Packing the Christmas boxes in Dobrzyniewo

 First we sprayed the cones gold and attached the strings. Then our art teacher and some students made the balls using the colourful strings and glue. We bought traditional Polish sweets and took some photos to be attached to the Christmas card. we really had fun packing everything!

Preparing the Christmas Boxes

Making Christmas ornaments from oak tree seeds.

                                               Fixing the our Christmas tree.

Niki, the fourth teacher in our school, with her pupils, makes and bakes kourabiedes, traditional Christmas sweet.

                                 Antonis is presenting them with proudness!!!

                                     Our Christmas boxes ready to be send.

                 Irene and Maria are singing the traditional kalymnian carols just for you.

Making the Christmas cards. Merry Christmas to all of you and Happy New Year!!! 

Trekking at the mountain path at Zares 4 Dec 2011

We have discovered  many flowers of  white crocus a plant that I have never seen before.

 View over Argos.

 The beautiful island of Telendos at the end. Snufkin has to visit this quite and picturisque island.

The small church of Saint John. As you can imagine Snufkin will meet a lot of small churches evrywhere in Kalymnos. 

The four helpfull partners that we had in this adventure.  They have lied down to earth to hear the sounds of the Earth. 

On the 4th of December we have gathered again but they didn;t came so many pupils. So only four girls came, ready for action. The path wasn;t so difficult, but we did find garbage there also. We have collected as many as we could managed.

Trekking at the mountain path to Pythari at Argos

On 19th of November we have started to trekk at the mountain path to Pythari. We have discovered that there where a lot of garbage, there. So we have decided to clean up the place. All these could not happened if my friends haven't give a big effort. Thanks to them that Saturday and the next Sunday we have collected all the garbage and now the path is clean!!! We were also lucky, because on Saturday the 19th we have met a couple of eagles who are living on these mountains and are a very rare species. It's called Spizaetos, in greek, but it's name is Hieraaetus Fasciatus.

On Sunday 27th of November we have gathered again. Now we were 20 pupils and two mothers who came to help us. they did a very good job all of them and now everywhere is clean. Even the small canyon is very beautiful. You can see pnly it's natural colors and not the colors of plastic, iron etc.

quotes from students' works about Finland, Finnish students, life ...

"I've always wanted to try Finnish cuisine especially the traditional cookies Joulutorttuja and bread Kalakko."
(Kasia Z)

"I'm interested in hobbies and behavoiur of young people and how their school looks like"  (Aneta L)

""I'd like to know how they really live" (Magda S)

"The teacher from the Finnish school informed us about the school's rules and school's life. I want to see it"
(Magda S)
"I'd like to see the country of Santa Claus" (Wioleta K)
"I'd really like to meet my peers from Finland  because i believe that it is the best way to learn and gain firs-hand knowledge about tradition, customs, cuisine of another country" (Natalia S)

" I will improve my English" (Kasia Z)

COMPETITION "Why do I want to meet my peers from Finland?'

Kasia Zdanowicz (the girl)- one of the winners of the competition

Last week we held the competition in our school. We asked the students to write a short essay in English on why they would like to meet their peers from Finland. Only 10 students entered the competition. The teachers chose 3 best works. Their authors were awarded the first prize ( the trip to Finland for  2nd project meeting). Hooray!!!! Apart from the winners there are also two students coming who were very active in the project.

Hello everyone.

This is our first blog but we will be adding lots more soon.  We had a fantastic time in Poland and are enjoying creating our winter boxes. 

Love from England

Snufkin celebrates Finland´s independence day

On 6th December 1917 Finland got the independence from the Russian Empire. On that day we have public holiday and people don´t work and shops are closed. People get together to enjoy independence day and watch tv about President´s independence-dinner-gala where all the important people are invited.

In our school we had independence celebration last Friday. 6th graders invited all of us to our Gymhall to listen their songs and thoughts of Independent Finland. They gave us reasons why Finland is important to us and why we feel fortunate to live in a such wonderful country. In the end we all sang the Hymn of Finland standing up.

Snufkin Mail

In Finland kids are always waiting for the Christmas desperately, for that waiting we have SNUFKIN MAIL. Each day Snufkin brings mail for us. In mail there´s always something fun to do that day, such as a game, a song, a quiz or a handcraft work to do.

Snufkin in Dobrzyniewo Duże- memories