The official handover

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To the official handover took place at ITCG on Friday 19th April.

Ended the Comenius project, Prof N. Maiellaro, the coordinator of the project with teachers and students  handed over to the School Manager the magazines realized and given by the Germany Coordinator in Hungary .

In the School Manager’s office, students and teachers tasting the chocolates (Sweet Box) offered by the partner of Cyprus.

The School Manager thanked the prof. Maiellaro for his willingness and courage to carry on this wonderful initiative, and encouraged students and teachers to collaborate and undertake new projects in Europe.

The prof. Maiellaro, thanked the School Manager for the trust in the initiative, and thanked everyone for their collaboration, teachers and non-teachers.

Comenius in Tursi (Italy) 26th february – 3rd march

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My name is Carmine, I took part to the Comenius project hosting a German student.

When my teacher Professor Maiellaro asked me if I wanted took part to Comenius project, hosting a foreign student, I was really very enthusiastic, I immediately asked my parents for permission.

They agreed, they decided that we could do it. I asked my teacher, and I confirmed my family’s decision. My teacher gave me the e-mail address of the German student, Simon Shaflitzl, for starting knowing each other.

After the first contact, we began to exchange a lot of e-mail to find out what were our hobbies, what we liked doing, if you were allergic to something, even what we did not like.

The Germany team arrived by plane to Bari and rented a car to get quickly to Tursi.

On February 26, at 17:30, we were at school; the bus stopped near the main entrance of the school. We knew right away that they were, and after the greetings, I met Simon, a 14 year old boy, tall, blond, quiet and shy. From the first meeting I knew he was a boy available, friendly and eager for new experiences

The next day we were all at school and after being together until the break we went to the auditorium for the student to student presentation “” about music, the National Anthem, and each European Country presented their Country then we did the workshop “About Italy ….: I, in English, presented Italy, from the cultural and artistic the point of view.

The day 27th continued in the afternoon with a pleasant musical show during which some students performed the National Anthems of different countries and pieces of Italian music known all over the world, after some pupils recited some lyrics from Albino Pierro, a tursitan poet, in English.

The next day, February 28th, we gathered in the gym to take part to “Games Without Frontiers” organized by our teacher Prof. Scorcia. All the participants received as a gift a prize medal with Comenius’ logo and the dates of the Comenius project, I loved it and will keep it as a souvenir. We run several games like limbo, pathways, the tug of war and football while sitting. At 10:30 we had waited for recreation and 13:30 for lunch. At 15.30 we took the bus to the camp Paintball in Policoro.

After doing the teams and listened to the rules and the dangers that we could run, we started to play. We had so much fun because in Germany or other countries Paintball is forbidden for children under 18 years. In the evening we returned home with my mom, we washed ourselves, we had dinner and we went out for a walk to the center of Nova Siri, where we saw the church and then we brought Simon to the sea.

The 1st March we did the CITY GAME, a game organized by Prof. Mormando and

prof. D’ Argenio. You had to do a questionnaire seeking answers through the streets of the town obliterating the witness at every stage and finally complete the puzzle.

If everything was correct the word Jolly “BASILICATA.” would appear

The path ended in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rabatana, where there was the award of the three top teams.

All participants had the cap of “Manlio Capitolo.”’ School.

Late in the afternoon at 17:30, there was a disco, we danced and we had a great time thanks to good dj, a student from our school. In the evening we returned home, and after dinner we helped to prepare Simon his suitcase.

The next day Simon reluctantly greeted my mom and my sister and my father went to the bus stop. We took the bus and arrived in Tursi at 08:05. At 9.30 came the German professors. I said goodbye to Simon asking him to return to Italy this summer with his family. At 10:00 they left pleased and happy to have this experience ended well.
The Comenius project has been for me an exceptionally beautiful and exciting project because it was a full immersion in the English language, has allowed me to make new friends, to compare with other students of my age and also to have fun as well as to experience the school in a different way: more happy and carefree.

I hope that my friendship with Simon does not finish and it continues to grow with us.

Thanks to all the teachers who have worked so hard to give us this great opportunity.

Carmine 1 B informatics

Onion Smell

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It was 6.00 p.m. local time, when we landed at the airport of Larnaca and our nostrils immediately smelt a pleasant smell of onions. This was the first sign of proximity to Asia, the continent where the onion is the basilar ingredient in cooking. Perhaps not everyone knows that, in geographic terms, the island of Cyprus is a transcontinental territory, as it is a part of Europe in the Asian area: it is only 70 km far from Turkey, 100 km from the Near East and 500 km from Egypt, even if it is culturally European.

Cyprus joined the C.E. on 1 May 2004. 78% of the population is Greek-Cypriot (mostly Orthodox) while 18% is Turkish- Cypriot (Muslim). It shares many customs with Greece and Turkey but keeps its own identities, mostly based on religion.

Despite the many hours of travel, we were very curious about the multi- pastel-coloured island:  in the island of Cyprus the air is so light and crisp that colours are light and polished, too. In Limassol the girls were welcomed by the Cypriot host families, while the teachers joined  their colleagues at the Currier hotel.

The first difficulty was to become part of an unknown family, which turned to be our family in  few hours. The dinner based on chicken and Cypriot sauces did the rest: food has a mysterious familiarizing power, breaking down barriers and eliminating  differences.

Of course communication was essentially based on the use of English.

The first day we took part of the workshop at the school Neapolis. On that occasion each group of students presented a survey on the young people’s way of dressing in their own country. Nice to say that the girls who attend Neapolis school wear a grey pleated skirt, as in English colleges, while the boys wear black trousers (As a matter of fact the island was ruled by the British for over a century).

The days have flown away. All the mornings we met students  from the other participating European countries (Danish, Hungarian, Spanish, Latvian, Turks, Rumanians and Cypriots) in order to carry out program activities.

In the afternoon we visited different places: the archaeological site of the Temple of Apollo, the castle of Kolossi and walked along the beach. The sea of Cyprus is clear and transparent, an ideal place to imagine the birth of Aphrodite out of the foaming sea.

The Comenius project has given us five days of study as well as lot of fun in this beautiful city, Limassol. We wish you may have our same  experience in order to enlarge your culture and improve your English.

Miriana Maiellaro e Vanessa Bellino

Classe IV A iter

Sweet Box Italy

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Thanks Spain