Happy Cristmas (Spain)

All Saint´s day

21 de diciembre de 2011

Christmas

BG Christmas and New Year traditions

Christmas greetings from Slovakia

Christmas traditions in Slovakia

From Desktop

Christmas Carol

From Christmas Carol

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National Days

Halloweeen and All Saints Day in Slovakia

Italy's himn

Italian flag

All saints day

COMPETITION FOR THE BEST HALLOWEEN COSTUME

English and American culture has been spread up in Poland since some time and various events connected with Halloween are more and more popular.
This year there has been a competition for the best Halloween costume in our school.
Our students looked really frightening!

ALL SAINTS' DAY OR HALLOWEEN IN POLAND

All Saints' Day is celebrated all over Poland. The first of November is a holiday and people sometimes travel hundreds of kilometers to visit the graves of their family or friends. All day long the cemeteries are lit by burning candles and especially in the evening it gives a magnificent view.
All the cemeteries are visited by crowds of people. They bring flowers, mainly chrysanthemum, and lit candles not only on the graves of their beloved ones but also on the desolated ones.
The best known cemeteries in Warsaw are called Powązki Cemetery and Bródno Cemetery. There are the graves of numerous illustrious Poles in Powązki Cemetery. For example, among them there are Fryderyk Chopin's elder sister, his father, his mother and Józef Elsner, composer, conductor and Chopin's piano teacher.
Since 1975 famous people such as actors, sportsmen, politicians collect money for renovation of the historic tombs in Powązki Cemetery on the first of November. The originator of that custom was Jerzy Waldorff - a writer, columnist, music critic. He was buried there in 1999.
Bródno Cemetery is the biggest cemetery in Warsaw and one of the biggest cemeteries in Europe.
One of our students, Julia Sienkiewicz has taken picures to show you some graves you can find in Warsaw cemeteries.
If you ask foreigners living in Poland whether we celebrate Halloween, they will tell you that Poles celebrate only All Saints' Day. Nevertheless they will add after a while that you will find some decorations in cities, Halloween parties are organised in some clubs and dressing up is popular among young people.

Mobility to POLAND :)

NATIONAL EMBLEMS

November Holidays BG

The Student's Day in Slovakia

National Anthem of Poland

Poland

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Italia

Bulgaria

Slovakia

Italy

U.K

Turkey

Poland

Himno de España

BG - October 2011

MEETING IN POLAND

On 12th October we visited Warsaw. We met on Wednesday morning and waited for the train. The way was long, but we had lot of fun, so it was good. We came to Warsaw at 8 p.m. Polish teacher with some students waited for us at a railway station and they showed us our hotel.
On Thursday we visited Warsaw tohether with Polish sudents. The guide showed us an old town, Fryderyk Chopin´s Museum, a University of Art and many beautiful sights. When we came back to our hotel, everybody was very tired after the whole day spent in the city.
We spent next day in the schol, where were lots of students and teachers. In their performance the students introduced every country involved in Comenius Project. It was really nice and funny. Then we were shown round the schol, for example library, classes, swimming pool, because this is a sports school. Later we watched handball and basketball matches. In the evening we had long dinner, so we came to the hotel very late.
On Saturday, we had to wake up very early, because we went to Cracow. The good thing was that we could sleep on the bus, because the journey was very long. At first we visited salt mine Wieliczka – it was really exciting. Then we went sightseeing in the town. When we came back to Warsaw, everybody was asleep, becauce we arrived at 1:30 a.m. Then we packed our suitcases, had a showers and went to sleep.
On Sunday morning at 8 a.m. we left for Slovakia. I´m very happy that I could be in Poland, because I saw exciting things and I met kind people. I hope that everybody enjoyed this trip.

