Comenius Meeting in Oleiros

Last September, as you all know, we held a Comenius meeting in our school. There were 9 Czech pupils and two of their teachers, who lived with us for almost a week. Here begins a series of posts about the experience.

Meeting in Oleiros: The arrival, on 25th
Our friends arrived on the first morning train from Madrid. We went to look for them and share with them a good breakfast. 

They were very tired but also very excited about coming over to our school, as well as getting the meeting started. When they got to our school, all of them were welcomed by our headmistress, who told them about our school and asked them about theirs and their country.

Then we went with four of our pupils to see the school. A little while before the break time the big moment arrived: they met their host siblings. It was a very special moment as the pupils had only met each other online and meeting face-to-face was special. This was followed by the presentations and the visits of the centre accompanied by many nerves and laughter.
Late in the morning we went back to class. Then we divided the pupils into several groups. The Czech ones attended a Spanish language lesson with pupils of the first year of high school .The Czech teachers went to teach 4th ESO, Jana tried to teach English and Radek tried to teach French. We genuinely believe that the experience was amazing for everyone.
After finishing the school time, foster parents came for the host pupils. Everyone went home to rest from the long trip, but we also gave them time to go for a walk.