Students from Poland, Greece, France and Spain set out on an intergalactic journey

and discovered a new planet – the eTwinning planet...what will they find there and how

will they manage without adults ( I had an unfortunate car accident while going to meet

them and ended up in hospital, fortunately it was just a broken leg...)

Before setting out the students made a list of indispensable items. They are taking:

- a spaceship with strong windows, an emergency exit, bedrooms, a kitchen, and a toilet,

- instructions for the spaceship, in case it should break,

- rocket fuel,

- space-suits, helmets, oxygen tanks, heavy boots (so they don't float away), and a jet-pack,

- food and drinks,

- a parachute and a strong rope,

They designed their space-suits and the ship.

They also drew the take off of their spaceship.

They set out into the unknown...What will they encounter during their journey?

Crews from other countries set out before them. On their way to the eTwinning planet they

had many adventures, like meeting Martians:

After their arrival on the eTwinning planet, children from partner countries discovered a

vast desert and a huge lake. They had to build ships, test the atmosphere, find drinking

water...They also met two inhabitants of the planet – Blup and Blip, who live in an

underwater city at the bottom of the lake, and are amphibians.

Our journey to the eTwinning planet...

The mission is very dangerous due to the distance between the Earth and the

eTwinning planet. However, no student is afraid. The journey is suposed to last about a

month. On the first day all systems are running smoothly, we have enough fuel, food, and

water for at least two months. All the students are excited and full of anticipation.

The first weird sygnals were heard while still in orbit, first they could hardly be heard

but the further away from Earth the students got, the stronger and better they could hear

them. Paweł said that they reminded him of something...Amelia reasoned that it might be

some kind of intergalactic music, that might be transmitted to make the journey more

pleasant? Amelia's sister, Zuzia, added that she was keen to dance to the music, and she

started dancing. … Suddenly Paweł shouted

– I know what that is! My grandpa told me that it is a way of communicating by Morse

alphabet! Yes, that must be it...but it is a bit strange.

He took a piece of paper and wrote down the letters as they were coming in. But what

was the weird word? All the children took turns to look at the word. Zuzia, who was last to

have a look, looked at it again under a bright light and upside-down, and something occured

to heri… she took out a mirror and read the word, the letters were weird but they were a

mirror reflection of our alphabet! They spelled:

… WELCOME…

– Eureka! - Zuzia shouted – someone sent us a message backwards...and invites us over!

– Hurray! Bravo! Bravo! - the other children shouted.

… Their happiness didn't last long… the spaship entered an asteriod belt…

The engine was damaged during an encounter with one of them. The children couldn't

fly so they floated in space. Just when they lost hope of continuing their journey an unknown

flying object, shaped like a ball, got near them. It looked a bit like a disco ball, it played

music and had many bright lights.

A weird, one-eyed, big eared and long legged creature called Flip emerged from the

disco ball ship and offered to take the students to his planet. They could Jupiter and a small

blue and green Earth from Flip's planet. They also met Flip's friend, Benek, who had long

horns, big hands, four eyes and a wide smile. The new friends showed the students their

planet and showed them how to slide down craters.

They also promised to help the children fix their spaceship and reach the eTwinning

planet if the students would dance with them. All the children were very happy to oblige and

danced „Gangam style”, which they all knew from their school dances. The aliens loved the

dance and fixed the engine, so the children could continue their journey.

… At some point Jaś looked out of the round, spaceship window and saw a planet that

looked like a reflection of our Earth.

– This must be the eTwinning planet - said Jaś.

Suddenly, the ship started shaking, tilting left and right...and sped up. The children noticed

that a ship passed them.

– It's a pirate ship! - noticed Artur.

The students started wondering what they should do since the pirate spaceship was

clearly blocking their way. They even started going off course, like if the pirates were

drawing them with some invisible force.

– They want to kidnap us! They have a magnet that is attracting our ship! - shouted

Tymoteusz.

The children got worried:

– What now? What now? - the girls lamented.

Fortunately, Filip and Wiktoria remembered that they also had a magnet on board, an

even bigger one that Filip got from his dad. It was initially taken on the trip in case there was

a problem with their coming back to Earth, then they could use the magnet. They could now

use it to defend against the pirates. So Weronika and Wiktoria rose up the magnet in the

direction of the pirates – but switched the sides. Almost instantly the pirate ship was pushed

back and soon it was so far away that it stopped being a nuisance. Alicja noticed that the

lights on the pirate ship went out and the ship itself stopped moving.

