Difficulties and Adjustment in Adaptive Phase This is my first time going to a kindergarten in Denmark. At first, I was afraid that I cannot well communicate with children and maybe I will be very embarrassed to just stand by. However, I found the children are really adorable and enthusiastic and quite interested in me and pedagogues there are really nice and helpful. The atmosphere was pretty good and I feel comfortable there so I didn’t feel tired. One thing I need to get used to is that I should have lunch and snacks with children, but in China, pedagogues can’t. Also, what I eat for lunch is quite different from what children eat. They are pretty curious about what I eat. It was embarrassed at first, but after few weeks, I just show what’s in my lunch box and tell them what is it. Some words I can say in Danish such as “ris” and “æg” , or I also say something in English or Chinese to them. I also found that in Denmark, children are allowed to do some risky plays or do something maybe “dangerous” in my mind. On day, we gathered together around a campfire and prepared for the lunch by children and pedagogues. I was shocked when I saw children could use knives to pare and cut the carrots and radishes smoothly. When I asked, the pedagogue told me that the children can use knife very well and they hardly hurt themselves, and if they cut themselves, we have band-aid, and that will be okay. In China, we are impossible to let children use real knives, not only because children may hurt themselves, but also because children may hurt others, in those cases, parents of the children who are injured will blame this to pedagogues, so pedagogues care a lot about children’s security. However in Denmark, it seems that it’s not a problem. The linguist barrier seems to be a big problem in the first few weeks. Sometimes I don’t know what to do. When I take children to do some drawing or modeling, I can’t understand what they are talking. What I can do is handing them something if they ask my help and drawing some animals or things for them to color. I can’t do anything when children are in conflicts. Sometimes I can just give them a hug and take them to another pedagogue.