Get it!

the European Feeling

Issue3/June 010
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G@t it!
The European Feeling
PARTNER SCHOOLS
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IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, SPAIN
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Noemí Gomis
Mylene Ngo
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Léognan, FRANCE
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Project Coordinator:
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Assistants:
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
A special thank goes to the long list of people from here and there who have shared
time and hope and have contributed with corrections, ideas, interviews, photographs,
articles, and much more!
Press Club BESSENYEI GYÖRGY
Kisvárda, HUNGARY
Project Coordinator: Juhász Gyöngyi
COVER:
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Catanzaro, ITALY
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Project Coordinator: Antonietta Pugliese
Assistants: Ileana Veraldi, Maria Pane
Press Club JOSEPH LAGROSILLIERE,
Saint Marie, MARTINICA
Project Coordinators: Mylene Ngo
Assistants: Nathalie Cancel
Baltic sea is one of the most polluted seas
JAKUBA WEJHERA, in the world. The fish with trash inside is a
Wejherowo, POLAND part of the 1974 Convention and was made
www.zspg4.wejher.pl
Project Coordinators:
to make people realise the threat pollution
Michal Obrocki, Lukasz Maj causes to sea creatures.
Picture by Dominique Saint-Hilaire
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Neuenhaus, GERMANY
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Project Coordinator: Irmgard Schöffel
Contents
Assistants: Marcus Pfeifer
Press Club ADYAMAN ANATOLIAN HS,
Adyaman, TURKEY
www.adiyamananadolu.meb.k12.tr
Project Coordinator: ErcanYücetaş
3 EDITORIAL
Press Club VECHTDAL COLLEGE,
Hardenberg, NETHERLANDS 4 TIME MACHINE
www.vechtdalcollege.nl
Project Coordinator: Marja Ritterfeld
10 QUIZ
Press Club ZDRUŽENÁ STREDNÁ ŠKOLA, 11 UNIFORMS
Levice, SLOVAKIA
www.zssoaslv.edu.sk 13 OUR FUTURE
Project Coordinators:
Imrich Laco, Oµga Remiaová
16 Beauty or marketing...
18 The Philosopher’s corner
20 Summer Camp Poland
26 Recicle, Reduce, Reuse
28 Getting involved
30 Top 5:
Free time on the net
31 BARTENIUS’ CORNER
33 GETTING TO KNOW...
Denouncing social problems

Morálka, etika, sociálne a enviromentálne problémy, budúcnosť..
Je dosť ťažké o nich hovoriť bez pocitu depresie. Na druhej strane
– mladí nám ukazujú, že sú si vedomí problémov a pokúšajú sa
ich riešiť.
My (dospelí) niekedy hovoríme, že ich (tínedžerov)
zaujíma len konzum a móda.Je to pravda? Našťastie nie. Móda
je spôsob vyjadrenia ich pocitov, postojov, individualít (čo je
aj hlavný dôvod odmietania školských uniforiem), ale aby sme
boli úprimní, my dospelí sme často podobní.Pokúsme nielen
kritizovať ale aj dať im príležitosť urobiť niečo užitočné. Možno
budeme prekvapení akí tvoriví tínedžeri vedia byť.Väčšina
z nich si uvedomuje problémy dneška a snažia sa zachrániť
našu „modrú planétu“.Vedia byť veľmi citliví voči akejkoľvek
nespravodlivosti..
V tomto čísle nášho časopisu budeme mať možnosť
dozvedieť sa viac o zodpovednosti mladých za budúcnosť.Čím sú
dnes zodpovednejší, tým lepšia budúcnosť nás čaká (čoskoro?).
Pekné čítanie a zoznámte sa s názormi, optimizmom a
niekedy aj humorom mladých na tak vážne témy.
SOŠ Levice, Slovensko
Morality, ethics, social and environmental problems, future...
It´s quite difficult to speak about them without being
depressed. On the other hand – the young show us they are
aware of the problems and are trying to solve them.
Adults sometimes say that teenagers are interested
only in consumption and fashion. Is this true? Fortunately,
not. Fashion is the way to express their feelings, attitudes,
individualities (that´s why we refuse wearing school uniforms),
but adults are often the same. Let´s try not just criticize
teenagers but let´s try to give them opportunity to make
something useful. Teenagers can be very imaginative. Most of
them are aware of the problems of today and are trying to save
our planet. They can be very sensitive to any kind of unjustice.
In this issue of our magazine we will have the
possibility to learn more about the responsibility of the young
for the future. The more responsible they are today the better
future is coming.
Have a nice reading and meet the opinion, optimism
and sometimes humour of the young about the serious themes.
SOŠ Levice, Slovakia
EDITORIAL
German students from Lisa Meitner Gymnasium, Neuenhaus, working
on the editorial at the Summer Camp in Poland.
Ten Nations.
Four Issues.
Two years.
And one final summer camp in Poland...
Beginning with the aim of improving our English knowledge
we finally ended up with many individual impressions and
new friends from all over the world.
Different ideas from different countries with different
cultures melted into one multicultural magazine which
reached many people in our schools and helped to overcome
some old prejudices.
The highlight of our cooperation took place in May 2010 in
Jastrzebia Gora, a beautilful place at the Baltic Sea.
Although it was pretty cloudy and cold, we had much fun
doing activities such as riding a speedboat, visiting Gdansk,
Malbork and the participating school in Wejherowo.
During the entertaining group activities in the evenings, we
could hear the noise of the ice breaking between us. :o)
Without puking we survived kissing a fish and drinking
disgusting tomatoe sauce, or on another occasion, we
learned a traditional Japanese dance.
After a few days with our new friends we all went home
with a suitcase full of good memories.
If you ask us:
YES, we finally got the European feeling!
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FASHION through TIME
Underwear - In the past and today
by Tobias Tien, Thomas Gielians, Germany
MEN WOMEN
Medieval times

- men wear short dresses The domination of the church leads to the
- underwear consists of a short belief that the body is sinful and underwear
chemise something rather shameful
- women wear long underdresses to the
ankles; they must be covered from head to
foot

Almost the same as in medieval - Ladies’ underwear changes:

Corset.
times
Renaissance

Women do not cover the whole

body anymore but accent
their hips by attaching cloth
crinoline invented (a stiff
underskirt made of horsehair)
-it is much easier to wear than
Crinolina
any cloth
- To define the waistline
from the haunch dressmakers
create a forerunner of the
corset

- since 1860 men have worn - tightly laced corsets

underpants like the ones men make a very small
wear today waist but have a
Century

negative effect on
- cotton replaces linen the female body and
underwear for both sexes health
- towards the end of
the century a ‘health
19th

corset’ is invented
(not tightly laced)
Century

- women are allowed to wear underpants similar to the ones worn my

- the boom of the textile industry influences men
the underwear to a great extent - underwear is not just - by inventing lastex (an elastic material) the bra becomes popular
white any more, but becomes much more colourful - nineties: thongs (‘strings’)
20th

