International Week !

The International Week, I was really looking forward to it ! A student of the same education and school as I was in, in Belgium, also came to join us for one week. It was very nice. We learned a lot about the other nationalities and their lunchbox habits, their school system, stereotypes of their country and people.

So we learned that some of them are right, but much of them are just ‘thoughts’ of real ‘stereotypes’ of course.
We learned for example that:
Spanish people like their Spanish omelets, that the Portuguese likes football, the Austrian are very proud of their mountains,…

The workshops were also very nice. At the cooking workshop I learned a lot about the Danish and other countries in Europe their habits concerning their lunchboxes and lunch breaks. In Spain for example, they have a very long break, so they can sleep. In Denmark, they have only a very short one, and most of the people eat at school. In Belgium it’s also very common that children go home for having lunch. So there are a lot of differences between the European countries.

Than we learned about the Danish coffee table. With the different kind of biscuits in a certain order. We don’t have something similar like that in Belgium. So I was really surprised about this. I liked the explanation and the pictures which were presented at the same time. It made us get hungry !! ;-)

Our first real Danish lunch packet was fine ! It was so funny to see how the Danes are preparing their lunchbox. In Belgium, most of the children have just for example one sandwich with ham or cheese, but they also have one with choc pasta. And they don’t eat that much fruit or vegetables. In Belgium they mostly have white bread for their sandwiches and we don’t leave them ‘open’, like in Denmark. We always have two sides of bread, and we put some cheese or ham between. I also find out that the Danish people like to combine cheese or herring with eggs, cucumber, tomatoes, baked onion,…
It was also very funny to see that they get some milk at school. In Belgium they take their own drinks or they get some orange juice, water, chocolate milk,… at school. But just a few of them likes to drink milk. So it was quite surprising to see that here in Denmark, they don’t complain about eating and drinking more healthy.