Meeting in Lublin, Poland - photos by Annemieke (Holland) and Kasia (Poland)

Meeting in Lublin, Poland - by Sophie from Germany

Our diary from the journey to Poland

Monday, 16.02.2009 we (Giovanna, Dominique, Frau. Schaper, Frau. Sieboth and me = Sophie) went to Lublin. The trip took about 14 hours and it seemed to be a fitness tour, because Giovanna had a really big toxic green bag. J About 22.00 we arrived in Lublin at the train station. There we met our host families and the Polish teachers.

Tuesday, 17.02.2009 we made a sightseeing tour to the old town of Lublin. Our teachers saw that there are a lot of pubs. As we had finished with the sightseeing tour we went to the print museum. After that we had a really delicious stop at McDonald’s and we were in a big shopping centre called “Lublin Plaza”.

Wednesday, 18.02.2009 we had a trip with a horse sleigh. It was funny because sometimes we almost fell out of it. ;-) After that we ate sausages and drank hot tea. Then we went to a park with a mineral water source. Later we were in Kazimierz. There we lost the rest of our group. ;-) But luckily we found them again. In evening we (with cold feet and red noses) came back to the host families.

Thursday, 19.02.2009, we visited a famous dance group of Lublin and it was really cool. Then we went to our Polish partner school. This school has got even a swimming pool, a massage room for the teachers and a fitness room. The students there have to change shoes and there is security service and there are security cameras. You can’t find any rubbish in school. Isn’t it a good idea for our school? The students wore school uniforms. In the afternoon we ate Donuts because it was “Fat Thursday”. (It’s a tradition in Poland that on the last Thursday before carnival they eat lots of Donuts ) The host families were really nice and we did lots of things. We communicated in English or with hands and feet ;-)) The students were absolutely friendly and asked lots of questions. Some of them even spoke German. Thanks a lot to the Polish students Anna and Michael who were fantastic interpreters. But unfortunately the time was over very quickly.

Winter in Poland by Kasia Woźniak, class 1i

Winter in Poland usually is white.
It feels very nippily and unpleasantly. In winter kids often play out of doors: they go on sledges, throw snow-balls. Personally I don't like winter.

Winter in Germany

Students and teachers have taken some photos. Fortunately we had nice winterdays this year.