1. HUNGARY, 28 SEPT-2 OCT

2. On September 28th, the first meeting of the Comenius Project “SO DIFFERENT AND SO ALIKE. EVERYBODY NEEDS A CHANCE…” was held in Hungary.

3. This 1 st meeting took place in Nyiregyhaza, a city in the North-east of Hungary and the country capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 117,000 it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and is one of the leading cities of Northern Hungary and of the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain.

4. Ten teachers from Turkey, Poland, Romania, Portugal and Spain met the Hungarian team to discuss the development of the Project: arrange dates for meetings, decide number of students and teachers in the visits and the tasks and activities each country will develop during the next two years… As you can image, we all spoke English!! That’s the official language of the Project.

5. The 1 st day, after a hard working session, students from the Széchenyi István School showed us their school …

6. The reception The corridor One of their classes The gym

7. They had also prepared a short walk along their nice town…

8. The 2 nd day, after another working session, we went to visit the zoo. The zoo lies in a natural, almost untouched birch forest. In the 30 ha of the zoo the visitors can walk along to observe how the animals live in certain parts of the world. They are very proud of the zoo. Not very scientific, don’t you think?The aquarium Seals

9. The 3 rd and last day, we spent the whole day in a trip around the county. We went to a Primary School in a small village near Nyiregyhaza… They leave their shoes here before classes!

10. We visited a nice church with the oldest woman ever seen!!

11. And an old water mill near a beautiful river.

12. The tasks all countries have to do are: TASKS - Class matching, emails exchange. - Prepare information to celebrate every country’s national day. - Send information to the website. - Multilingual dictionary. - Recipes book. - Relevant historical events book. - Traditional music and dancing CD. - Different education systems book. - Geography and Nature album.

13. The calendar for the visits in these years are: DATECOUNTRY February 2011Poland May 2011Portugal September 2011Turkey April 2012Spain June 2012Romania THAT’S BEEN OUR FIRST VISIT!!! WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT!