I was in Turkey!

„We started our journey to the remote Turkey on 3rd October at 2 o’clock pm. The travel was tiring but we laughed a lot and the landscape was so beautiful that on Monday nobody could notice if we slept at night or not.

As we arrived, the Turkish students were already waiting for us at the entrance door of the school. It was great to see them.

The first day we hiked. It was nice but exhausting as well. We saw a lot of interesting plants.

On the second day we went to Istanbul where we could see a lot of nice and interesting things like the Blue Mosque, the Topkapi Palace and the Ayasofya.

Next day we travelled to Yalova where we saw a very nice botanical garden and we could swim at the thermal pool, too. There everybody had a really great time.

The following day we took part in the Turkish lessons at school and we could get to know the Turkish way of teaching and learning. After school we had lunch and later came the programme that we, the Hungarian team waited for very much: we went to the Rákóczi Museum. This museum is important for us because it is Hungarian-related.

Then came the day that nobody waited for, I think: we had to leave Turkey.

It was very difficult to say good-bye because we became very good friends during this week. We all have really pleasant memories of this meeting.”

Tünde Szabó

Students' impressions from a trip to Turkey

"In my opinion a trip to Turkey was one of the best expeirences in my life.
I must admit that the way to Turkey was exhausting but it was worth an effort
When we arrived we were fondly welcomed by turkish families. We got to know about turkish culture and lifestyle and that was really interesting for me. Moreover we have visited many beautiful places like Hagia Sophia and Sultan Ahmed Mosque - it was great! However the best thing that I was really delighted was my kindred spirit, in which home I was hosting." Ilona Jachym

"In my opinion a trip to Turkey was awesome. We visited many interesting places, but the most I liked was accomondation in turkish families and trip to Istambul. When we arrived everyone friendly welcomed us. We got to know about turkish lifestyle, habbits and turkish culture.
We visited many beautiful objects. I really liked Sultan Ahmed Mosque - place for pray for turkish people. I liked this trip and I'd like to come to Turkey again." Patrycja Rybska


"Everyone was pleasantly surprised by great atmosphere for the whole trip.
We were very tried when we came to Turkey, we didn't know what can we expect in Turkey. But our fears went away, when we met turkish people, because they were very kind for us. After first day in Tekirdag our relations with turkish people got better and better and it was a lot of fun. But the farewell was really sad and we couldn't stop crying." Kaja Obermajer

"Trip to Turkey was for me wonderfull experience.
First I was really scared, because Turkey is much more different than Poland,
but when we came to Turkey I've change my mind. In my turkish family everything was very enjoyable, and they were doing everything to make me happy. Atmosphere and realtions between family members were amazing. Visiting Istambul and Yalova was great experience. Integration with hungarian,spanish and turkish people was really educating. We vistied many interesting places because we were travelling by bus. If I have chance to go to Turkey again I wouldn't miss it." Martyna Wesołowska

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My trip to Turkey

My trip to Turkey

MY TRIP TO TURKEY

Last 4th October I went to Turkey with my school’s Comenius Program. We got there at night and our correspondents were already waiting for us at the bus station. My host family received me lovingly and took me to their house by car. The house was very beautiful, the floor was made of wood and on it there were many carpets, and you could see the beach from the balcony were we ate. Every night we had milk and home made cake before going to sleep.

The second day we were there we went hiking in the forest. It was very cold at first and we were happy with the smallest ray of sun. I went with Ilayda, Irem and their friends Kaya, Emre, Ataberk, Atakan... We ate at a clearing and walked very much. Then we got to an old town were we stopped to rest, and after that went to the beach. At the beach there were couches were we could sit, and we had fun throwing pebbles to the water and writing on the sand.
That night, at home, Ilayda's mom gave me a pair of slippers and a very beautiful nazar bracelet.

The third day we went to Istanbul. We were a bit bored when the guide told us too many things, but everything was beautiful. We visited some palaces, Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. There were a lot of stands in the streets. They sold sweets, baked corn, grenade juice, scarves, umbrellas, nazars, postal cards… At home, that night, came a girl called Ilyada with her parents and we took a lot of photos.

