Day of Europe

The 8th of May we went to Bilbo to a conference. There were 4 people who had different jobs talking about how important the languages are. 

Although it was something I knew, thanks  to that speech I realised they are more important than I thought. 

I was really impressed with some of the people because they told us they could hold their own in 11 languages, that's amazing!

After that, they prepared a snac for us with Spanish omellettes and sandwiches, which were really good. 

We didn't want to come back to Donostia because the books were waiting for us... Jajajaja :)

The Irish are coming!

Hi! How is it going?

Today we have finished all our exams and we already are in our summer holidays, I can't believe it! This year has been really short for me, and I liked it very much.

Tomorrow the Irish people are coming to Donostia to spend 6 days and we can't wait to see them. It's been a month since we last saw them and we are looking forward to seeing them again. We are planing lots of things to do, such as go to the beach, go shopping, show them the city, a dinner in a "sociedad", go party... and we may take the surfing too!

I'm sure we'll have a great time all together :)

Propositions to the EU

Last week our teacher told us to think of some propositionsfor the EU representatives to improve the poverty and exclusion and to promote equal opportunities for young people.


I've been thinking about it and two things came to mind:

1- Paying less to the politicians would be a good idea, so that we use that money in grants for young people, who can't afford to study in universities.

2- We could join in different NGO's and help EU getting better in different ways.

What do you think? :)

Understanding the Financial Crisis

Campaign activity

In the project we are doing at school, each of us has a job to do. For example, Usue and I have been doing the presentations, which consisted in taking all the power points thst were done about the poverty and exclution in Europe (about 8) and making it one, with the best graphs and images. Now, we are supposed to translate them into Basque and Spanish, although I don't think we'll have time due to the fact that we are in exams.

Another thing I did was the poster with the help of some classmates and put the sloggan on it. This is how it looks now :)

Atzegi

Last week some girls came to our school to give us information about doing voluntary work. One of them talked about Atzegi, which is really interesting, and I think it is a good idea to explain a little bit what it is about, because OUR SCHOOL IS ATZEGIZALE!



Atzegi (a Guipuzcoan Association in favour of the people with intellectual disability) was created in the year 1960 by a group of relatives that joined to fight in favor of some rights. Today, more than 50 years later, Atzegi continues fighting to improve the quality of life of the people with intellectual disability and also of the families and continues being a place of union and of solidarity between all of them.

They try disabled people not to be alone, giving them new oportunities and asking help to volunteers.


Atzegi (more info.)

Ireland

We've recently done an exchange with some Irish students. We went to Ireland for six days and stayed in families. It hasn't been my first exchange because last year I went to Italy.
It has been really enjoyable! We've visited lots of places: Dublin, Athlone...
We got on very well with the Irish and with their families. We now know a new culture, different from ours in some aspects, such as in the timetables, in food...
They are coming next week and I can't wait to see them!

I find exchanges very useful and great fun! Here you are a picture of all of us together in Dublin :)