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 Time Machine
Women wear ...
Hairdressers’ competition at ZDRUŽENÁ STREDNÁ ŠKOLA
trousers Corinna, Germany
20th century retro hair
Kristína Dajtšová, Levice, Slovakia
Mid 19th Century Our school consists of many vocational branches. One of
them is cosmetics and hairdresser. Our hairdressers and
Bloomers: cosmeticians learn how to create different retro hair and
first designed trousers, which make up styles. The most popular is 20th century retro
19th century women wore in style. Many fragments from retro styles are used until today
combination with a dress in modern hair does. Last year our school organized a big
country beauticians and hairdressers competition. Here are
some photos:

Pump trousers:
practical function
in sports, especially
cycling

1914

Trousers-skirt-
costume: called
Jupe-Culotte in
1930 1940
French, Haremskleid
in German; was not an
every day fashion

Temporary acceptance of trousers

W W I/II at the work place when women
replaced men in factories

Marlene-Dietrich trousers
1930s
1960 1960
enforcement of
After 1945 wearing skirts did
not come to an end

1960s

beginning of general
acceptance of
women wearing
trousers

1960
1960 1960
1960
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Fashion
Anorexia nervosa
Not only a fashion model disease
By Tobias Berens / Marcus Pfeifer, GERMANY

There’s one kind of psychological disease that really has to

The origins
The T-SHIRT
do a lot with fashion and the way one looks. In German we
normally call it Magersucht, but the word you can also use
and that is used in many different languages is Anorexia
Nervosa. You may have noticed how skinny many fashion by Amelie Grote
models, actresses and singers look. Many think they have Germany
to look that way in order to be attractive. Sometimes,
g
they are even forced by their managers to lose weight, as ’s clothin
was the case with Victoria Beckham. But there are quite a Sailors
few other celebrities that have had this problem, as Alanis
of the
p a rt g,
Morisette or Fiona Apple. Boys and men, of course, also
Being clothin
might have anorexia, and some say that the famous writer w e a r n o t
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Are their anorexics at your school? had no
You think this is only a story about famous fashion models?
Wrong! Actually we have had girls at our school who have
suffered from this and they had to get special treatment Not new inventions
in a hospital for many months. You may watch out for
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those extra skinny girls and encourage them to eat a little irts
more and tell them they look much more natural with a Other
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 Martiniquan Fashions
of...
t
1900’s: La Grand Robe
By Amanda Bazabas, Nadine Hajj, Jordan Mélidor-Fuxis, Andréa

n i s k i r Négrobar, Marie-Loriane Péronet, Lauriane Régina, Jonathan Siguier and

The mi
Eve-Marie Vartel-Edmond

In the 1900’s people used

to wear what we now call
traditional costumes every
day. La Grand Robe is a very
long dress worn on top of a
long embroidered petticoat
and made of shiny, colorful
and silky fabric.
Each dress was worn with
beautiful jewels and a
headdress. Depending on
the way the material was tied on the head, it meant: “You
can take my heart”, “My heart is engaged but you can try your
luck”, “I’m married”, “How many sweethearts have I got? I just
can’t remember!”. Nowadays women sometimes wear this dress
on special occasions.

1970s’: “pattes d’éléphant”

By Yannëëssa Boisseval, 4ème 2

by Rahel Deters,
In the 70’s people wore very fashionable clothes: they wore
Germany
very colorful and flowery shirts with trousers called “pattes
d’éléphant” in French, meaning “elephant legs”. These trousers
fit very tightly around the waist and thighs and were looser
at the bottom. They are called “flares” or “bell-bottoms” in
English. The afro hairstyle was also very popular at the time.
In the ancient world, the miniskirt was a garment worn
by men. In the 60s, Mary Quant made the miniskirt
fashionable for women, using design from André
Courrèges, but making his skirts even shorter.

A provocation
Many people considered the new garment as a kind of
provocation and disrespectfulness, but for others it was an
expression of women´s self-confidence that grew by freeing
themselves from traditional and antiquated views concerning
the role of women. In 1966, Mary Quant was even honoured
with the „Order of the British Empire“.

Today!Hip and baggy!!!

A great success
Her reinvention became a great success and was
predominantly adapted by young people who identified
themselves a lot with this new trend. Soon it took over to
women of any age and any social class. It became suitable
wear for any event and even the Royal Family allowed
miniskirts that ended exactly 7 centimeters above the knee.
The shortest miniskirts appeared in 1969 when they were
so short that you could already see the underwear of the
women.

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Fashion

Music & fashion IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, SPAIN

RAPPERS HEAVY METAL

They usually wear baggy trousers and Most of them wear black clothes
wide shoes. A typical piece of clothes such as tight trousers and motorist
for rappers is wide T-shirts or tanks jackets. They love leather pieces of
too. Some of them also wear a cap. clothes.
Some of them love designer’s shoes. They always listen to heavy metal
This special type of music started to music. The members of some bands
appeared in the late 80s. Their songs are totally crazy! The best heavy metal
are usually full of social denouncing. bands or singers are Metallica and
Iron Maiden.

ELECTRO HOUSE
MUSIC
This type of music is a subgenre
of house music. Electro house is
gradually and quickly becoming more
important in the last few years. It’s
also known as Dance Music. People
who listen to this kind of music
usually wear slim fit trousers, wide
shoes and designers T-shirts. Most of
them have got long hair.

PUNK
It’s a subgenre of rock music. Songs
GOTHICS are usually short usually with political
The first Gothics appeared in Great Britain in the late 70s. They are mostly content. They usually wear combat
quiet, silent people. They usually wear black clothes and their outfit comes from boots, chains, spines in bright colours.
horror literature and horror films. Belts with metal studs are popular.
Most of them wear black nail polish and their lips make up is black. They even Leather or denim jackets often have
get their hair dyed in dark colour. patches or are painted with logos
The music that they listen comes from Post-punk. They usually listen to Metal that express musical tastes.
Gothic bands such as “The sisters of Mercy”.

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 Time Machine

EMO, a 21st century style OPINION

Scalese Mariantonietta, ITALY

Among my friends there are more and more guys who dress in various styles, coming
from the musical genres they listen. One of most recent are Emos. The term emo The best way to
Fashion is not sell clothes
stands for emotional. Emo is a person who feels sensations and emotions differently very important
from the other teenagers. Originally, more or less in the ‘80s, the first band to be life but in most in my
of young people
called Emo were the Washington, DC, and then they were followed by many others, is essential. I th ’s it
ink that fashio
who defined themselves and their music emo, because of their desire to bring only another wa n is
y to sell new an
emotions to the listeners of their music. expensive clothe d more
s to the people
live worried ab that
out what the ot
people can thin her
k about them or
the people who to
want to be a pa
a social group. rt of
RUBEN PLEGUEZU
ELOS, 1 BAT
IES BAIX CAMP