The forth day we went to Yalova. To get there took many hours. We crossed Bosphorus Bridge and got to Asia, and then took a ferry to the south. When we got there we went to the thermal pools where they gave us lunch. Later, we went swimming. But we couldn’t swim much, because we had o go to the arboretum. There were many trees and it was all very beautiful.
When I got home, my Turkish family gave me a very beautiful, emotive present that made me want to cry, but I didn’t.
That night I ate a typical, nice food called Mantı, which had yogurt and a red sauce.

The fifth day it was the best day and, at the same time the saddest.
I went to Ilayda’ school with her for about two hours and a half, and then visited the hall town. After that, we went shopping to Tekira, the mall, where we bought my family presents and watch a short movie in 6D. (A movie in 3D, but the chair where you are seated moves, too, and there are special effects) That day was the happiest for me, because I spoke more and I was already used to be in Turkey, with my Turkish family, that loved me very much, and I was having so much fun.

But that night I had to leave. That was very very sad, Ilayda was very tired, but she didn’t want to fall asleep, because she wanted to stay with me as long as possible, and I didn’t want to remember I was leaving that night, because then I would cry, and I wanted to seem happy when I left, so the family wasn’t sad. They gave me a lot of nice presents and they told me that if I ever visited Turkey again, I would be welcome in their house, that I was their third daughter. I love them very much.

María Segura Téllez

Our bike tour to the Forest-school

On 3rd September in the morning we were really excited about the bike tour. This nice morning we were heading for the Forest-school. This is located in the Kiskunság National Park. The way with bikes was not going without a hitch, but luckily, there were not any accidents.
When we arrived, Kati néni, the tour guide and her dog called Forgács had already waited for us. The rules were described and in the camping ground we got ready for the tour itself.


The camping site

First of all we were having a look at a poplar which is Kati néni’s favourite. This tree is about 80 years old.


Poplar tree

We were walking a lot, but finally we reached the sand-hills. At this point everybody thought that it was a good decision to come here. The landscape was wonderful. On the way we got to know a lot of important information in connection with the flora and fauna.


Sand-hills

So, this was our bike tour. After that everybody went home and had a rest as we all were very tired.

On the 18 March 2010 we celebrated "Day of foreign languages".

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Arahal's Holy week

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„The future in our past”

In March there was a project in our school. The name of this project is „The future in our past”. This project was for 3 weeks.
In these 3 weeks we were studying the Hungarian education system of the past and we could get to know the form of the old education system and methods.
On English and German lessons our Year 8 made a film about our school. We made this film in English, German and Hungarian language. Moreover we could listen an irregular Russian lesson.
On History lesson our class made a chart about the history of Hungarian education.
On Hungarian lessons we attend to old and new school slang. We used etimologian and synonym dictionaries. In addition we studied the Hungarian education system. We gave a a funny play what was about the old school.
On Music lesson we sang different „path-breaker” songs.
( When the communist USSR controlled our country, „path-breaker” was the name of those students who go to senior classes. They had to wear uniforms, all „path-breakers” had a red tie.)
On Art lesson we designed and drew our school.
On the last day of this project there was a hurdle-race for the students of the senior class. These children had to match their power with the other children in sport, history of school education and history of our school.

When this project was over, there was a gala where some children gave several plays for the students. In some classrooms there were showing films about our school. During the presentation children could see that film what the senior class-children made.

As the name of this project is „The future in our past”, „we were not in the past only”. The project has got a „tree”. All classes wrote their experiences on some sheets of paper and we took these sheets of paper on this „tree”. Moreover all classes sent something for the generation of the future. Our target is to hold our past, because without past there is no future.

News from Hungary

Activities From Suleymanpasa Primary School

EXCURSION TO ISTANBUL
Two weeks ago the students and our teachers went to İstanbul.We have seen many beautiful places there. Dolmabahçe Palace is the one of the beautiful place. There was an interesting show of the dolphins.
We had very good time.

BASKETBALL TEAMS OF OUR SCHOOL
Süleymanpaşa Primary School is the champion in our city in Tekirdağ.Both our girls team (primary and secondary) and boys team (primary and secondary) teams won the matches and our friends brought four cups to our schooh.

EARTHQUAKE DRILL IN OUR SCHOOL


Tekirdağ is in an earthquake region That’s why we should do all the preparations to prevent damages.Last week we did practice against any earthquakes.Since our school is very crowded this drill was neseccary, because all the students have to know how to behave during the

earthquake.

