Face to face with Grønland
We have a partnership with Greenland and the upper secondary school GUX Aasiaat. Our three-year HF class, Q22, will visit Greenland, and the Greenlandic students will come to Denmark.
The classes will visit each other to experience one another’s daily life, society, and culture. They will stay with host families, attend joint lessons, and participate in shared activities.
"It is an important part of the students’ education to gain insight into each other’s lives and discuss the many things they have in common. The focus of the collaboration will therefore also be on the similarities between the students from Aasiaat and Roskilde, as they are the same age and meet each other on equal terms," says teacher Maj Britt Frederiksen, who will be accompanying the students to Greenland.
Article: Danish students visit Greenland
Article: Students from Greenland in Roskilde
Greenland Through the Eyes of Young People
The Greenlandic upper secondary class from GUX Aasiaat has visited our three-year HF dyslexia class. The students stayed with their Danish classmates and at Svanholm Manor, exploring every corner of Roskilde.
Uno Zeeb and Vivian Broberg are on their way to the Viking Ship Museum in swirling snow. They both find it fun and exciting to visit their Danish peers.
In Greenland, most students from GUX Aasiaat live in dormitories because their school is too far from their hometowns.
"I have a part-time job every day doing cleaning. I receive student support and have about 3,900 DKK left for food after paying rent," says Uno Zeeb.
"It feels colder here than in Greenland, maybe because the humidity is so high," say Uno and Vivian.
The days are long, and the schedule is packed. In the evenings, after school, the Danish and Greenlandic students go grocery shopping and cook meals together at the school.
The modern Greenland
The Two Students from GUX Aasiaat, Uno Zeeb (Left) and Kaaleeraq Mathiassen (Right), Look Forward to Collaborating with the Danish HF Class.
Both boys have lived in Denmark and feel that there is generally too little knowledge about Greenlandic society among young people in Denmark.
"Many young people in Denmark don’t believe that there is internet and pizza restaurants in Greenland," say Uno and Kaaleeraq.
That’s why it is important to them that the Danish students get to experience modern Greenland on equal footing with its unique nature.
Uno, Kaaleeraq, and their class are also looking forward to visiting the Danish students in Roskilde.
"We don’t know much about Roskilde yet, but we’ve heard about the Viking Ship Museum and the Cathedral," the class said.
When they looked up some facts about Roskilde, one student exclaimed:
"Imagine, there are as many people living in Roskilde as in all of Greenland!"