Bulgarian summer holiday

Our students' summer holidays

SUMMER RECIPE

SUMMER RECIPE

‘SALMOREJO’

Ingredients:

- 3 hard-boiled eggs

- Some ham

- 2 hard baguettes

- 3 ripe tomatoes

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 1 glass of oil

- Some vinegar

- Some water

- Some salt

How to make:

Put the baguettes in a bowl with water during 30 minutes. Then drain it very well and to give off all the possible water. Put the bread, the broken cloves of garlic, the broken tomatoes, one egg and one glass of oil in other bowl. Beat all together with a blender until a cream. Add some salt and some vinegar in it. Sprinkle two hard boiled eggs and some pieces of ham on the cream and…

Enjoy it!

``TORTILLA DE PATATAS´´

“Spanish omelette”

Recipe:

Ingredients for 4 people:

• Three or four potatoes

• One onion

• four eggs

• olive oil

• salt

How to make:

Peel the potatoes and the onion. Cut the potatoes into squares and the onion finely

Polish summer cuisine

Summer recipes - BG

Summer Recipes from Slovakia

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Task 18. Summer recipes.

Polish National Dance - Krakowiak

Krakowiak by our students

Bulgarian Folk dances

OUR REGION 3

OUR REGION 2

Día de Europa

Comenius Youngreporters celebra el Día de Europa.

http://cordoba.abc.es/20110509/cordoba/abcp-puerta-europa-20110509.html

OUR REGION

Typical dance from Slovakia

COMENIUS WEEK in Slovakia

In connection with Comenius Week which was held last week we organized one meeting for all students working on the project. We invited the deputies of each class, too. Our plan was to bring closer the partnership with other Young Reporters from foreign countries to our schoolmates. First the project was introduced in global. As we know, the Slovak students had taken part in two common meetings - one in UK and one in Italy. So each group continued speaking about these trips, showing the photos. Everyone had the chance to talk about unforgetable experiences, memories and new friends. I think it was an opportunity for students to form their own opinion about it, get the latest information and learn something new. I hope everybody has enjoyed this appointment. We all are expecting the next mission.

students from Slovakia

Monuments in Dobrudja, Bulgaria

Our Region

Andalucía

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Task 17. Our Region: recording a video with the typical danse.

Mazovia - our region :)

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Happy Easter!

Easter eggs are an important part of Bulgarian Easter traditions. Many practices have fallen out of fashion, but these rituals are still strongly associated with spring and rebirth.

Easter 24.04.2011

Puglia

Italy mobility

What a fun:):):)

Meeting in Italy

http://www.gabsenec.edu.sk/IT.pdf

Mobility to Italy click the picture

Task 16. Mobility: Italy (Bari)

Task 15. Our Region: project about location and emblematic monuments.

Our Sports.

THIS ARE FAVORITE SPORTS OUR STUDENT´S, THEY LOVE TO PRACTISE DIFFERENTS SPORTS AND TO HAVE HEALTHY LIFE.



IN THIS LINK YOU CAN SEE OUR TEAM OF BASKETBALL:

-VIDEO DE BALONCESTO. http://www.box.net/shared/df9r27li70

IN THIS LINK YOU CAN SEE OUR TEAM OF HANDBALL:


DOCUMENTOS SOBRE DEPORTES.

Old child's game and famous sportsmen from Bulgaria

We boast many famous sportsmen in different sports. Our students have chosen the most prominent and they have written about a child's game,their grandparents used to play - chelik.

Our best school sportsmen :)

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Polish famous sportsmen

Sportowcy

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The most popular sports in Slovakia

Task 14. Selection of the national and local sport and traditional games.

My town Dobrich, Bulgaria

Link su Santeramo in Colle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdf_oSl9Q4

Bulgaria celebrates its Liberation Day

Bulgaria celebrates on March 3rd the country's National Holiday, marking the 133rd anniversary of its Liberation from five centuries of Ottoman dominance.

