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.

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.

  

Visit to the Schindler Factory in Cracow.

The Schindler factory is located in the Zablocie district in Cracow, within walking distance from Plac Bohaterow Getta (in Podgorze). Today, it is a museum which displays all the historical period since the trigger of Second World War till the Soviet occupation of Poland.               

   

 

The factory welcomes the visitor with a large plaque which reads: 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire'. It was erected by the Jewish Community Council of Cracow and Students and Faculty of Albion College (Michigan, USA) as you can see in the photograph.

Wawel Castle, the heart of Cracow.

By Elisa Rodríguez Rodríguez, (4th year ESO)

Wawel Royal Castle is a Gothic castle located in Krakow, Poland. Built at the behest of Casimiro III the Great, it consists of several structures located around a central patio. It was rebuilt by Jogaila and Eduviges I in the 14th century.

                                     

AN UNEXPECTED SHOW.

By the Erasmus + team from IES de Catabois that travelled to Poland.

On our recent trip to Bierun, in Poland, we went on a trip to the Beskidy mountains, quite close to Bierun. We visited Lesny Park, a nice place in the middle of the forest where you can walk amongst animals like fallow deers or some kind of goats and you can even breed them. As well you see some other types of animals in fenced spaces while you go for a walk in the park. 

    

EUROPEAN WEDDINGS CURIOSITIES: Weddings in a few European countries. Customs and traditions.

Through the e-book we're presenting, we'd like to invite you, reader, to find out about some of the most relevant or amazing details which make the wedding celebrations in each of the participating countries in this project so unique and, yet, so close to each other.
 

WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE.

By Sandra Cepeiro García, 3^rd year ESO A. Coordinators: Emilia Saavedra Seijo and Alfonso Prieto Pita.

Women's right to vote should have been accepted much earlier. The first time that women could vote without any restriction was in New Zealand in 1893, because of Kate Sheppard´s struggle.

 

AN IDOL IN MY LIFE: Javier Gómez Noya, five times World Champion in triathlon.

By Lucía Loureiro Cela (4th year ESO).

Javier Gómez Noya was born in Basilea (Switzerland), in March 25th, 1983, but he moved to Ferrol, Spain, when he was 3 months old.
Javier studied and started practising sports in Pontevedra.

He discovered triathlon in 1998. He made his debut in the Olympic-distance triathlon at the age of 15. Javi's evolution was extremely fast; he won practically all the triathlon contests in which he participated in his category.

http://www.nauticonaron.com/Triatlon.htm

However, he has gone through more than one obstacle on his climb to the top.

Missing children: an unsolved major issue today. Diana Quer.

By Eli Tatyanova Petkova (4th year ESO)

In the United States, about half a million children disappear annually. More than 100,000 children disappear in England each year too, although some say that the figure is much higher. The former Soviet Union reports tens of thousands of missing children. In South Africa, it is said that the amount exceeds ten thousand. In Germany, it's not any better, and an estimated 100,000 children are reported missing every year, according to the data of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Millions of children suffer the same fate in Latin America and all over the world. The statistics about the problem can't be considered as very reliable mainly because of the lack of a common definition of 'missing child'.

    

INTA AND UAVS: New Technologies for the Future. Unmanned aircrafts.

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales and Sergio Dopico Arnoso (4th year ESO)

(After a visit to the INTA facilities in Rozas, we're presenting the second part of the article published on June 8th 2016, called 'The Drone Industry in Galicia')

Since the taking off of the first aircraft by the end of the XIX century or beginnings of the XX until now many things have changed. The first aircrafts used to fly just a few metres from the ground, were piloted at least by a pilot and they were very little self-sufficient concerning fuel. Today, the situation is completely different and the models which are trying to get a place in the world of aviation are unmanned aircrafts, which can travel long distances and don't even need any crew on board to be piloted.

In a recent visit to the INTA installations near Lugo to investigate this new centre of development that the Xunta de Galicia, together with private enterprises, has promoted, we became aware that the future of aviation is probably in the hands of these aircrafts.

Freak Culture

By André Rey Vidal (4th year ESO)

 

In many places in the world, even in the core of this “sub-culture”, Japan, it’s impolite to go out with the T-Shirt of your favourite anime, saying you play “Dungeons and Dragons” or shout 'Avada Kedabra’ with your friends. But, let’s go back to previous times, how have we got to this almost irrational hatred?

 

WHEN REALITY SURPASES FICTION.

By Elisa Rodríguez Rodríguez (4th year ESO), Aïcha Mª Pato Romero (3rd year ESO, P-MAR) and Judith Vilariño Gómez (3RD year ESO) .

It's been fourteen years since the premiere of 'Lilo & Stich', fifteen since the terrorist attacks to the Twin Towers in New York. Surely, everyone remembers the movie that thrilled its young viewers as much as the adults who accompanied them to the cinema. The story of friendship recounted by Disney through cartoons is touching to everyone. The film depicts the friendship between an orphan Hawaiian girl and a blue very naughty alien. So far so good. But, before the film was released, many substantial changes were made to delete the violent scenes that the original version contained.