Visit to Güstrow

Comenius meeting in GÜSTROW16th December – 20th December2012

Sunday 16thWe took the plane at 10.25 and we arrived in Berlin 3 hours later.

We took the train to the centre and we had lunch at the station.

We met the Italian and the Swedish students and then we went to the bus together. We met the Irish when we got on the bus. We went on a bus tour in Berlin.

We stopped at the Branderburg Gate. We recorded videos saying “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in our respective languages.

We continued the tour in Berlin and then we went to Güstrow.

We met our hosts and then we had dinner with our families.

Monday 17thWe went to the school. We had German lessons from German students.

Each country did a presentation of their school, area and educational system.

The principal made a speech and the German choir sang some songs to welcome us.

We did a school tour and then we started working in groups.

BRAVE NEW WORLD: the Irish did a summary and then in small groups we discussed about our future society. At the end we talked together about the final projects.

PHRASE BOOK: we translated some words in each language. We also designed a calendar. For each month, some traditional activities in each country and the Comenius meetings.

QUESTIONNAIRES: Rickard, the Swedish teacher, showed us the general questionnaires and he spoke about the general results. He showed us how to use Twinspace. Then we split in groups and we discussed about why people answered each answer.

We had lunch with our host sisters and in the afternoon we did a tour in Güstrow.

We had dinner at

school and Aisling,

the Irish girl,

showed us a

traditional Irish

dance.

Then we spent the evening with our host sisters together.

Tuesday 18thWe took the train to Rostock and then the tram to the zoo where we visited the Darwineum.

We took the tram to the centre. We did a tour in Rostock.

We had lunch with our hosts and we went shopping.

We took the train to Güstrow.

We spent the evening in our host houses.

Wednesday 19th

We went to school and we worked in groups.Each group prepared a powerpoint to show the other groups what they had done.We had a Twinspace lesson together.We presented our powerpoints to the other groups and to the teachers.

We had lunch with our host sisters.

We spent the afternoon with our hosts and then we went home to prepare us for the Christmas concert.We went to school and we enjoyed the Christmas concert. In the concert, each country had to sing “Silent Night” (Santa Nit) in their language and at the end in English together.

After the concert all the students who participated in the Comenius project had a party.

Thursday 20st We said goodbye to our host families, all the Germans and the Irish.

We took a bus to Berlin.We said goodbye to the Swedish and the Italians.We went to the airport and we had lunch there.We took the plane at 5 o’clock and we arrived in Barcelona 3 hours later.