So, apart from observing and teaching lessons, I am doing a small research. The topic being: what does Malmö Borgarskola do for gifted children. To investigate, my main idea was looking at school policy and interviewing teachers. It soon became clear that the school does not have a specific gifted children policy. But.. there's loads they do to challenge students. This morning at 10.30 I had an appointment with one of the math's teachers to interview her for this research. Last week, I was already able to interview one of the students and another math teacher. It is very interesting how with every interview things become clearer. In a sence it's like puzzling and trying to get a big picture: with each interview you get information that's already there together with some additional information or personal points of view. I like talking to people in this way, learning more about something. And at this school, everyone is more than willing to have interviews with me, making my research go rather..(here it comes again).. smoothly and enjoyable.
At noon, Lena, another bio teacher and the interviewed math teacher wanted to go out for luch and they asked if I liked to join them, well of course! We went out to a sushi place. Most restaurants have 'dagens maltid' which is the daily offer, a rather affordable choice. This is what I had: salmon teriyaki with spring onions and white rice, very tasty. After lunch, I started a quest for more interviews. As there is not really a policy in this school, I wanted to see if I could interview the policy makers (head master, head of the science program and head of the IB department). With the head of the IB department, I had already made an appointment for next Friday. The head master and head of science program I still had to run in to.
First, I knocked on the door of the head master, he was in a meeting and asked me to wait for 10 minutes. Sure enough, within ten minutes the meeting was over and he invited me in, and he had time to do the interview on the spot (fortunately, I came prepared!). Half an hour later, I walked out - one down, one to go. I knocked on the other door and the head of the science program too had time to do the interview, wow! Three interviews in a day! Can't believe it. So now, I've had 5 interviews, there are three more appointments in my schedule and one more teacher I want to ask, this is turning out just great!
As it was already half past two when I was done, I decided I'd done enough for today. The weather was really good so I decided to cycle around the city a bit. Stella had written down some second hand stores for me (as I was really curious what Swedes put in their second hand stores), and the three on my list I was able to visit all. They were ok, but I did not buy anything. Next to one of the second hand stores was a tea shop however. With affordable tea!! I'd been to one in the city centre, tea over there is ~8 euro per 100 gram, here it was 3 to 3.5 euro per 100gr... the difference between the tourist area and 'china town'. So, I scored! Marzipan rooibos, blue berry / lingoln rooibos, black liquorice and hoga kusten tea (!) (Martin and I visited Hoga Kusten last year). By the time I had gathered these 4 teas, there was somewhat of a queue behind me and I decided to stop right there. I can always drop by another time.. right..?
For dinner tonight I had Swedish meat balls with lingoln berry jam and the brown (awesome)sauce. It had to happen.
Eight more working days left, of which 2 (resource day & study day) don't have any lessons, all of a sudden my time here feels very limited and I really want to get the most out of it. I can do the sea water aquarium this Wednesday or Thursday next week. I can go to the Emporia shopping mall, visit the Malmö Huset, visit the loppis market in Lund, and I've got literature to read, papers to write and lessons to prepare. Let's see how much of the activities I'll be able to manage :-).
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