LEONARDO STEP FURTHER

PARTNER MEETING. DUBROVNIK.

FIRST DAY: ARRIVING
We are already in Dubrovnik. This is the first day of our visit to this beautiful Croatian city where we are meeting our partners of 'A Step Further' project.
After the greetings and despite the rain, we have enjoyed some of the charming places of the Old Town. Tomorrow we will start with the arranged programme including a visit to the city, its walls, squares ... You will discover all of it tomorrow in our next post.

A STEP FURTHER: LAST DAYS IN MARIBOR

We are spending our last days in Slovenia in Maribor. We took the train in Brezice on Thursday to go to Maribor. We arrived at 5:30 p.m. to Maribor Train Station.

We're visiting some places and buying the last souvenirs for our family before we return to our country.


Erik Rios Salazar

A STEP FURTHER: THIRD DAY IN SLOVENIA

Today we started our day at 7:30 a.m. in front of the school. There we took the bus to go to the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana. We arrived to Slovenia and the first visit, was the visit to the Castle. We spend all the morning visiting the castle, because first to go up to the top of the castle, you have to take a little elevator.

When we finished the visit to the Castle, we did a tour around the city. The Market, the Dragon, the bridge... After this visit to Ljubljana we took the bus again to go to Bled.

In Bled we visited the lake and we had some free time to explore the area by ourselves. Then, after took a coffee, we took the bus again to return to Brezice.

Erik Rios Salazar

A STEP FURTHER: SECOND DAY IN SLOVENIA

Today we present our projects and presentations in front of the rest of the pupils. The first ones were the Slovenian students. We were the second ones doing the presentation. We were very nervous, but finally we do it well! The third ones were the Croatian students and the Polish students; and to finish it the Turkish people.

After the presentations, we visited the school with the Slovenian students. To finish our morning in the school we played a game, and after then we went to the school canteen to have lunch.

At the afternoon we visited the city of Brezice. We visited the City Hall and a castle. And now, we are preparing because now we have the welcome dinner with all the students who participate in the project.

Erik Rios Salazar

A STEP FURTHER: FIRST DAY IN SLOVENIA

Today was our first day in Slovenia. First, we went to the school at 11:00 a.m. to meet with the rest of the students of the project. The director of the school presents himself and the rest of the teachers and the school, as an introduction.

We were there Basque, Slovenian, Croatian & Turkish students. After this first meeting and introductions we took a bus to go to Postojna to visit a cave.

The cave was really amazing. First, we took as a little train, and after ten minutes in the train we left it and we started walking visiting the cave ourselves with a tour guide. It was impressive and marbellous!

To finish the day we had something to eat, and we took the bus to return to Brezice.


Erik Rios Salazar

A STEP FURTHER: WEEKEND IN ZAGREB

We arrived on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. to Zagreb airport. After living our luggage at the luggage locker, we went for a walk around the capital of Croatia.

Some of us known the city, so we decided to do a little tour to show the city to the rest of the pupils who didn't know it. We went for a walk around the Old Part, the Parliament, the City Hall, and some shops.

At 9:00 p.m. we come back to the train station to take our luggage and to take a bus to go to Slovenia. We arrived to Brezice at 10:00 p.m. perfect hour to have dinner and to finish our presentations for Tuesday.

Erik Rios Salazar

A STEP FURTHER: LAST DAY IN POLAND

Today was our last day in Poland. We have gone to Gdansk airport, because our flight was at 1:00 p.m. Our arrival to Bilbao was at 5:30 p.m. after doing a ‘escala’ in Munich.

Next week we will have holidays for 5-7 days so we can relax a little bit and prepare to our next exams.

We are a bit sad because we leave Poland today, but we are very happy too because we have knew a lot of new friends and we lived new experiences with them. We hope to see you all again soon! Thanks for your hospitality.

Erik Rios, Xabier Sánchez, Jon Mikel Cruz

A STEP FURTHER: 5th DAY LAST DAY AT SCHOOL

Today was the last day for us with the rest of the students in Poland. In the morning we met at 9:30 a.m. at school. We divided the whole group in 4 to make our last job. It consisted in make a presentation of what we did in this four days and what we liked it more from Poland. We had the chance to show our presentations to the rest of the students, teachers and a member of the regional education deparment.

After the presentations we say goodbye to our croatian, slovenian and polish partners. And enjoyed the free afternoon! Turkish students will go home tomorrow as we are going to do.

Erik Rios, Jon Mikel Cruz, Xabier Sánchez

A STEP FURTHER: 4th DAY VISIT TO MALBORK

Today we wake up at 7:30 a.m. The planning of the day was to visit Malbork Castle during the morning, a place near Starogard-Gdanski. After taking the bus, we arrived at Malbork in only one hour. The castle is the biggest medieval castle in Europe. The weather was very very cold, and the castle was old, so the difference of temperature between outside and inside did not exist! The castle was very big, and it had a lot of rooms. After the visit we have a good time playing a bit with the snow.

At 2:00 p.m. we went to have lunch to a little restaurant. After a little break, we took the bus again to return to Starogard to take our sportwear and went to school to play a volleyball match. It was a competitive and amazing match! This was the last activity of the day, before we return to hotel.

Erik Rios, Jon Mikel Cruz, Xabier Sánchez

A STEP FURTHER: 3rd DAY VISIT TO GDANSK

Today we have visited Gdansk. We took the bus at 8:80 a.m. and we arrived there at 10:00 a.m. It was a very cold day, but we hold on that cold to visit the city. It’s a very beautiful city! And it was snowing during the visit, so the snow made the visit a bit special. We visited the principal streets of the city, called the Royal Way. We visited a couple of museums during the visit to the city.

