THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BUCHAREST

INTERNATIONAL WEEK 13-17 February 2006

International week is celebrated at ISB Primary every

year in order to promote inter cultural friendship. We

celebrated the third international week at ISB Primary.

A variety of presentations, cultural dances, musicals

and an international fair was organized this time. Six

different countries’ embassies or cultural centres from

four different continents came to our school and made some presentations about their countries throughout

the international week.

The lessons focused on learn-

ing different cultures

throughout the week. Each

class chose a country and

studied their culture, history and geography in various

ways. A very international at-

mosphere could be seen at

the school by just looking at

the displays prepared by the students.

A Turkish musical and a Romanian folk dance was per-

formed in a special assembly by our students who helped to contribute to the diversity of the week. Dur-

ing the same week, a group of children from Palatul

Copiilor came to perform a Romanian folk dance.

Monday 13th February:

The first presentation of the week was by the Ger-

man Embassy.

Nisa Koc’s observations of the German Embassy’s presentation:

A man came from the German Embassy to tell ISB about Ger-many. It was a very good chance to learn more about Germany.

Everybody was interested. He also spoke about sports and the world cup 2006 which will be in Germany. He gave us stickers

and balloons.

On the same day, we also had some visitors from

Palatul Copiilor to show us a couple of traditional Romanian dances.

Romanian Folk Dance Some Romanian children

came from Palatul Copilor to dance for the international

week. There were three parts; the first dance was a tradi-

tional dance, the second

dance was a ballet, and the third dance was again a tradi-

tional dance.

Tuesday 14th February

The second day of the week started with the presenta-

tion by the Egyptian Embassy. At the end of the pres-entation, students asked many questions about the

pyramids, mummies, and the pharaohs.

Ceren Erten’s observations of the Egyptian

Embassy’s presentation: Egypt has lots of pyramids. The queen was Cleopatra. There were lots of mummies in the past. Most of the population is

Muslim. They know Arabic. The queen liked to draw things on the wall. They were drawing the past on the wall because

they wanted the people to see what happened in the past. The favourite sport is football. Egypt is bigger than Romania.

The presentation of the Nigerian Embassy was in the

afternoon. Students watched a very interesting documentary about Nigeria and asked lots of curious

questions. The number of questions they asked was

an indication of how interested they were in learn-

ing about the different cultures.

Wednesday 15th February We hosted the Indonesian Embassy

on Wednesday. Our friendly guests

from the Indonesian Embassy

showed a video about wild animals in Indonesia and answered lots of ques-

tions that our students had. At the

end of the program children were

very happy to receive some flags and

other gifts from Indonesia.

The presentation of The American Cultural Centre was

on the same day. Students learnt about diversity in the United States. Everybody was surprised to learn

that many different races made up the United States.

The brochures and

stickers they received

from our guests made

them very happy.

Thursday 16th February

Two of our parents, Mr.and Mrs.Kisvari came from the Hungarian Embassy to give a presentation to the stu-

dents. The presentation was very educational and a lot

of fun. The amusement park in Budapest attracted

much attention from the children.

Kate’s Report about the American Embassy’s

Presentation

The American Embassy was presented by

two diplomats: Alicia and Deborah. They had

a nice presentation about the USA and its

culture.

The USA is composed of different people. In

fact, the USA has different skin colours, like

white, yellow, pink and hazel. This is be-

cause when Christopher Columbus found

America different people came there. There

are Native Americans and emigrants which

came from other countries. USA has 50

states. Some of them are: New York, Califor-

nia, Los Angeles and Florida.

We had two special as-

semblies on the same day. First, there was a

Turkish musical called

‘Uskudar’a Gider Iken’

which was prepared by

our Turkish language teacher Mr.Yakup and

some students from

year 5 and 6.

The last activity of the

day was prepared by our Romanian language

teacher Ms.Livia which

consisted of a tradi-

tional Romanian folk

dance.

Friday 17th February The biggest event of the

week was organized by our

parents at the biggest ball-

room of the Crowne Plaze Ho-tel. Since the international

fair has gained popularity

over the last three years and

although the hall was not big

enough for all the visitors, the parents and ISB were

very happy to see so many

people.

After the opening ceremony,

visitors started visiting the tables. There were 29 coun-

tries represented this year.

Parents worked hard to pre-

pare their country’s table.

Everything seemed to be per-fect; the decorations, display

materials, useful brochures

and of course the delicious

food. As the guests were walking around the

tables tasting food

from different parts

of the word, the cos-

tume parade was an-nounced and people

paused to watch 60

teachers and stu-

dents walking into the hall wearing

their traditional cos-

There were lots of events during the two-hour long

event. It started with songs from different languages by our school choir followed by Andjelina Acimovac’s

violin play from year 3.

Soon after the traditional costumes parade came the Turkish

musical prepared by the Turkish language teacher with pri-mary school students.

Towards the end of the fair, a professional Romanian group of

folk dancers performed.

When the program had finished, people were happy to see

such a successful fair.

The international fair was viewed on several national televi-

sion stations during their news bulletins as well as national

newspapers published in Romanian and English.