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because
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suits , da
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ted wearing
hand, men star out on
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Some year s la te
emotionally hurt (usually they are very the Washington DC, Embrace, MacKaye, ca m e ve ry po pular,
be
sad people who have lived something the second wave are the Boy’s Life, Get Saturday nights rm shoes
wearing platfo
hard and difficult in their lives), the Up Kids and Sunny Day Real Estate, in the people started ot he s
and colourful cl at all.
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fuchsia and purple colors are clearer and third wave are the most popular and most
seen group on the Internet such as 30 I don’t e thes
lik th em.
are used to make people understand that own if I wore
in life there can always be an escape, in Seconds to Mars, Angels & Airwaves, Fall I’d feel like a cl S BA IX CAMP
EZ, 1 BAT IE
addition to the usual standards that it Out Boy, From First To Last, My Chemical GERARD MARTÍN
imposes on us .Their shoes are usually Romance, Panic! At the Disco, Paramore
Converse or Vans, usually ruined. and Yellowcard.
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 Quiz

POCKET MONEY

Are you... an ant, a cicada

or a cicadant?
BY Collège François Mauriac de Léognan, FRANCE

1 It’s your best friend’s birthday 6 Tell us everything:

A You go shopping to find a nice little your wallet …
gift. A is always empty. You are always
B You’ ll make a photo-album with all broke these days !
your best memories. B is always full.
C You’ll be generous: nothing is too C is filled with the amount you need
beautiful for him/her. Calculate your score: for the day.

2 You are craving for the latest ANSWERS 7 You are offered the opportunity
console : 1 A: 2 B: 1 C: 3 to invest in a game in order to
A You give up, it’s much too expensive!
2 A: 1 B: 3 C: 2 triple your pocket money:
You’ll play at your friend’s who has A You go ahead ! You’ll take your trip
already got one. 3 A: 2 B: 1 C: 3 to India after all !
B You don’t hesitate a second and you B Ok you invest but with moderation.
break your piggy-bank. 4 A: 2 B: 3 C: 1
C You hate gambling… you don’t do it.
C You save money on an every-day
basis and you’ll ask your parents to
5 A: 3 B: 2 C: 1
give you the balance for your birthday. 6
7
A: 3 B: 1 C: 2
8 You have been dreaming of a
3
A: 3 B: 2 C: 3 big trip abroad:
You have received a large A You save like mad and invest
amount of money for your
8 A: 1 B: 2 C: 3
properly to fullfill your dream.
birthday: 9 A: 2 B: 3 C: 1 B Stop dreaming ! You’ll go and spend
A You take an appointment with your your holiday at your grand-parents’.
banker to make up some plans.
10 A: 1 B: 3 C: 2
C Well !! You have been chatting up
B You save absolutely everything. Charles/Anne, the school prince/
C You spend everything in games, princess.
books, clothes, cinema etc … ANT
?C
CICA ICADA?
4 You have lost a 20€ DAN
T?
9 You have spotted an MP3 you’d
banknote: it ! love to buy :
A You tell yourself you could have y… yo u love spending A You wait for the big sales.
keep mone
bought your favourite latest CD. u can’t B You give in : that’s what money is
B It doesn’t matter : it’s only 20€.
You are a “cicada”. Yo
for !
C You are so vexed that you go back 24 – 30 points = C Forget it ; it’s too expensive,
the same route on all fours to look for
iority.
money but it’s not a pr besides you don’t really need it.
it. You are a “cicadant”.
You like

5 You hesitate between two

17– 23 points =
spending it.
jeans of two famous brands: saving money and you
don’t like
A You don’t mind : you take both. You are an “ant”. You
love
B To choose the best value for money. 10 – 16 points =
C It’s all decided : you take the
cheapest one.
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10 What you hate the most is:
A when your bank account is in the
red.
B saving money and depriving
yourself.
C not being able to spend some of
your savings.
 UNIFORMS

& US
STUDENTS AT JOSEPH LAGROSILLIERE,
Saint Marie, MARTINICA

FOR OR AGAINST
Academic, social, economic and aesthetic arguments to make up your mind!

The Grembiule,
y
a bit of Italian histor

ondary school, they

When our mothers were at sec
of unif orm that was called
used to wear a sort
ton dress, usually
“grembiule” in Italy. It was a cot
ton s on its anterior
black, with a long row of but
side and a whi te coll ar …h orrible!!!
chil dre n atte ndin g kinder garden
Nowadays only
grem biul e, light blue
and primary school wear the
but I thin k that’s just
for boys and pink for girls In Poland, school uniforms are not popular among
useful to avo id dirt y dre sses !
e the differences
students. In the past they were obligatory, but we got
I think that the uniforms eliminat rid of them, however, in some schools (mainly primary
are equ al .I like uniform
between rich and poor, all and junior-high) pupils are obliged to put on special
itio nal “grembiule”.
but I hate the Italian trad uniforms every day, but honestly, nobody likes them as
they prevent students from expressing themselves.
Jessica Cosentino, Italy

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 Forum
Uniforms and us...http://getitstudents.ning.com/
Hello everyone! I’ve never had to wear a uniform at school, but I know I liked seeing students
wearing theirs when I visited England. It looked like they belonged to a group; you could
clearly identify them on the streets for example.
I don’t know if wearing a uniform has anything to do with elegance… Maybe it does? Or with
respect, the sense of belonging or ‘equality’?
Nathalie

What do you think? REPLY TO THIS.

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you want. And if everyone wears
a school uniform, you are all the It’s a good thing because when
same. And you can’t choose what I wake up in the morning I Wearing a un
4ème 2, Martin iform would
to wear. It’s a little bit boring. ique don’t try on lots of different prevent some
students from
Student, The Netherlands clothes to decide what to being prejudic
Es muy feo. Todo ed because
s nos parece- wear so it avoids wasting a lot they do not w
mos los unos a lo ear any brands
s otros. of time. On the other hand we or their look
Para mi llevar un wear the same clothes all the is different.
I think uniforms aren’t neces- iforme es ri- 4ème a, Fran
sary. They may look nice, but you dículo. No estoy time and sometimes it’s not ce
a mis anchas
can’t choose your own clothes. en esos pantalon pleasant.
es. ANDREA
I love wearing my own clothes. Lauriane Régina, Martinique
Clothes tell you something about No quiero que
the person. la gente vea It is more economical for parents. It is better to wear a school
que pertenezco
Student, The Netherlands a tal o cual They need only buy a few polo uniform than not to wear one.
colegio. CINDY shirts, pants and a skirt and then Children could develop bad ha-
their children are dressed for the bits in getting dressed, especially
Students cannot show their No me gusta el with baggies or dungarees of poor
personality through uniforms color oscuro whole year! taste. Students would be more
del pantalón. PR Eve-Marie Vartel
and cannot feel free enough. ESCILIA involved in fashion than in stu-
We think uniforms are a -Edmond, Martinique dying if there were no uniforms
matter of high standard school ¡Qué supplicio! AM in schools. There are clothes
and therefore most of the
ANDA suited for holidays and not suited
to wear a
schools cannot afford them. pleasant
It may be
for school, wearing such clothes
l providing
at schoo interferes with intense thinking.
uniform good loo
king.
Students of the Hotel that it is Jordan Melidor-Fuxis,
rance
academy, Slovakia 4ème a, F Martinique
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Our future
MOTHER EARTH, by Vivien Ducsi , BESSENYEI GYÖRGY, Kisvárda, HUNGARY

The children’s planet

By Amanda Bazabas, Martinique
This crazy world
Is sweeping us along in its destruction
But there is a way
Not to be swept along with it:
Let’s not contaminate it any more!
Let’s not depreciate it any more!
WE are the future generations
Let’s respect our planet!

