Comenius: "Let's Travel!": Biel from Menorca has been travelling to Foligno, Italy

Saturday, 9 June 2012

Biel from Menorca has been travelling to Foligno, Italy

Hi, my name is Biel Villalonga, I am sixteen years old but in April I will be seventeen. I am from a small town in the Balearic Islands called, Maó, it is in Menorca. Menorca is a beautiful island, it i45 kms long and 14kms wide. There are two main towns Maó and Ciutadella, and in summer we have a lot of tourists.We have beautiful beaches and a fabulous summer, we have our local fiestas, with black horses and riders, and we drink a drink called ´pomada´which is a mixture of gin and lemon...but you must be careful not to drink too much.

Anyway, now back to me, I am tall and slim ( although I eat a lot) and I have straight fair hair, and brown eyes. People say I am friendly and sociable, and I think this is true because I have a lot of friends and it isn´t difficult for me to make new friends. I am quite a good student, my favourite subjects are history and PE and I dislike Maths. My passion is football and I play with a team called CD Menorca, I have played with this club for 12 years. I train 4 days a week and I play a match every weekend.

In my freetime, I like to be with my friends or my family. I have a elder sister she is 22 and she is married, and a younger brother who is six.

I am really looking forward to my visit to Italy. I have never travelled abroad, so I am nervous, but at the same time I am also excited. I think it will be a wonderful experience, because I will meet new people, I will see another country and how the people live and I will learn about a new culture.

This Blog

The project Blog contains everything related to the Comenius project “Let’s Travel!”: summary, objectives, activities, mobilities, project meetings, results, evaluation… It is a visual and dynamic online platform which illustrates and disseminates the project development through regular updating: writings, introductions, descriptions of places, pictures and videos on Tourism as a topic. All outcomes on the Blog are the results of students’ and teachers’ common team work at the seven partner schools.

The Garden in Portugal

Although uncompleted, coordinators from the seven partner schools decided to maintain the Garden in Portugal as one of the most emotive outcomes of our project. Seeds of plants from the local flora in each country were sent to the school in Portugal. Students of Tourism and Gardening from Ferreira do Zêzêre collected and let them germinate. They created a greenhouse, which was unfortunately seriously damaged by a destructive tornado at the beginning of 2011. A big part of the garden got lost.

Evaluation Questionnaires and Power Point Presentation

Three model questionnaires for mobilities were made, separately for guests (teachers and students) and hosts (students). Teachers and students who took part in mobility filled these questionnaires after each meeting and conclusions were compiled by Polish teachers to make our work better and more efficient. The most important conclusions from questionnaires were summed in the Power Point presentation which was presented during the last mobility in Spain, were all coordinators from partner schools were present.

7 Different Kinds of Tourism in 7 Different Countries

The seven partner schools of the Project “Let’s Travel!” did of Tourism a topic to investigate and analyse. They found out the characteristics, the means of transport, the baggage, the accommodation, the duration and the money required for seven different kinds of tourism and tourists in the seven partnership countries. They produced a considerable quantity of documents with information and pictures on activities related to cultural, historical, religious, natural, health, sport and educational tourism.