Paz de Ziganda Ikastola and Istituto Comprensivo Foligno 5: two schools and their Erasmus+ exchange

 

OUR EXPERIENCE

The trip was great, I think we all had a great time, we all take the opportunity to get to know each other a little bit more. The relationship with the italians was very good, and they welcomed us very well. Everyone was always nice to us. This trip supposed for us a big step forward, because we left our country for sharing our music and culture with and other culture very different. It wasn't a very long time but there happened many things. We had a really good time and also some sad moments, but we always finished with a smile, and that was because the people with who we were. We made a lot of new Italian's friends, but we also made stronger the relation with our school mates. We have a lot of fun and in my opinion, we start speaking and laughing with people we already knew but we hadn't spoke jet. So in conclusion it was a very educative experience for our personality, and I would and I think we all would repeat this a million times.

ANOTHER DAY IN FOLIGNO 5

When we woke up we took a bus to the school of Foligno. But we went out of the bus one stop earlier. So we lost the music and english lessons. At 11:30 we arrived to the school, the italian people they prepare us some food to eat and drinks. At 12:00 o'clock we made three different activities: They separate us in three groups, the first group play basketball and volleyball with the Italian boys and girls it was a great time, The second group paint a wall of the Erasmus+ logo with different colors and we drew the ágape of our hands and in the middle of our hands we wrote our names and the third group that were ikastola`s dance group thoughts some Basque dances to the Italian friends. Then we took the bus to came back to the lodging house in foligno to had lunch. We ate some sandwiches of jam and cheese and some french chips in the garden of the lodging.

THE CONCERT IN FOLIGNO

The 3rd of April was the last day in Foligno and it was also the day of the concert with the Belfiore school choir. That afternoon we stayed in the hostelo practising and preparing for the concert; and after having dinner we had the concert. The concert was on an auditorium which had been a church. The stage wasn't enough big for the dantzaris to dance properly and comfortably, but they show their professionality and they did a very good performance. Apart from that, Paz de Ziganda Ikastolako Abesbatza and Istituto Comprensivo Foligno sang more songs such as Sagarra Jo, Txoria Txori, Welcome to my Country and Lu Core Meu. Finally, we sang Uso Zuria and Volare all together. Here there are some links with the videos of the concert:

THE CONCERT IN ROME

Friday afternoon, the choir of Paz de Ziganda ikastola have a performance in a church in Rome, it was an amazing performance. To go to the church, we had to take a bus and we made a long way to reach to the church. When we enter on the church, we realiced that we didn’t have the apples to a dance, so we have to run around the village to get the apples. After the performance, we went to buy ice creams. Also, we we buy souvenirs for our family, friends...etc we think that they will love them. Then, we went to the Fontana Di Trevi and we through coins to the water, also we started singing basque songs, for example: Ikusi mendizaleak, aldapan gora, osasuna’s songs… Finally we went to have dinner to a restaurant and we were walking to the restaurant we started singing again,it was so funny because some people started taking photos, clapping with us, singing… In the restaurant we eat a lot of pasta and pizza and the waiter of the restaurant let to us to put the songs that we want on his restaurant To go the residence we need to take a bus, but our bus was completely full but finally we can entered to the bus. In the residence we put the pijama and we slept to continue visiting differents places of Rome.

TRIP TO FOLIGNO

The 30th of march we left from Paz de Ziganda at 7:30 and we went by bus to Bilbo, so we arrived at 10 o’clock, one of us almost left her suitcase on the bus and another sat on a chewing gum so we had a funny time trying to remove it. There we took the plane and the airline company offered to some of us the space plus seats. Those seats were bigger than the others on the plane so it was a nice surprise. We arrived Rome at 14:00, inside the airport there was a piano so the choir sang a couple of songs accompanied by the pianist all the people around started approaching and taking photos of the “little concert” we gave there. Unfortunately, another problem happened, one of the singers couldn’t find her suitcase so we finally found it but she couldn’t have find it because during the flight it broke and the staff of the airport had covered it with a plastic packaging, because of that it was unrecognizable. We took another bus and eventually reached foligno. We got in the hostel and in the patio we sang songs in basque and we danced traditional dances.