HOPE FOR A CRAZY WORLD,

By Lauriane REGINA, Martinique

We live in a crazy world! However,

we or our good ideas can change it
or improve it. So, for a better
world and for our planet we must pay

attention to how we use electricity,

water and food and we must help our
neighbours… I hope this world will
be better in the future. In my dream
world there is no starvation, no
poverty, no disease, no violence and
no injustice.

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 “Wish there was more
time to live emotions”
Marilena Placido, ITALY

Our planet has been much abused in the last

century, industrialization was the engine of economic
development but certainly they didn’t think at that
moment how this process damaging was. Even our
health is at risk both in terms of physically and mentally.
Over the past four decades, the number of people who
have symptoms from stress have increased by 76%.
I think there is no more time to live really the life you
spend your life trying to create as much as possible
without thinking that you won’t have time to enjoy what
you are creating. Our relationships are becoming sterile
and lack of emotions, we are reduced to text messaging
and email, we have lost our habit of talking, looking into
our eyes.
I wish in my future there was more time to create
relationships, less pollution and more time to spend with
my family and my friends.
Hope for my dreams,
Jordan Melidor-Fuxis, Martinique
Sometimes the description of the future sounds
like the novel «Brave New World» by Aldous Huxley.
Technology will bring solutions Nevertheless, the fact that there are dirty and nuclear
Mahmut Unutmaz, TURKEY bombs or weapons of mass destruction might not
prevent a decent life on earth. The use of new technology
has created negative things but it has also created
Personally I am not optimistic about my future life positive things such as solar panels,
because I know that I will have to face many difficulties . sea water purification...
For example: finding an appropriate job. It is an important The future certainly creates fears in me but
problem especially in my country, where the unemployment at the same time I still have some hope.
rate is really high. So unfortunately I won’t be able choose In my opinion life won’t be easy! It is up
a job I really want. Instead of it I will choose a job whose to my generation to come up with solutions
working areas are wide. So it will not be difficult to find a in order to survive.
well paid job for me.
Maybe I am not so optimistic about my personal life but on
the other hand I am not completely pessimistic about the
future of our planet. I know we have many problems such
as environmental pollution, global warming and nuclear
weapons but I believe that although technology brought
these problems to us, it will bring the solution to these
problems too. For instance: by developing new technologies
such as electrical vehicles clean energy. We will be able
to diminish the level of environmental pollution and maybe
stop global warming. But unfortunately I am not optimist
about the nuclear weapons; probably world nations will
not give up nuclear weapons. On the contrary they will
produce more sophisticated nuclear arsenals in the future.

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 Learning from the past

Freedom
for the future
Freedom is so important.
We never really think
about it. But imagine a
world where you couldn’t
just say what you think,
where you couldn’t tell
everyone what you see,
where you could be ar-
rested immediately, with-
out reason or process.
Imagine a world where
all your freedom would
be taken away. Unbeliev-
able, isn’t it?
In our city, Hardenberg, a
monument was revealed.
It was in memory of the
several things that played
in the II World War. The is-
sues were freedom, loss,
resistance and grief.

I wrote a poem for the rev-

elation. I put it below. I had
to read it out in front of 150
people with the monument
behind me. I got nice feed-
back from everyone. Eve-
ryone liked it very much. I
hope you like it too!

Why were people detained?

Why were people tortured?
Why were people killed?
Why were Jews gassed?
It’s unbelievable, isn’t it?
That someone thinks to have to right
to steal a life?
But it happened!
Here as well, about 70 years ago.
one was suppressed,
captured,
forced,
executed.
The main duty was taken away:
Fort de France as I imagine it in the future, the right of freedom.
Objects levitating through magnetism, intensive use of
renewable energy sources, solar panels, hanging gardens,
intelligent robots and bubbles that can absorb pollution.”
Cindy Angama, 4ème 2, Martinique

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Contribució
FASHION,
ANTONIO OLMEDO, History Art teacher at IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, ESPANYA
Nowadays beauty is a concept
about which people may not talk a lot, but
which has an undoubted influence in our
lives. You just need to sit down in front of
the TV for a while to see the great amount
of effort and money we invest every day
to keep beautiful: clothes, lotions, diets,
gym, hairdresser’s, medical aesthetics ...
How powerful is this word, which seems
to have everything going round it? You
are watching a movie and a friend says
to you: “How ugly is this actor/actress!”
What they do is interpreting a character,
so what’s important is that they know how
to act .Why should we care about them
being beautiful or not? Well, it seems that
we do care. Therefore, the most famous
actors and actresses are usually the most
physically attractive and not necessarily
the most capable.
This social phenomenon seems to be
especially important for teenagers, for
which dressing, hairstyle or having a body
according to the aesthetic canons marked
by nowadays fashion are a death or life
matter; just think of the victims caused by
fashion everyday through illnesses such as
anorexia or bulimia.
Fashion is based on manipulation
of taste to create new needs and make
new objects desirable.
Nevertheless, once we reached this point, we need to ask
ourselves a question: Which is the relationship between beauty
and fashion? If we look it up in a dictionary we find that basically
beauty is the quality that gives pleasure to the senses. In spite
of the ambiguity of this definition, everyone thinks they can
identify beauty without any doubt when they are in front of it,
and if something is beautiful for them it is also beautiful for the
rest of the world.
However, experience shows us it is not like this. Just having a
quick look at the history of art we can see that the beauty models
of today do not coincide with those of other times. Actually,
the concept of beauty is linked to taste, that special sensibility
which allows us to identify what’s beautiful and what’s ugly. But
taste is formed and educated.
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beauty or marketing
On the other hand, we talk about
fashion when we talk about the use
or habit which is in vogue for a while.
Strictly speaking, fashion refers to the
changes occurred in clothing according
to time and civilization. Historically,
those changes were a consequence
of human evolution. But in nowadays
modern society this situation has
changed. The triumph of industrial
capitalism has established an economic
system based on production and
massive commercialization of goods,
which forces the consumption of
families to grow indefinitely in order to
keep the system going. It is this need
to continuously keep and increase
the market which has transformed
fashion into a marketing strategy
aimed to promote consumerism
among population. Fashion is based
on manipulation of taste to create
new needs and make new objects
desirable. This way the taste stops
being a means of discernment and
turns us into fashion slaves. Only
Under the influence of fashion, we don’t
realize that models don’t need to be
so thin in order to be beautiful, but so
that clothes look better.
what’s new is beautiful and only what’s fashionable is desirable.
This manipulation of taste is evident in relation to the female
beauty canon. Thus, we can see how models, who are chosen
specifically to work as hangers, that is to say, to make clothes
appear as beautiful as possible so that people buy them, have
turned into the beauty canon, whished by anyone, above all, by
teenagers, thanks to the influence of fashion in the media. Under
the influence of fashion, we don’t realize that models don’t need
to be so thin in order to be beautiful, but so that clothes look
better. Clothes usually enhance the woman’s beauty, but in the
case of models, it is the other way around, models are there to
enhance the beauty of clothes. This is why considering models
as an ideal of beauty is a huge mistake. Many women, who have
been considered as an example of woman beauty would not
adapt to the canon established by fashion.
 Time Machine

Albrecht Dürer, Eva (1507).

