Next Saturday, the Spanish teacher Lucía Díaz is going to leave for Bolsward to teach our Dutch partners an introduction to Spanish. Hopefully they’ll be able to kind of communicate with our family and friends using the Spanish they’ll learn with her.
We keep on working and we have a new task for today. We’ve been asked to write an article for the new edition of our school newspaper, El Crisol. We’ve learnt a lot about The Netherlands in the last few months, and now we must share it with our school. Itsaso’s article is the one which has been chosen to be published. You can read it here:
The Netherlands
and our Comenius Programme
This school year we have started a bilateral Comenius project financed
by the European Community. In this project, twenty-two students from The
Netherlands are going to visit us during one week, and then, twenty-two of us
are going to visit them next year.
We have been working tough and for a long time so far this school year ,
and we have learnt a lot about Frisia, the province where the Dutch students
are from, and about The Netherlands in general. We have to know a lot from
their country, because they will be visiting us next May! It seems that still
there is a long time for them to come, but it is not that much. We are so
excited about the idea of having Dutch people in our houses!, and they’re so
excited to come here too!
We both have done a lot of assignments to learn about each other’s
country, for example, powerpoint presentations about their government,
geography, culture… Did you know that The Netherlands is a “low-lying” country?
This means that the land is lower than the sea level. It is a problem for the
population, because it can carry so many natural catastrophes, but there are a
lot of structures which keep water out of land.
About its government, The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, and
it’s been classified as one of the most democratic countries in the world. In
The Netherlands, the first language they speak is Dutch. For us, the Spanish
people, it is a very weird language, because it has got a lot of consonants
with very few vowels, and also it has got a lot of sounds. “Wat dacht je van deze?”, that means ”How are you?” in Dutch.
After doing so much work, we are so excited to welcome the
Dutch people here in Luanco, and the date is becoming closer ..., and I’m sure it’s going to be fantastic!
Itsaso Zimmermann Guinea
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