Trip to
Estonia
On
19th February our delegation with good mood were preparing for a long trip to
the south of Estonia. At 8 am we started
trip from Seredzius, Lithuania, to
Anstla. Although air, road
conditions weren’t good, we reached our destination fast. When we arrived to
Anstla’s gymnasium, me and my classmate Rokas met families, where we lived five days. Before trip, living in other families actually seemed to be hard, but when we came here,
everything turned backwards – we had really great experience.
On early Wednesday morning we were a bit
worrying about our first day at school. Rokas and me were in the seventh
Anstla’s gymnasium grade. It was interesting to watch how other countries
students in Estonia learn. Students were
very friendly, our meeting other students was easy, because everyone wanted to
interact. Also we met students from other countries, it was very inetresting. After lessons we had one of the most
interesting part of trip - indicative game. We divided to few teams and did tasks
around the all town, from school till forest which is located near town. Tasks
were interesting, we needed to use logical thinking, do few sport exercises.
Also on Wednesday all delegations presented their homework about their
country winter sports and climate. The
first day was very cool, we have found new friends.
On Thursday organisators prepared a really
good day. We started our day in the gym. More than 3 hours we did all kind of
exercises, divided into teams and performed in various relays, played
basketball and other games. We spent
this morning awesome, and we started prepare for a trip to Otepaa – Estonia
Winter Olimpics capital. Trip by bus was not
long, because we interacted to each others, we saw nice Estonia‘s views
through the bus window. In Otepaa we lifted up on the platform, where we could
see nice Estonia‘s landscape, we saw a lot of skiing tracks, downhills, olimpic
tracks. Also we went to the Otepaa town, where we bought some souvenirs, walked
around the town. Everything what we saw
in Otepaa is incomparable and beautiful. When ww went back home, we visited the smallest traffic
city in the world. It‘s like small real city version, which fitted in abandoned
farm. Guide explained and showed everything for us, we could try to drive
around this city by ourselves.
On Friday morning we mentioned
Estonia‘s independence day, we watched
flag hoisting ceremony. After that we started preparing presentations about these 3 days in IT class,
in the evening we had to present it. When wehave already done the presentations, we went to
hall and listened orations from school director and other important people, the
bad thing is, that we couldn’t understand it, becausewe don’t know Estonian. Also in the hall we
watched students performances. The drums performance was the best for me.
Students in this school are very talented.
In the evening we went to musical school.
Sadly, it was the last Comenius meeting day in Estonia. Students presented
their presantations that they made on
this day. Between presentations we saw Anstla students great dance
performances. After that we had awesome dance party. We spent unforgettable time here and we want
to forget it. We are grateful to everyone who planned these incredible days in
Estonia. Sadly, but trip ended, everyone didn’t
want to go home, but we had to.
Saturday was the last day in Estonia. In
this morning we went to Lithuania. The
trip was very cool, we had a lot of great time, found new friends, had lots of impressions.
Thanks for everything.
Erikas Bakšenskas
„Comenius“
project posters exhibition in Seredziaus S. Simkaus basic school
Project „The importance of Healthy
Lifestyles for Teenagers in Different European Countries“ continues in our
school. In November project participants had the first meeting in Germany,
Viersen town. Before the first meeting we made posters about the best
Lithuanian sportsmen and about school sport life. The exhibition is mobile: it
travels from Germany to Turkey, later – to our country.
Finally,
posters exhibition came to our school. Each country showed their best sport
stars in posters. Lithuania is unthinkable without the legendary basketball
player A. Sabonis or "Golden Girl" Ruta Meilutytė. We have an excellent
opportunity to know more about sport in European countries. Dominykas and
Mantas introduced our sportsmen in Germany.
Another
interesting task of project participants was creating a logo that reflects the
idea of the project. We draw some logos and chose the best one.
On Tuesday
the Estonian town Anstla escorted the participants school delegation: Project
Coordinator Irena Styk, Laima Baksenskiene, Kristina Dziaugiene and two
students Rokas Filipsons and Erikas
Baksenskas. They took all exhibition posters and our logo to Estonian school. During the meeting students presented our weather chart in each season of
the year.
Taking part
in project gives us a lot of happiness and opportunity to find friends.
The first
Comenius project meeting was in Germany
It is
the third time, when Seredzias S. Simkaus basic school participates in
international Comenius multirateral schools parthnership projects. This time project‘s
tittle is „The importance of healthy lifestyles for teenagers in
different European countries“. Ten schools from nine countries(Germany, Poland,
Estonia, Turkey, Romania, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Lithuania) take part in
this project.
The
first meeting was in Germany, Viersen, in
November. Definetly, it is fun to travel to the other countries, but before
that we had to do a lot of job. First of
all, we had to make posters about our country sportmen. We decided to make one
poster about our school students, who reached very good results in sport.
Maybe, they are futures olimpians? Mantas and Dominykas (students, which went
to Germany) had to be ready to tell about themselves and about Lithuanian sport stars.
So on
Monday morning our team (two teachers and two students) went to Germany. Both boys were a bit worried,
because it was the first trip by plane for them. But everything was OK, and in
the evening, about 6pm we were in Diusseldorf airport, where we met our project
coordinator Heinrich.
Teachers
met all participants in one of auditories. Of course colleagues from Romania and Turkey we have
already known: we met them in the previous project. We introduced ourselves,
and everyone said what languages he or
she can speak. We discussed about our project work, about the meeting in Estonia Poland
We have come back to school, after we had
a walk through Viersen
Next day we again gathered in the
school, where we waited healthy food breakfast. We had opportunity to
choose breakfast from a lot of healthy dishes. After breakfast we went to Köln,
where we go upstairs to highest tower of famous cathedral, from where we had a
really nice view to all city. We saw knew so much new and interesting.
First meeting passed rapidly. It was sad to
say goodbye, but it was only the first
meeting – we will meet each other again.
Irena Štyk, English teacher.
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