Welcome to Vrilissia!

On the first day that our eTwinning partners came to school, we prepared a welcome event to demonstrate our culture and our traditions. We showed a PowerPoint presentation about Greece and then we performed folk and modern dances. In the end, Greeks and Italians joined in "syrtaki".

Me and luisa are very happy ‘cause our staying in Greece is very nice .we enjoy ourselves every day with our partners , Nikos and Vagelis(they are twins)! We have visited many places. We enjoyed the fun park with our partners. We visited interesting places in Athens:the Olympic Stadium, the Acropolis ,the Parliament with the guards there, Syntagma Square,Lykabetus on the hill. We went on a trip to Peloponneso,we crossed the Corinth Canal, we visited the Acropolis in Michene,the fortress in Napflio(where we walked down about 1 thousand steps) the epidaurus theatre. We have also known some of their traditions like eating kebab in typical restaurants and also ther school life:they have a short break after every lesson,they can buy what they want in the school bar, they seem to have more freedom than us at school.Life in the family where we are staying is very pleasant.



Luisa and Fabiola

My impressions from Vrilissia,Greece

I LOVE THE GREEK FAMILIES

In this week some of our school mates and I came to Greece to do an experience in greek families and greek schools. Today is Thursday so tomorrow it is our last day in Greece and I am very happy for beautiful day I have spent here.
I wish to thank my nice and mild partner that is taking care of me for everythings everyday.
Naturally I must thank the partner’s family that is especially; they are very pleasant persons and I hope that we will continue the friendship with all the greek students.
Thank you everybody for beautiful things that you prepares for us.
ALESSANDRA

Etwinning group of I.T.A.S.S.

News about italian school

This week in our school there is the so call “pausa didattica” decided by the students.
Do you know what it is ???
This isn’t an occupation of the school as the students are in the classroom with their teachers but
the teachers can neither explain nor make oral and written tests.
We don’t have the usual lessons but we ask teachers to do special activities, for example :
We play volley and football matches;
We watch films about history of Italy, about psychological topics and documentary of bio-chem and so on.
We read the newspapers
We speak about political topics (the law 133 and 137 concerning the new school reform)
We make orienteering for universities
We write the school journal
Some of us try to improve some subjects with the help of our teachers
We visit interesting places of art in our town with our teachers.
This “pausa didattica” from one side can help some students understanding better some subjects, on the other side, some students can deepen some subjects.
In the end we can tell that it is a different way to have lesson.
And you??? Do you have similar experience in your school….???
Waiting for your comments……………. Bye Bye

A new experience

Last Wednesday she opened the door...
We're speaking about Isabel Cullen! How nice she is! A 16 year old girl who came here in Italy to study Italian, with a cultural exchange program! She comes from Perth in western Australia. We are really happy to host this friendly girl in our class for two months. She's staying with a family that takes part in this international project. But, just think about that: she has flown for 18 hours! What a stressful and long journey! What else can we say? We really like her, she's very pretty and now she is part of our class. We speak in English with her, of course, but she attends all our lessons and naturally she helps us not only for English but also for German, that she can speak well. We would like to make a similar experience in our future.
Lucia, Gabriella, Francesca, Serena.

A concert with a cause

Some of the eTwinning team members attended a concert at Syntagma square organised by the Local Union of Municipalities of Attiki in order to support the Palestinian people in Gaza. The central message was "Our heart beats in Gaza" and its aim was to collect food and medicine for the victims of the war in Gaza, as well as raising awareness to Greek citizens against war. The Hellenic Paralympic Committee and a lot of local sport clubs participated in the organisation of a Marathon and the concert.

We went to Syntagma square accompanied by the Mayor of Vrilissia. Lots of people attended the event. Many artists took part in the concert, like Dionysis Tsaknis and Melina Aslanidou. The organisers gave out T-shirts and caps with the concert's motto. You can see us in the short movie presentation of snapshots we took on that Sunday evening.

The Italian eTwinning team working on the blog

The cinema project

On 28-11-08 we began a two week cinema project
that consisted of several theatre shows and films.
These events were seen
outside of school at a cinema and a theatre of L’Aquila.
The purpose of this
project was to increase students’ awareness to social problems and drug taking.
We have already seen a film about pollution, one about D’Annunzio, one of the major Italian poets. But the film that interested us more than the others is surely
“We, the Berlin’s zoo guys” (we don’t know if the title is translated rightly but maybe you know the book). It is a film based on
a shocking autobiography by Crhistiane F. At the tender age of 13 she loses
herself in the destructive world of heroin.
It’s sat in a grey and depressing
suburb of Berlin, in the ‘80s.
There boredom reigns and teenagers fill their
desperate lives with heroin.
This film is so moving, you’ll cry for sure but
you are left with a love for life without dependency on drugs.
After the film we had a very interesting debate and we think that all the teenagers should have a moment to reflect about this serious problem

The front cover of I.T.A.S.S.'s magazine