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- The second project meeting
was hosted by the partnership school Simonas Daukantas from Vilnius,
Lithuania. The meeting took place from 8th to 15th
April 2005 and had two participating students from guest partnership schools.
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- The working part of the
project was to analyse the youth vs media relation, the awareness of the
students' rights, the democratic relations at home and at school, the
discrimination.
- The questionaire was answered
by about 200 students at the age of 14.
- The results did not show any particular
difference among young Lithuanians, Poles or Slovenians. However, it was
interesting to find out why young people read, how important the internet
is, how socially aware young people are and how much credit for that goes to
media, family and school, and also the observation that the so called »generation
gap« doesen't seem to be as obvious as it used to be 30 years ago. The
detailed analysis results will be presented by the end of May 2005.
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- Also, the most valuable
experience was getting to know the Lithuanian school system which was
elaborately presented at he hosting school and the Vilnius Pedagogical
University. Slovenians find the streaming/ability grouping
for students as well as the obligatory 18 hour week for teachers
quite different from their system.
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- The students presented their
own countries with cultural and natural places of interest as well as the
national cuisine, sports and entertainment.
- All the participants had the
pleasure of seeing the Lithuanian beautiful sights such as the Curonian Spit
at the Baltic Sea together with Palenga and Klaipeda resorts, the
picturesque castle of Trakai with its significant history. The majority of
time was spent on exploring the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, which made
strong impression with a great number of churches, wonderful old buildings
and excellent restaurants and cafes. Most appreciated was the local cuisine
with »zeppelinai«, smoked fish and Švyturys, the local brand of beer.
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- The partnership grew into
genuine friendship among nations – the meeting have proved what had been
anticipated in advance: Europeans have many things in common, more than an
average observer would notice. However, it is the variety of differences
which, by all means, has to be cherished and preserved, that makes the
European mosaique of nations worth knowing thoroughly.
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