¡Recordando con nostalgia nuestra estancia en Guimaraes (Portugal)!

 

Tras unos días de descanso desde que volvimos de nuestra maravillosa estancia en Guimaraes (Portugal), queremos dejar unos preciosos y entrañables vídeos que resumen todas las experiencias vividas, de forma cercana y emotiva. Por un lado, dejamos un vídeo que nos enviaron nuestros compañeros y compañeras de Portugal. ¡Muito obrigado!

Por otro lado, podréis visualizar un vídeo que resume cada una de las maravillosas experiencias desarrolladas en esta movilidad.

Finalmente, dejamos un vídeo con unas entrevistas finales que el alumnado de Guimaraes realizó al alumnado español participante en la movilidad,pero no solo participaron ellos/as, sino que también lo hicieron algunos profes. En dichas entrevistas, como pueden ver les hicieron algunas preguntas realativas a la movilidad, tales como si les gustó la escuela, diferencias entre la escuela portuguesa y el colegio nuestro, etc. y al final realizaron un divertido juego consistente en plantearles una palabra portuguesa y nuestro alumnado debía comprobar su significado, eligiendo entre tres opciones en español.

¡Fue muy divertido y pudimos intercambiar conocimientos en lengua inglesa, portuguesa y española!

¡Esperamos que os guste este acercamiento a una experiencia inolvidable y enriquecedora!

¡Mrs. Water y nosotros esperamos vuestros comentarios!

Day 5 - Saying goodbye

Olá! Olá!

I'm back! I know I haven't tell you anything about last day with our Erasmus portugueses friends in the school, but we arrived veeeeery late on Friday and veeeeeeery very tired.

But I'm better today. I went to school to see and tell all what we have lived in this amazing experience and they gave me energy with all the hugs and kisses they saved for me. So let's pay attention and see how was our last moments in the School Group Joao de Meira, Guimaraes.

That morning all students were a little bit nervous because they should start the day explaining the experiments they did in our school and letting them try experimenting in class. We had the help of the teacher Juan who also explain together with the students the steps to make the experiments, but the truth is that all the teachers who were there were so impressive about it that they wanted to try and help too. 

They really liked the activity but we couldn't spend more time there as the headmaster of the school wanted to see us and was waiting for us. 

What a surpriseee!!!!?? A lot of present bags were on a table for us!!!

        

He started to congratulate for our work and wish our visit would have been all we have expecting and we would have enjoyed it. We all were very happy and grateful with all the gifts and words received.

  

However, that wasn't all. After that, we went to plant, together with the other kids, an 'Oliveira' (olive tree) to leave a 'trace' from our school Talhara so they can always remember we were there. 

                  

All students collaborate and then, we took our last picture together. It was a little bit sad because a lot of children started to hug and cry as they didn't want to say goodbye. And to cheer them up we also gave them a small present as gratitude.

 

 

   

       

Finally, it was time of our last activity with students from 8th grade (Susana's class). We visited the 'Academia de Ginástica de Guimarães Guimagym'. The building was designed with the aim of applying the technologies that make it possible to transform it into an energetically independent structure with low CO2 emissions. 

There, a man show us the building and tell us many great things about it. One of them was that the Training Center achieved high performance ratings by the LiderA system, with an A++ certification, a recognition that is rare in sustainability, not only in Portugal but throughout the world. Its facade was built with dark agglomerated cork maintaining the association with environmental sustainability.

It was very cool! Isn't it?

   

Then, it was time to go back to the school, pick up our things and say goodbye to Susana and Teresa, the Spanish teacher. They had been extremely nice and kind with all of us and we really like them as part of our Erasmus family. 

                  

Thank you very much again for giving us this opportunity to travel and visit your amazing school, learn from you and make all those new friendship.

We wait you in Seville at any time. 

Sincerely,

Mr. Water.

Day 4 - School day

Hello friends!

Today was the third day at Guimarâes school and I started the day with a nice surprise during my breakfast. I tried the 'Pastel de nata' typical from here. You know how I like eating so...I repeat twice 🙈

Later, we went directly to the Primary school to see the fourth grade students. Susana came with us to show us the school where she studied when she was a child. How nice she is!!!

As soon as we arrived we sat at the table and all the children sat in front of us.

Children and I started by explaining why we were doing this project and the importance of water.

 

Then they asked us many questions such as why do we have to recycle

and we replied that we had to recycle to reuse everything and not pollute.

Later we asked them things and they told us that they had many garbage cans such as bins to recycle batteries, plastic, cardboard and a ‘compostela’. At the end we all took a photo.

