Mobility to Spain January 26th to January 31st 2013

Our mobility to Spain January 26th to January 31st 2013

Déplacement en Espagne du 26 au 31 Janvier 2013

Saturday January 26th

We arrived in Madrid at 4.00 pm and took the tube to do sightseeing in the centre

Arrivée à Madrid et visite des principaux monuments

The bear is the symbol of Madrid      Daniel, Vanille and Laura

We arrived at about 1.00 am in Miajadas .

Arrivée tardive à Miajadas , située à 3h à l'est de Madrid , prés de la frontière portugaise

We stayed at our host families in Miajadas, Extremadura ( it is situated 3 hours east of Madrid)

Sunday January, 27^th

in Mérida
Visite guidée de Mérida, magnifiques théâtre et amphithéâtre romains et visite du musée

In the morning, we visited first a Roman theatre and amphitheatre, then we visited the Roman Art Museum and we had a little visit in the town in order to see other ruins.


In the afternoon, we had free time so we went for a walk with the Spanish students. It was rainy but we spoke a lot so it was fun.

The visit of the museum was not as interesting as the visit of the theatre and the amphitheatre because ,to me, it was a bit long but we saw ,all the same, a lot of beautiful objects like mosaic murals, statues ... Laura Huss 1S1

Monday, January 28th 2013

Medellin,

Visite de Medellin , village natale du conquistador Cortès , joli village médiéval

Cortès was born in Medellin in 1485. It is a medieval village.

We visited its beautiful castle, which was open-air. It was very beautiful, it seemed like we were in old castle from the Middle-Age. Indeed, we saw a cistern. It was very sunny, and it permitted us to see the great landscapes surrounding. And as everywhere in Miajadas, we could have the pleasure to see
lots of storks.
                                                        Vanille       Andriamahefa 1S1

présence de nombreuses cigognes comme partout dans la région

Monday January 28th

We met with every Comenius student in the sport center, to play some games to get to know each other.
Participation de tous les élèves Comenius à des jeux collectifs

Those games were sometimes weird but very funny at the end, then after a good breakfast we went to Medellin.

We visited the castle and there the Spanish students performed the play of "Romeo and Juliet", it represented a huge work for them and finally it was really well played.

Belle représentation théâtrale de Roméo et Juliette par les collégiens de Miajadas , en plein air


I spent the afternoon in Almoharin, where a beautiful sun shone all day long, with Lune and her friends. We visited the small town and enjoyed our week off.
It was a very pleasant day.

                                                                         Daniel Régnard 1S1

 

Tuesday January 29th

Guided visit of Trujillo

and Cacéres

Wednesday January 30th, 2013

This day was the last one in Miajardas, first we were in a part of the school where students can learn a specific job. We cooked there " éclairs au chocolat"
 and we also learnt how to solder tins,

participation à des ateliers de cuisine ( confection d'éclairs au chocolats) et de soudage





Daniel

it wasn't that much interesting because it was a bit long. But some of us liked it nevertheless.

Then we went to the town hall to see a PowerPoint about ecology and recycling, of course it was important .
Réception par Monsieur le Maire et conférence sur le recyclage et la préservation de l'environnement en Extremadure

I spent the rest of the morning in lessons where it was very.. special. Pupils don't respect the adults the same way as we do in France and the lessons were noisier than in France, I can't really understand how they can work that way.
Back home I ate fajitas with Lune's family, the temperature was hotter than the last past 6 months, it was like summer. Then it was already time to say farewell to Lune and her family, and to every pupils we met there, it was a bit sad but we promised to try to see each other again

Happy New Year 2013

Be part of the environmental chain

Read it and sign it with your initials then pass it to a school friend

 

Faites partie de la chaine environnmentale

Lisez-la , signez-la an apposant vos initiales , puis passez-la à un camarade et donnez-la-moi lorsqu'elle est couverte de signatures ...

Our Trip to Portugal October 30th to November 4th 2012

WELCOME TO PORTUGAL !

Wednesday, October 31st

As soon as we arrived, we discovered that our arrival was an important event for everyone !

