Montag, 30. Mai 2011
Unsere zweite Begegnung, Bulgarien - 21.05. - 28.05.2011
First day
On Sunday, May 22nd, our project partners from Germany arrived in our town, Dobrich. Two months had passed by since we last saw them so we were quite excited to meet our friends again. We wanted to show them some interesting sights in our town. We showed them the last poster about the project we made after we came back from Germany. We visited the Ethnographic house, dating back to the Bulgarian National Revival and registered as a monument of culture and architecture, where we showed them a presentation about our town, its history and our school, the museum, where we saw an exhibition which recreated the childhood in the past. It was nice for us to see all those things our parents played with when they were young and when the Internet hadn’t took over everyone’s life. This exhibition reminded us of the one we saw in the GDR museum in Malchow, Germany. We also went to the church “St. George” and showed our guests the shopping centre and the main square “Svoboda”. After that everyone took their exchange partners home to have lunch with the family. I think all of us had a great time at home. Later most of us went to the zoo for a walk and then to our favourite club for a fresh drink – the perfect end of a lovely first day.
Second day
On Monday we woke up quite early and went to Albena to meet our partners. We took a long walk along the sea shore and some of us even went for a swim. We got to the last floor of the highest hotel in the resort in order to see the beautiful panorama. Later that day we had a meeting with Mrs Zlatka Maneva, who worked in a travel agency during the Communism regime. She told us interesting stories about her life and job, about how hard it was to travel abroad back then and how human rights were violated all the time. This lady is a very interesting person and we talked to her about the freedom of movement as a whole and we discussed whether there were countries in the world still dealing with such problems. We gave Cuba, North Korea and other countries with dictators. This was like a journey to past, which really impressed us. After the meeting our partners visited the prom of our school, which they enjoyed very much. They told us it was a very nice party, extremely different from such parties in Germany.
Third day
24 May, Saints Cyril and Methodius Day, is a public holiday in Bulgaria and known as the “Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature Day”. We attended the parade in Dobrich while our guests from Germany went sightseeing in Varna – one of the biggest and loveliest cities in Bulgaria. They went to the Cathedral and some museums.
Fourth day
On Wednesday we went on a trip. Firstly, we visited Balchik – a beautiful town on the coast of Black sea, famous for its old castle and botanic garden. Then we moved on to cape Kaliakra – a place full of legends. Its extremely high cliffs and the wonderful view it offered took out breath away. On the way back we talked about the education system in Bulgaria and how different it was from the one in Germany. Also, our teachers spoke on the microphone in the bus about how the freedom of movement was violated during the Communist regime.
Fifth day
On Thursday we worked a lot on our project in our town Dobrich. Our friends from Germany had prepared a presentation about their interviews with people who were privileged to travel abroad during the Cold War, such as sailors. They talked about what their rights were, how long they could stay abroad etc. We also had a presentation – about our meeting with Mrs Stefka Racheva, who was a respectable tour guide of tourists from GDR from 1976 to 1989. We also discussed everything we had done on the project and what we had published on our blog. We had an interesting discussion about whether there was an absolute freedom to travel nowadays and what were the factors, which prevented us from traveling abroad. In conclusion, we realized that not only politics and ideologies, but also financial matters could be a problem. And, for us, they actually are. Later we had 2 workshops – the first one about Bulgarian folk dances and the second one about making Bulgarian puppets, both of which really funny. Both groups had brought food and drinks typical for the cuisine of their countries. We had a small concert. Students from our school danced and sang and after that we watched 2 presentations about nature and cities in Germany. Then it was already time for us to go.
Sixth day
Sadly, Friday was our last day together. It was time for evaluation of the project. We wrote on sheets of paper what we liked best, what we didn’t really like and so on. We went out for a walk to an area of our town called “The old Dobrich”. And then it was time to say goodbye.
Overall, everyone had a great time – a week full of unforgettable memories. We made a huge progress on our project and we learnt many things we didn’t know before. The project work we have been doing since September, 2010 made us think about so many things. It also made us realize how grateful we should be for the human rights we now have. Now we have the will to help other people who don’t have these rights and are I need. We found the topic about Human rights very educational and, unfortunately, still accurate. It was also great to make new friends from so far away and hopefully one day we will meet again. A big thank you to the programme “EUROPEANS FOR PEACE”!
Tanja Dimitrova, 11b class, High school of Finance and Economics,D-BG
Zweite Begegnung - Präsentationen der bulgarischen Schüler
Freitag, 20. Mai 2011
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