My Voyage of Discovery

109 Pages·2015·12.26 MB·English

by  Szalayné Tahy Zsuzsa

My Voyage of Discovery
Wanderings in the World of Work
Written by the participants of Comenius-Project "My Voyage of Discovery" 2013 – 2015
Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Stadtlohn Germany
Gerrit Komrij College Winterswijk The Netherlands
Fagerlia videregående skole Ålesund Norway
Hegel Gymnasium Magdeburg Germany
Szent István Gimnázium Budapest Hungary
Altın Eğitim Ankara Turkey
Liceo "Le Filandiere San Vito Italy
Collegio Coop. Son Verí Nou Son Verí Nou Spain
Edited by the students and teachers of Szent István Gimnázium, Budapest
Published on the project evaluation ceremony 28-05-2015.
Additional information on the webpage: http://time4us.eu
Table of Contents
A Letter to the Reader ............................................................................................................................. 5
Participants‘ Profiles................................................................................................................................ 7
Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium – Stadtlohn, Germany ................................................................ 8
Diplomats of Stadtlohn ..................................................................................................................... 8
Gerrit Komrij College – Winterswijk, The Netherlands .................................................................. 9
Diplomats of Winterswijk .................................................................................................................. 9
Fagerlia videregående skole – Ålesund, Norway ......................................................................... 11
Diplomats of Ålesund ...................................................................................................................... 12
Hegel Gymnasium – Magdeburg, Germany ................................................................................. 13
Diplomats of Magdeburg ................................................................................................................ 14
Szent István Gimnázium – Budapest, Hungary ............................................................................ 15
Diplomats of Budapest .................................................................................................................... 16
Altın Eğitim – Ankara, Turkey ....................................................................................................... 17
Diplomats of Ankara ........................................................................................................................ 19
Liceo "Le Filandiere – San Vito, Italy ............................................................................................ 20
Diplomats of San Vito ...................................................................................................................... 21
Comenius Teachers ......................................................................................................................... 23
Collegio Coop. Son Verí Nou – Son Verí Nou, Spain .................................................................... 25
Diplomats of Son Verí Nou .............................................................................................................. 26
Exploration visits ................................................................................................................................... 27
Timetable of the Exchanges ......................................................................................................... 27
Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium (Stadthlon)  ........................................................................... 28
Stadtlohn visits Son Verí Nou (Mallorca - Spain) ............................................................................. 28
Stadtlohn visits Ankara .................................................................................................................... 29
Stadtlohn visits Kobierzyce.............................................................................................................. 30
Stadtlohn meets Magdeburg, Hungary and Poland in Gdańsk ....................................................... 31
Stadtlohn in Budapest ..................................................................................................................... 32
Stadtlohn visits Italy ........................................................................................................................ 32
Gerrit Komrij College (Winterswijk) ......................................................................................... 33
Artan’s trip to Stadtlohn and Magdeburg ....................................................................................... 33
Jelmer’s trip in Europe .................................................................................................................... 34
My experiences in Turkey ............................................................................................................... 34
My Voyage of Discovery Midterm Meeting Ankara ........................................................................ 35
Artan Ramaja’s trip to Ankara ......................................................................................................... 36
Jelmer Schreurs experiences in Ankara ........................................................................................... 37
My voyage of discovery ................................................................................................................... 37
“My voyage of discovery” Magdeburg ............................................................................................ 38
My voyage of discovery ................................................................................................................... 39
Fagerlia videregående skole (Ålesund)  .................................................................................... 40
Report From Exchange Fagerlia Vgs. (Ålesund ) - Szent Istvan Gymnasium (Budapest) ................. 40
Report – Trip to Winterswijk, the Netherlands ............................................................................... 43
Reports from Student Diplomats Attending Midterm Meeting in Ankara ...................................... 49
Report From Teachers/Coordinators, Midterm Meeting ................................................................ 51
Report from the Exchange Fagerlia VGS. (2ST2 INT. CLASS) & Instituto Statale D’Istruzione Superiore
“Le Filandiere” ................................................................................................................................. 52
Hegel Gymnasium (Magdeburg)  .............................................................................................. 55
Visit to Stadtlohn ............................................................................................................................. 55
Visit to Budapest ............................................................................................................................. 55
Visit to Ankara ................................................................................................................................. 57
Our guests from Budapest .............................................................................................................. 58
Visit to Poland ................................................................................................................................. 59
Our guests from Italy and Hungary ................................................................................................. 61
Szent István Gimnázium (Budapest)  ........................................................................................ 62
Our visit to San Vito ........................................................................................................................ 62
A personal diary from San Vito al Tagliamento ............................................................................... 62
Our trip to Mallorca ........................................................................................................................ 65
Our voyage of discovery from our perspective ............................................................................... 69
Trip to Stadtlohn ............................................................................................................................. 69
Midterm meeting in Ankara ............................................................................................................ 71
Magdeburg – Budapest exchange programme ............................................................................... 73
„Breaking News”: a Comenius trip to Gdansk, summer, 2014 ........................................................ 75
Our trip to Ankara ........................................................................................................................... 77
Altın Eğitim (Ankara)  ................................................................................................................ 79
Exchange Week - San Vito, Italy ...................................................................................................... 79
Exchange Week – Ankara Turkey .................................................................................................... 80
Exchange Week – Mallorca, Spain .................................................................................................. 81
Exchange Week – Stadtlohn, Germany ........................................................................................... 81
Midterm Meeting – Ankara Turkey ................................................................................................. 82
Exchange Week – Budapest, Hungary ............................................................................................. 83
Liceo "Le Filandiere (San Vito)  ................................................................................................. 85
Ålesund, class groups 3F and 4A ..................................................................................................... 85
Budapest, class groups 3A and 5D .................................................................................................. 87
Stadtlohn, class groups 3C and 3G .................................................................................................. 88
Ankara classes 3B and 3D ................................................................................................................ 90
Mallorca, class group 4C ................................................................................................................. 91
Our Experience in Magdeburg – Class Groups 3I and 3E ................................................................ 92
Chatting ........................................................................................................................................... 94
Collegio Coop. Son Verí Nou (Son Verí Nou)  ........................................................................... 96
Comenius Alemania 2013 ............................................................................................................... 96
Intercambio España–Hungría: ......................................................................................................... 97
Comenius Turquía ........................................................................................................................... 98
Project Evaluation.................................................................................................................................. 99
Comenius Photo Exhibition .......................................................................................................... 99
General comment ........................................................................................................................... 99
Best illustration of the MVOD- project ........................................................................................... 99
Best artistic photo which can be linked to the project ................................................................. 100
Best photo of work life, company visit or excursion connected to the MVOD-project ................ 101
Conclusive meeting .................................................................................................................... 102
Comenius final meeting in Hungary .............................................................................................. 102
Comenius trip: Budapest 2015 ...................................................................................................... 103
Favourite experiences in Budapest ............................................................................................... 104
My Voyage of Discovery ................................................................................................................ 106
Closing remarks .......................................................................................................................... 107
Erasmus+: Futurology and Ethics ............................................................................................... 108
A Letter to the Reader