In fact, our Portuguese friends had prepared some posters about the previous trips, some dances and songs. Quite amazing as Yasmine and myself were the only girls from Comenius to join in !

Notre arrivée avec danses et chansons

 

 

 

 

 

To introduce Portuguese culture they showed us some videos about different cities … After all the speeches, we had a breakfast … At that's the moment we understood they loved eating !

 Après des vidéos sur notre projet et le Portugal , gros buffet d'accueil !

 

 

 

 

 

The moment to express ourselves had come so we created our own tiles as the Portugues are masters at Azuleros and it was a good experience.  Atelier de faience et visite de classes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After lunch, we went to visit theMuseum of Celtic culture and that's how we learned how rich Portuguese history was because of its romans origins !   Visite du Musée de culture celtique de Briteiros et visite guidée du site

To finish the day we went for a « little walk » with a bottle of water for each of us … why some water ? … because the little walk became a walk in the mountains … some of us thought it looked like the Amazonian forest, for others it was Vietnam ! Yet we were not too tired and fortunately we visited the Citania de Briteiros !

It was a busy, interesting and pleasant day !

Alixe AUBRY 1ère

Thursday, November, 1st

Today, as usual, we had breakfast with the family, nothing very different compared to France. We were glad to see that we could understand more Portuguese than yesterday, maybe because we got used to the accent and the « sh » which are everywhere in the Portuguese language.

Then, we met at school to go to Geres, a National Park . Unfortunately, the weather was too cloudy, and we couldn't climb at the very top to see these wondeful landscapes because we wouldn't be able to see anything because of the fog.

excursion dans le Parc National de Geres

After doing a short tour of the city, we went to another place where we were taught how to make traditional bread, made with mais flour. It was awesome, and so good to eat ! So good that everybody ate too much and couldn't eat the lunch which was just after !

The bread was accompanied with chorizo or with olive oil, sweet orange and sugar.

atelier de pain de mais

After having lunch, we went to two beautiful cities. The first one, Ponte de Lima is one of the oldest village in the whole country. I found the village very peaceful, with very nice people who tried to talk with us even if the language barrier was still there.

 

 

 visite de Ponte de Lima

 

 

 

 

Yasmine REKIK TS1

 

Friday , November 2nd

Friday was a rainy day. Hopefully, we found the sunlight we needed in the prevailing good mood of the entire group. Indeed, we started the day by a short lesson on our ancestors who lived in prehistoric times. The lecture took place amid an incredible diversity within the room. The teacher juggled with some Portuguese, English, French and even lost herself in speaking Italian, even though there weren’t any Italians. And at the end of her speech, we had to copycat the rupestrian art of the cavemen. Anyhow, the mix of all these nationalities created an amazing atmosphere and we spent a jolly good time.      

 

After having fun dirtying our hands for art, a football match was organized by the Portuguese sport teacher. All of the kids wanted to play against us. Thus, two teams were quickly sorted out. One, mixed with all the European countries, and the other with Portuguese pupils. It is hard to admit it for us, but the facts are undeniable. We got beaten by teams of 12 year-old toddlers, while we were an average of 17 years-olds on our side. Anyhow, it was great fun sharing this moment with everybody.

Match entre collégiens de tous pays

The shameful defeat over, we attended a sacred moment of our journey as members of the Comenius project. Each of the coordinators of Comenius participated in planting a chestnut tree, symbol of the project. We sure hope it will grow strong and sturdy.

 

 

 Plantion d'un marronnier  symbole de notre action Comenius

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visite de Braga , de la cathédral Dom Jesus

Once on the bus, we discovered some beautiful landscapes that I wouldn’t have imagined seeing here. The countryside is really hilly with slopes everywhere. Moreover, there isn’t really any countryside, in the way that you can find houses scattered everywhere. And when you expect it the least, you find the sea at the top of a hill. Actually, we often went on the top of hills, since it was usually the location of churches and basilica. We visited two of them this day, and I must say they blended perfectly a gorgeous Baroque architecture with an outstanding view of the valley.

