woensdag 16 april 2008

CoDiME dag 1 - dag 3

Na 3 dagen in Gent te verblijven voor het project zijn we nu even terug thuis. Dus tijd voor een berichtje op de blog. In het Engels weliswaar, zodat de buitenlandse studenten dit ook kunnen lezen.

Wednesday 16th April
Also today we had breakfast at the Youth Hostel. Afterwards we went to the "Centrale" where Marc Colpaert had an interesting presentation about diversity. We had our meal, paella, also at the centrale, and afterwards we went to the campus in Ghent where Lithuania, Portugal, Italy and we talked about our education system. After that we went home. Tomorow the students wil visit for the first time our campus, and some of them are already going to visit a school.
Hopefully the students will also like their stay in Waasmunster.

Tuesday 15th April
This day began with a breakfast at the youth hostel. After that we came again tot the campus and we had some interesting exchanges about the educating systems in the Neterhlands, Spain and Turkey. After this session we had a quick meal and then we went to the 'Vrijdagsmarkt' for a visit to Ghent. This actually was an example of how you better not cope with diversity. The beginning of the visit was kind of stereotype... But we also visited some interesting places in Ghent.
In the evening we had a delicious mail at a Turkisch restaurant.
To close the day, we went to the 'Limonada', a cocktail bar with some students from Spain, Italy, Lithuania and the Netherlands. It was very nice and we really got to know eachother better, so we're really enjoying this project.


The presentation of the Netherlands


Monday 14th April
We've taken the train at 8.22 to Ghent. After a trip by tram, we arrived at the youth hostel, where Ruth, Anke and a litte bit of the exchange students were. We had to leave at 9.30, but some students don't have he habbit to come on time. So with a bit delay, we went to the campus in Ghent where we got to know eachother in a 'muzische' way. Afterwards we had a drink and the general directro of the schoool gave a presentation about this school.
At noon we had a meal at the campus, aftwerwards there was a market of the different countries. Every country had some specific things with them, so we could taste 'drop', 'orange bitter', chees, some specific cake from Portugal... We also saw the specific clothes from Lithuania and Portugal.
We took the evening meal at the youth hostel. We made 'smos' for the exchange students, and after that, we had prepared an evening animation. This was a 'Swing Palace', where the group had to split up in 2, and we've sang a lot. Group 1 had a captain, Steve, group 2 had Youri as captain, and after an excititng battle, Steve's group has won.
We hadve visited 2 pubs in Ghent with some girls from the Netherlands, and then we went to bed.



Swing Palace in the youth hostel in Ghent

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