Belgium 2011

From the 21st to the 26th of January two students and two teachers from the Institute of Secondary Education “Ramón y Cajal” from Murcia, Spain, went to Thuin for the 5^th meeting of the Comenius school project “As a European I’d Like to Teach the World …”

The activity that we presented and evaluated there was “What is Important to Me”. Some students presented what they had done regarding values: power point presentations, surveys, interviews, videoclips and short  films. Those who couldn’t come sent their contribution and it was displayed at school: poems, colorful posters, Christmas cards, and drawings showing what makes them happy. During the meetings at school the teachers evaluated that activity, which had been favorably received in all the partner schools, prepared the next activity to be implemented at the partner schools, we got everything set for the new project we want to apply for, and also had a meeting with the person in charge of the Europass in Brussels.

 These days spent in Belgium gave us the opportunity to get to know more about the country and its people, traditions and food. We visited Thuin, Brugges, Ostende, and Louvain-la-Neuve. And the people who “took care of us” at school and out of it, made us feel at home; and the first impressions that we got were different from the ones we would have got if we had been just tourists. I mean that thanks to the attentions we were showered on by parents, teachers and students, we felt an integrating part of the same community and much closer to them than before.

Thanks once more to all those who acted according to the Golden Rule of reciprocity that states that one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.

 Begoña Toro Velasco

                                   Coordinator of the Comenius project, Spain

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