vineri, 29 ianuarie 2010

Newsletter with photos about the activities of our project





Newsletter with photos about our project: „What we are what we hope we will be”
Starting with 1st October 2009 to June 2011 Colegiul Agricol Viaceslav Harnaj from Bucharest develops the project Comenius 1 „ What we are what we hope we will be” from the Lifelong Learning Programme. In the project 7 European countries take part: Coordinator( Hungary) and the partners(Romania, Turkey, Norway, Portugal, Bulgaria and Italy).
Starting with 1st October 2009 we realised in our school a Comenius Corner were we can exhibit all information and materials during the project.

Between 24.10.2009- 30.10.2009 in Bucharest took place the first project meeting. At the meeting participated 20 teachers and students from the participating schools. Our team( The headmasters: Felicia Stroe and Radu Gherghe, the responsible of the project: Raluca Calina, the teacher: Luisa Alexandrescu and our students) welcomed the participants at our school. During the meeting there were many activities like:
• Getting to know each other, the Romanian staffs and students with the participants from the other schools. Discussing some differences between different educational systems, visiting the school.
• All the participants presented some power point presentations showing our schools, countries and we had the chance to see the differences between our school , country and the other European countries.
• Our students made some shorts films about their daily routine and everyone enjoyed them.
• There were made some small groups of students who had to care the particioants during their visit in the school and to field trips.

During the visit we discussed how to create a common blog for all counties where we all can exhibit the project materials, we discussed what information must be included on the blogs, what style we should use, we shared different responsabilities about the future activities. We all decided the date of the following project meeting where would go 8 members of our team( Headmaster Felicia Stroe, Responsabil proiect: Raluca Calina, and the students: Troanca Ana Maria, Leonard Geanta, Adrian Lascu, Adrian Danalache, Roxana Dinca and Daniela Neagu)
Our guests had the opportunity to see and discover our town Bucharest and also some of our best know atractions ( Peles Castle and Bran Castle).



After the meeting all the partners have created one blog for each institution
Below you can see the site of the common blog of the project:
http://we-will-be.moraferenciskola.hu/
and the blog for our college
http://comenius1colegiulagricolvharnaj.blogspot.com/,
We created questionnaires based on the topic of the project, distributed them to the students and creted diagrams.
The language used at the meeting was English.
Thanks for all it was a great experience for everyone involved in the project.
Director: Felicia Stroe
Responsible for the project: Raluca Calina

duminică, 10 ianuarie 2010

Short articles with our students' school life activities

My school program : Lascu Laurentiu


Every day of the week we start school at 7:30 AM, but an exception is Wednesday when we start 1 hour later. My opinion is that we have a complicated and a heavy program but we try our best. This year is the hardest cause we have an important exam which could decide our future. Every day we learn many stuffs and interesting things about life and great activities. Monday for example we have Romanian, English and 2 classes of our profile that are very complicated .Tuesday we have math, Geography and Financial planning and other classes witch are boring .Wednesday we have Economics, Math a profile and Sport .Thursday we have 2 classes of math and 4 of profile, as you can see we have many classes of our profile .Friday we have 2 hours of Romanian, 1 of English and 2 of profile.
Our breaks are short of 10 minutes and we don’t have time for the things that we try to do. But in this short time we take advantage at full; we listen to music, we talk and try to repeat out lessons(kind of).Many of my classmates have different tastes with one and the other but our 3 years together made us like brothers .
What I like of our high-school is that we are aloud to speak freely and our opinions are taken in consideration in the future.
It’s a shame that in 1 year we will leave this period of life and days of happiness but also sadness witch this I consider a normal and stable life.


. My high school activites….Neagu Daniela

College V. Harnaj is one of the most respected institutions of education. it has many school activities such as this ‘’Exchange of Experiences’’, that helps to socialize with people and learn about the traditions and culture of their countries and even to visit. Beside this project we had many activities and had to found teams then to form a company to have a good stand ,a good presentation and be shown to ’’Fair of Companies’’, was very funny and educational.
Last year we had to go at Apimpondia is near my high school and had been well organized and have a booth to sell honey school was nice to do something for my high school.
So this is some of my school activities was interesting to participate and I had a lot to learn .


