2009/12/14

The list of the chosen personalities will be made available on the blog.

2009/12/16

A common layout of the information sheets about the chosen personalities will be elaborated by cooperating via Internet.

// Christina Soldan

Yesterday we had an info meeting with all CREW participants and their parents. Stefan welcomed everyone and then, we presented the CREW project, the blog and its features. We also talked about how we are implementing the project in our school subjects and showed some student work. Christer presented the planning of our trip to Romania and back. Katarina was at the meeting, too.

After a good cup of coffee/tee, cakes and mingle, we continued planning the accommodation of the Romanian students when they come to Sweden. We discussed activities, health and other important things that we thought about hospitality in the north.

We have planned another meeting in January, before the Romanians coming to Sweden. Then Lennart Gustavsson and his daughter, Theresé, will come as guests. They have participated in a similar project with Örjanskolan in 2007 and they will tell us about their experiences from parents and students perspectives. The project name is BONDS. I and my daughter, Andrea, also participated in the project together with Lennart and Theresé, and we will show images and movies from BONDS.

Thanks all and especially CREW parents for a pleasant and fruitful meeting! Thanks Alina, Judit, and Alin because you were connected to Yahoo Chat Rooms and was able to quickly respond to parents’ questions! A modern meeting is evidence that long distance does not have any significance today… provided that the Internet and the technology works, of course…

// Christina Soldan

I presented at Technology World 2009 held in Coventry, UK on 23/24 November.  What was disappointing was how few UK companies supported the event with their presence.  UKTI seem to have worked hard to organize an event where delegates from 48 countries were encouraged to visit the UK and see some of the UK’s finest technology companies yet from what I saw today, I would say less than 200 UK companies bothered to attend either to exhibit or even just as a visitor.  I do sometimes wonder when UK businesses will open their eyes and realize there’s a big world out there with new customers and extremely capable talent pools just waiting to be discovered.  Growth in some countries exceeds 5% per annum yet the vast majority of UK companies seem content with slugging it out in a crowded market where growth is nonexistent. I really do wish for their own sakes that they would wake up and realize what’s going on.

On another note, the event was held at the newly built Ricoh stadium in Coventry but the hotel was about 20 miles away to the east of Birmingham.  Having spent last week in San Francisco right near the Moscone Center where Salesforce.com were holding their annual Dreamforce conference with numerous quality hotels within a block of the venue, it is an indication of the lack of ambition in the UK to see such poor quality venues and supporting infrastructure.  I would imagine you could count on one hand the number of high quality venues in the UK capable of holding and accommodating a 500 person event in the same place.  Now contrast that to venues in Asia and the US and you realise that the UK lost its way somewhere.

Our school participates with yet another contribution to the Water Film Competition. The first prize is 30,000 Swedish crowns, which is 3,000 EURO!

See A world without water – http://vattenfilm.se/taevlingsbidrag/watch/60.html.

The students who have made the movie study the Media Programme in class MP2. Their teacher is Staffan Lidman (teacher and artist), part of our Logotype Contests assessment jury. The actor, Claes Degerman ES2c, studies  the Arts Programme focusing on theatre. In his last year, he has studied computer knowledge with me as a teacher. I am proud of him.

We wish them good luck too!

Last Saturday our story was in the local newspaper Norra Västerbotten, a full page long.

CREW in the local newspaper, Norra Västerbotten. Click on image to enlarge it!

There are mainly the same things in this article that I translated earlier (see Isak’s idea resulted in 20000 €!!). Besides it comes with a small survey that Bo Fuhrman did when he interviewed us:

Romania, what are you thinking? What do you think about your class trip there?

1. Isak Pettersson, 19 years, student, Burträsk.

“Dracula’s castle. Mystery and excitement. Eastern European country. Language. Somewhat like French, as I understand. This is exciting, all the time.”

2. Ida Söderström, 18 years, student, Morön, Skellefteå.

“Christina Soldan! We have some ”crazy” teachers and a little “crazy” class, here anything can happen. I was also thinking about a dark castle. We’re studying the language, but it is really hard.”

3. Dennis Karlsson, 18 years, student, Sunnanå, Skellefteå.

“I was thinking about football penalties and 1994 FIFA World Cup, Sweden won. But it is fun to visit an unusual country. We do not travel there every day, exactly.”

PS - Bo Fuhrman has accepted via e-mail that we publish this entry on our blog.

Our school is festive, even during a normal school week. Much thanks to various school programmes.

Students in ES1b on aestheticians programme was mandated to be free to create an installation under the theme Why? / Because!

Balloons maybe make a school toilet more attractive …

To travel from one classroom to another can be the same as being eaten by a big green shark…

One of Anderstorpsskolan courtyards have been turned into a graveyard.

ES3a and d rocked in the central hall.

Welcome to Anderstorpsskolan – a creative school!

//Christina Soldan

Docendo discimus

Well, Viktor was Romanian teacher this lesson. The entire class worked hard throughout the lesson to guess a secret word in Hangman. Hint: Samuels favorite Romanian word.

The result:

//Christina Soldan

//Christina Soldan

Cifre = tal

Dialog

//Christina Soldan

For a while ago, we started to learn Romanian language . My students are really talented and learn fast. But they think that Romanian is a difficult language.

