This is the reporters presentation of the work done in different group during the Comenius AREE project meeting in Borja, Spain 2012.

1. COMENIUS
MEETING

2.  The first day of work members of journalists´ group
(Maria, Miriam, Henriette, Melanie, Giorgia, Miriam
and Gintare) presented themselves and their
countries traditions for each other.
 Spanish girls mentioned corridas and tortilla de
patata (typical things for Spanish culture). Lithuanian
girl named basketball as a second religion in her
homeland country. Another kind of sport – football, as
a Norwegian girl said, is very popular in Norway. In
Germany, Bavaria the typical event is the
´´Octoberfest´´ (beer festival). Italy representer
named pasta and pizza as typical Italian meals. And
French student mentioned that people in the south of
France (Bordeaux) loves rugby

4.  In the group 3, there are 9 people who are: Arce
Sancho, Danielle Portelli, Adrián Juste
Prado, Luis Gabás, Katrin Schneyer, Justina
Bakanpyte, Erland Anfinsen, Chloé André and
Roberto Domingues.
They talk about what they did in their countries
and what they researched.
They also talked about what they can do for the
final work.
 First, they started to introduce themselves. And
then they talked about what they have done
during this last months in their countries.
Then, they started to work.

6.  In this group, there are nine people. And the students
are from different countries. Lucia, Iciar, Jorge and
Jorge are Spanish; Mélissa is French; Vilius is
Lithuanian, Lene is Norwegian, Christian is German;
and Anna is Italian.
 This morning, this group have talked about their
hobbies, then birthdays, about the different
languages, and they also have talked about food.
 In the summary of what they have spoken about, there
are things such as they eat all kinds of foods, and
Jorge thinks “that the cheese is the worst”; that they
play saxo, harmonica, or guitar; or that this Saturday
the Comenius people will eat dinner at La Tasca.
 Also they´ve analyzed the maps and the drawings of
Lene in the computer. They´ve talked about the colors
in the maps too.

8.  Today the first group talked about the differences of the energy
mix between the countries. Specially they talked about import and
export of energy in the countries and also about different sources
of energy.
 One Italian girl said that the biggest part of the energy mix
produced in Italy is hydroelectric. Italy imports a lot of energy, but
it doesn`t export. Italy is a sunny country, but the problem is that
it doesn`t use it very much.
 Norway produces hydroelectric energy (99%). The country tries to
improve their wind mills and they export a lot of fossils energy.
 The most produced energy in Germany is fossil energy (75%) the
rest of the energy mix is nuclear and renewable energies, like
wind. Germany exports a bit of nuclear and a lot of fossil.
 Spain is a country which consumer much energy that doesn`t come
from renewable energies. They use 80% of the fuels and imports
this energy from other countries and also export electricity to
France and Portugal.
 Lithuania imports natural gas from Russia and uses fossil energy
and hydroelectric paver.
 France exports more than it imports. The most important energy in
France is the nuclear one, but they also use renewable energies.

11.  I have spoken with Jonas, a Lithuanian person from the
Comenius Project. He has told me about himself, and
about the project.
 First, I have asked him about the most popular source
of energy that is use in his country, and he said that
it´s natural gas and other non-renewable energies.
Jonas expects to get some knowledge with the
project. And he chose this group because he´s
interested in other countries energy systems. His
Chemistry teacher told him about this project, and he
thought that it was great. It´s the first time in a
Comenius Project for him.
 Also, we have spoken about his experience in Spain.
He likes the host family´s food. And he thinks that it´s
difficult to speak with his host family.
 Finally, Jonas would like to take part in this project
next year, and he wants to know more about Spain and
its culture

13.  Chloé, a student from France said, that the
most popular energy sources in her country
are nuclear energy. She hopes, that she will
have fun, meet people from other countries
and learn more about energy. She didn´t
choose her working group. Her teacher told
her about this project. She likes her host
family and thinks that she will have a great
time. Even if she thinks that the Spanish
people eat very late in the evening and that
it´s a little bit difficult to speak with her host
family, Chloé would like to take part in this
project again. She will remember for
example the people she had met during her
time in Spain and what she learned about
energy.

15.  Mélissa, a French student says that the most
popular kind of energy in her country is nuclear
energy and after that hydraulic energy.
 Her expectations from the project are learning
about different cultures and different energies.
She says that she hasn´t chosen her group in
Comenius project. Her teachers told her about
this project.
 She thinks her host family is really nice. She
speaks with her host family because she
understands a little bit of Spanish and speaks a
little bit too, but it`s more easy in English. She
likes the Spanish culture to go to the disco.
 She will participate in this project next year in
order to do different things to this year’s. Her
best memories about the project will be the
contact with the students from the different
countries.

17.  Katrin who is from Germany told me that the
most popular energy source in Germany is
fossil fuel. And from this project she hopes
that we can come to a conclusion, and to
make contact with other people. The things
she likes about her host family is that they
are friendly and tries to understand her, and
to speak with her. She thinks it is a little
difficult to speak with her family, but it
works when she mix some Spanish and
English. She works in group 3, but she didn´t
choose the group herself. When I asked her
what memories she will have from this
project she said she will remember the
people.

19.  Two Spanish guys (Loren and Juan) who
participate in the project told that the most
popular alternative energy source in their
country is geothermic energy. Both boys take
part in the ´´Sources of energy´´ group. Juan
chose this group because he likes to surf the
Internet searching information.
 One of the project participator from German
stays at Loren´s house. As Loren said, talking
with his new German friend is a good way of
practising English. The only difficulty about
speaking is a fast speech of his friend. Also there
are some differences between cultures, for ex.
food.
 When I asked the boys what memories they
would have about this project. Loren answered
that he wouldn´t forget a successful table tennis
match with Comenius project´s participators.
And Juan told that he would always remember
this interview!

21.  We interviewed an Italian student called
Daniele about the most important energy in
his country. He said us that in Italy the most
productive power form is the hydroelectric
one. He siad to us that he hoped to acquire
a greater sensitivity about many forms of
renewable energies in the future.
 At first Mrs Calderone spoke him about
Comenius project. It is his first time in
Comenius and he hopes to take part in this
project next year.
 He said that his host family is very kind.
During his first lunch he ate "paella" and he
thinks it was delicious. He believes that this
exeperience is very great and he will keep it
in his heart forever.

23.  Sara, who is from Norway, tells me that the kind
of the most popular energy in her country is
hydroelectricity.
She expects from the project to meet people and
to learn something about the differents
countries. She didn’t choose her working
group, her teacher did and it’s this teacher who
told her about this project. She likes some things
about her host family like when they try to “take
her into their family “and try to communicate.
She said it’s difficult to speak with her host
family because the parents don’t speak
English, so she tries to speak in Spanish and with
the sign language. She feels some kind of culture
shook in Spain like the “fiestas” and the dinner.
If she could, she would like to take part in this
project the next year.
She will have good memories, meet nice people
and have good experience about this project.

25. It was great to get in contact with other
people from other countries and we hope to
stay in touch. Spending time with the
Comenius students gave us a great
experience and we enjoyed working
together. It was a good opportunity to get to
know another culture and improve our
English and Spanish.