dimarts, 14 d’abril del 2015
dilluns, 13 d’abril del 2015
Our last day! 😢
Today is a very looooong day. We have met at 05:30 in the morning to go to Poland. We had our last trips today. The first one, Auschwitz, and the second stop was Krakow.
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camos built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III-Monowitz, and 45 satellite camps.
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish; approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poled, 23,000, 15,000 Soviet prisoners, homosexuals and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments.
It's been a hard visit but we have only visited Auschwitz I, and we had enough!
But the students are a bit tired and sad, and are not very intetested about what the guide says...
Monday 13th April 2015
Today we have met at 09:00 at the GBZA to attend some lessons. First we have met in a classroom with our Slovac friends and we have played an introduction game which has been very funny.
Susanna has been our guide and she had told us lots of interesting stories and legends related to the castle. It's been very exciting and funny. We have been really scared in a few occasions!
Our first lessons have been English in groups of different levels, from the advance to the intermediate levels.
Our advance class has been with the oldest students of the school and the teacher Imrich Milo. We have done a speaking lesson about comparing Spanish to Slovac facts. It's been an interesting activity, where we have learnt a lot of things about this country: government, typical food, national sports, castles, population, etc...
And our last class has been a Maths class in Spanish about mathematical and geometric progressions. Look at their faces!
After a short guide around the building, we have got on the bus to go to Rajecká Lesná. Here we have seen a wood bethlem with moving figures and representing different parts of the country. It needs five engines to move the whole moving part.
On our way to Bojnice, we have gone throuhg one village called Čičmany it is know by its painted wood houses which have a symbolic and historical meaning.
Houses with ridge roofs, galleries and pointed or lineal decorations have been preserved in Čičmany. Of particular interest are the very specific white patterns which are painted on the exterior walls of the houses to decorate them.
Then we have headed to Bojnice Castle. It is a medieval castle, It is a Romanis castle with some original Gothic and Renaissance elements built in the 12th century. Bojnice Castle is one of the most visited castles in Slovakia, receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors every year and also being a popular filming stage for fantasy movies.
But this is a different story...
And the ghost of the black lady came to visit:
Finally we visited the cave, with stories of mysteries and hidden passages:
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