Bilateral Comenius Project

and

Exchange between

the Dutch of Charlemagne

and

the Basque of Urola Ikastola.

Family, Children, School, Housing...

Families past

Religious marriage

Married at young age

5 to 10 children

Families now

4 to 5 members

Less religious

Less people get married

Life in the past

Lived on farms or street

Farm => better life

Big families and farms

HOUSING, HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES… ETXEAK, ETXE-

TRESNAK…

ZER NOLAKO ETXEAK ZIREN? what WERE HOUSES LIKE?

• AT FIRST, THEY Were wooden, LATER made of stone and brick.

• No more than 2 or 3 floor high.

WAS THERE A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RICH AND POOR PEOPLE’S HOuSES?

• BIG DIFFERENCE. • NOwADAyS PROmINENT LANDLORDS DON’T LIvE IN THE TOwER HOuSES OR PALACE THAT STILL

can be found in town. • Most of those people went to MadriD or other capitals because of business

reasons or other career interests. • Now, many of THOSE HOUSES BELONG TO THE TOWN COUNCIL, banks or other institutions.

ROOMS

• The most important room was the kitchen.

• 4 rooms in each house.

HOuSE OWNERS • Wealthy people owned houses and also

farms. • Most working people lived in rented houses

in town. • Farmers often used to live in rented lands

and farmhouses. • Until quite recently most people have been

able to buy their own hoses. • The price of flats has usually been very

expensive. At least two salaries in a family have been normally necessary to pay bank mortgages.

• The price of real estate has been dropping for the last year but it is still expensive and Banks do not give mortgages or loans so easily.

• An increasing number of families run the risk of eviction from their flats because CAN’T PAy bACK mORTgAgES TO bANKS.

• Nowadays not so many people live in rented houses but this may be probably the only solution for young couples and those who cannot afford to get a loan.

THE LIGHT

• wax Candles and oil were used for lighting in the houses.

• Electric power started to arrive about a century ago.

• most houses started to have electrict light in the town and more slowly got to farms too.

• In that time, street light was given by gas lamps. They produced light by burning oil.

WATER AT HOUSES • They had running water at home only to drink and to cook. • To wash clothes, bedclothes or linen they used to go to an old

laundry place.

• Water from streams or underground well in the mountains was brought along pipes down to fountains in town.

BATHROOM AND TOILETS • There were not bathrooms

at home.

• They used to wash in their room or kitchen with a washbasin.

• There was no shower.

• There was a hole as toilets.

• Dirty water went to

sinkholes beneath houses which were cleaned periodically or .

• The sewage system poured

waste water into the river.

School

Rich people went to school

Religious schools

Girls stayed with nuns

Boys stayed with monks

Studied the basics

School

School between age of 3-16

Different kinds of school

An illiterate can’t read and write.

Approximately 250,000 people.

They can read and write, but they also

have problems.

The 13% of the population.

It is common with people who are less

educated.

ILLITERACY NOWADAYS:

It was very high.

In 1900, they started to go to school.

They tried to cheat.

The book package.

August 2008.

Teaching methods.

Improvement .

No boys.

Catholic.

Decision.

Economic activities past

Stockbreeding, agriculture and trade

Not much money

Economic activities now

All kinds of jobs

More money

Are there any

questions?

By

: Ainhoa Agirrebeña Andueza

Melissa Nielaba

Maialen Castaño Nuñez

Hannah Ratuschny

Mikel Gonzalez Arrue

Ids Niessen

Maite Arregi Joaristi

Giovanna Verspagen

Gadea Azkue Izagirre

Darren Klasens

Iñigo Larrañaga Egiguren

Mick Zenden

Itziar Gurrutxaga Altuna

Philippe Schyns

Ane Etxeberria Aranguren

Sandy Klooster

Ane Arrizabalaga Andreu

Wesley Hundscheid

Maria Odriozola Romarate

Jill Quaedflieg

Ianire Iriarte Villanueva

Charelle Matzner

B Y :

Ane Uria Etxeberria

Rik van der Schuren

Miriam Etxaniz Alberdi

Jessica Verjans

Ane Letamendia Martin

Sammie Hinzen

Sarai Tena Gómez

Kim Aarts

Naira Arizmendi Ucin

Godelieve Ploumen

Beatriz Arizmendi Larrañaga

Minou Schreijen

Goizane Mendizabal Arrieta

Andrea Mollering

Jon Olaizola Alberdi

Alejandro Erkens

Ainhoa Aizpitarte Zabarte

Ruben Mooldijk

Ane Aguado Garate

Demi Plummen

Itxaso Astigarraga Etxabe

Veerle Schielen

Melissa Dassen

Leire Etxeberria Beristain

Isabelle Cranen

Alaitz Alberdi Eizmendi

Kimberly Wanders

Sara Aranbarri Iriondo

Amaia Aizpuru Aldalur

Lonneke Wetzelaer

Maite Olaizola Alberdi

Kelly Bruijnseels

Estibalitz Aranbarri Zinkunegi

Maren Alberdi Aizpuru

Katrin Jungheim

Maite Lete Elorza

Yvette Tillmans

Haizea Ribera Sorazu

Natascha Strolenberg

Eider Etxaniz Corrales

Marco van Belzen

Mireia Arrizabalaga Olaizola

Bas Wijsman

Maider Soraluze Larrañaga

Itziar Varela Egiguren

Jolien Windmuller

Judith Egiguren Agirre

Britt Creusen

Britt Quaedflieg

Eider Iturralde Arotzena

Laura Naranjo Garcia

Laurence Smits

Ane Bereziartua Odriozola

Idoia Landa Reza

Robert v. Overveld

Monika Aizpitarte Garmendia

Robin Frankes

Maitane Diez Izagirre

Leonie Thomissen

Irati Labaka Garmendia

Sebastiaan Ansara

Aizpea Etxeberria Arano

Marjolijn Smeets

Sara Ibarzabal Arregi

Demi Smits