We had lunch at 1:00 p.m. in a very special restaurant. It was in a building but… in the 16th floor! We had a nice lunch with a wonderful panoramic sightseeing.

After the lunch we took the bus to go our next visit. It was the PGE Arena Stadium. We visited the Stadium. It was amazing! It was very big and a new stadium for the Euro2012. We were visiting a places like the locker room of the players!

To finish our day in Gdansk we went to a theatre to watch a ‘Grease musical’. It was strange during the first part because it was completely in polish! All the songs too! But the musical was very great and we enjoyed a lot! When the musical finished, we took again the bus to return to the hotel.

Erik Rios, Xabier Sánchez, Jon Mikel Cruz

A STEP FURTHER: 2nd DAY IN STAROGARD GDANSKI

Today was the day of the presentations about the tours. We went to the school at 8:30 a.m. to the school and after seeing the polish and croatian presentations, we show ours. It's finally done! After we finish our presentation, the slovens and turkish have made their presentation, with a break in the middle of them.

After the classtime we have made a little tour around the school. At least we have gone to school's gym; some students prepare for us a special Valentine's concert.

After the concert we have the lunch all together. And... we made a tour through the city until 4:30 p.m. From this hour we have free time until tomorrow.

Jon Mikel Cruz, Erik Rios & Xabier Sánchez

A STEP FURTHER: 1st DAY IN STAROGARD GDÁNSKI

Today, at 8:30 AM, we took a van that has taken us from Warsaw to Starogard Gdánski.

After 5 hours of travel, more or less, we have arrived at lunch time to the hotel where we stay. After lunch, we have met in one of our rooms to prepare the last details of the presentations that we have to show on Tuesday.

At 7 o'clock PM, we have met Polish students at the welcome dinner. Slovenes and Croatians have arrived later and we heard that Turkish students are coming tomorrow.

After the dinner, we said goodbye to each other and we will meet them back tomorrow at the presentation time.

Jon Mikel Cruz, Erik Rios and Xabier Sanchez

A STEP FURTHER: WEEKEND IN WARSAW

We arrived on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. to Warsaw airport. After living our luggage at the hotel we took a walk through the city centre. We just took the walk and have dinner because it was a bit late and the weather was very cold (about -15ºC!).

On Sunday, we walk up early and we spent the morning in the All Town on the City. We have visited St. Anne church, Royal Palace and old town square. After having lunch, we came back to the city centre, and we visited Culture Palace (the highest building in Warsaw). We also have the chance to see a piece of the remaining wall that surrounded the ghetto of Warsaw.

Today the weather was very cold, so we decided to go back to the hotel. Tomorrow, we're going to Starogard Gdánski.



Jon Mikel Cruz, Erik Rios and Xabier Sanchez

FIFTH DAY: A STEP FURTHER

Today we had been in Zagreb and we spent the whole day there. We met a guide and he explained us many interesting things and places about the city with the help of some croatian students. We went up onto the sorther funicular of the world!!!! It was fantastic!!!!
After lunch slovenian students went back to their hometown. In the afternoon we had free time and at 7 o'clock we went back to Daruvar.


NEREA

And here, some photos about our visit to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

FOURTH DAY: A STEP FURTHER

Today we spent our morning at Croatians students school. We had made mixed groups
to make a presentation of all the proyect participants countries.

After lunch, the teachers gave us different topics to take pictures about it.

To finish the day with our partners we went to the spa and we had a very good time!



And tomorrow.... ZAGREB! :)


Janire

One of the groups, taking photos near the lake.


Croatian students and we, having fun in the spa, during the afternoon.

THIRD DAY: A STEP FURTHER

Today we had a wonderful day. We started the day showing our presentations to the other local and foreign students (Croatians, Turkish, Polish, Slovenes) in Daruvar school. We were very nervous before our presentation, but finally we had done it very well and other students and teachers were astonished with San Sebastian and its sightseens. We also were impressed with their countries and cultures.
After that, we went to have lunch with all the students and teachers to a nice restaurant, we ate typical food from Croacia and we enjoyed our menu, it was really good!
When we finished eating we went back to the school and started preparing the project's web page.
To finish our day with them, the Croatian students prepared a touristic walk around Daruvar, showing us its monuments and interesting places. They offered us a local tea and they gave us a coin to throw it to a ''magic'' fountain.

We had a very good time today with all the group and we are looking forward to go tomorrow to the termal spa.

SECOND DAY: A STEP FURTHER

Our partners are arriving in the afternoon so we visited the area and the city of Pozega.
In the evening we all met and had a welcoming dinner offered by our hosts.
Congratulations to the chefs and all the staff !!!!


Janire and Nerea

Our group, visiting Pozega the first day.

LEONARDO PROJECT. FIRST DAY: A STEP FURTHER

First meeting in Croatia

Ekonomska i turística skola Daruvar , HR Croacia
Aksaray Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School, Aksaray, TR Turquia
Zespól Szkól Ekonomicznych, Starogard Gdanski, PL Polonia
Ekonomska in trgovska sola Brezice, Brezice, SI Eslovenia
IES Xabier Zubiri Manteo BHI, Donostia

Today our day began very early in the morning; at five o’clock. We took the bus in San Sebastian at after three buses and two flights we arrived around eight o’clock p.m. to Daruvar.

We took off Loiu at seven fifty in the morning, and Munich welcome us with cold and people dressed as tyrolese. We took our second flight to Zagreb at eleven forty. Even if this second flight was shorter in the time it was more frightening because of the turbulences.
We arrived to Zagreb at the lunch time and left it at five thirty to get Daruvar at eight o’clock. Three teachers and one student has given us a humble and nice welcome. And just one hour ago we arrived to the hotel to tell you our first experiences in the Balkans!

We, near the city centre of Daruvar, Croatia.