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On the train to Budapest, my last destination before I go home
06/06/2012 11:25
I'm now on the train to Budapest (Hungary). Last week, I said goodbye to all my colleage-teachers and to the pupils. I visited Salina-Turda and went to some restaurants in Cluj, that I hadn't visited yet. Tomorrow I will visit Budapest and On thursday morning, I fly from Budapest back to Belgium....
The graduation of the XIIth grade
30/05/2012 02:14
Today, it was the graduation of the 12th grade. It's very different than in Belgium. The whole day they walk around the school and they enter every class to sing the graduation song. On the playground, there's a whole ceremony with baloons and speeches. The whole school comes to look at that...
The second week of the easter holidays
22/04/2012 20:59
This week I've visited some other parts of Romania. I wanted to go to the salt-mine of Praid with a friend, but the last bus to the mine had already left when we arrived. We also visited Tîrgu Mureş and Sigişoara. Transilvania is a great place to do an assistantship :D.
Easter - the end of the first week of the easter-holidays
15/04/2012 10:55
Today it's easter. A day that we remember the resurrection of Jezus.
In Romania, Easter is the day that everybody says 'Cristos a înviat' (Jesus is resurrected).
Easter is a very big holiday in Romania and there are many different traditions. Like the boys go to together their friends (the...
Săptămâna altfel - school trip to Sibiu
04/04/2012 23:47
The 'săptămâna altfel' is an excellent opportunity for doing school trips.
Today I went to Sibiu with the 6th and the 10th grade.
Starting in Cluj-Napoca, we drive about 160km to the South. There we find a city, which is called Hermannstadt or in Romanian Sibiu.
The bus driver parks the bus,...
Săptămâna altfel - day two
03/04/2012 19:07
The second day of the 'săptămâna altfel' starts on the same way as the first one...
The pupils from the Comenius-project really amazed me. Some of them can barely read a text in Romanian and they can play in an English role-play, just by imitating the things I tell them.
After practicing the...
Săptămâna altfel - day one
02/04/2012 16:29
This week, it's the 'săptămâna altfel', that means that in every school in Romania the lessons will be replaced by extracurricular activities, such as workshops, role-plays, trips...
Today I helped the pupils from the primary school to learn the prononciation of the english sentences in the...
Project 3E - The Comenius project
30/03/2012 18:01
My host-school is also involved in another project, the English Environment Europe. It's a project for pupils of the primary school in which they will learn about other European cultures in an English environment. In this project, there are schools from 7 different countries involved (Hungary,...
Piaţa muncii - My own lesson
23/03/2012 19:46
An assistant doesn't need to teach by his own, but he can teach if he wants so. My mentor asked me if I would like to teach one lesson of economics about the labour market (Piaţa Muncii). I agreed and I prepared everything in Romanian. I've made my own worksheet and prepared the lesson like I...
The Leonardo da Vinci project as a host-school
12/03/2012 17:14
From the 7th to the 12th of March, our school was the host-school for The Leonardo da Vinci project: Let's play chemistry.
The Leonardo project is a project between 3 different schools: HTL Wels, Patrik Lajos Budapest and Col. Tehnic Ana Aslan Cluj-Napoca.
This project started in October 2010...
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