Reports with our students' impressions after the meeting in Romania

Comenius - “What we are and what we hope we will be.”

My name is Leonard Geanta and i`m from Bucharest, Romania. I am currently in the 12th grade at “V. Harnaj High-School” department of Economics/Accounting.
This year I joined in Comenius project with theme “What we are and what we hope we will be”
This project started in October 2009. It is made into English in partnership with 7 schools from European countries like : Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Portugal, Italy and Norway.
First meeting was in Romania on 24th- 30th October 2009 in my high-school. It was a great pleasure for me to meet and to talk with all those people.
Here in Romania, we had to do an essay about us ( name, school, friends, free time), this was very funny because in this way we meet each other very good, and you know, it`s funny to hear things that you don`t know about a persons that you know from 2006.
Another thing that we did was a video-clip…In that one we showed a normal day for us…For the meeting we had to made a presentation about a theme that our professor gave to us. I had to talk about Bucharest. In my opinion this was the best subject to talk about…I made a Power Point Presentation with all information about my city ( Herastrau Park, Dambovita River, Village Museum and more other).
From this meeting I learnt to make video-clips, I meet a lot of people that became my friends, I was visiting Village Museum with all guests, I was talking with guests about living in Bucharest and learn in “V. Harnaj”, about their countries, their schools and of course about university, because next year I will make it to university.
Next meeting will be in Portugal on May. I can`t wait to see my new friends, through we keep in touch on the internet, and I would like to thank my teacher for involving me in this project.


My impressions- Lascu Laurentiu

I was really eager to met the other people from the countries witch were selected to participate in this project which I consider very useful not only to us but to all the participants !I was very glad to see that all of them were very opened to new ideas and cultures .It was like a gathering of different principles and opinions about the world.
I want to thank my teachers for selecting me to get involved in this amazing project. This is the road to revolution, our revolution in the world.
My only regret is that we had only 4 days to discuss about us and about our country. But I hope that soon we will have more time and more active participants.
In short I think it was a success, a great success. We talked, we made friends and we realized how good is to have other opinions for a single task.
Lascu Laurentiu



Neagu Daniela- report with my impressions about the meeting and the project:

My opinion on this first meeting, on this project is a good one, because I had a chance to present my beautiful country and learned about the countries submitted on this project.
I had the opportunity to meet sociable, nice, friendly people.
I hope to go further with this exchange of experiences, that would make me a great pleasure to continue because it is a great project, I would like being involved in many projects like this one because we have the opportunity to meet traditions, cultures from other countries, to meet people who in time become friends ...
So I want very much to go on with the project and having the chance to visit the countries from this project.
Neagu Daniela


Troanca Ana Maria- report with my impressions after the meeting in Romania.

What this experience meant for you?

For me this experience was something new in my life, unique and helped me to improve my English and to make new friends, and have the opportunity to know different characters and personalities to the extent that I could. During this exchange of experience we could visit places where I have not been before, I connected friends and I got more confidence in myself and my power and ability to do as many things and to follow my path in life and passion for theater.
I got over my shyness and I exposed my point of view when I thought I was right and when necessary.
I think that experience helped me as person and I think that was welcome for my school, for teachers who have worked and contributed to the exchange of experiences, because people from other countries to see that in Romania are not just people who’’ pull us down’’ making things not so well seen in other countries, but we have people and young talented, respectful and eager to learn as many new things to study and to have a good future.
I want very much to go on with this experience and do my best to get as far and from now on, to participate in other experiences of this kind if I have an opportunity to.
To conclude this experience helped me, I changed for the better and made me have more confidence because of my courage and my teacher who trusted me and my skills. So that it was for me this exchange of experiences.
Troanca Ana Maria



