Mobility in  Bucarest - Romenia

The Romanian mobility was held from 9^th May to 14^th May at the Scoala I.G. NR.146

 

 

Stories help us understand others and ourselves. We empathize with the characters we encounter in the stories. In addition to academic goals, stories enrich and guide our lives. Good stories do more than create a sense of belonging. They build familiarity and trust and allow the listener to enter the story where they are, making them more open to learning.

Through literature we can have a broader understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of the community universe to which we belong. The impact of literature on modern society is undeniable. Literature acts as a form of expression of one's personality. Some books mirror society and allow us to better understand the world we live in. By listening to another person's voice, we can begin to discover how that person thinks.

We believe that literature is important because of its purpose in a society that is increasingly disconnected from human interaction. Reading literature provides the perfect opportunity to develop critical thinking skills. The Erasmus+ project “Tell me a story, please!”, developed by students and teachers from the Agrupamento de Escolas Latino Coelho, Lamego, has worked on several literary works, from each country involved, works by reference authors from Sweden, Spain, France, Romania and Italy. Reading these works in English is another challenge to linguistic and cultural proficiency, also allowing us to recognize themes, characters and times that our young people have enjoyed so much. 

 

Allied to the reading of these works, the Sustainable Development Goals appear appropriate to each of the narratives, which problematizes and drives research and intervention in the world around them. Between the 9th and 14th of May, in Bucharest – Romania, students from the various countries involved in this project interacted and analyzed the recently published work of a Romanian writer, “The book of Perilous Dishes”, by Doina Rusti. Something real, something mythical, something irreverent, but magical and with ethnic and cultural relations between peoples that challenged the capacity for analysis and reflection of students and teachers. Several workshops, debates and sharing of ideas and themes present in this work, as well as the sub-themes of objective 5 of the SDGs, Gender Equality, led to an effective knowledge of a people, of people individuals and knowledge of different ways of living and thinking, but not very different.

Visits to emblematic places in Bucharest and its history, such as the Palace of the Parliament,

emblematic space of the life and history of Romania in the Ceauşescu era, the visit to the 

Peles Palace in Sinaia and all the bucolic, wild and mysterious landscape of the Dracula's

Castle, among others, were not only moments of observation, but of knowledge in which

literature, art and geography intersected.

Knowledge, group spirit and interpersonal relationships prevailed in this meeting of students and teachers, the pillars of the true spirit of the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam.