BIP Comenius: Capturing the World in a Photo: Leppavirta

February 2014 was the time of our visit to Leppävirta, the second of our visits during our Comenius project. Our trip was between 19 and 26 February.

The place looked wonderful, mainly for people not used to live with snow. When looking for information about the place we were mesmerized in front of such natural beauty!

The program prepared by the Finnish teacher Reima Rouviren was the following:

Meeting schedule leppävirta from BIPComenius

He was so kind that he also send to us the maps of the area with the interesting points, including the location of students acommodation homes:

Our stay

Our expedition is already in Finland. They will spend this week in Leppavirta to continue with our project “Capture the World in a Photo”. There they will meet their colleagues from Germany, Poland, Croatia, Turkey and Finland.

In the photo our group getting off the plane.

After a trip of long hours, today was the moment signalled to begin with our photography seminar. The way to school was completely full of snow.

Once in the school students and teachers had the opportunity of assisting to the first part of the photography seminar.

Our team taking part in Comenius did a bit of work this morning: today was the day for presentations, this is, each group, with the materials they brought from their countries, had to explain to the others some details about their respective regions.

After finishing with the work they have been in a frozen lake (it seems that is pretty fresh, isn´t it?) and then they have been skiing in the hotel’s tunnel.

Today our Group has bee in Kuopio where after spending a bit of time in the city they have gone to a mountain in which there is a modern tower in which it was celebrated last year the sky jumping world championship. It has started snowing so unfortunately it was not possible to see too much from the tower.

Our team taking part in Comenius continues in Finish territories. Today they have done different activities, including ice fishing.

The news today is that the photography competition was held and that the work of one of our students was the one obtaining the award. In concrete Axier Urteaga’s work, that you can see above. Congratulations Axier and courage for the rest of the participants because we still have other four competitions.

This morning the participants met at schools and students presented the photos they have taken these days. Then teachers had a meeting to agree the dates of the remaining mobilities.

After that the major has declared opened the exhibition in the town hall and, to finish, they have had their farewell party. Some of the participants will return tomorrow and our expedition will begin moving on Wednesday.