Comenius-Projekt: Treffen der 5 Länder in Bukarest

Vom 16. bis 23.4. fand in Bu­ka­rest das 4. Pro­jekt­treffen des CO­ME­NIUS-Schul­pro­jektes „Ju­gend­welten in einem bunten Eu­ropa“ statt, an dem auch Schü­le­rInnen und Leh­re­rInnen des Goethe-Gym­na­siums teil­nahmen. In mul­ti­na­tio­nalen Ar­beits­gruppen wurde das dritte Pro­jekt­jahr in­halt­lich und me­tho­disch ge­plant, das mit einer großen Ab­schluss­kon­fe­renz in Ham­burg am Goethe-Gym­na­sium enden wird. Ar­beitss­pra­chen waren auch in diesem Jahr in dieser Rei­hen­folge: Eng­lisch, Spa­nisch und Deutsch. Und auf Eng­lisch ist daher auch der ge­mein­schaft­liche Be­richt von zwei schwe­di­schen und ham­bur­gi­schen Schü­le­rInnen, die in Bu­ka­rest dabei waren.

Co­me­nius - The Pro­ject Mee­ting in Bucha­rest, Ro­mania - 18 - 22 April 2005

When we ar­rived at the air­port in Ro­mania we were well re­ceived by our Ro­ma­nian hosts After a long flight we were very happy to meet our Ro­ma­nian col­lea­gues and to settle in their homes. The very first im­pres­sion we got were that the Ro­ma­nians are very kind and hos­pi­table with us. Bucha­rest is a very dif­fe­rent city from what we are used to, but we got a po­si­tive im­pres­sion of it.

Monday mor­ning we met at the Goethe Col­lege, where we got to know the other par­ti­ci­pants. The “wor­king lan­guages” were Eng­lish and German, so it was easy for us to com­mu­ni­cate and un­der­stand each other. The main is­sues for the week were se­xua­lity and his­tory. We split up in three in­ter­na­tional groups to com­bine dif­fe­rent opi­nions and views on the to­pics. But be­fore we started wor­king we dis­cussed the ef­fi­ciency and the goals of the work we wanted to achieve. To im­prove the ef­fi­ciency we de­cided to follow some basic rules. The work began with some dis­cus­sions in the groups and it was very ex­ci­ting to hear the dif­fe­rent opi­nions – alt­hough we came from dif­fe­rent coun­tries, it clearly ap­peared that young people in ge­neral have si­milar men­ta­li­ties. It is also clear that hu­mour is an im­portant part for good group work – as well as for the te­a­chers as the pu­pils. His­tory and se­xua­lity are two sub­jects which in­flu­ence our life a great deal. The his­tory is very im­portant for our coun­tries’ de­ve­lop­ment and se­xua­lity is so­me­thing that af­fects eve­r­y­body in our eve­r­yday life be­cause it is a cur­rent issue. This pro­ject is ne­cessary to get closer and create a bigger un­der­stan­ding to­wards each other. It is a chal­lenge for us to work for a united Eu­rope and to esta­blish a good and strong com­mu­ni­ca­tion bet­ween the cul­tures. This was not al­ways easy but we be­lieve it was a suc­cess – so far. The week in Bucha­rest was a lot of hard work (until 17 o’clock eve­r­yday) but af­ter­wards we had some spare time. We went bow­ling one night at the mall – this was fun and we im­proved our new fri­end­ships and could prac­tice for­eign lan­guages. In the end it was in­te­res­ting to use the things we have learned in Eng­lish and German les­sons at our own school. There were many re­stau­rants in Bucha­rest for example Pizza Hut, where we went one night. We also vi­sited a park, where we had a lot of fun. In the park we went ro­wing in little boats – and the night ended up very “wet” for most of us.

The week in Bucha­rest was full of new ex­pe­ri­ences – all of them very po­si­tive and we were able to come home with a new view of ano­ther country, city and cul­ture. We are gra­teful to our hosts and we thank them for a very plea­sant stay.

Written by: (Ma­j­britt from Va­sas­kolan in Gävle, Sweden and Kai Sander from Ham­burg)