“Teachers are the one and only saviors of the nations”
This is a quotation from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that I found in the Atatürk Mausoleum during our visit
in Ankara in May 2014. The one thing about it: It is not true.
It’s not the teachers that can save neither the nations nor the world, but it’s the teachers only together
with their students. And this is the core, the true
spirit of our MVOD project: It was all about teachers
and students learning together, exploring new
worlds, discovering new horizons, opening the
minds. And guess what: I found a better quotation in
Ankara, in the school of our Turkish friends:
“A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches
a heart.” (Thank you for opening the door, Havva!)
We might have fallen behind some of our initial
goals, especially the more academic or more sophis-
ticated ones, and while working together from a dis-
tance sometimes proved to be more difficult than we
expected, it is this one heart-and-soul-goal that we
fully achieved: Coming together, sharing our lives,
getting to know the others‘ worlds, teachers and stu-
dents together: that was an absolutely exciting and
entirely outstanding experience for me.
So, dear reader, please excuse our shortcomings and enjoy the results of our VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
that found their way into the pages of this book. Be sure that there’s a lot more that words simply
cannot express. I’d like to thank everybody involved in the production of this book, especially our
friends from Hungary who took care of the final production of this book.
It was my privilege to open our project in September 2013 in Stadtlohn and now it’s my privilege and
honour to thank you all for taking part in it and for contributing in so many ways to its final success.
I am happy and proud to have been part of this team, teachers and students, part of this fantastic
VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. Best wishes to all of you!
Yours
Jan-Bernd Lepping
(First Coordinator in Stadtlohn)
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Participants‘ Profiles

