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Erasmus+ Journal (Issue 2) 2013/14

Quinta van’t Spijker, Curacao, internship

We had our internship at the Dr. Albert Schweitzer school in Curacao. The school was big. There where like 1000 children. The school start at 7:15 and end at 12:15. The children arrived between 6:30 and 8:00.  My internship was in group 3 (grade 1). They had the same books as in Holland. That was easy for me. But, some children spoke not good Dutch. They didn't understand my instructions. And, they don't have structure and rules. They hadn't Digiboards and they had less materials. They shared the books with other classes. Each kid had to bring his own pencil but some kids didn't had pencils at home. So, they couldn't do anything. I learned a lot at my internship. Especially managment. 

Social, Cultural and academisch

The culture at curacao is different than Holland. They are strong believers. The songs at school where always about God. They are also very lazy. they work slow, walk slow just do everything slow. Pokopoko.
if it don't succeed today, they will try it tomorrow.. or a day after tomorrow.. 

The island is very dirty. Only the beaches are beautiful. 

The traffic is very dangerous. They drink and use drugs all the time, also when they drive theire cars.

The people from curacao get less money for theire jobs. so there is a lot of criminal. because the supermarket is the same price as in Holland.  

Our homes where expensive. we paid 400 euro's every month. Our car was 500 euro's every month.

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