The WOW-night

Thursday the 26th of september was the last night when people from all countries were together. All the students met at the centre of the city to later on walk together to a restaurant called Ela. Everyone sat down at the tables and ate the delicious food that was served. It would not be a WOW-night without people dancing and singing which is why each country decided to make a performance. We had the chance to experience everything from ABBA to the finnish motoroil. To make sure we will remember this forever the students decided to go to the park to spend as much time as they could together. 

Welcome dinner

Sunday the 23rd of september students from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Slovenia and Sweden met each other for the first time. The night started with all the students and teachers eating greek traditional food, made by the greek students’ parents. For many of the foreign students it was their first time tasting dishes like mpoureki, pastitsio, ntolmadakia, gemista and tsigkariasto. Afterwards, with live music in the background, we all decided to learn traditional dances like sirto, pentojali and malebijoti. Since there’s always room for desert everyone rushed back to the tables as soon as it was ready. At the end of the night people gathered around the tables and got to know each other on a personal level. As a conclusion everyone went home with fun memories and new friends.

Botanic Park

On 26th of September 2018 we took a bus to the Botanic Park in Crete, Kolympari. The weather was exactly what we needed for the hike in the garden. We were given information about the park by a tourguide. The path we walked was 2.5 kilometers and it took us one and a half hours. There were 3 different climate zones: tropical, mediterrainean and albino. All the zones together included most of the herbs from all around the world. There was some animals in the middle of the park. We saw peacocks, donkeys, dears, badgers and kri-kris. Most of the animals were free walking in the park but some animals were in a enclosure for example the donkeys and dears. We also ate at a restaurant in the botanic park. The meal we were served was made of local products in order to experience the cretan nutrition. You were also able to buy fruits and vegtables that came from the Park.

Technical university of Chania

On Monday 24^th September the Erasmus team visited the technical university. The main purpose of visiting the university was to show us what a university in Greece looks like and to make us interested in learning more about engineering. The university is divided in blocks, each block is specialized in different sectors. The first thing we saw in the university was two electric cars which were presented to us by four students

Afterwards we separated in two groups, each one of them visited a different sector. The first group visited the Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory (TUC) lab, in which they informed us about how public buildings can be transformed to make the educational process more pleasant. The second group visited the Robotic apartment and they showed us different technical devices that can be very important in the society, and as an example, drones that can save lives.

In conclusion, we believe that the visit at the university was constructive and interesting.

By: Johanna, Inês, Athina, Nicki, Elli and Eleni

The Ideal Lesson

What is an ideal lesson like? Ideal lesson is an idea from students how the each school systems should work. Each student has its own opinion about the ideal lesson. We will combine our thoughts together. We are a group of students from each country (Slovenia and Greece) and we are going to introduce the topic of our ideal lesson.

First of all, the students think that our lessons should start at 9:00 am to be more productive and concentrated and it should last 45 minutes. Another point is that students should have a good environment for studying and use state-of-the-art equipment. We also suggest more comfortable equipment in classrooms, like chairs. The teachers should have a positive attitude towards students and use a lot of communication. They should give us clear examples so we can understand the topic more and also small tasks during the lessons so we can have teamwork experience and spirit. The teachers need to focus more on psychological and physical health of students and make creative and interactive lessons.

These are some of our suggestions for an ideal lesson.

                                           
By:

        Anja Rešetič (Slovenia)
        Akis Lionis (Greece)
        Valia Gaviotaki (Greece)
        Giannis Kalogerakis (Greece)

Tera Creta

On the 26^th of September we visited the Tera Creta olive oil Company placed in Kolymvari, Chania. First we went to the olive trees field where the tour guide talked to us about how they grow, cultivate and harvest the olives. Next we learnt how they separate the olives from the trees and then we went to the lab where we saw how they test the olives’ quantity, acidity  and quality. 

After that they told us about the extraction of the olive oil through a milling process which is separated in to two categories, the normal and the bio olive oil extraction. Finally we went to bottling section of the factory where they talked about the packaging process and then we tasted the produced olive oil and the olives.

By:

Anna Maria Alexi

Maria Fragiadaki

Dimitris Vourakis

Maria Trashian

Veronika Starc

Luis Silva

Central Market

We were promoting our local products on Tuesday the 25^th of September outside the central market in the center of Chania. Each country had their own table which were decorated with traditional decorations, for example flags. Unfortunately, it was a windy day, which made it hard to keep the things in place. Silk (Spain), candy (Sweden), appetizers (Portugal), pumpkin oil (Slovenia), coffee (Finland) and Kalitsounia (Greece) were some of the products we were promoting.

Some students stayed in the stands, while some tried to attract people to learn about our cultures and try our food and fabrics. Most of the people were tourists and because of that the students needed to cooperate and help each other to interact and make our job better.

This whole event made our English more fluent and gave us more confidence to talk to more people and make them interested. We learned about marketing techniques such as a stay positive and keep going even though you get a “no“ for an answer.

All though most of us were a little bit nervous in the beginning we think we did a wonderful job. We believe collaboration and team work were the keys to our success.

Made by: Josephine Wikhult, Manuela Costa Lina SImantiraki, Argiro Batzaki and Kaisla Iljin.