ABOUT THE MEETING IN GAZİANTEP.docx

GAZİANTEP 23-30 / 03 / 2019

Our project’s  PAST, PRESENT ,FUTURE –MEMORIES and DREAMS  second meeting was held in Gaziantep,Turkey.

There  were 10 teachers and 18 students from  Poland,Portugal,Bulgaria and Romania.These students accommodated in Turkish families from Gaziantep Anatolian High School.During  the second mobility in Gaziantep the theme was Self Investment /Learning to learn /Learning by doing / Learning by experiencing /Workshop explore yourself .

On the first day of the meeting after wellcoming our colleques and students ,we had Ice Breaking activity using traditional and common methods. All the guests chose one of the cages in the artificial tree with their and our flags and they chose a cage to see which present they will take from us.After  lunch in a historical place HAVRA (an old synagogue) ,we tried to make EBRU and a little bit COPPER workshop in another school in our city. Learning by doing gives a better understanding.It promotes critical thinking,It develops collaboration,encourages risk taking and increase retention.

Gaziantep has been added to the list on the gastronomy category of Unesco’s Creative Cities Network in 2015 and Baklava is one of those dessert that has a reputation for its taste.There are forty layers in a slice of Baklava…

On the second day ,early in the morning we visited  BAKLAVA manifacturing shop to have some idea about how to make it and tasted it altogether.People in  the shop from different ages were learning how to make Baklava by experiencing /by doing with their elders.

Then we had  city tour from museums to castle and bazaars to traditional places during the day.We tasted traditional KATMER in one of the restaurant .

On the third day all schools  were ready for the presentations of the project in the morning .After these amazing presentations we had two workshops .One of them was prepared by our Portugees  partners TANGRAM and the other one Turkish traditional amulet NAZAR BONCUĞU / EVIL-EYE BEAD prepared by Turkish group . We used felt and recycleable materials to make them .

On the fourth day we had trips.Erasmus + projects  gives us an opportunity to travel .And travelling changes people physically and psychologically,it improves our health ,it makes us smarter ,it makes us more interesting,it allows  us to try amazing food….You can feel like an adventurer,it expands your real social network ,it creates lifetime memories and it makes you love your home even more…..So we prepare a trip both in our city and to URFA,Göbeklitepe , one of the closest cities near Gaziantep and to the town Halfeti .We had  a boat trip in Halfeti where you can see the BLACK ROSES only in Turkey. Halfeti is a place where you can see  both historical places and the effects of technological  changes in the town.The old town is under the water now because of the BİRECİK DAM.And it is famous for its mosaics….All the mosaics in Zeugma Museum were brought from Halfeti.

On the fifth day we had a teacher’s meeting to evaluate the workings in the project .We had a questionare for students about their intelligence and way of learning . It was an amazing week for us …