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18.04.2017

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We live in a globalized and changing world. Who will be in Europe a large migration of  peoples. Families with children are moving to live in different countries. What nationality  students learn in our classrooms today and tomorrow? We do not know yet. As teachers, we need to be ready for anything. What are the techniques and the programs we have to do it, do  not know yet. As teachers, we put in at his inventive skills and knowledge, hoping that we
will do our best. A smile is capable of anything!
Listening to the experiences of other countries, teachers; multicultural school environment, I  am aware of the future of the school in advance. Who do not learn from our school are so  many different nationalities of students, but even this is far from ...
In the second part of the day we met Magnus storyteller who collected legends in Iceland  living in fairies, trolls and other exciting characters. Magnus is one big "tell stories of life of  the book" He does his job with enthusiasm. Taping today his stories. I listen and translate them into the home.
Today I made a lot of photos. Particularly successful photographs of ferrous surfaces of rocks  and stones living mosses. As of today, the day I got the inspirational theme art classes.

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Magnus was so convincing about the existence of the elves and Hidden people that I started to feel their energy in the room.  I felt  positive vibrationes there.

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... so many things to see ... thank you Rita to taught us, how to get into the museum for free ...

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I am very proud to attend this dioploma. I am very open person and as an antropologist I respect the Islandic tradition of deep belive in elves and hidden people!

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Mia - Multiple dimensions and interpretations

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Mia - Multiple dimensions and interpretations

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The second day began with the concept of internationalization and ideas what it could be at our schools. It was mentioned that it is already combined inside our curriculums in Europe. There are schools and classes that are in different level of internationalization  in my hometown and even inside our school. At our school we should take more account to pupils diverse background and lift them in positive situations. Is it a real integration policy we are performing or assimilation, which is not in in our curriculum? We have to be more aware of the dangers of a Single Stories that Chimamanda Adiche is warning in her TED talk video.

We heard many true stories about how elves and hidden people have influenced peoples lives in Iceland. How they have helped people and how people have helped them in their everyday life problems. The stones of elves and hidden people that have been left untouched  because of various problems that constructors had faced during their work was in  progress. I felt delighted that there are people who really take account different perspectives even they do not believe in the existence of hidden people.

After our program I took a walk to a local cemetery. There was a real wild looking islandic forest! It was nice to notice that people had planted a tree on the grave of their relatives. A tree is regarded as a symbol of life and symbol of the three dimensional world view which many people share regardless of their religious orientation. I saw two young men jogging round the graveyard. Suddenly they stopped at the same time and then I saw them having a pee beside of a grave yard fench! I was amazed how can one do like that – isn´t that unrespectful? But then I tought again that it could have been seen also as a process of fertilization of the graveyard vegetation. I did not uppset, actually it was quite funny episode.

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1st point:
I think the way that we can improve  the internstionalization of the school is to do a project that each teatcher can be ínvolved in this idea and each student learns something from the cultures of the other countries but without forgetting their roots.
2nd point:
Stories  about Elves and other mythological beings will be a starting point in our curriculum to teach  ALL subjects ( maths, history....)  in our school.
3rd point
Mr Magnus is a great storyteller...
4rd point
I believe that Elves exist....

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Rita - the story from Vik that Magnus did not tell us

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Rita - the story from Vik that Magnus did not tell us

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The story at Vik is about some fishermen who used to fish out in the bay, but the conditions there were quite treacherous so it was not uncommon that somebody would drown. One day a new fisherman joined the crew after just such a drowning, but he was different, he had the sixth sense and could see the elves. Each day he would watch the elves pushing their boat out to go fishing, and he would wave to them and say good morning.
One day the fisherman noticed that the elves were not putting their boat out and he warned the other crew members that something must be terribly wrong if the elves are not fishing. They had a vote and decided not to go out that day, but unfortunately their boss would not hear of any talk of elves and so he forced them to go out fishing.

The crew were afraid and so didn't go out far and kept close to the shoreline. Very soon an incredible storm blew up out of nowhere! The storm raged for a couple of days but the crew managed to make it to shore and took shelter. When they finally made it home their friends looked at them like they were ghosts because they were convinced that they must all have died out there.

Their boss was very sorry and said that he would take note of the advice of the elves in future, which he did, and so no one from Vik ever drowned again.

Although one day the elves did not go out even though the weather was fine with a clear blue sky. So the boss made them go out fishing that day and they fished all day and didn't catch a single fish! How the elves laughed at them when they got back, they knew there wouldn't be any fish out of there that day. Will the humans never learn!

This story took place at the beginning of the 20th century and was collected by Magnus from a first-hand account.