COMENIUS EXPERIENCE (PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS) - GREECE

   We have to confess that this European collaborative educational project we have been working on for the last two years has been an amazing experience. The Greek team of teachers and our students have really enjoyed this Comenius experience so much. Our impressions are the greatest.

   All partners together, from Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey, we have managed to make a friendship bridge between our nations. The most important value of this project was towards friendship and cooperation. We have enjoyed each other?s hospitality while we were visiting each country. We have made new friends by discovering and appreciating their culture. We have learned so many things about our partners? history, geography, myths and legends, but also about their language, modern daily life, school routine, and life and school system. In other words, this experience has broadened our teachers? and children?s horizons through learning about Italian, Spanish and Turkish civilizations.

   Another thing is that now teachers and students in Greece are convinced of the necessity of learning a foreign language. A common language such as English or one of the languages of our new friends: Spanish, Italian or Turkish. Our students and teachers are really motivated now about learning one of the languages of the participating countries.

   Moreover, we have really appreciated the creative spirit of our students and fellow students of the other countries, in drawings, creating the new hero, inventing a new adventure and all the other tasks students have completed (European passports, drawings, booklets, letters, cards etc.)

     We could say a thousand words but one is enough: an amazing experience!