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.

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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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