Visit to Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 1

Hey everyone!

This week, we had the first snowfall of the year, finally! I was really scared that we will not see the snow this winter, which is so sad and shows the seriousness of the global warming. However, fortunately we could enjoy a lovely and white view. Pułtusk is even prettier when it is all in white J

Besides snowfall, we were also honored by an invitation from Szkoła Podstawowa NR 1

im. Konstytucji in Nasielsk this week. It is a primary school in Nasielsk, which is a small town close to Pułtusk. We went there to meet the students from 4 to 8 grade and introduce our projects, countries and have a quiz afterwards.  Firstly, we were welcomed by the director accompanied with nice conversations and coffee. We introduced ourselves to them and got to know about the school. She introduced the school to us and we visited some classes. We didn’t stay very long not to interrupt them, however the students and the teachers were very nice and welcoming. We had a chance to see how they have their classes so we could compare if there is a difference between their system and ours.

After visiting the classes, we went to the room that we met students. First, the voluntary club of the school had a presentation about their activities. It was very inspirational to see what they’ve achieved as the voluntary club. They are responsible young people who are trying to have an impact on society, which is really impressive.

After their presentation, we had introduced ourselves, our countries and our projects. When we finished, we wanted to see what they have learned from us so we had an interactive quiz with them. Results were surprisingly good! I can say that they were really interested in different cultures and they asked a lot of questions to us when we were having conversations with them. At the end of the meeting, they gave us diplomas which were designed under our names. It was very nice of them, thank you once again 😍

We all had a great time in Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 1. Also, they want to host a volunteer in future which means that we will be in touch 😊

This is all from Pułtusk for now. 😋

Have a great weekend!

-Hande Ozdemir

Monday-Funday at Golądkowo

Today, Tudal, Cesar, Chien,Sylwia and me visited a high school in Golądkowo which specializes in agriculture. We had a meeting with the volunteers club and some of the teachers.

First, we have introduced ourselves and talked about our background. We also shared our opinions about Pultusk and the volunteering experience. Then we have started getting know the students better and learned what they study in the school.

 We have talked about volunteering and we thought about how we can do something together with their volunteering club. 

At the end of the meeting, we played Speed dating game where we got chance to talk to the students one by one. We asked them a couple of questions to know them better. At first, they were a little bit shy but later on the game started to be very fun for all of us. 😄

After we finished, the students showed us around the school. It was very interesting and well-designed.

 

                  

😸We all hugged each other and said goodbye until the next meeting.


-Hande Ozdemir

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Viva Brazil! Viva Colombia!

Hello from Pułtusk!

Here we are! Luciana Feijo from Brazil and I. We are from South America and we are so happy of sharing with you our meeting in the Children’s University last weekend. After the first meeting for this year, the kids were waiting for our mysterious presentation about our countries. Luciana is a volunteer from ICYE and SPW, as I am. She is working in hipoterapy with disable people in Warsaw.

OI! HOLA!

Friday night Luciana arrive in Pułtusk and later we discuss about our presentation and  also about our experience in Poland. Was really excited because she spoked in Portuguese and I did in Spanish! Was a nice way of sharing our lives in Poland.

Luciana and Tugce

As I told you, Saturday morning we went into the Children’s University and with help of my flatmate Tugce from Turkey and of course all help and great invitation from Joanna Popielska teacher from the University, we start the presentation. 

Me and he having a spanish conversation.

At the beginning we talk about some fact of Colombia and some from Brazil as well. About food, flora and fauna. We had a moment for make some artwork with them and of course we had time for dancing. The kids were interested and show us their skills in drawing, handcraft, learning languages and wow dancing! 

Dancing the CARRAPICHO. 

This was our meeting on Saturday with wonderful kids from Pułtusk. We are so happy to share this and more adventures with you!

Keep in touch! 

Cheers from the Venice of Mazovia! 

Angélica Camargo Flórez

EVS - Pułtusk 2016

Visit to Zatory

Hi everyone! 

Today we’ve visited Gymnazium in Zatory, which is a small village close to Pułtusk. A teacher of English who invited us and her students met us very warmly and friendly, so running 3 lessons wasn’t so tiring.

