The final meeting at Trebisacce

Dearest friends,

It was wonderful being part of this Comenius team. It was our first project and we learnt a lot , especially our students who had the chance to leave Italy and see what other European countries look like: your school, your town, your language , your people. Everything has been a terrific experience that they will cherish for ever!!!
We are happy you enjoyed the time you spent at Trebisacce and hope to work again with all of you!!!
Here is the interview that the national TV channel RAI 3 made to you when you were preparing the Comenius dinner.
Love you all,
Teresa , Mimmo

Comenius Meeting Program Trebisacce 11-15 May 2009

The dish for Trebisacce meeting

" Bites of breast of duck filled with salmon topped with cuttle fish and Venus rice over a basil sauce served with maize wafer". This is the dish we are going to make for Comenius dinner!!
Doesn't it look mouth watering?

The recipes we elaborated so far in Italian language

Great time at making Comenius dinner for the students

Students socialized with the other students working together in the kitchen for the Comenius dinner but also finding time to go around the town and have fun talking in French , English, Italian to start friendships.
They all had great time there with the other partner students!! They hope some of the new friends come to Italy for the meeting!!!!!!
That's what they said about their Comenius experience :

Fabiana:" It was a wonderful experience.....it was the first time out of school where I met other students, the Italian students from Soverato, La Spezia and of course the French students. We had great time and we did many things together!!! We socialized and had fun ! The school is very different from our school...it is very nice and have nice equipment!!!!
Giovanna: " The town is very nice and we had fun with the Italian girls at the hotel....we didn't sleep much..... The French students are very nice....the boys are good looking !!!
Lorenzo: " This is my first time !!! nice experience! we spoke a little French but they know also a little English!!! The girls are very nice!!! Hope they come to Trebisacce for the final meeting!!!
Pino and Rocco" we loved to be in Montauban...but we loved to meet the other students...they are very nice!!!!! we went out together and we worked in the kitchen together ! It was a nice time!!
Ana and Chaiba " We are from Ucraina and Morocco and we are very happy we were at Montauban. It was nice....we don't travel much.....It was not difficult for me from Casablanca I learnt French at school! Our families are in Italy for job!!!

Montauban Meeting

The angora breeding farm

The cheese farm

The students at the Marie

The museé des Ingres

The beautiful historical town of Montauban

It was a great time for our students that had the chance to meet the the French and Italian students who were there!

The Comenius corner at school

The students have completed the work started in May about each Comenius partner's country. They found news in Italian and then they translated it into the English language. They made posters where there are some information that best represent each partner's country and school.

The whole school community is stopping there and asks information on a given country and if they can come , too, to our meetings. Hopefully this year they will be able to meet all of you in person and give you the warmest welcome!!!

Our dish

The recipe card of the dish "Pecorino and citron filled pasta parcels served with orange honey and caciocavallo flavoured ice cream"

Since students and teachers had to work on a recipe based on cheese , they made a dessert where they used some typical cheeses produced in our area , The Alto Jonio Cosentino.

They made a dessert where pecorino cheese, caciocavallo cheese and citron are used.

Montauban Meeting : Program

Here is the program our partners from Montauban planned for us . It looks it is a very nice one !!!

Monday, November 10th

Arrival Visit of a covered market http://www.marchevictorhugo.fr/index4.htm

Visit of a cheese shop + the World of Spices

http://www.fromages-xavier.com/

Free time and meal (chargeable to every participant)

The « Cité de l’Espace » (admission fees chargeable to every partner) http://www.cite-espace.com/

Arrival to the hotel Mercure

Free time in the evening , (a list of the restaurants will be given to all the partners )

Tuesday, November 11th (in France it’s a bank holiday)

At 8.30 : departure for Cahors and its region and visit of the “Chateau de Haute Serre”,a vineyard http://www.vindecahors.fr/

A conference on “ truffles” in an agricultural school in Grama

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/station-truffe/index.htm

Visit of Rocamadour, a very nice village http://www.rocamadour.com/

Free time for dinner and evening

Wednesday, November 12th

A cup of coffee at school /12h : Working on the project and preparation of the objectives for this year

Regional gastronomic buffet

Visit of Montauban

http://www.montauban-tourisme.com/

Visit of the « Jardin des Simples » and of “Ingres museum”

ttp://www.montauban.com/detente/detente_vie_culturelle/musees/ingres/accueil.phppage=presentation

dinner at the restaurant “ Au fil de l’eau ” ( about 35€) chargeable to each participant)

Thursday, November 13th

Visit of Bruniquel (old houses, belfry and ruins of medieval fortifications)

Visit of an angora goat-breeding and cheese making farm

Lunch at a farm inn (les Chênes) serving home-made products (about 30€, chargeable to each participant) http://www.les-chenes.fr/

16h : Preparation of a Comenius meal (each school must prepare a dish for about 40 people).During our meeting in La Spezia we had decided which dish each school would prepare .Comenius dinner

Friday and Saturday

Departure of the partners according to their flight times

La Spezia meeting: the activities

THE BUFFET with the creative dishes made with herbs

Visiting the Wine Cellar "Lunae"












The beautiful "Cinque Terre"

Taking a boat to visit the mussel farming

La Spezia meeting: activities

20th May 2008

Welcome from IPSSAR G. GASINI.Showing the work done by each school and planning the objectives for next meeting in Montauban .Lunch prepared by students for the Comenius partners.








Comenius partners taking pictures before setting to work !








Aperitif Time








The typical focaccia from Genoa








Fish - based starters! Excellent!








Students of Casini IPSSAR making lunch

We did great things during this meeting. After being welcomed by the G. Casini school (teachers and students) who showed us around , we set to work and showed the individual blogs.
The program planned by our partners from La Spezia was a very good one.They took us on a boat to visit the mussel farming and then we toured the "Cinque Terre" (Portovenere, Monterosso, Manarola...). We visited the Organic Vara valley, the Wine Cellar Lunae, the town of Sarzana. Beautiful places, worth a stay either alone or in company!