PERUGGIA

The 31th of March, Sunday, we went to Perugia to spent the day visiting the city. We woke up at 8 and we took a train to Perugia. When we were in the way to Perugia,we got out in a wrong stop but we took again the train. We arrived to Perugia around 10:30 and we started the visit with a guide. Perugia is a old city and a part of the old city is underground because a Papa destroyed the whole city for create his fortress. There is a big famous horse that a rich men gave to the city. We went to a viewpoint and we sang a song there because the guide told us that people normally sing there. A girl, a cultural event organizer , saw us singing and she liked a lot and she asked to take a picture with us. Then, we went to have lunch in a beautiful restaurant and they gave us a free desert in exchange for singing. After, we had free time on our behalf to visit more Perugia and we bought an icecream that was really good. That day in Perugia there was a market and a exposition of old cars and there were too many pretty and different cars. Around six we went to the train station for returning to Foligno. This time, we also got out of the train wrong and we spent 25 minutes waiting for the next train in the middel of nowhere. We laughed a lot when we realised that we where in the wrong place. We arrived to the hotel and some families where waiting for us to take us to the reception in the school. They sang 2 songs and the director of the school and the mayor gave a speech to give us the wellcome. We sang a song too and Idoia played the Trikitixa and we all sang some songs. The children prepared a presentation of the important cities of Italy. After the wellcome we had dinner in the school and there was lot of traditional Italian food that parents prepared for us. When we finished the dinner the children prepared a “zumba” class and we all danced together. All the school was full of pictures and information of Navarre and Atarrabia. Moreover, they knew the story of our ikastola and they explained to us, they were very informed of our culture and traditions. Around 11 the parents took us again to the Hostel and in that moment our long day finished, we had fun during all the day.

VISITING FOLIGNO 5 SCHOOL

3rd of April. Morning. At the morning when we were going to the school, we supposed to take the bus of the 9:00 but we confused the bus stops and we waited at the wrong one. When the bus arrived we saw that it stopped at the other bus stop we went running trying to get it but the driver didn't wait for us. So we had to wait for the next bus that arrived at 10:00. Meanwhile we took a look to the arches, the wall that protected Foligno, a garden between the walls and other Romanesques structures that were around Foligno. After we went around the school we listened to the speech of the teachers and students of the school about the euskera and the relation between Italy and Spain and we planted an olive at the schools garden for the relation between our schools. Finally, we went to one of the classrooms were some of the students told us more about Foligno and its history and culture. Also, they gave us the t-shirts and calendars that they made for us.

VISITING SCHOOLS

On wednesday morning, we took the bus at 9AM. That day wasn’t as stressful as others, because we didn’t have any problem with the transport and the time. We arrived to the primary school and a group of kids offered a beautiful performance to us, they were very enthusiastic for showing it. After that, we separated in groups of eight and we went to their classes. Then, we painted a wall painting all together and we formed a colorful puzzle. In their break time, we had a great time with them and they showed us lot of new games they often practice in their daily routines. Also, they gave us some little presents and we kept them for having a good memory of the trip. It was a really nice day, because we could have a great time helping them and they also showed us several things we didn’t know about.

THE LAST DAY

We left Rome the 6th of April at 12:00pm. Then, we arrived at the airport, we asked for the tickets and we made the check-in, so we could take the flight. While the check-in was passed, we went to have lunch in some restaurants of the airport. We only had 15 minutes for having lunch so, we did it quickly. Suddenly, while we were going to the boarding gate a couple of the airport's security appeared. They told us that the gates were going to close so we started to run by the Rome's airport. We reached on time and took the right fight. Then when we reached Bilbo, we went to take all the suitcases and one of all of them was lacking, so the responsible of our group and the owner of the suitcase went to speak with the responsables of the airlines. He told them that the suitcase would be back on 24 hours.