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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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teachers now were connected via all kinds of social
media.
special and maybe you can also report of many new
friends while working with eTwinning teachers and
students all over Europe.
I have some more good friends from former
eTwinning projects: Antonella and Cristina from
Italy, Christelle from GB, Lydia from Belgium, Alina
from Romania. And we nearly all met somewhere in
Europe, for example during school celebrations as
with Alina in Mangalia or at an eTwinning PDW:
with Christelle in Munich, Antonella in Catania and
Sari from Finland or at a teacher conference.
In one of our discussions about our project we
talked about lessons, school day organisation and
the Greek teacher told me about her wish to have a
shadowing experience at another European school.
I asked if she could think of coming to my school
and visit me. I was so lucky that she agreed!
Then came the day of her arrival, from the big city
and capital of Greece, Athens, she flew to my small
town Kassel in the middle of nowhere. There was
even a direct flight connection to the tiny little
airport of Kassel Calden - thanks to documenta14, a
modern art exhibition – for the first time taking
place in two locations that year, Athens and Kassel,
under the slogan “Learning from Athens“.
Me too, I learned a lot from my Greek partner.
Chara stayed with me and my family at our house
for five days and also met all her eTwinning friends
of our two-year intense project work at school. With
Martin, a composer and music teacher of my 5th
grade, and Monika, my co-class teacher, and ICT
teacher of my class we spent an evening at an
Italian restaurant: We were laughing and talking
like four old friends who had known each other for a
lifetime when in fact we only had known each other
*live* for just one day.
It was eTwinning that had given us the chance to
meet, first virtually, then even live. It was amazing
spending these five days together and feeling like
good old friends. I think this friendship is something
I am really grateful to have widened my horizons,
to have these friends all over Europe. It is just
great doing eTwinning projects!
Daniela Bunea eTw
Heidi Giese is a teacher in a Secondary school
(French, Politics, Art), Europaschule Anne-Frank-
Schule, in Eschwege and an Erasmus+ Ambassador
in Ge