miércoles, 27 de enero de 2010
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.
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.
jueves, 7 de enero de 2010
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
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
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