Trip to Burgos

OUR FIRST PICTURES TO CALENDAR

NEWS FROM COMENIUS

Work on the comenius project in our school interests everyone. Our group does a lot to inform the whole school community about the project work and promote it in the local papers. We hope they can also learn about European trees, culture, interesting places and many others. In the time between the first issue of the newspaper and this one we have completed many tasks and some activities are still on the work. To prepare well for the meeting we did a lot of work:
Our teachers organized a meeting with the parents whose children where chosen for the trip to Spain to present them the plan of the trip. They also took part in the meeting with the Major to inform about the progress of the project and ask for some financial support of the trip to Arahal. Thanks to the Major we could take some souvenirs for the Major of Arahal local authority school principal and the families hosting our students in their houses. They had a lot of work with the trip documentation and all the needed papers.
Before going to Spain students started e-mail correspondence with their Spanish correspondents. We prepared presentation about the places to visit on the way to and back from Spain. School notice board was completed with the plan of the journey and the meeting. We started project chronicle which was signed by the Spanish families at the end of the stay in Arahal. We prepared Polish-English short dictionary with words useful for describing trees.
The first meeting of the project took place between 29.11 - 08.12.2009y. There were students and teachers from Turkey, Hungary, Spain and Poland. One of the main aims of the project was getting to know each other, learning about Spanish trees, talking about the project activities, planning the next tasks and meeting and evaluating of the meeting. The meeting students stayed at the Spanish families so we could also learn about Spanish way of life and the Spanish cousine. Apart from learning we visited many interesting places: Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Milano, Venice, Seville. At the meeting we designed a calendar about trees and cross-countries tree guide. Teachers created tools for meeting evaluation and all the participants did the evaluation. We chose Turkish logo to be the project logo. Each partner school chose the tree symbol of every country. Polish team chose an oak. Meeting participants took part in some lessons in Spanish school. Every partner presented power point presentation of the school. We also took a lot of photos of the Spanish trees and bushes to prepare photo-gallery after the arrival.
When we got back home we wrote reports about the meeting and it was sent to the local newspaper “Kulisy Powiatu”. We try to keep in touch with the students from Spain who hosted us in their homes. We completed the school presentation with the news from the meeting. School notice board informs about the meeting. We wrote articles to the ComeNews and school newspaper “To i owo”. We made Christmas cards and sent them to our partners. We are completing school web page with the project news and the blog which was created by the Spanish group at the meeting. As you can see there is no time for boredom!


Jakub Tyszkowski

Peace Day in Arahal

We celebrated Peace Day on 30th of January. At school we played a game with other schools. We wrote separated words from a sentence about peace. We wrote the words on a cardboard. We didn't have the whole sentence. Pupils from other schools had some other words from the sentence. We went to Corredera Square, the main square in Arahal, and there we met pupils from other schools. They had other words to complete the sentence.
So we looked for the pupils with the same number in the word to make the sentence. Then we ordered the words to make the sentence. Finally, we sticked the sentence on a wall in the Town Hall of our city.

Denominator of our school

Móra Ferenc
(1879-1934)

First of all he is one of the most popular writer in Hungary and he’s our school’s name-giving.

His life

He was born in 1879, in Kiskunfélegyháza. His father (Móra Márton) was a tailor and his mother (Juhász Anna) was a bread baker. They were very poor but they love each other very much. Ferenc was an eminent and talented student. He had a lot of supportings. After he was a private teacher. We can read about these years in his most popular novel, in Kincskereső kisködmön (The little treasure fur coat).
He went to Budapest (the capital of Hungary) and got a degree as a teacher. He had to go to Szeged and became a journalist and in the same year he got married. Later he had a daughter.

He was a very coloured individuality: he worked as a journalist, – he wrote lot of political articles - as a archeologist, as a novel writer and as a director in a museum.

The lot of work vandalized his health and unfortunately he died – in cancer – in 1934.

His main productums
Geography and reading coursebooks for children ( Their names’re „Móra coursebooks”)

Youth novels: he wrote more than a thousand articles in a newspaper for children, in „My Newspaper”

Some of his famous youth novels:

-Under the old valnut trees
-The imprisoned man’s sons
-The Szitáry boys and their father
-Csilicsali Csalavári Csalavér ( this a fantasy Hungarian title and this is a tale about a fox)
-The little treausure finder fur coat

Historical legends

His „big” novels:

-The death of the painter (It’s a true story)
-Hannibal’s prop up
-The golden coffin
-From the Daru Street to the Móra Street (It’s an autobiography)

by the Hungarian Comenius Team

Carneval in Hungary

Carneval of February – „Farsang”

The winter-chaser carneval period is about 15-20 days; between 1st and 20th of February.
This period is from Twelfth Night to Ash Wednesday in the Christian churches. People get dressed into costume-dress or they take up a mask or a make-up. Nowadays children take a costume-dress ball by the organization of the teachers in the schools. After this the children have a party.

