Once upon a time... started in LK 10

Just amazing… or should I say PURE NICENESS?

Yesterday was 7th of January and that means 1 year passed since my arrival to LK. Each thought of those 5 months brings up amazing memories and makes me feel I have a heart and I really feel like I have a heart, because I can literally feel it beating, padamm padamm… and squeezing than growing and again and again. I just love it… and on New year’s I was dancing on Bad romance, song witch wouldn’t have caught me if there’s no LK… and loads of other things witch would be different without that pure niceness experience.

To all the young people out there… go to LK! :)

Presentation for wannabes

Dear LK friends!

I made a small ppt to give it to people who might want to attend the course next year. It’s a brief introduction about LK hojskole in English, as I see it. Hope you will like it. There is no music under the presentation, cause I wanted to keep the size small :) I don’t know how to do the ppt the way you usually get it in mails, with different quotations, etc., I mean the full screen version, so if someone knows, I would be happy to hear it.

So here you can access it: LK presentation

Don’t you think this guy is amazing?? :)) Thanks to Ruben for him, or his sister, or what were the rumors, about who made it??

My goal was to show the school from my experience, with others contribution, you remember the surveys, they helped me as well. And I wanted to show it in a realistic way. Witch is alright, cause when something is great, than it’s great, doesn’t need any false promises  :)

Wannabes … :) taken from my current status as a wannabe, bit funny to look at, but still, I think it’s a gift to be part of LK, so it’s okay for people to want to be part of it, so they are wannabes. :)

In case you have comments I’m happy to hear them. You can reach me if you want to :)

Tr@f

So in case someone might see my dear LK blog before The LK blog, I’m happy to announce The LK Blog / Tr@f!

This is a weird formulation as I’m so happy I can’t even express myself. Though it’s not the web page in English, it is something in English for all the rest of us non danske speakers. A real connection all over this little globe we share with our beloved folkhojskole. 

It has been almost 1 month since this baby took birth and we just found out about it… I’ll take the chance to wish happy 4 weeks to this blog/International magazine, hope to get old and wise! :)

I truly appreciate the gesture, looking forward to read many many interesting posts, see lots of pictures, videos and anything you’d like to share. Or we would like to share?? :) Is it open to “guest journalists”?

By the way… what does Tr@f stands for??

“Let’s change from Greece to Turkey”

The relation between a country’s economical situation and it’s tourism is amazing.

Though Greece - as a travel destination - is cheaper then Turkey, today tourists tend to choose the later, because of the unstable situation. How does that affect economy? Greece’s economy is predominantly service economy, witch includes tourism, this giving 15% of the Gross Domestic Product (Wikipedia).

By telling the truth, and showing the crisis they are going trough, to the world, Greece is sending away many travelers, who are afraid of unpleasant situations and would rather pay a bit more to avoid meeting these situations. Most of them have no idea what they are talking about, and they are inventing scenarios of what could happen.

A “demonstration on the street” - yes my dear, highly likely to have a demonstration in the small island, just next to your hotel. Similar story’s can be heard, as people tend to create even what is not there.

I don’t mind… from my experience, Turkish hotels offer a bit better quality, at least they show it like, than Greek hotels, so I won’t have complains. But we are taking away funds, witch obviously couldn’t save the situation, but they could make it slightly better.

Though I have a certain insight upon Greece, do to my half year spent there, I’m trying to be objective, my short Turkish experience can not really be compared with it, but still both country’s have there own culture to offer, beautiful sights, historical places, tasty food and the weird warmness/coldness of the lower latitudinal lines.

I truly think that the economical situation of a certain country shouldn’t affect your decision in planning your holiday. Just like you are not always considering weather forecast, regarding equatorial country’s. If they are good in what they are doing, they won’t let you feel any kind of external situation, giving your relaxation time the best, they can.

Czech Mafia taking over LKH

Special report, it’s happening right now:

During the night from 26 to 27th of May, the notorious Czech Mafia devastated Loegumkloster Hojskole.

Skulls on the windows, mattresses in front of the doors, removed toilet paper, bicycles in the rooms, dissappeard shower curtains, mess and disorder in the whole school, scared people, frightened people, screaming people.

What is happening here? - asks Jing

Don’t trust the mafia, no more good night sleep, they operate at night. They look so innocent, but they are not, and teacher’s can not be trusted either, they work together undercover.

Beware from the mafia!!!!

Verdensmusik

Amazing, wonderful, unpredictable takeover.