Eventually, we ended the day visiting the city of Braga, a lovely town which apparently is even older than Portugal itself. It is fair to say that everybody was exhausted after this particularly grueling day. Yet, as I said earlier, we didn’t even notice the bad weather thanks to the amazing time we spent visiting, chatting and sharing this unique moment of our life with our European fellow-citizen. And as the year will flow, I can honestly say that we will remember this day as a bright and sunny day.

Mathieu BRUN TS1

                                                                                              The stadium of Braga

Saturday, November 3rd 2012
Visite de Guimaraes First of all, we went to Guimarães, a city close to Briteiros, which is the city where we lived. So Guimarães was elected “European Capital of Culture” this year.

Furthermore, Guimarães is the place where was born the first king of Portugal, so it's a city which is very important in the history of Portugal.

Then we visited some churches, and especially one which was build in 1500, and which have the best architecture. It's a baroque church, but a little exaggerated because there are many things, in gold, and the architecture is symmetric with much decoration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After we visited the international arts centre of José de Guimarães. He was inspired by African art, so he collected European Asian and African culture.

After that, we went to Porto and we visited the replica of a ship which went to India in 16th century.

I was amazed to be on a real ship, and stupefied to see how 150 persons could live on that boat.

Last but least, we visited the city of Porto and went shopping. We could see the rest of the city of Porto and it was very beautiful

Visite d'un ancien bateau du XVIth siècle


Mahé BULOT 1S1

At School ( Mahé , Yasmine , Mathieu et Alix )

OUR TRIP TO LUDVIKA, SWEDEN

OUR TRIP TO LUDVIKA, SWEDEN
Déplacement à Ludvika ,en Suède

Wednesday ,September 12th 2012 - Sunday, September 16th 2012

We were arrived in Ludvika on Wednesday ,September 12th 2012
 

Thursday, September 13th

The next morning we had breakfast at ABB school and we were welcomed by the headmaster who gave information on Sweden and its development inside Europe thanks to business exchanges.

 Petit Déjeuner à l'école et bienvenue du directeur , la place de la Suède au sin de l'Europe 

 

For lunch we went to the school cafeteria. The food was good although it was very different. in the afternoon we played "floorball" which is a sort of ice-hockey without ice or ice-skating. it was fun.

Repas au lycée , atelier de travail, conférence sur l'environnement et match de hochey en salle

Eventually we met an engineer who told us about the link between man and nature and the different easy ways of reducing pollution.

Corentin Bescond T S4

Friday, September 14th

Today we left to visit Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Ludvika is 3 hours away from there by bus.

We visited the Wasa Museum . It is a big war ship which sank in 1628 . We had lunch at the Museum's restaurant. We had potatoes and beef , no dessert , just coffee.

Journée à Stockholm, visite du Musée retraçant l'histoire du vaisseau de guerre Wasa ( coulé en 1628)

Repas frugal au restaurant du musée

Then we visited the old town , the House of Parliament, the Royal Palace. I was very different from Paris. I think it looked like London or Berlin.

Then we went shopping.

Visite de la vieille ville, de la résidence royale et du parlement  et shopping

When I went back home at 7.00pm Laura, my host had cooked chicken with potatoes. It was delicious.

I enjoyed the day. Personnally I loved my stay in Sweden and the Swedes were very nice and welcoming ! but staying there 5 days was much too short !   5 jours , c'est trop court !

Thank you Comenius  !

Sophie Brechet T ES2

Paul Gabaut TES no report yet !!!

 

Sunday, September 16th

Time to leave.

Personally I found this trip very rewarding as I saw a different lifestyle and culture. My host family was very nice, I will keep in touch with them and I hope we can meet again.

Séjour  très agréable et enrichissant, un accueil chaleureux

Alix Aubry 1S4

Everyone was sad to leave Sweden but we had a good time and we have plenty of memories . We took a glimpse at the landscape with the green grass, the lakes . I admired the sunset through the portholes of the plane . It was wonderful.

De bons souvenirs , de merveilleux paysages

Manon Lemoine 1ereSTMG2

                                     

Paul Gabaut TES2 Paul was in charge of taking the photos .

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