Friday 17 October 2008

Hald international Centre

I am currently Norway as an exchange student.The programme began on the 10th of August will be running until 12 th June 2009.


These are the the other students on the FOCUS exanange programme with our contact person siri.
More about Hald
Hald International Centre is a meeting place for cross-cultural understanding and international work, with common goals within the fields of development, mission and leadership.the school focuses on a youth excange programme between Norway and the soth developing countries.The course lasts for 10 months, it is divided into three main categoriesfall course: a seven weeks period where the participants go through orientation oncross cultural understanding and communication,leadership development, team building,bible lessons on missions and spiritual development, and develpment studies. It is a school owned by three organizations: Laget (IFES)International fellowship of evangelical students Norway.The exhange program for those who would like to experience a different and meaningful year by working among Christian students and growing in their spiritual life.NMS(Norwegian Missionary Society) the exhange is done through team service in different congregations,and Stromme stiftelsen foundation where the exchane is done through a programme calles Act Now, the main focus is on Development and youth involvement.

moments during the seven weeks orientation course.
well of course Hald is a school,this means that 70% of our time was spent in class learning.I liked the teachers approach of making it more participatory and therefore this gave us a chance to exchange ideas among the different cultures that were presented.
other activities included:

Team bulding.
Two weeks into the course we had a mountain forest trip in the southern part.The trip was coupled with many team building activities to enhance cross cultural understanding and personal development.
The games we had during this trip were, used in enhancing coperation within a team.The teams were composed of the countries and the programmes where the exhanges would occur and thus promoting corss cultural unnderstanding

Spiritual and Personal Development
Hald school is based on christian values and therefore the spiritual development of all the participants is focused on as a major area of personal development duting the course. Fellowship and reflections is emhasizes on as a means to achieve spiritual development.

Fun and games
Fun ,recreation and games was an important part of creating harmony and understanding across the different cultures that were represented in the programme. the games helped to bring all the students together and also enhanced team bulding.The relcreation activities also boosted on the confidence of all the participants

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