A project farewell!

By Dani Budo from Samuil Vulcan School, Beius.

It's always a sad time when a group of teachers and students finishes a European project but, in this case, we'd like to thank Dani Budo, a student from Samuil Vulcan School in Beius, Romania for his nice contribution to the project by means of the nice video he created, which collects great moments we've had throughout the project.
This is the link to the video:
https://vimeo.com/218798008

Enjoy it as we did!

The story of the Little Red Riding Hood

Journalism is a vital part of our project, that is why students during the project meeting in Bieruń, focused on a well-known text – the story of “Little Red Riding Hood”, but they were asked to look at the particular aspect of the plot. Students were working in mixed groups – each member was from different partner country and were free to choose the form of their work.

KRAKOW OLD TOWN AND MAIN MARKET SQUARE

        The  symbol of the city known as the city of king  is monster.  But, this monster is now chaming.  Krakow has  Europe's  oldest old  town square as well as Europe's oldest  covered  bazaar.

The historic city which was entered from seven doors, was built in the 7th century.  In 1978,  it was taken on the Unesco World  Heritage  List. The Main Square of Krakow is one of the most visited sights of the city. People should visit that place for its magnificient buildings, churches  a big covered bazaar. The most striking places in the square are St.Mary Church and Covered Bazaar.

       I think it is the most beautiful and magnificient square of  Poland with its historical buildings, sculptures,  cafes,  restaurants and fancy horse carriages.  Our Project team visited Krakow while we were in Poland. The weather was cold and rainy on that day. However, we had a lot of fun. We walked around, we bought some souvenirs and went to cafes. It was a wonderful day for us. I think, it is the most beautiful Market Square I've ever seen. I liked the lovely atmosphere, good prices for food and drinks. It was just amazing. It wasn't expensive to sit in the cafes and restautrants. The architecture is fantastic.

      I hope to visit and see there again and I recomend to everyone to see and visit Krakow,Poland.

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Auschwitz in Krakow,Poland

            In the Polish lands captured by Nazi Germany, many death camps were established. The biggest intention of these camps were to destroy the Jews in a mass. Auschwitz is one of the  biggest death camp in Poland.

PESTERA URSILOR ( THE BEARS CAVE)

          by Beyza GÜNEŞ and Yağmur TÜRKER         

            There are lots of caves in Romania and one of them is the Bears Cave.We knew that Transylvania  is famous for its caves before visiting there.

We visited some of the caves while we were in Beius. When we saw them we were really fascinated.

Meziad Cave

by Karolina Łosoń
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

    On the first day of our visit to Romania we saw the Meziad cave, which because of its unique character is a nature reserve. It was discovered in 19th century, but wasn’t open for tourists till the 70’s of 20th century, it could only be done after detailed recognition and constructing of the paths. Nowadays the cave is popular among the tourists but doesn’t seem to be too commodified.
  
     Before our trip to Romania we were searching for information about the cave on the Internet, and on the many websites tourists advised taking a light torch due to the lack of electricity in the cave. On the spot it turned out that the advice was out of date as in the autumn 2012 there were some renovation works – the paths were rebuilt and the lighting was installed, according to modern technologies, which enable protecting the cave’s environment.

Transylvanian salty flavour - the Salt Mine in Turda

by Martyna Kocurek and Marcelina Ścierska
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

     Can you imagine Transylvania 13 million years ago? Climate was very warm and wet and the region was covered by the sea. Then climate got drier and drier, the disappearing sea left salt behind - the salt still remains. People tried to extract sodium chloride as long ago as in Roman times, but it was not earlier than in 17th century, when the salt mine in Turda was open. The salt mine functioned till 1932. Later it was used for storage of cheese or bombproof shelter during World War II. In 1992 it became a tourist attraction – one of the largest and oldest mines in Europe. We were lucky to visit it during our last project meeting.

Squares of Budapest

St. Stephen's Square

by Katarzyna Spyra, Daria Lach
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

     It’s easy to find the answer for the question: which square is the most important in Cracow? - as its name suggests: the Main Square. In Madrid the answer is more complicated. Writing the articles about the squares in Cracow and Madrid we took into account Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol you can read about it here:

Squares of Madrid and Cracow

During our journey to Romania we stopped in Budapest and decided to focus on the squares once again, we were wondering which square in Hungarian capital city is the most significant. But as in Madrid the answer turned out to be tricky. There are a few candidates for the title of the most crucial place in Budapest so it’s not easy to create the ranking. In the article we present you a few places, we have visited, and their different functions.

Romania: Looking to the future

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales, 4th year ESO.

Taking into account its communist past and all it meant to the country, Romania has already travelled a stretch of the road to democracy, and, therefore, a way to modernization, improvements on road infrastructure, education and agriculture... Some towns and cities have been restored recently, becoming attractive spots to the visitor, like Oradea, for example.

STREET ART SPREADS ITS WINGS

By several students at IES de Catabois.

Street art or the expression of artists on the walls of many European towns and cities today has provided them with a new image, as you can see in the photograph below. It is called Polish-Hungarian Friendship Tree and shows the close connection between the Polish and Hungarian cultures. There is a text on the mural which reads:
“Hungary and Poland are two forever-living oaks, which have their own trunks, but their roots are far beneath the earth: they have joined and invisibly merged. So the existence and strength of each one is tied to life and health of the other.” — Stanislaw Worcell

ARE WE THE SAME?

By Sergio Dopico, 4th year ESO.

