Billy the Wizz!

Dominika has just come to my rescue over the flights. She tells me that when she came here in January she flew Lufthansa and that it cost her around 400 euros, that's a lot! However there is a specialist airline called Wiz which flies to Eastern Europe.








They are at www.wizzair.com and I think I will be able to fly for next to nothing, which is a relief!

By the way does anyone know who Billy the Wizz is? Or was?

Here he is, Billy the Wizz










He was one of the main characters in the Beano comic, obligatory reading when I was younger. Along with other old favourites such as Dennis the Menace, Rodger Dodger and Gnasher. Ahhh them was the days.


This is the new version of the Beano











The main characters

Dennis the menace in front with Gnasher the dog bottom right

Flights for November

Flights for our November meeting are proving to be a problem, I have been through all the normal airlines and they are all asking for a lot of money to get to Katowice.

Most of them are saying that I will have to go via somewhere else, hence two flights, hence prices that are all around 300-400 euros. My idea has always been to take three staff members with me in order to spread the experience as much as possible. This is looking a little doubtful at the moment. We shall have to see.

Things get underway, we got max points!

Today I have received the first mail from our coordinator that is really to do with the project itself proper.

Dominika has sent all of us a reminder about the meeting that is planned in Poland this November. She has asked us all to think about dates for the week long meeting and will send us details of hotels as soon as possible. She has asked that we all arrive and leave on the same day together so that her task of meeting us at the airport and arranging transport will be that much easier. When I organised the preparatory meeting I didn't arrange to meet anyone at the airport! The meeting is in her town of Czechowice-Dziedzice. We have to fly to Katowice so I can get my skates on looking for flights right now.

Apparently in our application we received the maximum points possible for an application, the full 100 points. That can only be a good sign and proof that we did our job during the week of the prep meeting.



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What now?

Now what I have to do is some preparation for the start of term.

The project has to be presented to the students of 1r Batx to find out who is interested in taking part. This means that I will prepare a powerpoint presentation with an explanation of what a Comenius project is, what it could mean for them and what they would have to do if they wanted to take part in it.

I will also have to prepare some sort of evaluatory process in case we get too many people wanting to take part in it. Considering that we only have to trips abroad with students and theoretically I will be limited to 8-10 students on each I can't realistically have a group much larger than 20.

Then I have to go over the contents of our new textbook for 1r Batx and marry up its contents with what we want to do in the project as my class in 1r will be made up of all the Comenius students and we will have to follow the syllabus and carry out the work of the project at the same time.

Work but I am actually looking forward to it, it should be fun.

Success confirmed, more or less

Life is weird sometimes, here I have been mentally wringing my hands awaiting the outcome of the Comenius selection process, Dominika tells me that we have all been passed but still I have to wait as our agency is closed in August (of course). Then I run into Mª Jose in the supermarket this afternoon and tell her that our coordinator thinks we have all been approved and she off handedly replies that at the end of July she spoke to Nuria Estrada and was told that we had been approved then!

Apart from feeling a bit knocked back I suppose that at least it is some sort of confirmation. Mª Jose did also add that Nuria said that we were lacking some of the documentation that our coordinator had to supply.

This I will check out with Dominika when I can.