ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ OGÓLNOKSZTAŁCĄCYCH Z ODDZIAŁAMI SPORTOWYMI IM. POLSKICH OLIMPIJCZYKÓW W RADOMIU (26 May 2011)

Last week, we visited a school in Radom, where we had a great welcoming committee. The students had prepared so many posters on our countries and we had to choose the best one, but they were all so beautiful that we actually could not choose! To prepare these posters, they did a lot of research, so they already knew a lot about Armenia and France, and they asked a lot of interesting questions.  In the end we even had a short interview with them, they prepared a list of questions about us, our tastes, hobbies, interests, etc. They were very professional! 

So we did not need to make presentations on our countries, instead we conducted a workshop on the European Union, European countries, flags and languages, their similarities and differences.  The class was divided into teams, and each team had to answer questions, guess the flags and speak in different languages. The boys were very competitive and they won in almost every class! In one of the classes, there was a Louisa, and I was very happy to meet my 1^st Polish Louisa since I’m in Poland. By the way Polish people, I know that it is sometimes difficult for you to understand but my name is Louise and not Louisa! ;-)

After the workshop, we had a walk in Radom, which seems to be a very nice city. We had Zapiekanki and they were delicious! 

It was interesting for us to learn how the school find out about us. Ewa Nowak the teacher who invited us, just googled “we had a workshop on the European Union” and she found our blog. So this blog is apparently good promotion for us!  By the way, we would like to thank all of our visitors on our blog, we cannot believe that we had so many visitors (almost 2000!) from so many countries: of course, Poland, France and Armenia but also from Australia, the USA, England, Canada, South Korea, Bulgaria, Austria, Russia, Italy, Slovenia… We don’t know how this is possible but thank you!

Louise and Ofelya

As usual, you can check the pictures of our visit in our gallery on the right side of the page.

  

 PS: we dedicate this article to our friends Kacias ;-)

Szkoła Podstawowa im BŁO Stanisława Papczyńskiego w Kątach (19 May 2011)

Yesterday, on a beautiful sunny day, we took the bus to Kąty, a small and very green place near Warsaw. Teachers and students were very nice and welcoming. The children had prepared posters especially to welcome us as well as some posters about our countries. They showed us around the school, which was renovated 2 years ago and well taken care of, so both teachers and students were very proud of it. We were surprised to find out that for physical education classes all students play football and that even girls like it! 

We had meetings with three different classes and made presentations about our countries. Daniel ,one of the students and a very talented boy, helped us all day long with translation .

Our fourth and last class of the day was “zerówka” (zero class). The children were only six years old and just started learning English. We spent a very good time with them singing and dancing and learning new words in Polish. They asked us different questions about our countries, but our favorite question was from  a boy named Mikołaj, who asked: “which galaxy are you from?”. It was the most difficult question that we ever had to answer during a school visit!

 

We really enjoyed our day in Kąty and took a lot of pictures that you can see in our gallery.