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Dear students from Valle,
It was pleasure to meet you at Valle- your wonderful school, to see your classrooms, surroundings and feel the spirit of your site, experience Norway itself.
You are coming to Latvia, to Smiltene. I hope your teacher Ewa has already told you how students from Smiltene and Valle have been working together for nearly 2 years. Now it is time for you to take a floor- to try yourselves how things work.
Write, please, about your expectations when coming to Latvia. Think if you know anything about the country you are going to visit or how it would be like there. You may have a look at the very first entry of the blog where your colleagues have already expressed their knowledge (22th April 2009), but we would be like to know your personal thoughts.
And the next step- if you have any questions to ask – do not hesitate! Ask! The students (your peers, hopefully your new friends) from Smiltene Centre Secondary will reply you!
Mind! Even if you do not have anything to ask about the country or your stay here- ask about the project! Enquire about things and activities you are going to do together!
My dear new friends- two tasks altogether- your expectations and at least 3 questions (whether about practical issues in connection of your stay or about our school, students, project etc.)
We are really looking forward to seeing you in Smiltene,
Sincerely, Gundega
My expectation to Latvia is very big. I'm looking forward to meet you and to see how your culture is, your school and how your nature is in Latvia. I was just wondering, do you have much homework at your school? And what activities are most common among young people in Latvia? Here in Norway football and handball is very popular. I also wondered if you are using uniforms to school in Latvia? In Norway we don't, and I'm happy for that. I hope that we can get to know each other and keep in touch after our visit.
I'm looking forward to seeing you,
love Oda
I think that you will achieve your goals in Latvia and have a really great time! :)
Well, actually I could say that there's quite a lot of homework, but it's not so bad either. The most common activities are like basketball, in winter ice-hockey, volleyball.
In some schools students have to wear uniforms, but not in our school. Well, our principal has an idea that our school could have uniforms, but we are not very keen on to this idea.
I am looking forward to see you here. In my opinion, Latvia is small country, but we have beautiful nature and unusal culture. You will be sure about that, when you will come to Latvia.
Yes, we have a lot of homework, but I think, it is very important for our future. If we didn't have homework, we wouldn't learn as much.
The most common activities among young people in Latvia are team games, like football, basketball, volleyball, ice hockey, handball. In winter we can ski and skate, in summer - swim and ride the bike. In our school are lot of activities, for example, every year we have basketball competitions between classes and poetry evenings.
In some schools in Latvia students have to wear uniforms, but in our school we don't have, although we have some ideas about it. I think, uniforms are something special for school and students - it describe school and you can be proud of it. And I hope that, some day in our school will be uniforms.
Signe V. (S)