Memories from Poland #2

Greek students write down their memories from the 2nd LTT activity to Poland.

ELEFTHERIA MITIKA

The Second Learning/Teaching/Training activity

1st Day:

We Landed and We Went To The Hotel , The Hotel Was Really Nice and then We Ate Dinner

2nd Day:

We Went To The Polish School
We Were Welcomed
We Visited The School
We Saw A Performance By The Polish Students
We Went To The Workshops and Made Flowers From String
We Ate Some Traditional Polish Food
We Planted 3 Trees Each Was For Every Country That was In The Program, unfortunately Turkey Couldn’t Come so it Was Greece-Poland-Croatia
After That Those Activities we Took a Ride to the Forester’s house in Kuchary , Bonfire

3nd Day:

A trip to Kampinoski National Park:
National Park (Polish: Kampinoski Park Narodowy) is a National Park in east-central Poland, in Masovian Voivodeship, on the north-west outskirts of Warsaw. It has a sister park agreement with Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana, United States.
The idea of creating a park here appeared for the first time in the 1920s. In the 1930s the first forest reserves were opened: Granica, Sieraków and Zamczysko. Today, these reserves are much larger and are strictly protected.
The park was created in 1959, covering a total area of 407 square kilometres .It covers the ancient Kampinos Forest(), and in January 2000 the area was added to UNESCO’s list of biosphere reserves. The Park is now slightly smaller than originally, covering 385.44 square kilometres (148.82 sq mi), of which 46.38 km² is strictly protected. The protective zone around the Park covers 377.56 km². Forests account for around 70% of the park’s area, and most the common tree is the pine. The Park’s symbol is the moose.
Kampinoski National Park is located at the biggest river junction in Poland - here valleys of Vistula, Bug, Narew, Wkra and Bzura meet together. There are no lakes, the biggest river of the Park is the Łasica, a tributary to the Bzura, which acts as a water canal.
Park’s flora is rich with around 1245 species of plants, of which 69 are protected. Park’s landscape is a mix of sand dunes and swamplands with pine trees growing on sand and meadows on swamps.
A trip to Zelazowa Wola , Place where Fryderyk Chopin was born:
Frédéric François Chopin ( 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation. Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.

We visited a composer’s house and a nearest park

4th Day:

We Visited Sierpc – Mazowiecka Country Museum:
is a town in Poland, in the north-west part of the Masovian Voivodeship, about 125 km northwest of Warsaw. It is the capital of Sierpc County. Its population is 18,777 (2004). It is located near the national road No 10, which connects Warsaw and Toruń. Sierpc is a rail junction of local importance, where two lines cross: Kutno - Brodnica, and Nasielsk – Toruń.
We Made Butter In Workshops

5th Day:

We went To Warsaw, We Saw The City:

(Polish: Warszawa) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, roughly 260 kilometres from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population is officially estimated at 1.750 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.101 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres , while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres.

We Visited Copernicus Science Centre:

Copernicus Science Centre (Polish: Centrum Nauki Kopernik) is a science museum standing on the bank of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland. It contains over 450 interactive exhibits that enable visitors to single-handedly carry out experiments and discover the laws of science for themselves. The Centre is the largest institution of its type in Poland and one of the most advanced in Europe. In 2015 it has been visited by over 5 million people since its opening.

6th Day:

We Went to Hydroelectric Power Station in Debe:

Debe Hydroelectric Power Plant Poland is located at Debe, North of Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. Location coordinates are: Latitude= 52.4883, Longitude= 20.9236. This infrastructure is of TYPE Hydro Power Plant with a design capacity of 20 MWe. It has 4 unit(s). The first unit was commissioned in 1963 and the last in 1963. It is operated by PGE Zaklad Energetyczny Warszawa-Teren SA.