BIP Comenius: Capturing the World in a Photo: Gaziantep

Gaziantep

Nizip Anatolion Teacher Training High School is located in the center of our Turkey, near the Syrian border. It is one of the most preferred schools in the district as it provides the students with a good education. It also provides shelter for those who come from nearby villages and cities as it has a dormitory. In Turkey there ia an exam system and the students who are accepted to this school are always above a certain level. They are the intelligent children of mostly lower class families. The school policy is to make students believe that they should get in contact with the rest of the world to improve themselves, they should get accustomed to other cultures and feel like European citizens. Therefore they are encouraged to take part in international projects.

Our meeting was going to be held in Gaziantep but due to the political problems taking place in the region, authorities did not advise to travel to the region so finally the meeting took place in Istambul. It must have been a great effort for our Turkish collegues but they did a great job.

Our expedition was formed by three students and two teachers.

The programme prepared by the teacher Hulya Dogan was the following:

Turkey: Programme from BIPComenius

Our stay

Continuing with our Comenius Project, our expedition is now in Turkey. Finally they met in Istambul because the political situation in the Syrian border made it not advisable to travel to Gaziantep, but the meetings are going to be held in a different localization. We hope they will enjoy their stay and the experience.

Our representatives in Comenius took part in the first activities in the meeting. One of them was the presentation of the photos submitted for competition. The winner work was that of one Croatian student. In addition to this, they could enjoy the visit of the city.

Our Group taking part in Comenius continues with their activities in the Turkish capital. They could go on a ship in the Bosporus and the also visited some mosques. Surely they have taken a lot of photos.

Even when the activities of our Comenius team are not th eones designed initially, they continue with their visit of Istambul. Today they had the opportunity of going to the Museum of Constantinopla’s Conquer and they visited Suleiman the Magnificient’s palace as well.

Continuing with the programe of these days, our team taking part in Comenius has visited the Istambul Photography Club. They also took advantage to visit some of the best known places of the city such as the Cistern, Hagia Sophia and the impressive mosques.

The last day of the participants in Comenius programme was devoted to the visit of a photography museum and to the exhibition of the Pictures submitted by the participant countries. Time flies and these few days are over, but they have been of great intensity.

Next meeting will be in Beasain in February-March