Mobility in Vienna (Austria)

On the 2nd of October, seven of our students (Sebastià Sansaloni, Marta Gili and Maria Navarro from 4th of Eso and Paula del Campo, Marina Martí, Joan Mesquida and Mª Pilar del Valle from 3rd of Eso) together with two of our teachers (Joan Martí and Tòfol Massanet) left to Austria to be part of the 5th mobility of the Erasmus + project "No Problems, Just Solutions". This time it was the VES (Vienna European School), an international school, placed in the center of Vienna, which hosted the visit and welcomed the rest of schools.

As always,the students were hosted by Viennese families. Mornings were spent doing activities together, such as excursions, cultural visits or workshops. At the end of the week the result of the workshops and all the tasks which had been done by the students were shown in a presentations to which teachers and parents attended. From all the activities we need to remark a guided tour around the capital which was led by Austrian students. During the tour, some of the most relevant places and sights of the city were visited. Among them, we need to mention the Opera house, St Stephen's Cathedral or the Parlament. It also deserves to be mentioned the visit to the Schönbrunn Castle, the residence of the emperor Franz Joseph and empress Sisi. The teachers also had their cultural moment since they could have the experience of going to the opera to see "The magic flute" by W.A. Mozart. 

Apart from the cultural visits, we should make reference to the leisure moments the Austrian team offered the rest of the countries. These include a welcome party for the students in which music and traditional food played an important role. On the other side, the teachers could have a taste of Austrian culture with an Oktoberfest organized by the school itsellf. 

We just need to thank the Austrian team its warm reception and the organization of the week that made the most important thing possible again: the fact that our students have been able to enjoy a special week in which they could appreciate different ways of living and cultural realities. Hopefully some friendships have been born and this visit to Vienna does not stay as just a memory from the past.

TRANSNATIONAL MEETING IN ARTÀ

Mobility in Artà

From the 29th of May up to the 4th of June, our school was happy to host the six countries which take paert in our Erasmus + project (No problems, just solutions). The week was full of activities and from the very first day both students and teachers had a planning to follow.

The first day was the day chose to introduce our school and our teachers to the rest of our European team. The mayor of Artà, Mr Tolo Gili, came over to welcome everyone and after his speech the students started taking part in the different workshops we had prepared during the previous weeks. There were three workshops: dancing, language and stop motion. At the end of the week the students had to show (and showed) the results.

Apart from these workshops, different outdoors activities were prepared. On the 1st of June, we went hiking up to "S'ermita" where we had a little break before going down to the beach of "Es canons". There, teachers and students could chill for a while and around 17 pm everyone returned safe and sound to Artà.

The following day we visited Palma. When we arrived there we went to the cathedreal and after that teachers and students took a stroll to the "Plaça Major" where everyone separated and had free time to do whatever they wanted. At 17'00 pm we were back in Artà ready for the farewell party which took place at our school. It was a beautiful night with surprises and parents, students and teachers had fun together.

All in all, it was a great week and an unforgettable experience for everyone. We'll keep on bringing Europe to our school!

COORDINATORS

PARTY

TREASURE HUNTING AROUND TOWN

MOBILITY IN ARTA

CC Sant Salvador welcomes 6 European Schools in our Erasmus + Project "No problem, just solutions".

MOBILITY IN MALLORCA. STUDENTS TIMETIBLE

TORNADA DE PAU DE DINAMARCA

ERASMUS+ A FRANÇA

MOBILITY IN FRANCE. THE PROTAGONISTS

Mª Magdalena Nicolau

The last week was one of the best weeks of my life. I made a lot of friends, met loads of great people and enjoyed as much as I could that awesome experience. 

My host family was very kind and friendly. They showed me how good is French food and made me love their culture, we visited different places from France and had a lot of fun. They are, as all French people I met, very cheerful, friendly and funny. Even if they didn't know a lot of English we learned a lot from each other and enjoyed a lot our time together. The school was very nice and cute, the teachers were very friendly and the students were also friendly and very funny. I had a lot of fun with my group even if I was the only one from my country. 

I hope I can see all my new friends again soon. 

Montserrat Santandreu

The week that I spent in France was very good. I like it so much, I met a lot of friends, I learned English and I discovered a new culture, weather and gastronomy.

First of all I want to remark the very good family that I had. All of them took me very very well. The house was perfect all the day, the food delicious and all of them were very friendly. Of this part I was very happy because if I have to spend one week with a bad family, this experience it would not have gone well. But at this aspect I was very fortunate.

