Students from Denmark visited B-CC during the week of Sept. 26th, shadowing students throughout their day to experience an American high school.
Freja Jepsen, a 17-year-old Danish student, gave the details of her class’s trip: “We are here in the United States for two weeks; one week in Washington and the other week we are going to New York City. We are going to see a lot of different things here, we are going to see museums, schools, and other things like that,” Jepsen commented.
18-year-old Alberte Walsted, another Danish student visiting B-CC this week, described her first experience at an American high school, “It’s different in a lot of ways, especially in the way the classrooms are, we have classes with all the same people and teachers in Denmark, but here it switches.” Walsted also shared her excitement for the rest of the trip. “We are going to New York in a couple of days; I am looking forward to experiencing a big city like that.”
Eliza Murphy, a B-CC student volunteered to have a Danish student shadowing her on Wednesday, Murphy said, “It makes the day so much more fun. The conversations I have are really interesting. Things that you usually consider to be very normal are very different for the kids in Denmark.”
The Danish students come from a school called Silkeborg Gymnasium and have been visiting B-CC since 2014. They connected with B-CC through their international studies class, where as part of their course, they get to visit the United States. Mr. White, a music teacher at B-CC, is the organizer of this trip. White said, “One of their most important experiences is coming to an American high school and seeing what it is about.” White visited Silkeborg Gymnasium in 2018. He said, “Maybe we will try to start an exchange there with our students.”
