Thursday 29 January 2015

Food waste. Weighing of leftovers in Vändra Gymnasium on Thursday, 22 January 2015.

 
Our school has two separate eating groups during two breaks.
In the first group there were students from forms 1-7,  total number was 162 students. For the first group there was made 104,3 kg of food. There were 3,5 kg of leftovers.. So every student threw away about 0,02 kg of their food.
In the second group there are 138 students from forms 8-12. On 22 January 2015 only 108 student had their lunch.Their food weight was 93,1 kg.
19 teachers also ate in the school canteen during the second shift and their food weight was 12,8 kg. Altogether there were 25 kg of leftovers during the second lunch break. It turned out that older students and teachers throw away approximately 0,1 kg of their lunch food.  
To sum up, the weight of leftovers was 28,5 kg. During the observation it turned out that students mostly threw away potatoes and apple hearts. Other students who do not participate in our project did not know anything about the food weighing.

Menu on 22 January 2015


Food
1-3 forms
4-12 forms
Kurzeme strooganov
130 g
160 g
Potato
180 g
200 g
Milk
200 g
200 g
Bread
15 g
15 g
Apple
80 g
100 g


Here are some photos of students eating and our canteen.


Text and photos made by Sille Sempelson and Victoria Kaljuste


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Wednesday 28 January 2015

Helping ‘Julehjælpen’
‘Julehjælpen’ is Danish for ‘The Christmas Help’. It’s an organization, which  provides boxes with all you need to celebrate Christmas, to less fortunate families.
This year, we wanted to help them, so we gathered all our old toys, repaired any damage and washed it, before wrapping it.
(Josephine and Julie sorting the teddybears)
We didn’t just give away our own toys, but many other student came down, and gave us their old toys. When we were almost done with wrapping and we thought we could relax, a mom rolled up in her minivan, and gave us eight sacks and one big box of toys. That meant more sorting and wrapping for us.







A few weeks after, we went to the location where Julehjælpen handed out the boxes. They were a bit surprised over the amount of gifts we had gathered.
At ‘the handout’ people would just come for their box, not knowing anything about our gifts for their children. A mom started crying, but it was tears of joy. She didn’t know, that she would get so many gifts for her children.
The employees were very friendly. They offered us lemonade, tea and cookies, while constantly thanking us for what we had done.
We didn’t think we’d have enough presents for everyone, but when we were done, we had to give almost 12 presents for ONE FAMILY! We still had gifts to spare, so everybody had a merry Christmas!
Christmas Evaluation
By Julie, Josephine, Christoffer and Anne Sofie

In December, we went out to spread some Christmas spirit. Some of the pupils went to kindergartens to entertain the children. The rest of us went to the city, and started to hand out cookies to strangers.
(The sign reads ‘Merry Christmas from Hunderupskolen)

At first, there weren’t many people in the streets, but as the day went, more and more people appeared.
People were a little careful, and we were often asked ‘What is the price for two cookies?’, ‘Why are you doing this?’ and ‘Am I supporting anything, if I take a cookie?’. They had a hard time believing that the cookies were free and we just wanted to spread some Christmas spirit.
Our only goal, was to get to the homeless at the Church. After we had been there, we just walked without a special plan, handing out cookies as we went.
(Julie and Anne Sofie walking down the streets)
Everybody seemed to cheer up a bit, when we offered them cookies, and it also made us very happy. We didn’t just offer cookies for the shoppers, but also to the construction workers. At one point, Anne Sofie and Julie went up to a police car, knocked at the window and offered the two officers cookies.

(Walking through the almost empty streets in the early morning)
We also went to the train station, and handed out cookies there. Many of the travelers were happy to get a cookie, while they waited on their train or their bus.

Many people were happy, and when you do something nice for others, you’ll feel nice yourself. It might be the cheesiest line ever, but it’s true.

We Visited A Kindergarden

We went to the kindergarden Tusindfryd, and read a christmas story for the kids, and while we were reading, we gave the kids some Christmas treats.
After we read the story we played some games with the kids, made some drawings and the kids really liked it.




       
Made By: Marie Salomon, Alberte Anker And Marie Nørgaard

Monday 5 January 2015

WIKI dictionary

We created a WIKI dictionary and its address is:  http://vg-vocabulary.wikia.com/wiki/VG_vocabulary_Wiki
Please, Danes,  put it on the top the of our blog as only you can do it as administrators, I am only an author.