Let me to share some of my feelings from our project with you.

Apart from the basic aims of the project, during all the meetings we participated in, I was impressed by development of mutual civic understanding and tolerance towards each other. The pupils were able to present their own ideas as well as to accept new impulses from the environment. During the meetings they found themselves in specific situations where their personalities proved as well as their character qualities and they were able to evaluate the situations right. The project meetings were not just ordinary meetings. I am sure. The fact, that the pupils are still in touch via computers and that they plan to meet during the summer holidays shows that I am right.

                  Miro, the teacher from Slovakia

As the final meeting of our project, we visited Slovakia from May 13th to 17th. Our Slovakian colleagues had prepared a lot of really appealing activities to help improve the communication between all of us.

Some highlights of our meeting are: the off-road activity (depicted in the image), the spelology in a local cavern, the visit to a nice and typical Slovakian restaurant or the tryp to Rimavska Sobota, the capital city of the region.

It has been an unforgettable experience through which we have been able to get to know a wonderful country, and, more importantly, through which we have become even better friends. Thanks to the Slovakian people for having us and making us feel like at home. We will never forget that.

We have published a slide show with some photos of our meeting, which you can watch clicking HERE .

We hope you enjoy it

Here you are our popular song. It’s based on a flamenco rythm called “Sevillanas”. Next time, our dancers will be wearing the typical andalucian dress

This is our Christmas Song. We hope you take into account that our students are not professional singers. Anyway, we have recorded it with all our enthusiasm and hope you like it.

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 :-).

These are our autumn pictures. Please be aware that autumn is not very noticeable in our city

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.