– Hit and destroyed! - said Alicja.

– We have defeated the pirates with their own weapon! They didn't even expect us to have a

magnet on board! - Kuba said proudly.

– Hurray! We must have destroyed their navigating equipment – said Adam.

– And good! Once we get to the eTwinning planet we will send someone to get them, and the

rascals will be dealt with! - announced Weronika.

Finally, after a 25 day long journey the children arrived on the eTwining planet. They

were expecting a big welcome, after all someone did send them an invite.

Leaving the spaceship Igor tripped and fell, and his helmet fell off his head! Everyone

gasped with terror but Igor got up, dusted himself off and smiled.

– The air is just like on Earth! We can breathe freely here! – exclaimed Kinga.

This place was different to all the other places the children had visited on their way.

From space the planet looked very Earth-like, but on surface they encountered a huge lake

and a desert, vast and beautiful despite the lack of plants.

They started thinking that no one could possibly live in such a place when Blip and Blup

appeared. They lived in a city at the bottom of the lake and were amphibians, but different to

those the children knew from school. They had arm-like flippers with membranes between

fingers, which allowed them to crawl on the bottom of the lake, and sometimes they came

ashore. They were both very friendly and the children went to the lake with them.

There they decided that a boat needed to be built and also they would need to find drinking

water, Blip and Blup generously shared some water with them, but they ran out during their

journey and it needed to be replaced. Planning how to build a boat took a very long time but

fortunately Miłosz had a brilliant idea. They needed two logs, a rope, a branch shaped like a

catapult and a board. The children tied the two logs togeter, put in the catapult-shaeped

branch and the board and sailed across the lake.

On the other side of the lake they found mountains and winter! The boys volounteered

to leave the boat first, worried about the girls, who were supposed to stay in the boat for a

while. The boys started climbing a mountain when the girls couldn't wait any longer, jumped

out of the boat themselves, and caught up with the boys. They all continued up the mountain

together.

They came across a frozen lake and crossing it was a lot of fun: every so often

someone fell over and everybody laughed out loud. It was a good thing that they still had

their helmets on as they never thought to bring their warm hats. However, Filip got across

the lake in one big slide – on his belly and broke the record for sliding! The fun seemed to be

neverending.

Later, the girls wanted to go right and the boys left but Szymon shouted that he could

see footprints in the snow, and they all decided to follow them.

They could see a beautiful blue light in the middle of mountain tops and soon they

reached the foot of a high and steep mountain. In front of her, Ewa could see something

weird- a huge, shining, crystal-like door seemed to lead into the mountain. It must have been

this door which gave off that beautiful light!

They were so distracted by their discovery that they forgot about staying safe for a moment

and...that moment was enough for an accident to happen and one of them broke a leg. They

all tried calling for help but the emergency number 112 didn't work. That's how they met

another inhabitant of this weird planet and the owner of the weird tracks in the snow – Blim.

He was running here and there, jumping and making weird gestures...

It turned out later that it was a welcome dance! The alien had two long arms, a red face, and

green hair. He invited them to his cave. He was absolutely sure that his planet was the

friendliest planet in the entire universe. To prove it he decided to organise a ball with his two

friends - Blip and Blup. A ball for all their friends from their mirror planet – Earth.

– It's going to be a space party that you will always remember, we've been waiting for you! -

he said.

The students of class 1B met all the other children from all the other countries there,

and although they didn't speak each others' languages they could understand each other

perfectly.

They had heaps of fun and tried many delicious things – yummy space cakes, a

thousand flavours of ice-cream, colourful cream-cakes, chocolate fountains, fruit jellies.

Finally, they were taken to wonderous rooms where beds, duvets, and pillows were made out

of cotton candy. Everyone had such beautiful dreams after the party that smiles appeared on

their sleeping faces.

Well rested, the kids went sight-seeing to the underwater city, where Blip and Blup

lived.

They couldn't say what they loved more – the sweet land of Blim or the hidden land of

Blip and Blup. But they didn't forget to invite their new friends to Poalnd.

The children went back to their spaceship and set off home, they started to miss their

parents and the Earth. Fortunately, their way back was peaceful. After returning they went to

visit their teacher at the hospital. She was feeling a lot better and was extremely proud when

she heard about their adventures.

It was a wonderful journey to the eTwinning planet, full of unforgettable adventures.