Day 5 in Slovenia

Today we had another exciting episode of our exchange. After a very thrilling bus trip to the hills of Kamnik, we visited the Budnar's museum house and learnt how people lived 200 hundred years ago. Then you became experts at making Easter bouquets, didn't you? Good job everyone!

Before lunch, we visited the smallest dislocated unit of our school in Vranja Peč where pupils and teachers prepared a marvellous perfomance.



In the afternoon we played different sports in the gym, then we headed to Ljubljana where we had a tour of the castle.

Please respond to the following questions for the blog:


What was the most dangerous part of the Ljubljana castle?

What was the most beautiful part of the castle?

Would you like to live in this castle? Why/why not?



Before going to bed, please answer the questions and write down your impressions of this day.

Scott's Photos

Lidija's Photos

Day 4 in Slovenia

It is Sunday already - a day with the host family. The sky is clear, the sun is shining and the temperatures are going to be quite nice. Enjoy your day and in the evening take a moment or two to share your day with us in the comments of this post.

Your teachers

Lidijas photos

Jans photos

Oliviers photos

Day 3 in Slovenia

An early morning, a lot of bus driving, visiting places like Kranj and its tunnels, the Planica ski jump, sport activity (snowball and "snowbaths" were very popular again!!), Kranjska gora, Bled and its castle, lake, island and a delicious cake.
We had a great, sunny day together, with a few complications (Chloe we hope you'll feel better soon!), a lot of singing, laughing and bonding. Thank you all for this wonderful day.

There is a big party going on this evening, so enjoy it!

Lidijas photos

Jans photos

Oliviers photos

Day 2 in Slovenia

Hi!
This morning was the offical start of our week together. Our headmaster welcomed us, we had the school tour and we learned about Slovenia on this page: http://stochat.av-studio.si/.

After lunch we visited Kamnik and than we play the EU Quiz in tho school cafetiria.

It was a nice day, we had some sun and the biggest hit was the "snowball game". More about our day you can see in the photos and read about it in the comments.

Lidijas photos

Jans photos

Oliviers photos

Day 1 in Slovenia

Dear guests!

Welcome to Slovenia! We are excited to have you here! We hope you had a pleasant flight and you are not too tired. Anyway, we are sure you have lots of energy for the week of fun and play ahead of us and you cannot wait to spend time with your Slovene friends.



Photos from the Ljubljana airport

Photos from Basel-Munich airports




WORKSHOP: COMPARISON OF SLOVENIA - THE NETHERLANDS

The Dutch group will start with their first workshop today. Your task is to compare the following in the two countries:

My country - your country ( Tim/Jan, Koen/Aljoša)

My flag - your flag (Sanne/Anja, Wouter/David)

My town - your town (Stephanie/Katarina)

My school - your school (Margriet/Lina, David/Peter)

My family - your family (Michelle/Hana)

My house - your house (Patrick/Klemen, Maike/Manca)

My room - your room (Janna/Maša)


Have fun! Make powerpoint presentations!



Photos from the workshop


Photos from teacher Jan


Pupils will spend the evening with their host families and we expect you to write your first impressions in the comments of this post. We can't wait to read your comments! Have fun getting to know each other!

It's winter in Slovenia

Dear our guests,

We can't wait to meet you in Kamnik. You must be packing your suitcases. Please, do it carefully and don't forget anything. It's still winter in Slovenia. This morning it was -8. It's windy. It's not spring here at all. The weather forecast calls for new snow this Wednesday and Thursday. Make sure you take warm clothes and appropriate shoes. We'll spend a lot of time outdoors. Wishing you all a safe journey and a wonderful week in Slovenia. Welcome!!

Bon voyage!

Teachers from Slovenia

PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK IN SLOVENIA

Dear pupils and teachers,
You can find the programme for the week in Slovenia HERE. Write what you think about it.
Do you know what Easter palm bouquets are?

Looking forward to meeting you all

Teachers from Slovenia

Articles on the exchange

We wrote about our project and our week together (in slovene language) and the articles were published here:

• school e-magazine


• Kamniks' e-magazine about France and The Netherlands

We also hope, that 2 local newspapers will publish the articles and at the end of this school year we'll also write an article for our School Almanac.

Wishes

The first part of the exchange is over. We know each other a little bit better and we can hardly wait to host you in March in Slovenia. But before that holidays are coming so you can use this post to write down your holiday wishes for everyone.

BACK HOME

After our flight was rebooked to Munich and Klagenfurt at around 5 in the afternoon we met our French group. We had a pleasant drive back home and we had so much to talk about.
We would like to say thanks to the school managment, that supports our international work, to the families, who trust us with their children, to the host families who took good care of us in the past week and to the teachers, who organized a great programme for us.
We miss you already and we look forward to meet you on the 11th March 2010.

LAST DAY in France (GOING HOME)

We are leaving at 7.30 in the morning from the school.

MERCI France and le Collège des Bruyères et bon voyage.

We are safely back home. The passport was still waiting for us. We had lots of fun about it.
We were crying at the airport as never before because it was hard to say goodbye.

Day 7 in The Netherlands

We visited Leiden today and made some nice panorama pictures from the Burcht. Then we visited one branch of our school and had a lesson on Holland during world war 2. In the main building we filmed the Dutch part of the scientists and we worked on the Christmas powerpoints.
Tonight we had a BONTE evening!
We had our last ride with bicycles, we are packing our bags now and spending last minutes with our hostfamily. Tomorrow at 8.00 we take the train from Leiden Central to the Schipol Airport.

Day 7 in France

The last day to work all together in France.

During this day, pupils have to compare things in our two countries :

My country - your country (Meta / Chloé Ch.)

My flag - your flag (Petra / Laurie - Lara S. / Laura H.)

My town - your town ( Zala / Joanna - Tim / Jean)

My school - your school ( Lara / Laura - Katarina / Chloé S.)

My family - your family (Timotej / Nicolas - Mark / Alexandre)

My house - your house (Jan / Valentin - Charlotte / Evelina)

In the afternoon we filmed the interviews of French scientists -Georges CUVIER and Etienne OEHMICHEN. It was interesting. In the meantime our compatriot visited us at school. His name is Robert and he has been living in France for 28 years. He saw us on TV last night and we we were able to talk to him in Slovene. It was quite nostalgic.

We are now getting ready for FRIZOO's concert. She'll play the trumpet. Go Frizoo!!

After the concert we are going to have a party all together with lots of MUSIC. This is unfortunately the last day :(

Day 6 in The Netherlands

We visited Amsterdam today and I would like you to write in the comments of this post your own perception of the big city. You can also tell us what your plans are for today. You can also give us the links where we can find your own fotos of the day