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Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium – Stadtlohn, Germany
The Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Stadtlohn is situated in Stadtlohn, a town of
20 000 inhabitants in the area of “Westmünsterland” near the Netherlands. Here
more than 1100 students and around 100 teachers work together. Founded in 1995
our school is still quite young. It offers the opportunity to reach the highest level of education not only
to the city of Stadtlohn itself but also to the surrounding towns like Gescher and Südlohn.
Focussing on natural sciences as well as languages, the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium also gives the
students a lot of opportunities to improve their knowledge in social and cultural studies.
Right from the start the development of personality was a prior subject of the school, which includes
critical and social facilities as well as a strong sense for specific needs of the environment.
Being anchored in the tradition and culture of our regional area, the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium is
very much interested in giving the students an idea of what it means to be a European citizen nowadays.
That is why the Comenius-Partnership with its international exchange activities has a very high reputa-
tion among the school community. Located in a rural area we think it’s very important for our students
and teachers to get into contact with our neighbours in Europe and to get to know living and learning
conditions all over Europe. Thus our school has soon established bonds in different international school
projects and has a good tradition of working together in the Comenius-Partnership. According to the
basic idea of the current MVOD-project we gathered a team of “student diplomats”, who were in
charge of the coordinating work from 9th to 11th grade. Here are their reports.
Diplomats of Stadtlohn
Luisa Hemling (left)
I am Luisa Hemling, 16 years
old, and I was so glad to be a
part of this Comenius project.
I had a really enjoyable time
with a lot of new and likeable
people. I got to know a lot
about culture and traditions
in other countries and visited
amazing places. The project
was a great chance for me
and I am happy to be a diplo-

mat student.