Venus de Milo, (c. 130-100 aC)
Venus of Willendorf, (c. 22.000 aC)

Rubens, Andromeda (c. 1638) Marilin Monroe, actress (1926-1962) Top model 21st century
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 The Philosopher’s CORNER
Can we be happy
in times of crisis?
Jose Miguel García Labiano, IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, SPAIN The symbolic power
Somebody asked the famous film director Woody Allen (New
of mass media
Sergi Castillo Anguera IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, SPAIN
York, 1 December 1935): “Mr. Allen, do you prefer money or
happiness?” And he answered: “Well, I prefer money, because
Media is a very important part in our lives, above all television,
almost all the things that make me happy are expensive”.
in front of which we can spend more than four hours a day. Media
Happiness is a feeling which we all wish, we can differ in
have a double dimension, a dual power: the one as a usual way
its definition, whether perennial or occasional, but we all
of getting information and a symbolic one.
know, when we lived a happy moment, that we wanted it to
last forever, no matter whether it was a moment, a stage, a
The symbolic power is the influence of media in public space,
relationship or a situation.
by which they create a process of homogenization of society,
But we won’t find the way to get there on Google Earth. There
addressing the audience as if they were indoctrination mass. So
are as many routes as people. Everyone chooses their own. In
you build a society where people are constantly conditioned.
the consumer society where we, inhabitants of the western
world, live we have the idea that happiness is something we
can buy. We fill in emotional gaps with the acquisition of
TV series like Skins, House, and CSI ... make us believe in an
goods to make us feel more elaborated and thus get closer to
unreal world. There we can see some stereotypes which young
our personal happiness. ““Consumerism acts to maintain the
people today feel they want to become. What teenager, who has
emotional reversal of work and family. Exposed to a continual
seen Skins or other teenage series, does not want to be just like
bombardment of advertisements though a daily average of
one of its characters? Or which one does not believe that that
three hours of television (half of all their leisure time), workers
person’s life can be his/hers. And people imagine that it is easy
are persuaded to ‘need’ more things. To buy what they now
to heal a person, after having seen House...
need, they need money. To earn money, they work longer hours.
Being away from home so many hours, they make up for their
absence at home with gifts that cost money. They materialize
love. And so the cycle continues”, Arlie Russell Hochschild The symbolic power is the influence of
Happiness is reached when we achieve personal goals and media in public space, by which they
objectives in today’s society consist of having .... a good house,
a good car, a plasma TV, good holidays, and so on. Happiness create a process of homogenization of
and consumption have now a dangerously close relationship.
But what happens in times of crisis when we do not have
society, addressing the audience as if
access to that house or car or holiday? Is it possible to be they were indoctrination mass.
happy in times of crisis?
Despite it may seem paradoxical, perhaps it is easier to find
happiness in these times .. Epicurus, the Greek philosopher,
believed that “We can all find a way of being happy, but Today’s trend in television is determining our knowledge
we look in the wrong place”. In this society, with such low through information, which seeks sentimentalist effects: the
tolerance for frustration, we need to use material things to fill most sensationalist facts or the biggest catastrophes. They seek
in a gap, which we do not bother to find out where it comes mass entertainment with reality shows or gossip programs, which
from. We have no time to find out because we need to be are junk TV. And they are very successful because our society
happy as fast as possible and forever. is interested in knowing stupid stories such as the life of Paris
Happiness, however, is elusive and it slips out from our hands, Hilton or Victoria Beckham. Many topics for conversation among
and to fill in our empty hands we don’t need useless objects, people are about these celebrities.
but our own effort. We lie to ourselves by thinking that with Moreover, there is also publicity on TV, which plays an important
money we can get the values sought by society. Whereas what role, because without it many private channels would not exist.
would be necessary is to look around and work to make life This need makes it become the main concern of any TV. Therefore
as pleasant as possible for our loved ones, so we’ll be happy we can see up to 19 minutes of advertising in one hour of TV,
too. To be aware that we share the same emotional space with without taking subliminal publicity into account.
other people and that people, like us, also follow their way
towards happiness. This shared sense of empathy is the only
one that can make us happy.

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 Today and Tomorrow
When the Dream Factory
meets Reality
Michaela Sass, LISA MEITNER GYMNASIUM, Neuenhaus

From time to time we all come

to think about our future. That’s
Can we believe that the information we get is true? Well,
absolutely natural because no one
actually we should trust it very much, since most of it has been
can stop the time passing by and
selected and manipulated in order to have some kind of benefit.
we all happen to grow up – some
A clear example is what happened after the attacks in Madrid
more than others – but we all
on 11th March 2004. The media affirmed that it had been ETA
do. An important subject in our
whereas it actually had been Al Qaeda, just because there were
considerations is the choice of our
general elections in three days’ time.
job. This job should fit our special
As a conclusion, I believe that media create our way of being
interests and abilities but these
and our knowledge, that’s why we need to be careful with
can change very often. The most
what we watch on TV and what we believe, since we can be
interesting plans for our future
manipulated to act as they want.
are definitely made when we’re
young enough to ignore reality.

TV series like
Skins, House,
The best time to dream is when reality is nothing
and CSI ... make
us believe in an but bad rumors
unreal world. So let’s start at the very beginning in primary school. I asked
e
There we can se some students from the fourth grade what they would like to
some ste re ot yp es
become when they’re older. The answers weren’t surprising:
which young Most of the boys would like to become a football star and
people today
the rest whishes to be a pilot, but not only that, it has to be
feel they want to
become. an acrobatic or fighter pilot. Well, the answers of the girls
weren’t realistic, either. They wanted to become stuntwomen
or detectives. Asking them why they favored these jobs they
answered that they looked cool on TV. In contrast, the boys
were influenced by their own hobbies.

People imagine that it
is easy to heal a person,
after having seen House.
You are what you eat and you become what you
like… same goes for the opposite
The way some children excluded some jobs was also funny:
They didn’t want to become a doctor because blood is
disgusting, bakers have to get up too early in the morning and
being a pastor is boring because no one likes praying all the
time. We see that simple mood changes can influence what
children want to become or not.