School activities... Troanca Ana Maria
First of all I want to say that our school is customary to have all sorts of school and extracurricular activities ,we recreate and engaged in more drag and are working more effort to come out as we should, and should represent as high school and get them high performance in everything we do.
Some activities are:

-Fair Apimondia attended and our high school students or presented in which many kinds of honey.
- Organizing a culinary exhibition fair, where all students attend school with them cooked preaparte, either cakes or foods to be tested by a panel of several teachers and a special inspector.
-Fair training firms which is held every year. Our students participate in this fair trained Team, each class should be organized to form imaginary companies that must work, and which should contain everything you need in a real company.Last year I participated in this fair with my company 'Fancy Fashion' which deals with trade clothing and that I got the best presentation and the best company.
-Our teachers also organizes trips to the mountains and other places in our country but also abroad.
At the end of the high school prom have to be taken to sea, and with the participation not only students but also our teachers, head teachers and friends who want to be with us in high school, the end of all fun and even if we had some of have had divergent during the year end we all felt well and remain friends.
So about this have been a part of our school activities organiztate.


My school program
- Danalache Adrian


Hello, this is a presentation of my high school program, being in a economics profile many of my classes are based on that certain profile. Over the years we had many different profile classes but they narrow down in actually 3 base classes: Accounting, Economics and Marketing.
Every day of the week we start school at 7:30 AM and have about 6 hours per day of classes. An exception is Wednesday when we start 1 hour later. We have a complicated and a heavy program but we try our best. This year is the hardest cause we have an important exam which could decide our future. Every day we learn many stuffs and interesting things about life and great activities. I’ll set a sketch for my program that I have this year. Monday for example I have Romanian, English and 2 classes of our profile that are very complicated .Tuesday we have Math, Geography and Financial planning and other classes. Wednesday we have Economics, Math a profile and Sport .Thursday we have 2 classes of Math and 4 of profile, as you can see we have many classes of our profile . Friday we have 2 hours of Romanian, 1 of English and 2 of profile.
We have short breaks of 10 minutes and we don`t have time for the things that we try to do. During our breaks we listen to music, we talk and try prepare for the upcoming class. My classmates and I don’t really have many things in common we are separated in small groups of friends but we don’t argue with one another.
The best thing about our high-school is that we are aloud to speak freely and our opinions are taken in consideration in the future .
Even if we don’t get along that much it will be really sad this year because it’s the last one before we graduate. After 4 years you get used to someone if you like it or not . But we have to look forward to our future and that’s what keeps us going.


My activity as a student

First of all, I will say that education it`s really important for all of us. When I was child, I used to think that learning and studying it`s boring, but now I think that, this is the most important thing that we have to focus on, because life is a continuous examination and we should be ready for this…
In my country, I think that 55% of students, they don`t care about studying, they only want to finish 10 classes and after they get a job and this is it…But I`m not agreeing with this….I know that I have to learn more and more and participate in projects, because this will shape me in my life…
My activity as a student is a really good one, I join in every project I can and I try to do my best every chance I get.
During high-school, I have attended several school contests and obtained high results such as the 3rd prize in International Symposium "Protection of Consumers in the Market Economy", the 2nd prize in “Best Accounting Operator” and the 1st prize in "The impact of drugs on young people" inter-county contest, organized with the support of the Romanian Police.
I like to think of myself as an hard-working and goal-oriented person and I believe that these would make me a suitable candidate for any job…
Leonard Geanta.



COLLEGE "V. HARNAJ" had and has many after school activities.
At school I have participated in 'Comenius 1 Project' where I had the chance to meet other students from other countries and to learn about their educational SYSTEMS.
2 years ago I was with my colleagues and teachers in a trip to GREECE, organized by my high school and Sector 2 city hall, WHERE I visited museums, I went to the seaside ETC.
I have participated at the Olympics, where I had good results (ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICS AND ENGLISH).
Our high school has its own Farm, where my colleagues from the technological or vocational school make their PRACTICE, and participate in the production of bees and honey. I took part to an event , where we had to sell honey produced by our school .
Every year, in the Hall are organized SCHOOL CHAMPION volleyball and soccer. Many days my colleagues PLAY FOOTBALL TOGETHER WITH OTHER CLASSES.
Also during my school programme I had the opportunity to do my training firm PROP, WHERE I can LEARN HOW to be on my own, about the style of my business COMPANY holding accounts, guided by teacher Mrs. PADUARARU NICULINA.
Gabriela Dinu

sâmbătă, 2 ianuarie 2010

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