BHS teachers Andrew Healy and Leslie Taylor are in Denmark April 9-19 with 12 students as part of a Danish exchange program. The students are living with host families and attending school in Hobro while also vising sites of interest.

As part of the exchange, 10 students from Hobro traveled to Brevard and attended BHS Feb. 5-12.

The 12 BHS students on this year’s trip are Madeline Andrews, Leah Austin, Abigail Dodd, Wylie Dodson, Adeline Drennen, Hazel Friedman, Jack Friedman, Rebecca Harris, Toby McCracken, Sophia Purcell, Austen Taylor and Luke Weaver.

The Broadcaster asked French teacher Daisie Hullender, who traveled to Hobro through the exchange program in the spring of 2025, about last year’s trip.

Broadcaster: How was the trip?

Hullender: It was exciting; we had a great time. We had a good group of about 12 students that we took with Mr. Healy and I really enjoyed meeting our host family, and we also spent about four or five days in Copenhagen, so we got to see all the touristic sites.

Broadcaster: How many days did you stay there?

Hullender: I think it was about 10 days, with flying and then four or five days in Copenhagen and then three to four days in Hobro – I can’t remember the exact split.

Broadcaster: Did you guys go to school with the students?

Hullender: Yes, we went to school with the students. Our host was the head of the exchange program at the school, so he had to go to work every day, so we went to work with him and then we got to do some of the classes with the students, and then for other classes they were on their own.

Broadcaster: Did you want to see anything specific while you were there?

Hullender: No, I just thought it would be fun to go.

Broadcaster: What is the process of choosing teachers to go?

Hullender: Basically they way it works here, there’s kind of like a list of teachers who want to go, but everyone is trying to go with their kid, like when they reach a certain age. So what ended up happening the year that I went, there was nobody whose child was old enough to go to Denmark so I got to slide in.

Broadcaster: How was Copenhagen?

Hullender: It was great! We went to, gosh, we went to so many places. We got to see a couple of the castles and palaces in Copenhagen, and then we did a boat tour through the water, and then obviously a lot of restaurants and the kids were obsessed with 7- Eleven. And then we did two day trips, one to Roskilde, where the Roskilde Cathedral is, and we went to Kronborg Castle, and we also went to a viking museum. And we had to ride trains to get to both of those.

Broadcaster: What part of the trip would you say was your favorite?

Hullender: I really liked Kronborg castle because that’s the castle “Hamlet” was based on. So there was a lot of things you could do with “Hamlet.” I also really liked the viking museum because they had a little dress-up part where you could dress up as vikings and pose with the actual viking boats. And it was a lot more interactive, but otherwise, any of the castles we went to were pretty cool.