miércoles, 26 de febrero de 2014

Comenius Project – France


Among several other projects in Krüger, there was another one organized by teachers before Christmas, which I would like to introduce now.
The teachers participated in this project collected donations from students, but before that, they had proposed some projects/charities to vote for, and the "winner" got the collected donation.
Due to this project, some students with the teachers responsible for this donation had the opportunity to travel to France and present their programme there. One of the students participated in the journey wrote about his experience of the trip:

"In the following text I would like to describe the impressions and experience that I have made last year during the Comenius Project in France.

Before we started the journey, Ms. Breuer gave us a list where we had to choose a workshop. Because my dancing and acting skills are slightly limited I knew that I should sign up for the Writing workshop, which was the right decision in the end, because it was a lot of fun. The first advantage of this workshop was that many girls chose it, but of course the actual work we did was more important.

Very interesting was the fact that five languages were involved in the project, which made the work we did sometimes very tough but always exciting. We created short poems in Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch and German. The teacher usually talked French and a student translated into English, when I couldn't understand the whole meaning of the task. Every student involved in the workshop was always ready to help me if there was a problem and every time we had to deal with a task in a team, we could handle it.

There was a constant exchange of words in the five different languages, which gave me the opportunity to increase my vocabulary. We started our work around 9 o' clock in the morning until noon when we had a large break of 2 hours which was definitely necessary to gain power for the next hours of creativity. The workshop ended around 6 o' clock and I was really happy to go home to have some food and rest.

In 3 days of work we created many poems, short stories and comparably stuffs from which we selected the best ones to present them at the final celebration of the Comenius Project. I had to present the first work which was just a sentence in different languages, but fortunately I wasn't alone on the stage, in front of an audience containing numerous teachers, students and parents, because the nice girl I worked with supported me.

The nervousness vanished after a few sentences and it started to make fun. The teacher told me just a few minutes before the presentation started that I had to read a small text in Italian, which made me a bit nervous, because I am not really familiar with the language but I did well and got an encouraging applause. Last part of the presentation was a piece created by the whole group, with a little bit of music in the background and you could feel that both, presenters and audience, enjoyed it.

As conclusion I can say that this project was successful, because it seemed like everybody had fun and we created something great, overcoming linguistic barriers and forming a unity."

In my point of view, it was another fascinating and useful project of the school, as you can read it in Oliver's report.




jueves, 30 de enero de 2014

Comenius Projects in Krüger



As I have mentioned in my previous introduction part, there are many Comenius projects in the school organized by many teachers. During my assistantship in this school I had the opportunity to have a closer look at how the students are working on that particular project that I am going to present you.
 The Kiosk is a kind of buffet for students in the school which was founded and run by one particular class. While it is a business school, students enjoy it and can put their gained knowledge into practice, so this enterprise is very useful for everyone in the school.
The students from that class are shareholders so they can share the profit of the Kiosk. They sell sandwiches, sweets, biscuits and drinks during the breaks. There are some lessons when they purchase with one of the teachers, who helps the students with everything they need (shopping, accounting etc).
In my point of view the importance of the project is beyond question. This is the way how the students learn how enterprises work in real life and this is the project which helps them being responsible, helpful and good workers in their future life and the gained knowledge and practice through this project could be very helpful in every walk of life.











lunes, 20 de enero de 2014

A Hungarian Comenius Assistant in Germany


Hello, my name is Adrienn, and I am a Comenius Assistant in the Krüger Internat in Germany.

I am from a tiny country from the heart of Europe, called Hungary and I heard about this program during my university studies. My aim was to study abroad at least for a few months and finally I had the opportunity to be a Comenius Assistant in a small town in Germany.
I came here to learn, work, teach and help as much as I can and benefit greatly from it. Even if there are no Hungarian classes or clubs in the school, I hope I can give some interesting impressions about my culture and the Hungarians with my own personality. I would like to learn a lot about the German culture, and I would like to acquire German as a foreign language and to practice how to be a good English teacher in a foreign country.


First of all, I have a power point presentation on Hungary that I would like to share with you. The presentation contains facts about Budapest, the Hungarian language itself, our cuisine, inventions and sports in Hungary.





Next time I would like to present you the Comenius projects in this school, on which a lot of students are working very hard.

Warm wishes,

Adrienn Vastagh