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Students' comments about the visit to The Basque Country

This comenius project has been a very useful experience in our lives. That week we did some new friends that I hope we never  lose our friendship. We met a lot of people. People from other countries and other cultures, but thanks to this project we have learnt to understand them and how to live with them. Apart from this, we learnt how to recycle and how we can make the world better. In conclusion, this Comenius week has been one of  my best weeks ever in  my life, it was an unforgettable week and I hope to see all of you again in the future.

Aitor Arana from the Basque Country 

In this Comenius proyect I haven't traveled to any country but the meeting in the Basque Country has been great! The people we met here was very very nice and I have made very good friends.
During the meeting the weather wasn't very good but, anyway, the trips, the free time and the weekend in Zuhatza was amazing. That week will be unforgettable!
I hope everyone had a great time here, and I hope I could see all of them soon :)
Yaiza Gonzalez from the Basque Country
 

Meeting with parents from the Basque Country

Before our partners' visit to our school we had a meeting with the students and their families.

One of the last tasks in our project was to compare the different lifestyles, our students have nowadays, with their parents' and grandparents' when they were similar age.

Students had prepared a questionnaire for parents and they explained how their lives were when they were younger. They talked about paper, food and water, in terms of "Energy". How the situation was like when they were at school.

This meeting was one of the last activities we had prepared at school within the "Energy Awareness Campaign" involving students, parents and teachers.

 Here you can find some of their conclusions:

Paper waste

Paper at school

When our parents were young, there weren’t photocopiers and when they needed a copy of something they had to trace it. At that time paper wasn’t recycled and people used to use newspapers to wrap things. They weren’t worried about paper waste because they didn’t use much paper.

Toilet paper

When our parents were young most  of them had toilet paper at home but our grandparents didn’t. If they were outside they used leaves instead of toilet paper because there weren’t any toilets. At school they had toilet paper but it was bad quality paper.

 Food waste

After watching the videos, we did some questions to our parents. Our topic was food now and then. According to the answers, this is our conclusion: nowadays we throw much more food than when our parents were young. We also eat yunk food. Some parents know that their sons and daughters don’t like the food from the canteen, so they give money to them to buy something in the break instead of eating food from the canteen.

Parents also commented that when they were young the food was bought in local moarkets or taken in their own farm ( baserri). They also said that the food was never thrown as they always ate all the food they had. So, when they saw the video about the canteen they got really shocked because of the enormous waste of food.

Finally, they told us something that nowadays seems incredible: when they were young people who lived in the cities usually went to the farms (baserris) to ask for food because people from the cities were poorer than the ones who had their own farm.

Water waste

When our parents were young they had running water except in some cases. Some had to go far to take it. They couldn’t waste it because they needed it for other things. In short, they reused it. The water at home was drinkable. They had a shower once or twice a week and they heated the water on a range.

There weren’t any toilets in the house so they used a box or they went to the garden. They hadn’t a washing machine. Nowadays we use much more water than when our parents were young.

It was great to see students and parents talking together and discussing about the posible solutions to the waste of energy we have at school and also in our houses.