Romanian Week in Italy

The Romanian Week in Pescara started the 1st of May for Students' Creativity Day, where our project Building Europe From Roots and the three meetings in Spain, Greece and Romania were presented. Next year we will join another Institute...

Then we organized some activities in our school:

First of all, the 28th of May, our students prepared some stands during the “Aterno Institute Festival": international food was everywhere:












We tried to represent all the countries involved in our project.

Starting from our region Abruzzo…

then a stand of Spain...

One of Greece and the Olympics games...

and other countries, too.

Girls who went to Romania explained what they did there and everything about the Comenius Project.

This festival was opened to students' parents and to whoever wanted to come. Students played music, sang and danced

It was very crowded because unfortunately we were not allowed to give lesson...




The 31st of May, we watched a film: Dracula, in English, after having introduced Romania and Transilvania, of course...

The day after we showed some powerpoint files about Romanian culture following Romanian team's suggestions: first a presentation of Romania (geography, history, culture, tradition, music, food, of course...),





and then a presentation of Romanian important people like A. Gheorgiu, E. Ionescu, M. Cartarescu, N. Comaneci, C. Brancusi, M. Eliade, G. Enescu...



at the end, the three girls who went to Romania read their reports and offered some Romanian food.

I think that many people in our school know better this wonderful land now, and our project, too...



And that's all, Comenius people!

ROMANIAN WEEK POSTER: A TIME FOR ROMANIA

AS OUR STUDENTS ARE TAKING THEIR EXAMS, THE ACTIVITIES OF OUR ROMANIAN WEEK HAVE BEEN DELAYED. THEY WILL TAKE PLACE THE LAST DAYS OF THE COURSE, BETWEEN THE 20TH AND THE 23TH OF JUNE. HOWEVER, WE HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS NICE POSTER, ANOTHER WALL POSTER WITH INFORMATION ABOUT ROMANIA AND A BOOK EXHIBITION

SUMMARY OF THE ROMANIAN MEETING

THIRD COMENIUS MEETING

(Arad, April, 7^th-12^th 2011)

Nicoleta’s ideas

• Nicoleta gave us examples of what her school had done in previous Comenius projects (a photo album and a booklet). She also gave us a model of a handout in order to evaluate our students’ presentations, which would be advisable to use next year.

Our webpage

• Liana recommended using Mozilla instead of Internet Explorer in order to load up the material on our webpage, since the Explorer can cause problems.
• Liana also recommended saving our work as a PDF file because, as it is smaller, it is also easier to upload and to open.
• If the lines are too busy, we can have problems to enter the webpage, but she advised us not to worry and try again later.
• Nicoleta commented that the webpage created after the first meeting had been hacked and everything disappeared. That’s why we should think about what we can do to prevent this from happening again. Her suggestion was to upload our projects on a special data base, called European shared treasure (EST), created last year for all the schools running Comenius projects. We’d rather have a look at it first.
• Alexandra suggested uploading all the material with links to each school website.
• Christian recommended saving everything in the oldest Windows version so that everybody can open it.
• If we want to upload a powerpoint presentation with our photos (the Spanish team tried to upload one about the Greek week), we cannot do it on the photo and video section; we should let Christian know where we want him to load it, though.

Paloma’s suggestions

• By the end of the second year we should summarize all we have done. It should not be extra work, but something easy just in order to put the main ideas into the same file as a prologue to our final work.
• One idea could be a preparing a summary of all the power point presentations or perhaps we could use a different support (not a word document but something more visual).
• Nicoleta suggested a chronological presentation with some photos of what we did.

Polish meeting

• Dates: 6^th – 12^th October
• Agneska suggested a title for our next meeting: A visit to paradise!
• 6^th October: Arrival. Probably all of us (except, perhaps, for the Romanian team) will arrive at Warsow Airport. If teams agree to wait for about an hour (and, as far as I know, we agree), a bus will be arranged for everybody (about 25 € per person). The trip takes 2 hours from the capital to Ostroleka. Evening free!
• October, 7^th: Official and welcome dinner
• October, 11^th: Farewell party
• October, 12^th: Come back
• Important for reservations: Ostroleka is a small town and there are not many hotels available so the Polish team would like to know the following information by the end of May:
• The number of teachers and students taking part in the meeting.
• Their names and surnames (including the students’ sex in order to match the couples).
• The number and type of rooms the teachers need.

First year report

• ALL THE MATERIAL SHOULD BE FINISHED AND UPLOADED BY THE END OF MAY OR THE BEGINNING OF JUNE IN ORDER TO WRITE THE FIRST YEAR REPORT.

Comenius Week

On this page you will find some useful info about a "Comenius Week":

Comenius Week

and then:

Celebrate collaboration during Comenius week

I didn't know anything about it, and you?

And what do you think?
I think it coul be interesting to write something on this page about our experience...

April weather in Arad

Dear all, Bruno asked about the weather here. Now, it is nice and relatively warm, about 17-19 degrees during the day, 5-10 in the evening, Hope it stays like that when you come here. We really need good weather for everything we have planned for you. You should also check Yahoo weather! See you soon.

Greek Week in Italy

We have just finished the Greek Week in Pescara.



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This was our calendar of activities:

We started with a Conference of a Greek Association in our region, Abruzzo, and one of the lecturers showed us many evidences of the presence of Ancient Greeks in Abruzzo, like the statue of Hercules found near the town of Sulmona where Ovidio was born.

After that we had some activities in our institute:

we first tried to dance Greek traditional dances in our classroom:

Then some Greek young students of the University of Pescara taught us how to dance properly...

and we tried again:

and I think it was better:

really much better...

I swear to tell the truth that I tried to dance with my students,

but they told me that...

it was better that I kept on taking photographs!

I don’t know why!?!? I was dancing perfectly… like Rudolf Nureyev...

Anyway, after that experience, we saw a film about Greek Mythology: Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It was the most crowded activity:

I suggest this film if you want your students to learn about this subject. Our students had to answer to a quiz and next week we will award the winner with a book.

The day after we listened to a conference about the experience of Greek people in Pescara and some evidences of Ancient Greek in our dialect and names of some places in Abruzzo.

In this occasion we prepared and offered some Greek food we tasted in our experience in Marousi and Athens.

The last day we showed our pictures and we awarded our students who participated in this project.

and that's all, comenius people!

Price of airport transfer

I finally have the price of the transport from Timisoara to Arad and back to Timisoara when you return to your countries. It is 50 euro per country. It is the cheapest I could find. Hope it is ok with you. See all of you soon.