In October we celebrated the second meeting of the project. It was in Seville, Spain, and we will always remeber the wonderful time we spent.

We visited some interesting places in Seville and learnt a lot of things about Spanish culture: gastronomy, way of life and Arts, specially Music. We played Flamenco percussion instruments and even danced some rythms in the final meeting show.

We are reallylooking forward to the las meeting of the project, which will be held in Hnüsta, Slovakia. See you soon over here, friends :-).

The first meeting of our project has taken place from June 17th to 20th. Three really intense days during which we have done lots of activities, visited amazing places and -above all- spent much time together, sharing our points of view about aspects related to our Arts project and many other things of common interest.

It has been an unforgetable experience, through which we have learnt a very important thing: that there are more things than join us than those that divide us.

We want to thank the organizers of this first meeting the big effort that they have made in order to have everything perfectly sorted out. And of course, to thank the parents of the host families for the kind attentions they have had with our students. We’ll do our best to live up to your expectations when you visit Slovakia and Spain.

We were really lucky that during our trip to Turkey took place the ceremonies to celebrate the National Day of Turkey. Hundreds of students coming from all the state schools of the Council of Seryk rehearsed for a month in order to give a good spectacle to the audience. They danced traditional Turkish dances, and showed their skills at different sports. The highlight of the ceremony happened when all the students joined together in the middle of the stadium, drawing a heart shape, and a banner with the image of Mustafa Kemal (The Pather of the Turkish) was released.

It was a really exciting ceremony, in which we learnt how strongly the Turkish people feel their country. Congratulations on your National Day!

Definitely, one of the highlights of our visit to Turkey was the rafting tour through the river Koprucay. Really good fun, amazing scenery and the good organization of the activity made that the one hour trip was worth it. Many of the students and teachers had to summon up courage to overcome their fear to the brave waters, but in the end, everyone dared to get into the boats and did the whole tour.

Very interesting and amusing scenes happened as well when some students and teachers fell off the boat and had to swim to come back to it. Some of them learnt that the temperature of the water in this season was not exactly warm :-). In the end, we had a really good time, and the best thing is that this activity greatly contributed to a real improvement in our communication.

During the first day of the meeting we visited some interesting places, such as the Roman Theater of Aspendos. We spent a really good time walking around the stage and the stairs where the audience used to be sitting. One of the most interesting things that we learnt was the amazing work that the builders of this facility did with the sound, since you don’t have to shout at all to be heard even in the most remote corner of the theatre.

Surprisingly, the theatre is in a perfect condition, despite the fact that it’s no less han 2.800 years old

After discussion of the projet partners we have decided to meet in Turkey in May 2008. It’s great. Everyone is looking forward to this meeting. Everyone of us is full of expectations. The pupils are of different age, however we don’t find that as any disadvantage. Art connects people of different nationalities, ages, sex, races, religions. Art reflects to culture, traditions of each country, nation. So through arts everyone can find and understand differences and similarities.

The Comenius team from Slovakia wants to say HELLO to all the participating pupils in this project. We hope that our contacts via e- mails start soon.

Good luck!

Hello and welcome to our website, from where you can follow the development of our project. To start with, we are going to create New Year cards and send them to our partners in the other countries.

Take an A4 sheet of paper and fold it in half, in a way that you obtain two similar pages. Then you can use the front page to draw an image, and on the inside write your message. Give it in to your teacher and that’s it! You will receive some cards from your friends abroad.

Happy New Year!