In a recent exchange of students to Romania and Budapest, we met a lot of people, teachers and students from the different countries which are taking part in our project: Romania (obviously), Poland, Sweden, Turkey and Italy. And in Budapest… In Budapest, we met a lot of people, but almost no one was Hungarian... When we arrived there, we were surprised because it was like our city (Ferrol), but much bigger and with really nice buildings.

MASTER AT BLENDING STYLES: BUDAPEST

Architecture in Budapest

By Carla Gago Castro, 4th year ESO.

Where does the beauty of a city reside? In its history? In its people? These are two valid answers but where you can perceive its beauty the most is in its architecture, and the city of Budapest dominates this matter. 

                                          Statues decorating the Opera House. 

WHERE ICE NEVER MELTS...

Scarisoara glacier and ice cave.

By André Rey Vidal, 4th year ESO.

1165 metres over the sea level, the Scarisoara Glacier is still standing there to be admired. The giant block of ice is one of the glaciers which hasn't melted since the Ice Age. Even though it has never disappeared, its shapes are in continuous change. In the summer, a few centimetres of the ice layer melts while in the winter, with the new snow and the freezing temperatures, it grows up into amazing renovated forms.

                       

The Jewish heritage in Budapest and Cracow.

  By Lucía Loureiro Cela, 4th year ESO, IES de Catabois, Ferrol.

The Jewish heritage in Budapest:

The Jewish district of Budapest is exciting and tragic too. It has got the second biggest synagogue in the world but, as well, it was a guetto where the Nazis forced the Jews to live, in times of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The Jewish district is on the bank of the east bank of the Danube river.

AMUSING VISIT TO ORADEA TV STATION

By María Roca Pérez, 4th year ESO.

In an incredible trip to Rumania last May 2017, we, the participants in the Erasmus+ project: What's New on the News? visited many places that we liked. One of them was the television in Oradea.

  

Pandas born in Japan return to China under deal to encourage breeding.

                Three giant pandas born and raised in Japan have returned to China under a standatd agreement to improve the breeding success of the rare animals. According to a report in China Daily newspaper, Hay Bang,Yang Bang ,and You Bang will stay at the Giant Panda Research Center in the Xingdu City of the province of Sichuan.Born in Japan and reaching maturity expatriate, Pandas will be allowed to visit local and foreign tourists after a month of quarantine. The giant panda research center information office Chin Cing said that the pandas would have some time to get used to the new places, and the Japanese food that the pandas have eaten so far may be different from China.' We hope that the bamboo from Japan and Japanese career will be effective in shortening the time of getting used to pandas.Pandas were born in the Adventure World and Fun Park in Wakayama, Japan in 2010 and 2012. One is male and twp are female, and the pandas are released in the country where more affort is spent so that the pandas can adopt to the wildermess. It is believed that only 1600 pandas are left in the world. A large part of the pandas which are among the restricted species due to the deterioration of the natural environment and the decrease of the birth rates, are located in the breeding farms in China.

Sources: www.dailysabah.com

THE BUDAPEST OPERA

BY CARMEN STASSI

Budapest is a beautiful city. There are so many things to see and monuments to visit.

Among all of them we were fascinated by the amazing Budapest opera that we visited

during our Erasmus+ trip.

The opera house in Budapest stands as one of the most beautiful Neo-Renaissance

buildings in Europe.

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Ancient monumental grave under agricultural field in Mersin

         The Soli Pompeiopolis Ancient City, which cames traces of many civilations in the Mezitli district of Mersin, is home to many local and foreign visitors. The ancient city, which is a candidate for Unesco and belongs 36 thosands years ago, attracted great interests in recent years. The Works of Mezitli Municipality and Mersin University Faculty of Arhitecture have turned neglected and unused Pompeiopolis Antiqe City into modern view while the modern road is getting a panaromic view of the street with 360 meters of pedesrian and bicycle path and living areas.

            Soli Pompeiopolis began to be one of the most interesting historical places in the city, and it started to host hundreds of people who travelled with the enchanting air, camera and camcorder in their hands. There is also a harbour to the South of the columns that has not been unearhed yet. A Turkish and English signboard next to the ancient city informs prople about the monumental grave of Arates, who lived between 315 and 245 B.C.and worked on Meterology, Maths and Botanics.

The Elderly University in Antalya,Turkey

                         Students over 60 Complete first year at University for the elderly in Antalya, Turkey

               Biology, Philosopy and Chemistry are taught at the first elderly university in Turkey, founded by  Professor Doctor İsmail Tufan,t he founding chairman of the department of Gerontology at Akdeniz university. The ‘elderly university’established in Antalya fort he fisrt time in Turkey and able to record  over the age of 60 is given Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Repairing and Cooking courses. The elderly univeristy is shown as the first example. It is open and free to everyone over 60. University education is expected to ast 3 years. Prof. Dr. Tufan, who informed the university that there are no grade and competition,s aid that the goal is only to learn.

                Lessons are held three days a week.The classes begin at 5 p.m.in the evening.Lessons go on aooroximately 2.5 hours a day. Students shoud take an exam at the end of each year. When they complete the four-year education, they are required to write 30 pages thesis.
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Budapest: A purifying, old-time bath - smelling of "eggs”

 By: Pontus Elmrin, Vanessa Sidlo, Natalie Josefsson and Lisa Slottner

In the heart of Buda, the west end of Budapest, lies an old thermal bath from the 16th century. The Király thermal bath was built by the Turkish pasha Arslan, and has most of the old interior intact. It is open to both men and women, which means that the pools are not divided into different areas depending on sex.