Once we finished we walked to the other school. Upon arrival students have played a puzzle on a giant screen. Meanwhile, the others and I have opened their minds, creating lego figures, and playing with those robots that were already made, that worked with the sun, trough the solar panels.

Another interesting thing that we did today, and that I am going to tell you right now, is to watch and listen a presentation about water and the living beings that take place in in it, like plants, insects or animals made by two investigators of Laboratorio da Paisagem from Guimarâes.

The first thing that they told us was the amount of water there is on the Earth, and it was amazing! 70% of the Earth is water! Although, only 2,5% is sweet water, and 2% of it is frozen in the Antarctic. Did you know that?

Later, they presented for us the types of species of birds, like the ‘Guarda rio’ and the ‘Garza cinza’, insects like ‘alfaiate’ and ‘libelula anelada’, mammals such as ‘lontra’ or ‘toupeira de água’, fishes as for example the ‘barbo do norte’ and the ‘truta comun’ and finally, they talked about reptiles such as ‘lagarto de água’ and ‘Cobra de agua de colar’.

After that, we started to experiment. To do that we made two groups. In one of them we had to smell three bottles blindly and guess which one was pure and potable water. Then, we saw in one bottle there was dirty water (with land in it), in another there was water with soap, and the last one there was the water clean.

The other group saw some dead animals that used to live in or near water. We used the microscope to do so.

It’s the first time that I looked through it. I enjoyed it very much!

From this class, I received a present from a wonderful 'minina' called Matilda. She made a copy of me perfectly. Don't you think so? She also coloured the letters of my name in the colours of the Portuguese flag. I'm in love with it! 

After lunch, we attended the music class and we learned more about Portugal knowing what part the instruments are from. Although we have also seen Spanish instruments like the castanets, which were played by the teacher Paqui very well. Then, we played some Spanish songs using our hands and feet. It was very cool! Teachers danced while we played. After classes, we have the answers to these questions. Can you answer them? 

-Do you know how many archipielagos Portugal has?

-What is the best known instrument of Madeira?

-How do you write ñ in Portugal?

To end the day we had the Physical Education class with students from 6th, 7th and 8th grade at the gym. They had some traditional games prepared for us: jump the comb, pull the rope, pull hops, sacks race and bottle cap game. I played all..... the games and I got exhausted!

But a had energy for one more last game. We went outside and played a game called 'Maia'. I saw that you had two iron heavy circles and some sticks on the ground. It played in teams and you have to throw the circles to put the stick down or close to it to win points. I didn't win cause my arm and hand is small but I have a lot of fun!

Finally, we end this special day with a lovely dinner in the company of Susana and her family. We don't have words to thank them everything is doing for us. 

Muito obrigado!

Day 3 - Excursion to Porto theatre named São João

Hello friends!!! 

Today has been a special day. We went toooo…Porto!!!! 

So we got up early at 7:00 a.m, took the breakfast at 7:30 a.m and went to school very quickly to take the bus to Porto with the students from 6th grade. 

We went to see a play in a theatre called ‘A aventura de Ulisses’. 

It was in Portuguese, but even though we couldn’t understand very much the language we enjoyed it a lot. It was funny and I liked how original was this version of the story. 

In addition, I loved how the theatre looks like inside. It is the oldest one of the city and was very conserved.

After that we took the bus again and arrived to the school to have lunch. Later, we played some game with the students in the playground and we were interviewed by a group of girls from 8th grade. They are participating in another Erasmus programme so this was part of their activity. They were very nice and adapt their language to Spanish and English for our students to be more confortable although I was another great assistant too. 

Then, it was time to go back to the hotel to rest a little bit and get ready again to visit the city of Guimaraes.

We followed a route of the historic center of the city. The first stop was the Oliveira square. Do you know why is it called like this? You can find the reason in this picture.

Then, we continued walking by the streets and see some beautiful houses, the church of our Mrs. Oliveira, cultural figures, etc.

Wait!! I said to my friends when a saw this small stream. I was so exciting to see water and I wanted to hydrate myself and also put my feet into it.

After that, we took some pictures at the Igreja e Oratórios de Nossa Senhora da Consolação e Santos Passos.

And finally it arrived the time to have dinner. This time I've decided to try the picanha. It was delicious so I couldn't resist to take a bite before the picture 🙈 

Btw don't look at my hair. I forgot the comb at home 😅

Tomorrow I will tell know more. I've arrived to the hotel and I'm veeeeery tired, so I'm going directly to bed.

Good night!! And have a nice day at school tomorrow.

Many kisses and hugs.