, som giver et godt fundament for børnemedarbejdere.

Det bliver første gang, at jeg skal lede sådan et kursus, og mange af de fag, jeg skal undervise, er også nye for mig. Det samme gælder for mange af de andre lærere. Vi bliver 7 lærere. Tre af dem har arbejdet længe med IOT, jeg startede sidste år og så er der tre nye lærere. Men de fleste af os skal undervise nye fag. Så vi har virkelig brug for jeres forbøn!

Derudover er en af vores nøglelærere, Silvia, fået hekseskud i ryggen og ligger nu med konstante smerter. Jeg tør slet ikke tænke på hvad der sker, hvis hun ikke snart får det bedre. Der er også flere af de andre lærere, der har nakkesmerter etc.
Så alt i alt er vi vist et lille sølle team, der har brug for noget forbøn. Så hvis du har en bøn til over, vil vi sætte stor pris på den. På forhånd tak :-)

In about a week's time our IOT course begins. IOT stands for Instructors of Teachers and is a course which runs for two weeks, where we train people to teach TCE (Teaching Children Effectively). The TCE is a course of 32 lessons, which provide a good foundation for children workers.

It will be the first time that I will lead such a course, and many of the subjects I have to teach, are also new for me. The same goes for many of the other teachers. We are 7 teachers. Three of them have worked with IOT for a long time, I started last year and there are three new teachers. But most of us are going to teach new subjects. So we really need your prayers!

In addition, one of our key teachers, Silvia, has got severe constant back pain at the moment. There are also several of the other teachers who have neck pain, etc. So all in all we are a little weak teams at the moment who need some prayer. So if you have a spare prayer, please say it for us. Thanks. :-)