Simon Terliesner (middle)
My name is Simon Terliesner, I’m a student diplomat from Stadtlohn and I enjoyed the Comenius
project a lot. I have been to Ankara, Poland, Gdánsk, Italy and Budapest. My favourite exchange so
far was Ankara. It was amazing to be there with all the diplomats. The program was good and we had
a lot of free time which we spent together with everybody almost all the time. In my opinion we had
the best program in Italy: we visited Venezia and Triest which was very cool. All in all, Comenius has
been a great experience in that I met many cool people. I hope we can meet again one day.
Anna Heming (right)
I am Anna Heming and I’m 16 years old. As a student diplomat from Stadtlohn, Germany, I took part
in the Comenius project “My voyage of discovery” for the last two years. I really enjoyed this project
and learned a lot about other European cultures. In four different countries I lived in guest families
– every time for one week. I also took part in a camp for teenagers from different countries for one
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week. Especially the differing eating habits in the different countries were very surprising to me. In
every country I got to know another kind of school system, especially the relationship between pupils
and teachers is different everywhere. The students, who visited me and my family were surprised
when entering our one-family house. They admired our green nature and the small town. First, every
student was shocked about riding by bike to all destinations in Stadtlohn. So for me it was strange
that all my different guest parents brought us everywhere by car. But I think that the teenagers’ view
on life is very similar in all European countries.
Enya Wickers
My name is Enya and I am 15 years old. I am part of the student-
diplomats-team from Stadtlohn. I visited Ankara, Gdansk and Buda-
pest throughout the two years of my personal „Voyage of Discov-
ery“. The countries were great and the people even greater! I made
a lot of friends and learned many interesting facts about different
cultures and their traditions. I can really well imagine living in a for-
eign country one day and I definitely want to travel a lot in the future.
I am very sad that the end of the Comenius Project 2013-2015 has
arrived but I am really lucky to be part of it. It was a raving success!
Gerrit Komrij College – Winterswijk, The Netherlands
This school has been opened in the year of 2012/2013. The name is from the famous
Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij who was born and raised in Winterswijk. Before the Gerrit
Komrij College the school was named the Driemark. This was because the school had
3 locations (drie = three). The number of students is 1372 in the year of 2014/ 2015 it varies from
students with lower and higher levels of education who are spread over the 5 floors. Our school pro-
vides education for students who can do a higher level of education and provides lower level education
for those who can’t do the higher level of education. In this way our school stimulates every kind of
student to get the most out of their selves. Our school believes that it is important that every student
is able to use his or her talent. The Gerrit Komrij College is near the train station of Winterswijk so it’s
very accessible for students that live in other places too. Winterswijk itself is a modern village with 2
churches, 1 synagogue and a Muslim community, every Wednesday and Saturday there is a market in
the center where you can buy fresh food, clothes and other things. Every weekend it is crowded with
Germans who live just across the border this emphasizes that Winterswijk is quite touristic as well.
Diplomats of Winterswijk
I am Noa Martens, eighteen years old from Holland. I live in a quite big village
called Winterswijk next to the border of Germany. There I live together with
my dad, my dad’s girlfriend and my brother. From an early age I am addicted
to sports. I played gymnastics for ten years, but I had to stop because of an
injury. Doing nothing is so not me, so now I like fitness and running. Both give
me so much energy! When I am not doing any sports activity I meet up with
friends. We drink something together and make fun all day/night long.
I go to school in Winterswijk, It takes only one hand half year when I have my
exams. If I passed my exams I want to be a dentist, so hopefully I am allowed
to study dentistry.
I am one of the ambassadors of the Comenius project. One of the reasons why I want to be one of the
members is because I like meeting new friends, especially friends all around the world. All different
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cultures impress me and also inspires me a lot. We can share our experiences and learn from each
other. For example the hospitality of my host family in Ankara, Turkey. They gave me so much nice
memories, which I’ll never forget! Now I realize that we, Dutch people, can learn a lot from their hos-
pitality.
Comenius taught me to be independent. I can’t wait to travel around the world and maybe meeting
some Comenius friends again!
Hi, my name is Lindy Hoefman, I am 18
years old. I live in Winterswijk, this is a
small town in the east of the Netherlands.
This year (2014-2015) is my last year at
“Gerrit Komrij College”. In my spare time I
like to play volleyball, listen to music and to
hang out with friends.
I was 15 years old when I decided to join
the Comenius project. They told us that
you’ll get in touch with people from all over
the world. We had to talk with students
from all over the world about the

Noa, Lindy, Artan, Jelmer differences between the different
countries. The crucial point for me to join
this project was the fact that we would travel around different places and to get to know different
cultures and people. I think it is great to see how people from different cultures and countries live their
life.
My name is Jelmer Schreurs. I live in Winterswijk and I’m 18 years old. I’m in my last year at ‘Gerrit
Komrij College’. After school I like to hang out with friends and I play a lot of music. By the local fanfare
I play flugelhorn and in the weekends I play trumpet in a showband.
Hello I’m Artan Ramaja, my hobbies are playing soccer, going to the gym and listen to music. I was 15
years old when I heard about the Comenius. That is the year when Jelmer and Lindy joined the project.
One year later Noa and I joined the Comenius project too. I wanted to join this project because I think
it’s very interesting to get in touch with people from other countries and cultures and so I can get to
know more about their thoughts about politics and life. I also enjoy travelling and seeing new places
around the world. This combination is what made me interested in this project.
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