The activities that we did in the school I think that they were very good, because they push you to communicate with the others. And like this, you learn a lot of English. In the acting group, my group, we did a good work, and we made a little actuation about the social media, the theme of the week in France. A good theme because a part of us live in the social media and we have to control us when we browse in the Internet. And the others groups made a very good work. The dancing group with their modern dance, others groups with their very elaborated videos and the quiz about the social media. All the Erasmus+ people work very hard.

About the friendly, all the countries get along. And we made very good friends that we hope to see them again. They were all very friendly and funny.

And finally, my conclusion of this week is that it was a perfect week. I like it so so much and I hope I can repeat it because it's worth it. Maybe is a little short one week, but for start this kind of exchange is perfect. I recommend it. 

Joan Navarro 

I would change only one thing, the work we did of social media. I think it was a little bit boring, we could do more funny things, but it was interesting, and very funny, when everybody showed us their work. But all the other things were perfect, the family too. The day I liked most was on Thursday, when we went to Paris, it was a really good day. 

We haven’t learnt a lot of english, but we have learnt not to be afraid of speaking it, we can communicate with other people in english, even if we don’t know it. We have also learnt a new culture and to be far away of our friends and family.

I would have stayed there for a few days more. It has been a very good experience.

Joan Cerrato 

March 11th we went to France to spend 10 days Exchange. The first two days we were in Paris and I really liked the capital, then the other 8 days I was in a village called Brou, living with the family of a girl. The family was very educated and very nice with me. Worried enough for me, since I was not very well because I was ill. Every day we were going to the school, the school was quite well, teachers and students were friendly and the food was good. 

For me this experience has been a personal challenge, I'd like to be able to repeat it.

We have known another culture, other customs and we have learned to live with a family that we did not know.

Tonina Carrió

This week that I past in France it was a fantastic week. The first day when we arrived, we visit all Paris, I think it's a beautiful city to visit. At night we meet the Denmark girls, and we went to dinner together. The next day at the morning we visit Paris again and in the evening we went to Chartres to meet the family. I past this week with a fantastic family and I do a lot of friends there from a lot of different countries. I hope I see they again. I want to repeat this fantastic experience. 

A WEEK IN FRANCE

Paris

The third mobility of our project took place in France and it started on the 11th of March. Again, seven students of our school had the chance of being part of this experience. This time, it was Mª Magdalena Nicolau, Joan Navarro, Joan Cerrato, Montserrat Santandreu, Antonina Carrió, Alba Viera and Paula Nicolau. 

As we usually do, we decided to leave a day earlier and spend two days (and one night) in the capital of France, Paris. There, we were lucky to have amazing weather and we could walk around the city and visit the most symbolic places. The Sacré Coeur, the Arc de Triomphe, les Champs - Élysées, the Louvre or la tour Eiffel were places that we could not miss. However, apart from the most touristic spots we could roam around other neighbourhoods and experience the city and its peculiar atmosphere from a different perspective. We had the hotel in the neighbourhood of Montmartre, a perfect location to discover Paris and the essence of the French capital. 

After two days in Paris we took a train from Montparnasse to Chartres.

There, the host families were waiting for our students and their particular adventure started there. From Chartres the students spread around the area, most of them being near Brou, the village where the school Florimond Robertet was placed. 

Brou 

“No problems, just solutions” is the topic of our project and, this time, the problems were related to social media and social networks. During the week, the French teachers prepared activities and workshops which had to do with the resolutions of conflicts related to the virtual world. Thus, some students had to prepare a dance, others a short movie and others a theater play in order to show to families and teachers the last day. Apart from these workshops and activities, students and teachers did other activities together, like treasure hunting in the middle of a big park near Brou. 

Thursday was the day chosen by the school to go to Paris. We went all together by bus and, there, we visited parts of the city and we went up to the top of the tour Eiffel. After that, we took a bateau mouche (a small boat) and we had the opportunity of seeing the city from the river Seine. 

Finally, on Friday the school planned the end-of-week party where teachers, families and students enjoyed together the last evening in France.  After the party, it was time to say goodbye and tears started to appear on the students’ faces. Possibly, the best ending of an amazing week, full of laughs and fun moments. 

ERASMUS +, CAP AL FRED DE FINLÀNDIA

EXPERIENCE IN FINLAND. THE PROTAGONISTS

THE PROTAGONISTS

• My experience of Finland was so good. It was the first time that I made an Erasmus and sincerely I like a lot this experience and I hope that I can repeat again. I think is a good way to learn english and in the same time meet new people, because in my time in Finland I met a lot of people of different countries that I never think that I meet and I became good friends with all of them. I think if you have this opportunity you have to try to make it because is a new experience and I think that you never regret of try to do this. When you are there you spent a lot of very good moments because you visit a new country and meet a lot of different people. When I was there I feel very comfortable with the family that I was there because they treated to me like if I was one of them and with the girl that I was hosted we became very good friends. If I have another time the opportunity to have this experience again I will repeat again because it was the best experience that I never have. I think if you have this kind of opportunity you have to take advantage because maybe you will not have it again. 

(Laura Gili Ginard)

• I think going to Finland was a very good and nice experience because I learned a new and very diffrent culture, I met friendly people and I learned some finnish words too. I felt very comfortable with my finnish family because they were very nice with me and they showed me many beautiful places in Finland and many finnish traditions too. And finally I have to say that I got on very well with my host, Emilia. I had a lot of fun during that trip. I think we can not let go these opportunities because not everybody can do that. 

(Antonia Massanet)

• The stay in Finland it was amazing. The first three days we stayed in the capital, Helsinki, we saw the most important and beautiful things of this place. We saw the Senators square, the Orthodox cathedral, the Lutheran cathedral, the port, the streets...and the snow.The Sunday we went to the airport of Kuopio and then with a bus to Nurmes, there all the families waited for us. All the week we made a lot of activities: we cook, we made wooden utensils , we fish in the frozen lake... In the afternoon we went every day to a house to do a a party with all the friends.Finland is very different than Spain, for example they eat at 10:30 of the morning and they have dinner at 17:00h of the morning, for us is very early. The country in winter is very cold (-20°,-40°..) and in Mallorca in winter isn't "could" (15°,5°...) and there they have snow all the winter and here one time every three or four years. Then, the summer in Finland is like the spring in Mallorca. Finland and Spain are very different. Well, the last day we made a party in the school, and we danced all the afternoon we danced in groups, in pairs, rock songs , finish pop, slow songs, we ate a lot...There, in Nurmes, we meet a lot of people and friends, it was a very friendly, cold and beautiful experience and I want to do again in the future.Thanks for all Nurmes!

(Sebastià Gomila)

• This trip I found with differents customs in Finland, for example: Remove the shoes in the houses, schools... lunch at 10.00 and dinner at 16.00, after the sauna go to the snow, and others. We did differents activities : ice fishing, spend a day of survival in the woods, play sleigh, etc. I liked to met people from different countries, enjoy all the snow landscapes and learn more english. In conclusion, I think it was a very good experience that is not easy to repeat!

(Kelly Morey Bolaños)

• Traveled to Finland was an amazing experience. I liked so much stay in Finland specially in Nurmes because its a very beautiful place and the people that we met were amazing. One of the thinks that I liked more was the weather because is so different to the weather that we have in Mallorca and this allowed us to make things that we can't do in Mallorca. I liked it so much and I hope we can repeat that experience in the future.

(Pere Joan Infante Carrió)

MOBILITY IN FINLAND

The second mobility of the Erasmus + project “No problems, just solutions” took place in Nurmes (Finland). Seven students from our school (Pere Joan Infante, Antònia Massanet, Sebastià Gomila, Laura Gili, Laura Pozo, Manolo Pozo and Kelly Morey) took part in, probably, the most adventurous trip of the project. Since the combination of flights from our island was difficult, we had to stop for a couple of days in Helsinki. There, the cold (-20º) welcomed us and in spite of this we had the chance of exploring a city covered in snow. We visited the most symbolic places like the cathedral or the port and, above all, we got to know a city very different from ours. 

After two days in Helsinki, we took a flight to Kuopio, in the North - East of Finland. In Kuopio, a bus was waiting for us and it drove us to our destination: Nurmes. There, a small community of around 7.000 inhabitants, we spent a whole week. The host families were waiting for the guests near the school and, once there, everyone started their particular experience. 

The days in Nurmes 

The week in Nurmes was very nice since everyone had a wonderful time. As stated above, the conditions of the place and the extreme temperatures made everything more special because it is something that, for us, is difficult to come across. The workshops prepared and planned by the Finnish school were obviously related to the topic of the project “No problems, just solutions”. Thus, our students built tools and took part in different activities focused on the matter. Specially remarkable was the day we all went on a “Survival day” in the woods of Finland. There, we could walk on snowshoes, we had a barbecue in the middle of the forest, we could slide using snowskates and both students and teachers could feel what it was like to go to a Finnish sauna and then roll in the snow. 

As it usually happens when things are fun, time flew and time to say goodbye came very fast. The adventure had been successful and everyone came back home with a happy heart and a smile in their face. Obviously, there are always little problems along the way but, as the title of the project suggests, solutions take over problems.