Reality is fast but our dreams are persistent

In our last school year we’re, of course, not that naïve
anymore, otherwise our civilization would collapse with all
people just working as pilots or stuntwomen. Over the last
few years we learned that cannot to do anything we like
and that it’s not easy to get the jobs you want. That loss
of freedom is kind of sad and, in my opinion, we should
all remember from time to time what our dreams were
Our society is interested in because, even if it’s not realistic, we should keep some
knowing stupid stories such
creativity.
as the life of Paris Hilton or
Victoria Beckham. Many topics for
conversation among people are
about these celebrities.

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SUMMER CAMP POLAND

Hel Peninsula
15-18 May 2010

Who?All members of
G@t it!
WHAT? Met for th
e last time
Where? by the
Jastrzębia Gór Baltic Sea,
a, Poland
When? 15-18 May
2010
WHY? To celebrate
Jastrzębia Góra,

the European Feelin together

g

The first part of the visit of the

Hel Peninsula was ‘Fokarium’, a part
of the University of Gdańsk which looks
after the Grey Seal which is the
largest seal that inhabits the waters of
the Baltic Sea with estimated population
of 22 000. These lovely animals are in
danger of extinction and are protected
Fun and training by law. Apart from learning about the
species, we were able to watch
as they were fed and trained which was
really interesting and amusing.

After watching the seals

we had a short walk to the tip of the
peninsula, which was followed by a
short coach journey to visit the Museum
of Coastal Defense which shows the
military history of Hel and the Polish
Navy. It also commemorates the heroism
of Polish soldiers who fought for 32 days
with the German army in 1939 before
they finally surrendered in order not to
Time to eat lose more lives.
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Motorboat cruise - an amazing experience
Students from Poland and Martinique at Hel Peninsule.
The final, and for many the
highlight point of the trip to the Hel
Peninsula was a speedboat cruise during
which we were shown the old Naval
Torpedo Station in Babie Doły, a few
military shipwrecks and the Seagull
Sandbar – a narrow strip of shallow
leading from Rewa to Kuźnica
– from one side of the Bay of Puck to the
other. Apart from these, the cruise was
very exciting itself due to the speed of
the boats and left all of us flabbergasted.
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 GDANSK Solidarity Square, Three Crosses Staute, Freedom
Museum, Upland Gate, Motława River, Old Town, Gdańsk Shipyard, Westerplatte
Motława River and the Old Town
We started our tour at Solidarity
Square, just next to the Gdańsk Shipyard
gate no 2, where the Three Crosses
Statue is located. We followed to the
Roads to Freedom Museum where we
all could see the history of Solidarity
trade union and its role in the collapse of
communism, the fall of the iron curtain
as well as the ‘domino effect’ – leading
the rest of countries from Soviet block to
freedom.

The next stop was the Upland

Gate and the Prison Tower in which we
had a chance to visit the Amber Museum
and Torture House. We passed the Golden
Gate and followed Long Street-the
King’s Track admiring beautiful tenement
houses that reminded our Dutch friends
of the cities of Amsterdam and Hague. Of
course, we stopped at Neptune Fountain
which is the focal point for all of the
tourists coming to Gdańsk. After a short
description
of Artus’ Court and Golden House we
passed the Green Gate and entered the
quayside of Motława river with its biggest
port crane.

A short walk along Mariacka Street

ended at the door of St. Mary’s Church- it
is the largest brick church in the world.
Inside the church we saw old tombstones,
the altar and frescos. The bravest of us
decided to climb the Church Tower. Four
hundred steps were a huge challenge but
the reward was worth every effort – the
astonishing view of Gdańsk.

Westerplatte

Gdańsk Shipyard
Gate 2

Three Crosses Statue Gdańsk Shipyard

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Another trip was to Malbork where
everybody could visit the largest brick gothic
MALBORK CASTLE,
the largest brick gothic castle in the world.
castle in the world. It was a real time travel into
the past. Inside, we visited the Lower, the Middle
The Castle in Malbork and the High Castle.

G@t it! in Malbork

In the Lower Castle all of us

could see the town area where all the
trades and workshops were located. It was
also possible to visit the castle’s armory,
which turned out to be veryinteresting
especially to students.

In the High Castle we were

The Middle castle
was designed for guests and all the
visitors could see magnificent chambers
with ornaments, as well as a medieval
hospital and administrative headquarters.
It is also a place where the castle’s largest
courtyard is located which can take up to
400 visitors at the same time
shown around the monastery of the
Teutonic Order. This is where the Teutonic
Knights held their elections and made all
the important decisions for the Teutonic
Monastic State.Everybody could also see
the prison for the nobles kept in order to
demand ransoms, which was one of the
most popular ways of receiving income at
those times.
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 EVENING ACTIVITIES
exploration, interaction and sharing inside a mixture of different languages and contexts

INTEGRATION

Above, international cuisine.

Below, students from
different countries writing
the editorial for issue 3.

First we decided
to introduce ourselves to
each other through cuisine.
Each country brought a little
something for everybody to
get the taste of their culture.
The main point of the late
evening was a role play of the
very famous ‘I’m flying Jack!’
scene from the movie Titanic.
All students, previously
divided into international
groups of 11, received the
scripts in order to translate
them into their own languages
and present in to the
audience. It was brilliant to
see the scene enacted in 10
different languages!
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 BAPTISING to the sea PRESENTATION EVENING
Thanks to Ms Noriko Osaka we had a unique opportunity
to taste a bit of a Japanese culture. Ms Osaka introduced
everybody to the basics of Japanese language and gave a
short presentation on traditional Japanese dance, which
everyone practiced around the table on which Ms Osaka was
standing.

Later, students from Vechtdal College acquainted all

partners with their country during an interactive quiz about
Holland.

The final part of the evening were the presentations.

The idea behind it was to present the countries in a least
encyclopedic way. The students showed three things they
were proud of as well as three they were not so proud of,
so everybody could feel the young spirit of the nations. The
second part of the presentation was short, simple but funny-
each country was to write the very first word that associates
with the rest of the participating nations so we all could see
the power of stereotypes.

Last evening was a rather relaxing one. Everybody

could taste Polish traditional cuisine and the most frequent
question was ‘how do you call that thing’ pointing at
‘bigos’,’smalec’ and ‘kiszone ogórki’. During the barbecue Mrs.
Wilk, headmistress of the Polish school, presented delegations
with a commemorative plaque to remind everybody of the
time spent in Poland. Later that evening there was a Disco for
all of the participants of the camp but the spirit of integration
was still to come: Karaoke appeared to be the united effort.

Polish devils. Below, run for Tobasco.

On the left, Neptune and Prosperine.

This evening was a traditional Polish test for our

guests. Each country had to prove if they were worthy. Led by
Neptune and his wife Proserpine, all students made their way
for the obstacle course. After completing many spine-chilling
and mouth burning tasks, each country had to make Neptune
and his wife happy with a short but extremely entertaining
performance. The final quest was to kiss a beheaded herring
resting on Proserpine’s knee. In the end every contestant Party time
received a certificate to commemorate the event.

