ERASMUS+
2 nd JULY - 8 th JULY 2O17
At Orio Airport in Bergamo. We are approaching to the gate. We are taking a selfie waiting for our flight.
… let’s fly to Malta!!
DAY 1 - MONDAY 3 rd July
Welcome Meeting
with Kenny (a soft drink made of oranges and herbs, named kinnie) and...
... Pastizzi, a maltese pastry filled with peas and cheese...
“You think better if you aren’t hungry!!!”
PS) The kinnie is a ‘national soft drink’ in Malta. It’s a bittersweet fizzy soft drink, similar to italian chinotto, brewed from bitter oranges and extracts of wormwood.
Lesson in Manuela’s class: Fluency & English Language Development
In the afternoon...
Walking on St. Julian beach to digest the "pastizzi"!
Whereas, at night…
Our first dinner...the mythical Hugo’s fries!
DAY 2 - TUESDAY 4 th
Lesson in Fluency & English Language Development class with Alessandra, Ilaria and Marco…”don’t speak Italian, please!”
Our teacher’s name is Margot. She is a lovely Scottish woman, she speaks very fast but we are good at understanding her!
In the photo we are doing a grammar practice about the future and vocabulary.
In the afternoon...
...Malta City Sightseeing on a double-decker bus with Ana and Marina, our Portuguese friends.
A panoramic view from the top of the bus
In the evening meeting in front of the school for a guided Valletta tour by night...
The government building
The square in front of the Palace
DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY 5th JULY
Lesson in Mariella’s class: Spice Up Your Teaching – Methodology in Practice Today. My teacher’s name is Niki. She is from England.
In the photo we are doing a group work about story telling.
A forty-minutes lunch break with our Portuguese friends Ana and Marina. They are so lovely...and it looks like we have met them for years!
Coming back to Valletta to see Caravaggio’s paintings in St. John’s Cathedral
“Saint John’s Beheading” and “Saint Jerolam” of which we can’t take a photograph but they are wonderful. Especially “Saint John’s Beheading” is a magician of colours and lights and it’s the only painting signed by Caravaggio.
We can take a photograph of the fabulous roof painted by the Italian Mattia Preti in ‘600.
Our Portuguese friends and we are taking a photo in Valletta.
DAY 4 - THURSDAY 6th JULY
After a group work about vocabulary, we are in our classroom waiting for the coffee break with the nice course friends...the Polish are good at English!!!
In the afternoon a fantastic visit of Comino Island
Teachers in the Blue Lagoon...we are relaxing after our hard work!
An exciting view of the Blue Lagoon sea
DAY 5 - FRIDAY 7th JULY
Last lesson day
We are sad because we are at the end of our great experience but we are proud for our progress in English!
At 6,30 in the afternoon meeting in front of the school to visit Mdina.
The Walls of the Ancient City
A photo in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Mdina.
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The last night in St. Julian’s at Paceville, the district of night life: discos, pubs, cafès, young people, restaurants, entertainment places and...many Gentlemen’s clubs!!! 😒
DAY 6 - SATURDAY 8th JULY
Visit to Gozo Island
On the ferry with George
While our colleagues are coming back to Italy, we are taking the ferry to the Isle of Gozo.
When we arrive on the island, and we get on the City Sightseeing bus to go around the island and see the most attractive places in Gozo. Unluckily we can stop and visit only St. George Cathedral… we haven’t got much time!
A view of the City...it’s an amazing place!
Our tour has finished! We are at the harbour to catch the ferry back to Malta.
To reflect...
ERASMUS+ has been an exciting experience, we have had the opportunity to improve our English, to know much more about a new country and to meet a lot of teachers coming from different European Countries.
We could work on common projects and future partner ships.
Ana and Marina, the Portuguese teachers are waiting for us in Portugal to have a new interesting adventure all together.
We have already got in touch with Ania, a Polish teacher, on etwinning platform to start a working cooperation.