Week 4: Back home

Reporting from Tromsø are Andreas, Vegar, Karoline and Gry Jooohh! As a result of “African time”, this post is running late. We got emotional when leaving Machiu Primary on Friday, thinking of all the good memories and experiences we had in four weeks. This practice...

Week 3: The South African school system

Reporting from Gqeberha, South Africa! We are done with our third week at Machiu Primary School and feel like we have gotten a better insight in how the South African school system works. We also have a better understanding of how the teachers here work. The teaching...

Week 2: Resources and circumstances in and around the school

Hello blog! This week we will be writing about the resources and circumstances in and around the school, in this affects democracy and participation from the pupils. One of the first things we noticed about the pupils in the school is that they all look similar as...

Week 2: Awards Day

By Andreas, Vegar, Karoline and Gry (Grade 1-7) The second week at Machiu Primary School is over. It’s been a week with a lot of things going on. It’s been “hectic”, as they say in Afrikaans. On Thursday, the school had their annual Awards Day.  Every day...

Week 1: Hello from Cofimvaba!

Hello from Cofimvaba! We are six students who teach 5. – 10. grade, and we are having our teaching-practice in St. James Secondary Senior School. We spent our first weekend in Port Elizabeth, where we felt like we were staying in an urban city with great diversity....