New project meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania

Our next project meeting(workshop) will take place in Lithuania, in Kaunas, the town which was situated about 1000 years ago on the confluence of two rivers the Nemunas and the Neris. The meeting will start on the 20th of September and finish on the 27th. Teachers and students from Germany, Greece and Lithuania will meet at Kaunas Radvilenai secondary school. We will have common rehearsals, work together on our plays. The plays will be presented to the audience of our regional community. The plays are chosen by the countries: ‘Love and fight’ from Lithuanian school, ‘Dangerous chemistry’ from German school and ‘My real life ‘ from Greek school. As our fourth partner Turkish school can’t come to Lithuania, there will be only three plays. The performance of the plays is planned to be held at Kaunas Radvilenai secondary school on the 26th of September 2008 .The Day of European Languages is a traditional festival at our school. This year it will really be the Week of European Languages-we will hear German and Greek native speakers at our school. The plays are written and will be performed in English. Our project guests will be shown Kaunas centre, new and old town with wonderful Town Hall. We plan to go to Rumsiskes folk museum. Also we will have an excursion to Vilnius-capital of Lithuania, to Trakai with wonderful island castle.
Teachers and students from Lithuania, Germany and Greece will live and work together for one week. They will have a chance to know better Lithuania and its people and to make friends with each other. We will have an opening ceremony where Lithuanian folk songs and dances will be performed. Friendship is the main ace in Comenius projects.
Meeting and working together help teachers and students to know better the way of life of each country which they visit. Our project unites teachers and students from very different cultures and it is really very interesting to work together. The main performance of our plays will be at the end of our meeting and that will show the results of our common work. Friendship usually doesn’t end with the end of the meeting. Wish us success in Lithuania. New stars will be born in Kaunas:-).

Daiva Barkauskiene