Comenius Meeting in Portugal12th-17th January 2014

Portuguese Students’ Reports

By Beatriz Pereira

This week was amazing. It was an unforgettable experience that I want to repeat without any doubt. I learned many things, new languages, new cultures, new costumes and I still learned more about some regions of Portugal. I made new friends who will stay in my heart for the rest of my life. I think this Comenius Project is a very interesting project in which everyone should participate. Thank you all for this week and it is a privilege to participate in this project.

By Bernardo Soares

I really enjoyed this meeting. It was very funny and I made lots of new friends. I can't wait for the next one!

In my opinion, the Comenius Project is a way to know new cultures and share ours. I see this new experience as a way to get responsibility and live with people who were originally unknown and became my friends. In my case, I host at my home a Polish girl. Not only I created a new friendship, but I also learnt how to speak her language and I had the opportunity to taste chocolates from her country. Furthermore, through the week we visited very interesting places and monuments that gave foreign students and teachers a better perspective of Portuguese culture.

Daniela Lopes

They had the opportunity to taste our food and they were really delighted. We didn`t only visit Torres Novas, but also other Portuguese cities. I think everyone loved the chosen places and found them very interesting. I and some other Portuguese students decided to do other kind of activities too and I think our foreign partners enjoyed them a lot. In general, I think everything went on well and for me this week was something different but awesome. Unfortunately, many of the people I met, I will never see them again. It`s a shame it has been only a week and I really miss my new friend.

By Daniela Lopes

In my opinion the visit to Portugal was very interesting, because we knew the partners of our Portuguese colleagues and also received in our house our own partners. I think the tours and the activities were very well organized and very interactive. To me these visits allowed me to meet different touristic places in Portugal which I didn´t know yet.This project was very important because it helped us to make new friends and experience different cultures. It also allowed us to improve our English language and practise it a little bit more.

By Filipa Cruz

For me it was a great week where I had lots of fun and made new foreign friends. We travelled with them by bus not only in Torres Novas, but to other culturally important cities, like Fátima and Alcobaça, and to “local wonders” like the Caves of Mira de Aire.However, the weather wasn’t very good (it rained too much), but it was still great fun! I loved it, and so did my Polish friend!

By Inês Faria

During the Comenius week, we had the chance to visit many places, like Alcobaça Monastery, Mira D’Aire Caves and Nazaré beach. We had some great experiences, like the fact of learning how to cook “Bolos de Cabeça” and to practise “Geocash”. All the activities were very relevant and let us develop closer relationships with our foreign partners.I liked it very much because it was a different experience for me which allowed me to review some of the friends I made in Barcelona, in last September.

By Isabel Rosário

The Comenius Project it is a really funny way of meeting new people, new cultures, habits and costumes and it is a good way to meet very nice people and make new friends. I loved this week, I appreciated a lot being with people from all over the Europe, We could learn with them and with the places we visited. I think the places where we went were amazing and I learnt a lot with the castles and about some history about my country that I did not know. All the places we visited were beautiful but what I really enjoyed most was the “Alcobaça Monastery” because I had never been there and I learnt a lot. Riding a horse was my favourite activity because I love horses. The activity that I enjoyed less was visiting the library because it was a bit boring not just for me but for the other teens, too. I liked being with Daniela, Inês and our friends from other country, We went to the bowling and to the air force where my father works and we really liked it.

By João Mota

I think that the visit to Portugal was really good and funny. The partners loved it and appreciated it a lot. I liked to have Sevgi (Turkish partner) and Ana (Spanish partner) in my house.The activities were very good and one of my favourite moments was the farewell dinner.The goodbye was hard but we will continue talking and sharing moments. 

By Maria João Contente

I liked the Comenius Meeting in Torres Novas because I saw the most beautiful things and places during this week. I liked a lot of the “Dinosaurs’ footprints”, the visit to the “Monastery of Alcobaça” and to to Nazaré and “Sítio”.I loved to participate in this project because it was a great way to meet new people and to remember them for the rest of our lives.

By Nuno Sénica

 

I think that was the most fantastic week of my live.I spoke with people of different countries and that was amazing.I think these initiatives must continue.  

By Ricardo Canais

 I liked very much to help in the organization of the Portuguese meeting. I hosted two Turkish girls in my house and I did all my best to make them feel at home. I liked very much to share many activities with teachers and students. For me these projects are very important because they enrich our culture with this kind of interaction with other countries and also improve the students’ English language. It also helped us to become more mature and to develop the way how to present our work to the other Comenius partners. I really loved to meet different people of Poland, Italy, Spain, Romania and Turkey.

 By Sara Santos

  

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