My Impression about Comenius Visit – Romania Duhan Razvan

Hello, my name is Duhan Razvan Mihai and I’m a student in Harnaj College .
In my opinion the first meeting in project, which took place in our beloved High School was a bit awkward but a very nice experience after all. Was a bit awkward because was the very first meeting in this project for us and I really didn’t know what to do better.
The teachers and the students did a very good job with the presentations about our country and our partners countries. Foreign teachers we’re very interested in our presentations (at least that’s what It looked like) and I personally liked very much the images they showed us about where they live and work. I am still stunned that Turkey has such a big school and Norway has such a beautiful landscape near the school.
Students to be honest looked a bit tired and I am pretty sure they just wanted the presentation to be over so they can go and visit our beloved city.
I really hope in the following presentations among the next years, we will get to know better each others ( students ) and learn about our different cultures , such as music and lifestyles.
My kudos to you all.


My impressions about the meeting in my country
- Danalache Adrian

Let’s say that I’ve been a little eager to meet the people on this program. It was the first time for me when I had to say a presentation in front of foreign people . It went really well .
Al participants were glad as me for this experience. Everything went good and smooth with some minor exceptions. The teachers were really open to conversations and students weren’t far behind. It’s good that I’ve been selected to be the one to represent my country in this program. My teachers have faith in me to do a good job so I won’t disappoint them .
It was a pity that the foreign people to our country couldn’t stay more than 4 days so they could fully experience what my country has to offer. At least they saw Bran’s Castle , Dracula’s Castle to be more precise. It is one of our biggest cultural sites.
We’ve made some new friends and I am also glad about , not many people have friends in different countries and this is a very bad thing , we really need to break the gaps between societies.
Now I’m looking forward to see what our partners have to offer us in the means of experience .


Dinca Roxana Oana
Feedback
I think the visit we have received from all the teachers and students of abroad was a pleasant one, at least for me. We went to see some museums and I was pretty much surprised to find out how eager they were to know our customs or a slice of our modern history. I also liked the time they came to see our school projects, gave us small gifts and listen with such an open-minded attitude some problems regarding our educational system.
They looked so happy to be in Romania, especially when we went on a trip to the mountain side and they got to visit the Peles and the Bran Castle for the first time. I am so glad I had this opportunity to meet with all of those great people and managed to communicate with them.
I consider their arrival here a tremendous chance for our school to get some extra attention from abroad, and also, perhaps a tiny step forward to improve the diplomatic relations between countries.

Mihaela- Impressions after the visit
I think that that this project is a very good idea for our school and according the visit I can say that it was a geart one. For us was very strange and a little difficult because it was the first time when we had to talk only in English, we had to make some presentations and we had to take care about the foreign group. The start of the visit was hard but in the following days everything went on the right way. The experience was a very nice one, we had the chance to meet people from all Europe, we had the chance to talk about different cultures, educational systems, traditions, the best touristic destioantions. For me and for my colleagues the meeting was a great opportunity to develop our language and our knowledge about Europe.


For me, this project is something new; I’ve never done a project that took so much time, but it has been interesting so far.
My participation at this project gave me the opportunity to find out more about the culture and the life of other foreign teenagers. It also gave me the chance to participate at a very important project that made me change my opinion about things and about my goals .
This experience taught me to see the differences between their schools and ours. For example, I noticed that the projects and activities that they participate to are more numerous and complex.
I really enjoyed participating at this project and I really hope this is not just a one time opportunity, so I really appreciate their presentation and I hope they enjoyed our presentation as well.
In the future I hope that this kind of projects will help us developing our relations.
Zarnescu Lois


MY OPINION ACCORDING THE PROJECT "COMENIUS 1" is a very GOOD one.
I had the opportunity to meet people from other countries. I liked the fact that we had to show our presentations to the partners and I liked the persons who came to the meeting. We were able to exchange information, I COULD SHOW them the BEAUTY of our country ROMANIA and they all could see our High School.
Maybe I can not express in words what it was, but I liked VERRY much and I think I had a lot of THINGS to learn from them AND about THEIR CULTURE and TRADITIONS.
Dinu Gabriela