In our school there were also parties by the reason of Farsang. The first thing what the children could do in the party was seeing a Vienna Waltz dance. These children were preparing for this dance from last October. The children who go to the 8 classes (14-15 years old children), they were dancing Vienna Waltz. The parties were on 5th and 6th February in our school. After this we could saw the costume-dress carneval. There were apart celebrations for the little and the bigger children. About in the middle of the parties there were tombolas. There were a lot of prizes what we could win - if we were lucky – for example cakes, toys and articles for use. When the tombola was over, we could continue the disco.

by Dominik Istrate

Oleum 09- Seville

Hello:
My name is Miguel, I’m 15 years old, I’m from Spain and I take part in Comenius Project “In the shadow of trees”; I hosted a Hungarian boy. I’m going to talk about Arahal, olives and olive oil.
Arahal is in the South of Spain, in Andalusia, and it’s 40 km far from Seville, the capital of Andalusia. Arahal has been traditionally an agrarian town and we can see it because we have a lot crops, mainly olive and wheat. Olive trees for us mean our work, but our fair in September is also dedicated to olives, it coincides with olive harvest.
A lot of people work in the country harvesting olives, at the beginning of September, so many children, young people and adults go to help out.
A long time ago there were big country estates of olive groves or other crops, they also usually had country houses where a whole family who worked in country houses could be living there. It was also very usual to have animals in country houses like mules, horses, pigs, chickens, etc… and their own mill to obtain olive oil.
Currently those large country estates are divided in smaller plots of land and they are only persevered some country houses, but we still go on picking olives like in ancient times, with “macacos” and “bancos”
In our school we have a project called “Olivar y Escuela” (Olive grove & School) where our teachers (mainly Carlos Zamorano and Eloísa Valverde) teach us about olives and olive trees because we are surrounded by olives, so this is the reason why our teacher want us to learn about olive and olive trees .
Our last project was in Seville, in Oleum 09, where we explained chiefly the olive oil obtaining, but we also explained some characteristics of olives. Currently we are working for “Science Fair” and there we will explain “Five Kingdoms in Olive grove”. We will talk about the five kingdoms (animals (animalia), vegetables (vegetalia), fungus, bacteria and protozoa) which we are going to explain this with scale models.

Banco: a tool used to pick up the olives we use a ladder that folds out to make two ladders; we use this so that two people can use the ladder at the same time.

Macaco: is a kind of basket that we hang in our neck, made of esparto grass. We use it when we pick up olives from trees to carry them to another bigger recipient.

Our students in Diputación with our Comenius partners

We are pupils of Al-Andalus High School, from Arahal (Seville). Our project was started by other students from our town and from Paradas too.
Arahal is a town that is about 45 km from Seville, where olive factories have been being the most important sector for decades.
Because of that, our high school has visited some cities (Madrid, Seville, Granada…) and explained all about olive and oil for at least 20 years.
During 1st to 5th of November (2009), some students of our high school travelled to Seville, because of an event that took place in this city.
In this event, people from a lot of different places came here and we were there to explain all we have learnt along this Year. Because of there were a lot to say, we divided our work in two stands. On one hand we talked about the olive and its picking; on the other hand we talked about the most known product form olives: the oil.
We had to explain to a lot of people of all ages, but we couldn’t make a mistake, because there were people who knew so much about olives.
We were visited by our Polish, Turkish and Hungarian friends form our Comenius project “In the shadow of trees”, so we had to explain in English to be sure they could understand us.
For our explanations, we used some information and tools that our partners from last years had made with hard work (an olive press-machine, a big olive model, a pond for throwing wastes from olives’ production model, some games…)
Now, we are getting ready to visit some more places for showing everybody how interesting oil is.



Rafael Benjumea Domínguez
José Manuel Brenes Castro
José María López Pedregal
Mª Carmen Rivero Cabrera
David Rodríguez Benito