Bulgaria’s nationhood was established back in the early 7th century (A.D.) when the first Bulgarian Empire began at around 632 and 681 A.D lasting until 1018 covering most of the Balkans, a geopolitical region in Southern Europe. Bulgarians had their own government, and distinct culture, education, literature, arts, religion and economic way of life before the Turks came in. The Slavic people consider Bulgaria as the centre of European culture and arts before the Ottoman Empire colonized the region.

The Ottoman Empire occupied Bulgaria from the latter half of the 14th century (or 15th century in some literature) until the end of Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878 taking advantage of the decline in power of the Second Bulgarian Empire between 1185 and 1396/1422. Right after the Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria saw the opportunity to re-establish its Third Bulgarian Empire and founded a new era of constitutional monarchy in 1878 as supported by the Treaty of San Stefano.

MEETING IN THE UK

Last Sunday – on 13^th February 2011 – we came back from our trip in England. We stayed in a beautiful and probably the most multicultural city we’ve ever seen – Leicester. Our hotel with great care and tasty meals was one of the biggest pluses for us. We can say that we liked almost everything about England. We were mesmerized by its beauty, the style the houses were built in, the friendly people, of course and we quickly fell in love with the “beautiful” English weather. English coordinator and the main initiator – Pauline – showed us their beautiful city including monuments and schools, which we liked very much (we wish our schools looked like them). We loved the children from the Sacred Heart Primary School who were adorable and talkative. It was nice to see those cute children speaking and singing about our countries.

The last day trip to York with its noisy, but funny and nice guide was unfortunately a little annoying for us, because of our sickness. After four days in this beautiful foreign country, filled with interesting programme and exciting adventures – a trip to York, a disco, we finally arrived home. England, Leicester and the people we had met left a huge impression on us and we can say that we will never forget this experience.

UK visit -02.2011

Dear Partners,
This second meeting of ours was also fun and fruitful.
A million thanks to Pauline for the perfect organization, we enjoyed every moment of our visit.
Our students were looking forward to this visit and you all helped leaving them astonished and amazed,filled with enthusiasm and new ideas.
Thank you all for the joyous moments.

To Leicester and back in BG

Georgi Ivanov

От Students

Of our trip to England the serenity and the hospitality of our hosts left the most clear memory in me. They are very polite, helpful and friendly people. They helped us get to know their school, city and a part of their country, They welcomed us with open hearts and this made me very glad.
Two children with big smiles showed us their school, “Sacred Heart”. The school has children from three to eleven. They go to school from Monday to Friday. During this time they have classes: math, English, sports, French and others. In the school are invested a lot of money. There are a lot of computers, new playground and two new classrooms.
After the tour we went in a hall together with our partners in the project from Spain, Italy, England, Slovakia, Turkey and Poland. There, each country was introduced. Together we form a group of 24 teachers and 24 students
Our hosts had organized celebrations which we could communicate which I think was the most important. These celebrations included lunches, dinners, a disco party and last but not least a tea party.
The organizers showed us the history of their city, Leicester, for a day.
The city is famous for the first BBC radio.
In the city have found buildings left by the Romans.

Before the city was surrounded of the fortress wall and the city was entered through four gates: eastern, western, northern and southern.
The gates were connected by two main shopping streets.
Nowadays of the old there are only stones marking the place where the main roads have crossed.


On one of the days we spent in England, we tried to look at York. In the city there are ruins from the time of the Romans. Most buildings of that period were destroyed and in their place were built new, it have been used the foundations of ruined buildings. One of the most famous buildings is York Minster. This is a cathedral in Gothic style.

The Cathedral has been burnt down four times, the last was 26 years ago.
The main shopping street in York is Shambles street.


We also visited London

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, It is the biggest urban zone in the European Union. London has founded by the Romans
Along with New York, Paris and Tokyo, London is considered one of the four most important global cities. London's population is about 7,556,900 people.

