Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts

Friday, 21 January 2011

Torredonjimeno, my town.



Torredonjimeno is an Andalucian Town near the City of Jaen.
Its 14,000 inhabitants are mainly farmers: Torredonjimeno is one of the most prolific olive oil producers in the world.
The Town Hall was built in the 17th century. It is located in the old part of the town and near it you can visit the Castle. There, you can admire a duplicate of a Visigothic treasure found in Torredonjimeno in 1926.
The population is mainly Catholic and there are two parishes: Saint Peter´s and Saint Mary´s. There are also two small churches, two convents and in the outskirts of the city, you can visit the Chapel of the Patron Saints, Saint Cosme and Saint Damian, and the Chapel of our Lady of Consolacion.
If you are up for a walk, there are many parks, gardens and squares.
And if what you want is to enjoy the local festivities, there are plenty to choose: Holy Week (which has been declared a Festival of National Traditional Interest) in
March/April, "Las Cruces" festival in May, the funfair in honour of St Peter and St Paul in June, the pilgrimage to the Chapel our Lady of Consolacion in September and the festivities and fireworks in honour of Saint Cosme and Saint Damian also in September.
So, come to Torredonjimeno and you will enjoy its architecture, its people and its traditions.

Thursday, 16 December 2010

STUDENTS OPINIONS ABOUT THE MEETING IN LEIRIA (PORTUGAL)

Our experience has been unforgettable, We visited some cities that were worth visiting. The time we spent together with the Spanish and foreing students who took part in the meeting and with the teachers themselves was very good.The Portuguesse people were very friendly, they told us legends and stories about their country and we did the same. They have been very exciting days. We felt young again like when we were in school and University. Now, we have a certificate that says we have been part of an European project, not everybody has one!The only problem with the trip was the time, we wish that we could have stayed a bit longer.

Friday, 26 November 2010

IMPRESSIONS OF THE MEETING IN LEIRIA

We, all the teachers, have got together to evaluate how the meeting in Leiria went, and all of us have reached the same conclusion: that it has been a very good one. These are the reasons for this evaluation:

The working atmosphere has been the appropriate one to be able to reach the objectives we all had in mind: Johanna, with her smiling face, has directed the working sessions very well and we have tackled the objectives and prepared efficiently each one's tasks in anticipation for the next meeting in Italy.

We have to point out the good job the hosts have done towards us. They fulfilled the needs we had and they tried to follow through the timetables, didn't you, Pedro?

As we visited some of the IPL's schools, we were able to visit different places and this has been a very good experience. As far as the attention paid to our students by the IPL members, our impression is that they have done an outstanding job and for this reason, our students have an excellent impression of the meeting, specially living together with the Portuguese people. Apart from this, they have had the opportunity to visit some cities: Lisbon, Bathalla, Leiria and due to this they have got more cultural information and learnt different cultures.

The students are also working on this topic and once they have finished it, we will post it to the blog. Apart from this, the new technologies students, some of them took part in the meeting in Leiria, are preparing another work with some photographs of the meeting , and we will show you soon.

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Center For Continuing Eduation

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: