A TRIP TO RØRA - TRONDHEIM

On the 12th February we took a trip to Trondheim, North of Norway to visit Sund Folkehøgskole. Folkehøg is a Nordic phenomenon and such schools are focused at making students to have a global understanding of many aspects and life skills training in various fields. Students enroll for the Folkehøgskole after Videregående (upper secondary school) and spend one year before joining university.
Sund Folkehøgskole has a capacity of 110 of fulltime students enrolled at the age of 18years.
Subjects offered in the school include Development studies, Environment, Football, Sports, Jazz music, World music and Art & photography.
The school also hosts Fredskorpset youth participants from Universities in India and Guatemala who take lessons at the school and visit other schools in the community.
Our visit to the school was mainly intended to share professional knowledge and cultural values in Uganda and Norway.
On the 14th February 2008, we conducted a seminar to students at the school in which we discussed Uganda’s Strengths and Challenges.
Topics discussed included:
History Of Uganda
Leadership
Society and Cultural Norms
Education System in Uganda
HIV and AIDS awareness in Uganda
According to the evaluation of the whole discussion, students learnt a lot from Uganda’s cultural values and norms and we also learnt from their responses.
The Jazz class performed to us some of the music they learnt during their recent visit to Gambia.
We learnt quite a lot from this visit among which we greatly appreciated the students' active involvement in the daily work at school including working with the kitchen staff and cleaning their living room.
Students behave responsibly despite being a mixed-sex school and respect time for the different schedules in school.
The school has a practice of inducting one or two students after their academic year to work as part of the school staff and be in charge of others, this is a very good practice in the school’s training. We thank Sund Folkehøgskole (Inger Lise) for inviting us and Ingrid Kjelsnes who made it possible for us to travel.