London has many green areas so it is often called “Green City”. The biggest parks are adjacent to each other royal parks, Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park with Green Park, which are in the center of the city and Regents Park, which is located north. Not far away is Baker street- the place where the mythical hero, Sherlock Holmes, has lived. Nowadays there is a museum dedicated to the character from the popular series,

London includes 32 regions. Inner London includes 12 of them and Outer London consists of the other 20 regions. The region, which is the most famous part of the city and is filled with many monuments , is called Westminster.

It is the historical part of the city. Is has built around Westminster Abbey, which is called St Peter, where there were most coronations, christenings and weddings of the royal family since 1066.It is one of the most famous buildings in the city. It is a Gothic cathedral.
In this area are: Buckingham Palace, the Royal Court, Westminster Palace and Big Ben. It is where most of the history of England Is collected in one place.



Georgi Petrov

От Students

A man once said that to remember something you need no photographs or pictures, you need your heart and soul.
During my trip to England I understood what that meant because during the trip I saw a lot of incredible things that fascinated me so much that I couldn't even get my camera out to do a picture because that meant that I would have to take my eyes of that thing.
Now I am kind of sad about that because I can't show my siblings the incredible stuff I saw. And they might never really know how interesting and fun the game of skittles was or the incredibly beautiful green fields of grass that we saw while we were driving from the airport to London. Or how amazing London, Leicester and York are when you see them through the eyes of an ordinary person. But I hope that one day I can visit England again maybe with them so they can see what I've seen ,experience what I’ve experienced and feel what I’ve felt. Until then I will do my best to tell and show them through words and pictures.
In conclusion I would like to wish to everyone that hasn’t been to England to go and to see all of this and to experience how truly amazing this county is for himself.


Radina Aleksandrova

От Students

Our School (“Ivan Vazov” A Secondary School of Mathemathics and Natural Sciences) is participating in an European project with 6 more countries ( Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and the UK ) . This month we visited The UK with the groups of the other countries and the whole point was to exchange expierence between the different cultures and meet different people.
When we got in London, a lot of things made me good impression.The English people are really nice and polite. They`ll stop and wait near you if you`re making some photos, then they`ll smile and move on. If they push you they`ll excuse you in the minute. In England there are typical British cities with only British inhabitants and other cities and towns in which there are people from all over the world.


We’ve also visited some schools in Leicester (the city, which we stayed in for 4 days) –Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Bridge Primary School. When we left the schools my impression was that the schools in England are may be the best for children. Everyone there get the necessary attention, for the children there are special rooms like the quiet room (a place for anyone who wants to have rest and feel better) , a play room where the youngest kids are doing a lot of different and interesting for everyone things. There`s also a place with pictures of the pope, where the children go and pray whenever they want. At St. Paul’s School the students were 16, they studied on laptops and they`ve painted the school by themselves which was great. But the schools are just a part of the great things in the UK.




The spirit of England is just unique. It has been preserved in the magnificent buildings, streets, nature and in the British people, too.
My point, personally, was to see how do the people live there , what do they appreciate, how do they behave with others , especially foreigners. I`ve talked with a few people there, someone may say that it wasn`t enough for exchanging experience but for me it was. I just wanted to see the country in which I’ve wanted to study and live for already a year. Exchanging experience really helps but it`s not just and only that. It`s more important to visit the country , so you could see if you can manage to adapt to a different “world”.Visiting different places, watching the busy daily round of the people , it`s an easy way to imagine yourself in such a picture .And Britain is one of the most suitable places for studying and working. Much more possibilities for your future, lovely and beautiful nature, fascinating history, and respect and understanding between people because they live easily.