Rumänska språket

• tidigare – valakiska eller dakoromanska
• indo-europeiskt romanskt språk
• talas av omkring 24-26 miljoner människor, främst i Rumänien och Moldavien
• är majoritetsspråk i ukrainska Bukovina
• talas av minoriteter i Balkan
• är officiellt språk i Rumänien, i provinsen Vojvodina i Serbien, i Europeiska unionen och i Latinska unionen
• moldaviskan, Moldaviens officiella språk, är identiskt med rumänskan, förutom en smärre stavningsregel
• talas också i många andra länder på grund av emigration, särskilt i Italien, Spanien, Portugal, USA, Kanada, Frankrike och Tyskland

Alfabet

A, a (a); Ă, ă (ă); Â, â (â din a); B, b (be), C, c (ce); D, d (de), E, e (e); F, f (fe / ef); G, g (ghe / ge); H, h (ha / haş); I, i (i); Î, î (î din i); J, j (je), K, k (ka de la kilogram), L, l (le / el); M, m (me / em); N, n (ne / en); O, o (o); P, p (pe); R, r, (re / er); S, s (se / es); Ş, ş (șe); T, t (te); Ţ, ţ (ţe); U, u (u); V, v (ve); X, x (ics); Z, z (ze / zet).

Hur man läser vissa bokstäver och bokstavskombinationer

C                k

Ce              tje

Che            ke

Chi             ki som i kilogram

Ghe            ge

Ge              dje

Je               dje

O               å

Ş                sch

Şe              ske som i Skellefteå

Ţ                tz

U                o

//Christina Soldan

The New Comer’s Ball took  place on Friday, 6 th November 2009, at the Town’s Cultural House and it was organized by class XI D at Technical College “Iuliu Maniu”. The New Comer’s Ball has as theme The world of the film, which attracted the students from the 9 th grade to fight for the Miss and Mister New Comer’s-title.

The stage and the decorations were wonderful, like those from Oscar Award. First the New Comer’ s stepped on the red carpet to introduce themselves and then they went through some tests which were according to the New Comer’s Ball‘ s theme. They danced, sang and had a lot of fun.

In the end the jury decided who is the best for getting the Miss and Mister New Comer’s-title. Neagă Gabriele was chosen ” Miss ” and Cote Răzvan as “Mister”.

All the students from XI D grade participated and helped for the good organization of the New Comer’s Ball.

After the Ball we organized a disco in a Club where many young people from our school and not only participated. We invited on of the best Dj, called Dj Trifulet, who made a great show and enterteined everybody.

The impression we had after this Ball was that working in group develops your imagination and the team spirit makes you more courageous and more opened towards the others. We are very happy to share this experience with you.

//Anda Badacean

Stefan reads out the jury's statement for Nils' winning contribution.

Nils takes the prize for the CREW Logotype Contest.

Read more about Logotype Contest on The Winner of The Logotype Contest Is… CONGRATULATIONS!!

Revelionul (New Year`s Eve)

31^st December - when we go to parties and wait for the new year.

//Andreea Benedek

Crăciunul (Christmas)

24^th December – when the family gather and have a celebration together. It is one of the most loved traditions both by children and grown-ups.

//Andreea Benedek

Moş Nicolae (Santa Claus)

6^th December – Children wash their shoes or boots and put them under the opened window for Santa Claus to bring them presents.

//Andreea Benedek

Sfânta Maria (Saint Mary`s Day)

15^th August – when people  go on pilgrimage to churches or monasteries to prey.

Ziua morţilor (All Saint`s Day)

1^st November – we go to the cemeteries and bring flowers and light some candles on the graves.

//Andreea Benedek

Ziua copilului (Child’s Day)

1st June -the children get some little presents from adults.

Rusalii (Whitsuntide)

May-June – it’s a religious tradition and we have a day free day.

//Andreea Benedek

Sfântul Gheorghe (St George)

25^th April – On this day young people throw water on each other.

1 Mai (Labour’s Day)

1^st May- it’s a national day,when there’s no school and people don’t go to work. We usually go to a picnic in the nature.

//Andreea Benedek

Sf Pasti (Easter)

April – we paint eggs in different colours and two people break eggs as a sign that you recognize the Jesus’s ressurection.

It is also a tradition that the boys go from house to house with parfume or spray and sprinkle the girls.Then the girls give them coloured eggs.

//Andreea Benedek

1^st April (April’s fool day)

1^st April-”April’s fool day”when we do some jokes with each other.

//Andreea Benedek

Ziua internaţionala a femeii (Women’s Day)

8^th March -when the men and the boys give flowers and gifts to the all women they love or like.

//Andreea Benedek

Întâi Martie/Mărţişor

1^st March- when the girls give some “mărţişoare” (which are little amulets tied with a white and red rope) to the boys. There are like signs of spring.

//Andreea Benedek

We are now almost done with our first part at this projekt. We did the pocket last week but now we have to correct it because our English were not that good as we thought. We have done pretty good this week, but we should have checked the grammar before we printed it.  We just have to correct the grammar errors. Everything were going fine untill the English teacher saw it.

Our next projekt is to plan the activities when the Romanian students are here. 

//Benne, Jonas and the one and only Nils .

Dragobetele

24^th February – its the Romanian version of Valentine’s Day. It is said that the girls put some basil under the pillow to dream about their future husband.

//Andreea Benedek

The Swedish class SPID3b working with CREW project. They are slightly hungry having seen Romanians publish pictures and recipes of Romanian food ... much looks strange ...

Hannes and Jacob receive special attention in their strenuous water project.

Victor, John and Samuel are working hard to publish water film to the contest and the CREW blog. Stefan walks around and helps all students in need.

Watch their movie on the Water film competition!!! Nice weekend, Romanians and people from around the world! Thank you for taking time and reading the CREW blog!!