We kept our traditional structure - presentations about countries and small quiz in the end to see how attentive our students were. As usual teenagers were very shy at first but then they relaxed and even made a nice presentation about Zatory.So now we know a bit more about Pułtusk district.

Thanks to guys from third class we had a small guide tour and it was a good chance to see school’s everyday life. During this tour we got to know that the school is well-known for outstanding sport achievements – in each class there are many of cups and medals. And it's not wonderful, because they have an outstanding football field outside!

We also saw a kinder garden that is situated just in the building of the school. And on the way to it we’ve met a small educational installiation about Polish villages. Soon our tour came to the end and we left with a good feelings and memories about small and cosy school and its hospitable students and teachers! 

Have a nice day,

Daria

       

Pułtusk supports Earth Day!

22^nd of April was the Earth Day. I think most of you heard about this worldwide annual event that aims to raise awareness about environmental protection. Anyway, small historical note will not be out of place. So, according to web-site of Earth Day Network, this action has started in 1970 with a grassroots demonstration and today it’s a huge network that unite 22 000 of participants in 192 countries of the World. The most common practice of celebration is to plant new trees and wildflowers for Earth Day. But of course there are plenty of other ways to mark this event, for example educational and handicraft workshops or even garage fairs.

We left the right of tree-planting for a local Forest Service and decided to run an eco-workshop in Liceum. By general consent we agreed that our topic is recycling and reusing. The main reason is that some time ago we discovered that our houses are full of plastic bottles and newspapers and it was great to know that Internet is full of great recycling ideas as well! Inspired by really talented masters of creative recycling  we started working on our own. 

When we met our students I think they were a bit confuse because most of them were boys (and as well-known many boys are not eager to do handicrafts), but later they found it funny and easily dropped into work. As a planned result we should get a coaster, but of course it takes more time then we had. But anyway I think all of students can be proud of themselves!  

Links of works that for sure inspire you to start recycling of bottles and newspapers that you meet on your way (at least I liked them so much that I had this feeling ;-):
Beauty Harmony Life
DesignRuls
Best out of waste.

Have a nice day and take care of our planet,
 
Daria


P.S. by the way, number of places in workcamps are reducing with every each day! Hurry up or you will waste your chance to spend unforgettable holidays! Go to our web-site to choose a workcamp of your dream!

          

WELCOME TO QUIZ-CLUB!

Hey everyone!

My today’s post is about QUIZ CLUB that we start last Thursday, 27^th of March.  First of all a couple of words about a conception of the game: it is an intellectual team game where participants can compete in smartness and ability to work in team. The game consists of 4 rounds such as picture-guessing round, music round and 2 rounds with questions. Questions touch different spheres of knowledge – geography, history, music, cinema and ect. The minimum of participants in each team starts from 2 but of course if more than better!

These kinds of games are very popular in my city Irkutsk and we even different types – for example, for literature and music fans. There is also closed club only for VIP (yes, yes - our businessmen compete not only in market (smile))! Moreover we found out that in many towns of Poland exists a PubQuiz game.

We played QUIZ in an office of our organization in Pultusk. Participants spontaneously divided into 2 team with surprising names – “boys” and “girls”. In first round boys and girls were asked to guess the country by an image of national holiday. Our participants were very prepared, so this task wasn’t that difficult! Questions were more difficult because they had to recall knowledge from different spheres and demonstrate witness. They easily guess the name of “the most patriotic” pizza Margarita that has 3 national colors of Italy but it was challenging to guess why Japanese government called on all employees to go to work in the summer without ties and jackets. But anyway after some discussions and deliberations guys found out that thrifty Japanese just saved electricity, they wanted to cut off expenses for air conditioner! In my opinion the most interesting round was musical one. The task is to guess film by soundtrack. And this round was crucial one! In 3 round number of points were more or less the same, but it appeared that girls know more soundtracks and it led them to victory!

It was a testing of new kind of activity and I think it’s a viable idea! I hope all the participants enjoy it and have ambitious to play and win. And of course everyone is welcome to join us next time. Follow our Facebook page and web-site to keep up with our events.        

Daria