Hallo everybody out there!
This wednesday started with an Applied Language Task Lesson with Carolyn. The topic was housing in Britain. We, the students, pretented to be managers in a housing organisation. We were supposed to allocate differnet flats (1 bedroom flat up to a 3 bedroom house) to certain applicants. The decisions were not easy, as we were to consider several aspects, such as age, number of children, working or financial situation.
After that lesson, we had Academic English with Peter. It was very informative, as he explained different ways of referencing, which is quite useful for our project.
In the afternoon, we visited the organisation "Children`s Care". The organisation looks after families in general and children in particular. Members of the organisation support families in the way that they give them advice, how to provide everything the child needs to grow and to mature. Moreover, the organisation looks after children, who are suffering from serious domestic violence or of significant harm."Children`s Care" also assists children to overcome the threatens of neglect, emotional or physical abuse.
"Children`s Care" cooperates with social workers, who look after children who are at risk to become criminal or who are already criminal to support them making their way back to the community. Moreover, they intervene in serious family problems, in order to achieve the best for the child and to make the child growing up in a stable family situation.
To empahsise, how difficult the situation of family problems is for everybody who is involved, we worked on some case studies. It is not only the direct family members, but also relatives neighbours, teachers, psychologists, social workers, the government or the police, who is involved for example in case of abuse. It was quite interesting to see the situation from different perspectives as everybody had to take on different roles.
At the end of this afternoon, we heard another presentation, about children, who move away from home at the age of 16. As it is a very important age for the personel development of children it is neccessary to help them becoming independent and organising their lives on theirown.
And the end of our day, the ones who had some energy left, went to the gym, while others made another shopping tour through the malls of Southampton. The Sale-offers are (unfortunitely!) still too attractive...!!!
Now, we are going to cook a very unique meal for dinner: baked beans with potatoes. But differnet from Saturday, both will be hot! Thanks again, Carolyn, for the advice! :-)
Good night, everybody!
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