Verdensmusik a blending of music inspired by Arabic, Iraqi, Yiddish, American and Danish traditions. 1 and 1/2 hour of astonishing melodies, just goes under your skin, touches something so deep, that you can not find the why, just like it as it is. Ancient rhythms coded in your DNA, known by your subconscious, it just turns your body on combined with the unpredictable jazz - marvelous.

And I will dance, I am not able to focus my energy on holding myself still, I don’t have to, I can let the music create dance witch controls me, not otherwise.

Unfortunately I don’t have the names of the others, but what I know: Marc Bernstein is an American Jew, growing up in Brooklyn, with family coming from Basarabia, Ukraine/Moldavia? his grandparents escaped during the WWI, now he lives in Esbjerg, Denmark & I saw him on the Randy Laubek concert :)) 

Nasar Al Harbi comes from Iraq, part of the Middle East Peace Orchestra, once upon he was playing for Saddam Hussein, on his birthdays, but because he didn’t wanted to do it anymore he got in prison..

The drummer was crazy, impressive and with a rich facial expression. The others - RARE - Ribe Amts Rytmiske Ensemble - were also great and the whole thing in one is just unbelievable. Incredible coordination and sometimes feels like improvisation and wooow, I’m just stunned by tonight’s concert. I want more!!!!

Egy art history class margójára

Mother Earth giving birth

To the children of the earth!

Hereby I officially state that in case of my death I would like my body or parts of my body to be used for whatever whoever can think of*.

Change the setting and do as you wish! The setting is everything! I mean it! Just don’t kill me for this, I must die naturally for the above whatever to be done.

* I mean art if someone is inspired or organ donation if it can save a life.

What is Journalism?

What is going on here - in this blog - is clearly not journalism if we would like to stick to the original meaning. Sometimes touches parts of it, but it’s more story telling and idea & thought generator, at least is what I mean to do.

Our mid term evaluation about the class ended up in a talk/arguing lasting for few hours about some peoples prejudices about what this should or would be, others ideas about how we could improve it, weather we should divide our huge group into two according to different barriers or we should just continue.

Misunderstanding the difference between a real journalist education and a folk high school journalism class is really big, so don’t get disappointed if you are waiting for the second to fulfill your expectations witch would be possible in the first. It can put a shadow on your days. Instead try to get out as much as you can.

I was thought that a good PR person will always read newspapers, listen to radio, watch Tv news and I would add today follow the internet and I think these also fit for journalists, so that’s the first step. If you would like to be one, just observe the methods you like. It’s not always necessary to follow the patterns, it can be good written in some original way, just be aware of the content.

For me journalist means the person who always has a camera, notebook, maybe a recorder with himself and his mind is always, literally always recording what’s happening around ready to dig for information even putting himself in danger.

If you need theory:

12 and a half rules to be a good journalist

A funny fact I came up with, really if anyone else said it already sorry, I’m not checking on, it’s my own idea..

Who is the most famous journalist of all times?????

Click to find the answer.

13000 Kr & 25 Eur collected

Helping others is nice, so we did it.

20 students from Loegumkloster Folk Hojskole gathered more than 13000 Kr & 25 Euros on Sunday 7th of March for Folkekirkens Noedhjaelp.

Hungry people in Africa will have some extra food thanks to the volunteers. 50 Kr is enough for 22 people for a week. This amount is enough for 5 years for 22 people.

Couples of one international and one danish student went out on specific routes, knocked on doors and smiled with little black boxes in their hands, asking for small contributions. The collection lasted around 3 hours in the cold snowy weather, but it worths it. The biggest amount collected by two students is 1217.25 Kr, while the most generous donation was 200 Kr.

We would like to say “tusind tak” for all the contributors and hope that those who were not home and get our letters will also donate using the specific part of the paper.

Fat, lazy potatoes

I’m causing public disturbance by calling people “fat, lazy potato”.

Being a fat, lazy potato doesn’t require any special skills, no special shape or talent. Just being a simple person is enough, sorry for those who may feel offended by the “simple” adjective, but you also have to accept that you are nothing more than a fat, lazy potato. This is about bringing people to reality.

If your saliva doesn’t start coming together in your mouth than you are most likely to be immune to fries, but maybe this will help:

Does it started now?

I thought so, this is why all of us have to accept the fact that we are fat, lazy potatoes, prisoners of tastes and smells, prisoners of our food maniac body or brain?

What causes appetite? Why are we eating more than we need? Hunger is a natural response of the body showing that we need something for our metabolism to function properly, but we need a certain amount and we are sometimes eating a lot more than necessary, that’s why we are fat, lazy potatoes. :)

Check on appetite, calories, bulimia, anorexia, obesity, laziness, Belgian fries, Belgian waffles, physical fitness etc.