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

Tolerance questionnaire 2

We carroied through a questionnaire at the beginning of the project (in autumn 2009) and end ( winter 2011) of the project. This link takes you to the questionnaire and also the responses of Estonian students in 2011.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/gform?key=0Akmdjjk7XDTJdGlsX29vWlhxQXVLd1RmNHVQLXppUFE&hl=en&gridId=0#chart>

Feedback - project meeting in Estonia

Teachers' Day October 5th, 2010

It was a teachers' day in our school, and the foreign students had a chance to see how we celebrate this day in our school.
Teachers day is for giving respect to our teachers, the 12th form students replace them in their work - giving lessons..
After the 4th lesson our project students went to visit Rakvere fortress, where we had a fun excursion, the guide showed us how the fortress was maintained and how people lived and worked there.

Meeting with Ida-Virumaa October 3, 2010

The day started quite early, because our aim was to visit many places in Ida-Virumaa.
First we set our directions to Kohtla-Nõmme, to visit a closed limestone mine, which is nowadays used as a museum.

Our tour took us underground where we could see how miners worked and some of us had a chance to use their tools, and we all got to ride on an underground train.
Our next destination was a border town where Europe meets Russia, Narva.


There we had lunch where we wanted to and we visited the garden of Narva fortress, where we could
see the Narva river and Russia.
Our next stop was a forbidden town Sillamäe, which is famous for its architecture. Sillamäe was the town, during the Soviet occupation, where uranium was mined and processed.
Uranium is famous for being the main component in nuclear weapons. The town was closed and forbidden for strangers.
The last place that we visited was a nunnery, which is located in the lovely forests of Kuremäe.

We had a chance to see the nuns living their ordinary life. Everybody seemed to like the trip.

04.10.2010 - Topscent Calendar,Viitna,meeting with the Lääne- Viru county governor

On Monday, we went to school by 8.45. All the foreign guests and eight Estonian students were devided into 4 groups to make the topscent calendar.All the 12 months were devided between the groups.We finished the calendar about 1 pm.After that the guests had a lunch.



After the lunch each group had to present their events.Every group did it very well.
Here you can see the timelines
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/76008

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/77890

After the presentations the guests and some Estonian students went to Rakvere to meet Lääne- Viru county governor Einar Vallbaum.


After that we had free time about 1 hour in the shopping center called Põhjakesus.We arrived back to Kadrina about 4 pm.
19.30 we met in front of the schoolhouse and we went to Viitna pub, where we had a party.


While we were eating there were folk dancers singing and dancing with us.Eveyone who wanted dance had chance to do it.It was really enjoyable day and I hope everybody liked it

Viitna Kaera-Jaan from Merike Sikk on Vimeo.

as has become a tradition in our meetings already, we danced Kaera-Jaan together.

04.10.2010 Topscent Calendar,Party in Viitna and meeting with the Lääne- Viru county governor

On Monday all the foreign guests and 8 people from Estonia who were devided into 4 groups started to make a topscent calendar of events through all year in each 5 countries.For example Italian students posted Italian events and Polish students posted Polish events.We finished it about 1 pm.Then the guests had a lunch and after that we had to present this calendar.Each group presented their events.Afther that about 2.30 pm the guests and some of the Estonian students

Kadrina Fashion Show

In every school year in the beginning we have fashion show where all the students who want to participate could do it.This year there was a record number of participants,largely because there were foreign guests watching.This year the winner was 11 grade