Nikolay

От Students

Hello, my name is Nikolay. I’m from Dobrich, Bulgaria and I’m going to write about my visit in the UK last week.
We arrived in London at around 1pm and as there was some time left until we had to take the bus to Leicester we decided to go sightseeing. After only a few hours later we were amazed by the incredible architecture of the city. It was simply magnificent. We saw so many historically important and beautiful buildings that it was just breathtaking.
On the next day when we were already in Leicester we met with the students and teachers from the other countries in the project – awesome people by the way. Sometime later we visited Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School. There we were welcomed by the students who guided us around and showed us the whole school. They also presented everything they had learned about each of our countries and we could see they put their hearts into it.
On the third day we went on a tour around Leicester and well I just loved it. I have to say I’m really into history and so being able to see a city so full of history made me enjoy every single second of it.
Leicester managed to impress me even more as we spent more time in it – there were so many different people and cultures living in the same city – amazing.
England has an incredibly rich culture and history, great architecture and great people and is an awesome place to visit and I recommend it to anyone with even a slight interest in... anything really.


Stelyana Dragoeva

От Students

England is one of the greatest places I’ve ever seen. I don’t actually know another country, where there is such an organization, so calm roads and friendly people. England is a big country and London is a big city, but I didn’t see any jams. People drive easy and no one is being in a rush for somewhere. Everything is by plan, everything is organized and everything has a place to be. People there are friendly, smiling and so kind.
For the little time I had I realized how big difference there is between English people and Bulgarian people. Teenagers are dressed all different and strange, but no-one actually cares. No one looks the other one and says “Oh my God, look at his shirt” or her dress, or her boots. Here this is one of the biggest problems. You can’t go out and be you, but in England you can be whoever you want and no one is going to say a word about it.
About the usual things, yes, England is clean, green and very beautiful. The buildings are magnificent and the houses are the same, but still pretty amazing.
What made me an impression were the school and the students in it. The English school motivates pupils to study and to be good at what they do. It was obvious that children were excited about school and about the project, too. They took it very seriously and organized lots of things. They are creative and hard-working.
I think all the tired and sleepless nights worth it, because the places I saw and the people I met were great! I thought I would be so tired that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it but it wasn’t this way. I enjoyed every second of my trip and I’m dying for doing it again.



Dilyana

От Students

I'm Dilyana and I'm from Bulgaria.I study in Secondary School ,,Ivan Vazov" and I'm in eighth grade.I took part in Comenius Young Reporters Project.I was so happy,because I would go to another country and I wanted to know more about their culture.We looked forward to our exciting experience.
We arrived at the airport in Luton near London.While we were travelling to London,we saw the beautiful countryside.Everything was green and the houses were very different from ours.London is the capital of England and it is very big city.It is the world culture center and there are many monuments.We couldn't visit all the sight in it,because the time was limited.We saw The Big Ben,The Eye,The Tower Bridge and others.We also saw Thames River.I took many photos and we knew more about the history of the city.
We spent the first day in Leicester in Sacred Heart Primary School.We met the head teacher,who told us more about the school.Then two of the children showed us all the places in the school and they told us more about their classes.Their classrooms were very big and there were children corners in them.They do not have desks like we do,but they had some big tables.The students were sitting around them.During their free time they could go dancing and they could listen to music.The youngest children were playing with sand or toys,or they learned how to do the washing up.They still were spending their childhood.In the school there was big dining room.where the children had breakfast and lunch.The student's security was very strong.The doors of the school were closed at eight o'clock.This was the prevent to enter or exit students or other people.When the lessons were finished,the doors were opened.The children were brought up to keep silence from the cradles.If anyone lifted his hand,everyone stopped talking.
On the next day we were going sightseeing in Leicester.We had a guide who told us the history of all the sights.Leicester became the town of considerable importance by Medieval times.There were many churches including The Church of St Martin.It became Leicester Cathedral in 1927.While were walking in the town,I saw that the streets were very clean and there weren't any dogs and cats.
In the evening we arrived at the hotel at about 10:30 p.m.The hotel was very clean and the rooms were very comfortable.We were very tired but it worthed.

UK Visit

It has been great to meet all Partners in Leicester. I hope you had a great time.

Task 13. Mobility: Visit to Leicester (U.K.)