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We met in Bulgaria-Pazarcık 14-18 April 2013

















Професионалната гимназия по облекло-Пазарджик беше домакин по проект Коменски


Професионална гимназия по облекло ПазарджикДомакин на четвъртата и последна среща с училища от Турция,Полша и Чехия по проект Коменски - "Culture-Indicator of the nations assets" беше Професионалната гимназия по облекло-Пазарджик. Проектът стартира през 2011г.

От 14 април до 20 април гостите - учители и ученици, имаха възможност да посетят столицата София,Велико Търново -музея на восъчните фигури,Самоводската чаршия и крепостта "Царевец". Успяха да се докоснат и до някогашните занаяти в "Етъра".Учениците от Полша ,Чехия и Турция бяха настанени в семейства на учениците от ПГО. Всички са очаровани от красивата ни природа,гостоприемство и чувството за хумор,което притежава българина.Харесват Пазарджик повече от всеки друг ,най-вече парк -остров" Свобода".Срещнаха се с зам.-кмета П.Петров.
ПГО ПазарджикФиналът на проекта беше в ресторант"Елбрус",където всяка страна представи характерна фолклорна песен и танц - една от дейностите по проекта. Като домакини учениците играха няколко етюда от Хитър Петър на английски,тъй като езика на проекта е английски.Представителен танцов състав "Чудесия " впечатли гостите с блестящото си изпълнение и професионализъм.След концерта гостите за пореден път вкусиха от ястията на българската кухня ,а дискотеката допринесе за изживяване само на положителни емоции .
Проектът е към своя край,но всички са единодушни,че партньорството ще продължи отново в нов бъдещ проект.

М.Пашова



   Comenius project meeting in Bulgaria-Pazardzhik 14-19 April 2013
                                           Project report  
The Vocational school on clothing   in Pazardzhik  is one of the four schools involved in the international programme called Comenius. There are other countries as Turkey, Poland and the Czech Republic.. The main idea of this project is “ Culture, Indicator of the Nations Assets“. The three friendly visits took place in Turkey ( October 2011) , in Poland ( June 2012)and in the Czech Republic (October 2012) .After  sending othe letters of invitation we made the progaramme about our meeting in Bulgaria  for all visitors to feel well and show them  not only our capital - Sofia, but also our ancient capital Veliko Tarnovo and  our  town called Pazardzhik.The topic of our meeting was Folk dances and folk music”.

Sunday: 14th April 2013
On Sunday 14th April 2013 our bulgarian participants in the Comenius project   went to Sofia at the airport  to welcome the  participants  from Poland -1.55 p.m.,from The Czech Republic -20.05 p.m.Our coordinator from Turkey arrived at the bus station at 6.pm. We were accommodated at the hotel in Bulgarian Red Cross –Lozen next to Sofia in  Lozen mountain.We were full of  experiences and emotions  from our  last meetings in Turkey , Poland  and the Czech Republic that we shared with our international friends. Some students joined to the project Comenius at the first time, so we had an opportunity to make new friends.

Monday: 15th April 2013
 After  breakfast and our project meeting we travelled  to National Palace of  Culture in Sofia where we saw the exhibition The miracles of Bulgaria .Afer that we visited  144  Secondary School Narodni buditeli-Sofia, where we enjoyed the beautiful folk songs and dances  of the students . We had  lunch in a school cantine. We  wanted to show  some interesting places in Sofia – we saw  for example a changing of the guards of the President.,the monument of St Sofia, the cathedral Alexander Nevski , the church St Nedelia”, the Mosque  and other interesting Sofia’s places .We stayed another evening in the Bg Red Cross accomodation where we  had dinner with  typical bulgarian meals with the pleasant athmosphere.After the dinner we talked about our activities on the programme  and we amused together.
 The students were very happy to create new relationships and to practice their english.
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Tuesday: 16th April 2013
 Early in the morning on Tuesday  we travelled  for Veliko Tarnovo.We –all together- stayed  at the hotel Boliari”  who is located in the old town. Our partners enjoyed of the magic view of the town  and the  colourful houses built  on  the three hils. After the lunch we visited the museum of the wax statues –it is the only one in the Balkan peninsula. There we  saw and felt the atmosphere of the Second Bulgarian kingdom. The students took some photots with the wax statues. We visited the Samovodski market, the old town,the monument of St brothers Peter and Assen  and the other places in action. The guests had  the opportunity to buy some typical souvenirs from Bulgaria.We visited some traditional  Bulgarian pub in Arbanassi-next to Veliko Tarnovo, where the partners tasted again our Bulgarian cuisine. We danced together some typical dance.It was very amazing  for the students too because they took part actively on dancing. briefly outlined the programme of the next few days. After that the students of the fourth year of graduation  talked the English presentation about Český Těšín. There was also a

Wednesday: 17th April  2013
 The Wednesday morning  we visited the castle –fortress Tsarevetsin V.Tarnovo..We took our suitcases from the hotel and we traveled for our town Pazardzhik.During the trip we stopped and visited the complex Etar,we eated in fish restaurant.Our partners  approved that Bulgarian cuisine is delicious especially the Shopska salad..In the afternoon we were in our town. The family of the students  waited to  say welcometo  our guests.The teachers stayed at the hotel Hebar- Pazardzhik.Our students  and their guests visited  our parc-garden Liberty.

Thursday: 18th April 2013
 It was our official day.We were  welcomed our partners at our school-with bulgarian tradition  -bread  and herbal salt.We had the project meeting in our project meeting room.Our partners visited some classrooms and saw our students.We talked about our educational system and we presented the most interesting  achievements of our students. We, Bulgarians we must make a booklet – traditonal cuisine  recipes from  our partners.   Students  and teachers played together basket- ball,volley- ball and tennis.It was really nice and emotional.
 We had lunch in a restaurant in Pazardzhik and at 3 o’clock p.m. we visited our Mayor,who was very impressed by our mutual work during the two years.. The best part of our meeting was the concert –Folk dances and folk music-at restaurant Elbrus in our town,where  every country danced and songed  a traditional folk dance and music.They danced also together the dance of every country.As a host country our students played the performances  on the bulgarian heroe Hitar Petar ,famous  with his jokes and mindfullness.Every students  danced and played with a lot of desir and emotion.The atmosphere was great .The  guests of our concert was the Chef of Regional Directory of the Education- Pazardzhik.-Mr Y.Chalakov,The expert of  foreign languages  –Mrs  V.Boeva,parents ,friends and the school staff. traditional pub called Raťkovský šenk. There was the  excellent performance of the Folk dancing group Chudessia, won  many international prizes . The rest of  the  evening  was fulled by dancing, singing, eating typical Bulgarian  food and enjoying relaxed atmosphere.
 
Friday: 19th May 2013
Friday was the last day of the project Comenius in the Czech Republic. In the morning at six o´clock  we escorted the Polish and Czech partners to the airport Sofia. We said goodbye  to Czech partners and with Polish we visited The Mall in Sofia to spend some time and to buy something from Bulgaria.Their  flight was at 2.p.m..
The turkish parner was in Pazardzhik and they saw sightseeing in Pazardzhik.Some of our students escorted them to Plovdiv and Velingrad.
 We were together at the evening  for the dinner .We were happy to be together and we discuss to continue and in the future.
The week of the international project Comenius in Bulgaria was being over which was the full of mutual understanding, enthusiasm and successful realization of in advance given goals by all foreign participants who were not only headmasters and teachers, but mainly students from all participating countries.



                                               Milena Pashova, Bulgarian  coordinator of  Comenius  project