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 3R

Recicle, Reduce, Reuse

PET bottles recycling
Mária Kubíková, Levice, Slovakia

Do not be comfortable and recycle! 2

1 3
1

1
1: We collected PET bottles for 5 days in the school
2: Appliance that compress PET bottles
3: Compressed PET bottles - 5 day collection

Only a few weeks ago students of our school did not recycle PET bottles. All of them were thrown out to the dustbins
and then stored in waste dump. PET bottle declination in the nature takes more than 500 year. The school bought a
simply appliance that can compress PET bottles. Compressed bottles are collected and recycled. They can be re-used for
example to produce fabrics or furniture.

COLLECTING RAINWATER un HUERTO “BIO”

by Célia Bazabas, Martinique Amanda BAZABAS et Anne-Sophie TARDIF, 4e2, Martinica

Reduce: Echando menos residuos orgánicos y domésticos

REDUCING: To reduce our water consumption my
family has installed a water tank in the garden. We
collect rainwater and use it for some of the housework,
gardening and all sorts of jobs. We use water from the
tap only for drinking, cooking and showering. Private
water tanks are very common in Martinique.
a los cubos de la basura.
Recicla: Recuperando estos residuos domésticos y
mezclándolos con residuos verdes.
Reutiliza: Fertilizando los huertos con este abono “bio”
casero.

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 3R
eas
Creative id Resusing old cooking oil

w i n g - g umtree SOAPMAKING
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Ivan Iglesias, Sergio Reyes 2 ESO IES BAIX CAMP, REUS

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Recycling can
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creative and
recycling amusing…
Roberta Raffae
old jeans
le, Italy

Material:
jeans,
a plastic bowl,
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glue, a plastic containe
hot glue,
little red string, 3. Add used oil to the mixture using a strain
pieces of pink plastic, and stir with the wooden stick for 10 minutes
fabric glue,
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pes in a strict e seams.
Put at the bo spiral form an
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littlestripes plastic cont
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Let them dry glue.
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Getting
Involved
What is behind your chocolate?
I`m certain you know something about Third World Countries like Sudan, Etyopia, Yemen
or Sierra Leone. They are places where bananas, cocoa, coffee, tea, rice, cotton and
many other goods come from. For us they are sources of delicious food, but for people,
who work on plantations this is a real hell. Drissa is a girl who is a slave, and once she
said a very horrible but true sentence:
“When you eat chocolate, you eat my flesh” A Fair purchasing
Elettra Nigro Italy
These people work in inhuman conditions, deprived of home and health
Speaking with my classmates and my
care. Unfair wages aren`t enough to cover simple costs of living. According to one
teachers about “ Unfair and Fair
organisation in the whole world about 150 mln children are slaves. Generally they Trade” I have learnt the importance
are between 6 to 16 years old and normal working day goes on even for 12 hours. „I of the “Fair Trade Certification”.
want to go to school, I don`t want to work I`ve had enough, I`m tired of working”-
It has been introduced during
said Jamal a young boy from Yemen, who has gone blind since he didn`t get protection recent years to guarantee not only
googles during welding. His mate told a journalist that he would like to be a doctor, fair prices but also the principles
of “ethical purchasing” such as
but his dream could never realize. This is so terrible, that all they can do is dream
respecting the international human
about better future. . . rights and the environment, banning
the child labour, unsafe work places
Aleksandra Arendt, IIP, Poland and long work hours.

This certification covers a large

variety of products: bananas,
coffee, coca, cotton and is widely
used worldwide, so..

What should we do?

Everyone should think about what we do, because we started this situation ourselves.
This problem will probably always exist in our world because there are people, who
are egotistic and insensitive to the suffering of others. For such people only money is
important. But together we can make it better.
Sylwia Płotka IIE, Poland

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 Getting involved
Why are jeans by
Lidl & Co so cheap?
G-Star Raw:
Saskia Pollex, Germany

High profits – low wages

Stop poverty 2015
The Amsterdam headquartered international denim brand G-Star Raw supports the eight
United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) to bring extreme poverty down
How can discounters like Lidl and Kik until 2015 by presenting specially designed art objects in the main store windows of 162
make high profits with low prices? These G-Star stores worldwide. Visitors of the G-Star website are invited to take action and send
shops produce their goods basically in their idea how to end poverty to world leaders.
Bangladesh, but do not feel responsible
for the working conditions there,
which are against international safety
standards.
Twenty-four old Suma Sarkers is a good
example of bad working- and safety
conditions. Her shift begins at 8 am and
ends at about 10 pm. She does not have
many free days and overtime is mostly
not paid for. With about 30 € to 50 €
per month she is one of the highly-paid
workers there!

Terrible working conditions

In Germany her trousers are sold for only
about 10 € and sometimes even for only
3 €. To make this possible, discounters
put big pressure on producers. This is
the reason why many workers do not
have a work contract. Many employees
are not constantly paid and 90 % of them
work for 14,30 – 29,70 € per month.
Furthermore, they do not have any
social security, so if they get ill, they
have to take unpaid leave.
www.endpoverty2015.org.
Enormous influence of big companies
The big companies uses their enormous
influence to force the contractors to Many of the products are produced in developing countries. How eco-
produce faster, cheaper and more nomic, social and cultural rights are quaranteed in those countries? Rather
flexibly. than having our own factories, G-Star works with suppliers who share the same
Looking at the the costs, it becomes values as G-Star and who are committed to continuous improvement of their
apparent that only 1 % accounts for the business, processes and policies. In this process, G-Star prefers to maintain
cost of labour , 11 % for transport and long-term relationships with its suppliers in order to achieve a truly sustainable
taxes, 13 % for factory costs and 20 % form of collaboration and to provide mutual assistance.
for media. The biggest share, with 50
% and more, is allocated for the retail
sector, the market share of which is
What is G-Star´s contribution to stop poverty?
continuously growing. Today we support over 25 projects via our local partners in several countries
where our production takes place. These projects aim to help:
Be aware of what you wear! 1) Children and young people. We provide education and vocational training that
So is also very important that we as the will help them and their families to have a better future;
consumers are prepared to pay more for 2) Entrepreneurs to pursue their business dreams. G-Star wants to encourage
clothes, but more than 70 % think that people with great ideas to start a business by providing grants, loans and knowl-
only the industry and trade concerns are edge.
responsible to stop these conditions. If
we do not become more sensitive about
this subject, Suma Sarker’s working
G-Star believes that by supporting children and entrepreneurs, we can help
conditions and those of millions of other make parts of the developing world a better place. At the same time, we directly
workers in the textile industry will never contribute to two of the eight United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals:
change. achieving universal primary education and eradicating extreme poverty and hun-
ger.
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TOP 5
Free time on the net Klaudia Baranowska, POLAND
Nowadays, the Internet is the media comparable with press, radio and television. The Internet delivers information from the whole
world to every user regardless of the place they are in. Millions of people use the Internet each day for many different ways. What
exactly do most people do while there are online? We carried out a survey amongst G@t it! partnership countries under the title
“How do you spend your free time on the Internet?” and these are results:

1 2 3 4 5
Social Instant Gaming Shopping
networking messaging
Games attract Everybody likes
One of the most popular children, young people shopping. With the
online activities. You and adults as well. Internet it's easier.
can find old friends or Almost everyone has Doing it online saves
meet new people from their favourite game. your time and money.
all over the world. We It's obvious that there You don't waste your
can add videos, create are many kinds of money because on the
photo albums or share Seeking games. Online games net you can find a lot of
interesting links and information are good for spending special offers and sales
have fun while doing it. free time without and you have a chance
Most people log on boredom. to compare prices. You
IM is very popular to the net to seek can buy everything,
among young people. out information. It’s , for example fancy
The thing is that you nothing difficult to clothes, food or cell
can send an instant type a few words which phones, the choice is
message to your are interesting for us great, but don't forget
friends. It’s a simple and click “search”. that you may be tricked
way to communicate. In few minutes you with online shopping.
It’s hard to forget about can receive thousands
funny emoticons which results. WWW is a
are sometimes a big source of knowledge
part of conversation. ;) and entertainment.

