The Quirky Quibbler brings you some extracts from the blog of the Erasmus group that traveled to Poland. To read the full blog, please click on the links.
Inside the science museum, there was a large pendulum that swung from the roof and was attracted/repelled by magnets on either side of it.
After teachers from the other countries bought the tickets, we went upstairs to the first level where we saw many interesting things including a large hamster wheel. On the other floors, there were other pieces which displayed chemistry, physics and biology.
We travelled by bus to a small town in which there was a gingerbread museum. Before we could go into the museum, we had the opportunity to walk around the small town. In the museum, we talked a bit with the group members who were from Poland.
We learnt how to bake “traditional Polish peering” (gingerbread cookies).
Today we got to spend a little more time with the other members of the groups, as we were going to visit the school.
We gathered in their auditorium and were warmly welcomed with a few performances, we then presented our speeches about biodiversity, and in our case we just talked about our group, and what we do. To get to know each other a bit more we were split into groups and did different activities. Leva was put into Graffiti painting, which was fun as she got to decorate a wall with graffiti drawings of animals. Zelda and Emilie were put into baking and baked a cake. Carl was put into a group where they planted a tree for each country. Harry was put into a group where they made a toilet paper tree. As soon as we got back from our activities we did a traditional Polish folk dance.
The bus ride was around 2 and a half hours long to Gdansk.
We all separated into our countries and walked around the town a bit, we also had a very luxurious lunch. Whilst eating the lunch Emelie’s chair fell through the floorboards a bit as the wood was bad. It was a very cute town with cobblestone streets.
After getting a chance to look around the town we all gathered and went back on the bus to go to the beach. The bus ride was long and we passed time by playing charades and listening to music. When we finally got there we split into small groups and we walked around the area.
On the way back to meet the rest of the group we made an accomplishment by not being the last ones which was good. It had been a long day in the sun and we were all tired so the 3 hour trip back to the hotel was a long one. We were all excited to get back as Axel and Daniel had arrived and the whole group would now be together.
Axel and Daniel’s opinion on the day of arrival to Poland:
Daniel: On this day, Axel and I arrived in Warsaw Poland meeting Mrs U at the airport. At first glance of arrival Warsaw looked very boring, the country seemed too plain much like Sweden. However my opinion on the city slowly changed after we took the bus to the train station, I witnessed some of the busiest and most exciting streets in Warsaw.
Funny enough the bus resembled those that are in Stockholm back home. Later on when we finally got off the bus and onto the train I experienced one of the most uncomfortable train rides, due to the unusually hot and breezeless weather. Honestly it could’ve been a little bit better if there weren’t cabins and random people talking a language we didn’t understand (for all we know they could of been talking about us). Anyway we found a way to make it through that hectic train ride and finally found ourselves in a little city called Inowroclaw.
On this day, we didn’t have to wake up that early as we got to go back to the Polish school in Inowrocław. We met in the main entrance of the school and were all told to go outside where we were split into groups which mixed all of the countries.
At this point, we hadn’t gotten to know too many of the other students so it honestly all felt a bit awkward. The group got maps and some tasks to complete. We walked through Solanki park which is where most papers were hidden. Most members of our group turned out to be Polish, and spoke quite a bit of Polish which turned out to be difficult to follow.
In these tasks we identified the names of trees and counted certain objects in order to move on. We met after this in a small roofed place where everyone sat together and we started talking to many of the other students. For lunch we had pierogi which is a traditional polish dish with dumplings stuffed with cheese, meat or sweet fillings.