Meeting in Mont-de-Marsan: 2013

Tuesday 2 July 2013

German Report

Monday, 20 May 2013

Felix, Corinna, Joshua, Maunel, Burak, Darleen, Pervin and Michelle travelled by train to Mont de Marsan on Monday morning. In the morning we travelled from Giessen to Frankfurt and from Frankfurt we travelled by ICE to Pairs Est. From Paris Est we had to switch the train station so we had to go to Paris Montparnasse. At Paris Montparnasse we travelled to Bordeaux with the TGV. It took 3-4 hours to Bordeaux. In Brodeaux we had to switch the train. So we travelled from Bordeaux to Bayonne and from Bayonne we travelled to Mont-de Marsan. In the evening we arrived in Mont-de Marsan. The French teachers took us to the boarding school and the boys and girls went to their rooms. The boys bought pizza for themselves and for the girls. After the boys came back we saw the Polish students. It was very nice to see them after lots of months had passed. Everyone was glad to see the Polish students after a long time

Joshi.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

On Tuesday morning, at 9:00 o’clock, the Polish and German students went to breakfast. After breakfast the French, Polish and German students went into the classroom and met the teachers. They spoke about the week’s events. At first, the headmaster of the school came to welcome the Polish and German visitors. After the welcome speech, the French students presented information about what they prepared for the upcoming fashion show. The Polish students conducted their presentation about Fair Trade.

In the afternoon we worked in multiple groups of six students. In each group there were two Polish, two German and two French students. The French prepared a wild goose chase for the German and Polish students in Mont-de-Marsan. The French students showed the visitors some of their favorite places in the city like the church, the music-café, the museum of the artist Robert Wlérick and the bull-leaping arena. Unfortunately it rained the whole day. After that, we went back to school where we had a small afternoon snack together.

Felix & Michelle

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

On Wednesday we met in the classroom to prepare the Fair Trade Fashion-Show, which began at half past three. At this meeting we discussed who cared about the music and who wanted to be one of the models (from every country two people were a model).

The French students organized a radio interview which was broadcast by the radio station of the city.

After a successful fashion show we had some freetime to go shopping in Mont-de-Marsan until six o’clock.

Back in the school, most of the German visitors watched a dance act from the French people before we went back in our rooms to go to sleep.

Corinna & Pervin

Thursday, 23 May 2013

On Thursday 23^th May 2013 the Polish, French and German students and teachers made a trip to Bayonne. After the breakfast we got big lunch packages for the lunch in Bayonne. We drove to the city by bus where we got citymaps at the meeting point to find back. First we visited the museum of the Basque nation. Then we had free time in Bayonne to watch the city or to lunch. After our free time we went back to the meeting point and drove to the chocolate museum where we were split in two groups, German and Polish students and the French students. We watched a film about the cocoa factory. At the end of the museum tour we had time to taste the chocolate. Our last station on this day was the coast and some Polish students went to swim although it was windy and cold.

Manu & Darleen

Friday, 24 May 2013

Friday was the last day we stayed at the bording school. The German and the Polish students had to prepare the luggage for the homecoming. The Germann students wanted to travel to Biaritz. But they wanted to travel by bus and the bus just came in the afternoon so they had to wait for the bus. The French students made a basketball tournament. It was very funny to watch the matches. At the end the German students said goodbye to the French and the Polish students. The German students travelled to Biaritz and went to the hotel. The boys and girls went to their rooms and looked how good they were. In the evening they all went to the city to the supermarket. Everyone bought things for the next 2 days.

It was a very interesting week in Mont-de Marsan and the last 2 days in Biaritz were funny too.

Joshi

Wednesday 26 June 2013

Polish Report part 2

I was really looking forward to visit Museum of Chocolate In Bayonne. Visiting some chocolate museum was one of my plans to do in the future because I am gluttonous and I can eat a lot of chocolate and all other sweets.

When our teachers informed me that I would vist the Museum of Chocolate I couldn’t wait for it. Suddenly this day came. We drove to Bayonne and we started sightseeing the museum. When we walked in, we saw many things made of chocolate. It was a beautiful view. These things looked like masterpieces and they were made of chocolate so everybody wanted to taste them. I think that it would be hard for me to eat this, because it was looking too good and I think that it took too much effort to made them. In the museum we saw many different processes, which take place in the factory next to the museum. We’ve also seen how cocoa beens are collected and transported to the factories all over the world. After sightseeing a nice surprise was waiting for us. We could taste some of chocolates which are produced in the factory. It was a lot of many sweet or dark chocolates and some pralines. Many of them had something added, for example carmel, orange, nuts or chilli. I tasted every sort of chocolates. This one which I really liked I tried more than once. We had an opportunity to take some pictures of our heads in cook suits with jar full of chocolate. After eating a lot of chocolate, we wanted to buy some sweet souvenirs. It was very hard for us because of two reasons. There was too much good looking chocolates, and the second reason is because we’d eaten too much free chocolate and some of us couldn’t look at chocolate to the end of the day. Finally we bought some chocolates and happily we went to the bus and went to the another place.

Visiting the museum is the sweetest memory from France, and I hope that I will see many more museums like that one.

Cybulski Bartosz

Polish Report part 1

When I first came to the boarding school the main thought that I had was : "Wow, it's not as bad as I thought but bathrooms are shared with boys - It will be fun "
We all slept in one room( 6 girls). We had the whole building only for us. It was awesome.
Next day, when we woke up, Miss Alice came and ruined our illusion of great boarding school. She said that we had to integrate with French people, so we would live with them in the main building of this boarding school. It didn't make me happy. If we lived with them from the beginning there wouldn't be any trouble but we saw another side = private building.

The rules that were in the main boarding school were:
-Go to bed at 22 p.m.

- Get up at 6:30

-Take all stuff for the whole day ( bags ect. )

-breakfast from 7 to 8

The boarding school was closed from 8 to 17 and from 20 to 8.
The best of everything was food in the canteen. It was so delicious that I wasn't hungry.
our schedule was filled with activities.
The girls from my room ( 3 French) were so funny and nice that it was great. In the beginning I was to stay in the different room but one place was empty do I asked If I can sleep with them. They didn't know English but I know a little French so we managed to communicate.
The boarding school is a good solution for all students that didn’t live in Mont-de Marsan. It is also a good place for integration. but there are two things that every guest must remember : you must know French and If you know it it's just wonderful like in Polish school when everybody talks about every topic. The second stuff is that you must get used to. Then you wouldn't say anything bad about the boarding school.

Natalia Nazarko

We took this photo of Szymon and the street artist on the train station in Bordeaux. Did he want to use his skills in France?

Here we have a view of the beautiful city of Mont-de Marsan.

We were on the arena where we met the bull jumper who presented to us interesting history of local bull fighting ( “ course landaise “ )

We were learning bull jumping and bull fighting.

This is the most recognizable sculpture in museum of Robert Wlerick who is patron of the school where we stayed.

Mrs Kulesza, Szymon and Róża gave on interview to the French radio

The main part of our work during the visit was preparing the Fair Trade fashion show.

The ‘tastiest’ part of entire journey for us was visit to the Museum of Chocolate in Bayonne. We had a possibility to try all kinds of chocolate from all over the world. Among others – there were Fair Trade products.