The first couple of weeks

In the international course at Frøbel UCC we are almost 50 people from Spain, Italy, France, Mauritius, Finland, Holland, Greece, Turkey and Denmark. The first couple of weeks have been very exciting!
We have spend a lot of time talking and learning about our different countries and cultures and how pedagogues and socialworkers work very differently in the different countries.
We have talked a lot about prejudices and how people often have pre-understandings of people from other cultures and how to work with that. Also, we have talked a lot about intercultural  meetings and what defines culture such as traditions, economics, class, values, education etc. and not only between countries.
So far it has been really great to meet all these fantastic people and being introduced to the course and I'm very excited to be on this course for the next 5 months!