WELCOME TO BARCELONA!!!

Our Comenius Project is a bilateral school association from September 2008 to June 2010 between these two schools: Escola Pia Nostra Senyora from Barcelona and Tornedalsskolan from Haparanda, an upper secondary school in Haparanda, Norrbotten, northern Sweden on the border to Finland.

Swedish and Catalan are two minority languages which are spoken in the northernmost and southernmost parts of Europe. We aim at studying their vitality in teenagers’ lives, together with the difficulties they face in two territories in which they aren’t the only spoken languages. Bilingualism is a common characteristic of both Barcelona and Haparanda’s every day’s life. Therefore, we’d like to study how these minority languages manage to survive in our teenagers’ worlds, what resources they have available in their societies and what challenges lie ahead of them in the near future.

The approach to these similar yet obviously contrasting realities will be done, not only by learning the basics of each minority language, but mainly by using English and ITC skills to learn about the different aspects of teenagers’ lives in the Catalan and Swedish contexts. Observing differences and similarities in teenagers’ lives in the northernmost and southernmost European countries in the context of their minority languages will help students to strengthen the idea of a European network from which to learn and to form lasting friendships for the future.

Students in the rural area of Haparanda in northern Scandinavia will meet students from Mediterranean Barcelona in October 2008 and will learn to deal with their everyday activities in a hectic city centre. Likewise, Catalan students will discover what it is to live in snowy Scandinavia in February 2009, trying activities and various sports connected to snow.


How was your comenius experience in Barcelona?

Monday 2 February 2009

02/02/2009 - Day of trips


The first day of Comenius project was 2nd February. The meeting point was the airport. There the 21 students and 3 teachers started the trip. There we said goodbye to our parents. After that, for two hours, we waited inside the airport to go through the security controls.
Later, we took the plane to Helsinki, which lasted 4 hours. We stayed in Helsinki airport for 2 hours to take the last plane to Kemi. It was boring but we knew that the experience was gonna be amazing. The journey was complicated because the plane was old and little. It was amazing, three people were changed of place to balance the plane and not to crash.
In Kemi, at 6 o’clock, we met parents and our Swedish friends, and each one left with their host family.

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