Poland - videos

Poland - opening of the project meeting from Merike Sikk on Vimeo.

Maturity ball in Poland from Merike Sikk on Vimeo.

Project meeting in Poland from Merike Sikk on Vimeo.

Myebook - graphs

Here are the results of the tolerance questionnaire, carried out at the beginning of the project. In these graphs you can see the results of all 5 participating countries.
Myebook - graphs

Project brochure

http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=78024

Ebulletins

Our Italian partners have written interesting and profound articles about the mobilities to different countries. Read, what they wrote about Turkey, Portugal, Estonia and Poland!
http://www.itivittorioemanueleterzopa.it/topscent/index.php

Polish Day

On the Polish Day we had some posters about Poland on the wall. There were also some pictures taken on the trip by students and an exposition in the library.

Saturday, 15.01.2011

On Saturday evening we had a Maturity ball, which marks 100 days to the maturity exams. It started at 7 o'clock but we had a whole day with our families before that.

Me and Siret lived in Natalia Szcymanska's place. The family was really nice. As we could see, the maturity ball is very important to the Polish students. At first we spent a good time with our host's father at a shopping centre and after that we went to the hairdresser's with our host's mother. Before we went to the hairdresser's, we took some pictures from the internet to show them to the hairdresser, because she couldn't speak English. When we got there, we showed our pictures and the hairdresser did a really beautiful hairdo. Body language helped us a lot. Then we headed back home. Then we had to get dressed and a photographer came to our place. We had so much fun during the photoshoot.

Then it was time to go to the party. The Maturity ball started with a Polonese. It was a beautiful dance where all the schoolleavers were dancing this dance, the same steps but different combinations. It lasted for about 45 minutes. After the performance food was brougt to the tables. Then, half an hour later everyone started dancing. The ball lasted till 5 o'clock and the dancefloor was always full of dancers. It was an unforgettable night for all of us!

Friday, Jan 14th

On Friday we had to be in school at 8 o’clock and Portuguese students made their presentation, because they weren't there when the others presented theirs. So we waited about an hour and a half before they started presenting. After that we went to Cracow. When we arrived to Cracow we went to the castle called Wawel. It was a really beautiful castle. We also visited St.Mary's Basilica.
After St.Mary's Basilica we went to eat in restaurant, we ate traditional Polish soup and pork with potatoes. After the dinner we had about 3 hours of free time, everybody went to the Main Market Square, when we split up with others, everybody went their own way. We went back to Dabrowa Gornicza. Then we had dinner with our families and that was the end of our very interesting and enjoyable day :)

Wednesday, Jan 12th

That day started at 9 o'clock. We went to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Firstly we had a tour at Auschwitz the first. The guide introduced us how people had to live there. We saw many horrible pictures, a lot of things which were collected from people who were sent there. We can now imagine how they had to suffer. But still next to the Birkenau camp it looked much nicer. We could also see the only remained gas oven chamber. Luckily we had a really great guide who made that day very interesting for all of us. After 5 hours tour we had a lunch at the local restaurant and 6 o'clock we were back at Dabrowa Gornizsa and could go home to our host families.

Tuesday, Jan 11th

Tuesday, 11.01.2011
Our day started at 8 o’clock. This day was ment for presentations, which every country had to do to give a little overview about their carnivals and festivals. Presenations started later due to computer problems, but everyone managed nicely. The first country was Estonia, then Italy and Turkey. Unfortunately, Portugese students hadn’t arrived yet. It was good to listen to other countries traditions. When performances were over, Polish students had prepared for us a little show. Some students sang a few songs and also danced. It was very nicely organised entertaining performance.
After lunch we went to the city municipality. The mayor couldn’t come there, but he found a very nice women to introduce us the whole building. When the excursion in the building was over, we had some free time. Most of the project students went to the local shopping centre.
At 5 pm we started gathering at Nemo’s. This was a really good place to spend time. There were billiards and we could even play bowling. After eating there, we had a bowling competition – Estonian team won. We were also given diplomas, like it has been in every country.
This day was very interesting and full of activities, which we all really enjoyed.

Preparations for the project meeting in Poland

On Dec 7th we listened to two presentations about Poland
General information by Kärol, Maarja, Hanna
Religion in Poland and Pope John Paul II by Laura, Birgit and Triinu

On Dec 14th the presentations were about
Culture and Sport - Aili, Kristiine, Mari
Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union and Krakow - Riin, Marje
Holocaust and Auschwitz - Evelin Tiiter