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Fashion Through time

SUDOKU,
Arnau Montañés, 2 ESO B IES BAIX CAMP

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8 3 9 4 5

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By Charlotte Benoish, Collège François Mauriac
FRANCE
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Bartenius
Crossword by Rachel Mercan, Martinique

1) You can go for it with your friends./2) It’s a condition./ 3) Everyone wears some. /4) You get it at the end of the week or the
month./ 5) In sports it’s a group./ 6) A luxurious individual boat / 7) Not important / 8) It is a place where a company or an
organization is located.

1 7

5 8)headquarters
7)trivial
6)yacht
6 5)team
4)salary
3)clothes
2)social
1)shopping
ANSWERS:

Carla Abelló 1 ESO A

Ies Baix Camp WORDS SEARCH PUZZLE

B L O U S E G U V K A S V X S
U T Q S P O R T S W E A R Z H
N R E Y H S X E H I S N K S H
I O C A R D I G A N C D H W C
F U X J E A N S T O D A F E T
O S B A T H R O B E V L P A R
R E V C X Q U T C Z G S D T A
M R A K T I G H T S H O R S I
Q S C E R Y T B O E A P E H N
B O O T S S O C K S T S S I E
O S A S U G N F R H U K S R R
X T T T O X E D O I L I B T S
E V E I Z B C K A R P R I R H
R U M E S H O E S T A T A J A
S R E P P I L S W F I L P E O
BLOUSE / SHIRT / SWEATSHIRT / CARDIGAN / JACKET / DRESS / SUIT /
SKIRT / BOOTS / SHOES / TRAINERS / SANDALS / SLIPPERS / SOCKS /
TIGHTS / BRA / BATHROBE / BOXERS / SPORTSWEAR / TOXEDO / CAP /
JEANS / TIE / COAT / HAT / TROUSERS / UNIFORM /
Lucas Courouge, Collège François Mauriac, FRANCE

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 Denouncing
PICTURE BY Marina Abramović,
Serbian artist, 1948
SAY NO TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!
Last year 55 women were killed by their
partner. 30% of them were previously
known by the police. What’s more, there
are more than 400 official complaints
every day in Spain.
We think that we don’t know any woman
living in this horrible situation,
but who knows? Very few of them dare
to report. It’s not fair!
Aicha Hissa, Paula Caballero, Helen Daza &
Silvana Contijoch,
1 ESO C IES BAIX CAMP, SPAIN
Social Problems
Un problema cada vez más
frecuente en nuestra sociedad:
la violencia contra las mujeres.
Tenemos que aprovechar
la suerte que tenemos:
si vivimos en una familia
unida, en la que reina
el amor, la alegría,
la paz. ¡Disfrutémoslo!
4ème2, MARTINICA
ALCOHOLISM,
Alcoholism is a major cause
of traffic accidents in Spain.
According to the European Roa
d
Safety Charter, between 30/5
0
% of mortal accidents in Spain
are caused because of alcohol
consumption. In our opinion,
drivers must avoid drinking
alcohol before driving. Not
because of the fines, but their
own lives and the lives of those
people in and out of the car.
Francisco Cano, Christian Hurtado,
Alex Guerris and Guillem Creus
1 ESO C IES BAIX CAMP, SPAIN
DRUG ADDICTION
There is no country that can be
saved from drugs.I think that
every one of us has tried some
kind of drug. Nowadays smaller
and smaller children are trying
various kinds of soft drugs. When
I asked my schoolmates in age
17-19. There was nobody who
did not try at least one of soft
drugs like tabacoo, alcohol or
marihuana. This is a huge social
problem for all of us and the
whole world.
ZDRUŽENÁ STREDNÁ ŠKOLA,
Levice, SLOVAKIA
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Getting to know

INDIA:
POLAND: 13 % Unemployment Casts discrimination
Maciej Gryglewski, Summit Pal, IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, SPAIN
V LICEUM OGOLNOKSTALCACE JAKUBA WEJHERA, Wejherowo Foto: Fundació Vicente Ferrer, Anantapur

According to tradition, I belong

Unemployment is a significant problem for the Polish economy. The to Shudras cast. I used to live
joblessness in Poland is assessed at 13 %. It has increased lately owing to in a region in northern India
the liquidation of the dockyard in the city of Gdynia. It was winded up in known as Punjab, in Ropar, where
2009 and all workers were made redundant. discrimination against low casts is
Every single employer got a very big severance pays which are estimated not very severe. However, in other
from 15.000 to 50.000 zloty. Now, the unemployed are taking intensive regions, explicit discrimination
courses in order to reskill. But some of them, mainly the elder ones, still against casts is far from over despite
have difficulties finding a job because of their age. it was abolished by the Indian
A good many people work illegally which has also a bad influence on the Constitution in 1950.”
economy.

Air pollution problem in Adıyaman

TurKEY
Cumali Aydın
ADYAMAN ANATOLIAN HS, Adyaman Especially in last
iop,
ten years Air El Hadj D
IN
pollution became REUS, SPA
an important
problem in
winter months
in many parts of
Turkey. Especially
it became an
I think air pollution is the most
important problem
important problem in my city. Our because of using
local authorities 2 years gave up coal for heating
ignoring this problem and they started buildings.
using natural gasses for heating homes
and governmental buildings instead
of coal. But only half of the city
changed their heating method due to
high gas prices. So they could reduce
the problem at 30 percent rate. But
unfortunately it is not enough for our
lungs.

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 The Hinduist tradition divided
Indian society into 4 main
different casts arranged in
hierarchy:
Brahmins (teachers, scholars and
priests),
Kshatriyas (kings and warriors),
Vaishyas (artisans and traders),
and Shudras (farmers and
labourers).
Below them, the dalits or
untouchables represent 16
% of the population. The
untouchables had almost no
rights in the society.
SENEGAL:
60% ILLITERACY
In Senegal only 20% of boys and 16 % of girls
enroll in secondary schools. Only 40% of
people aged over 15 can read and write. Lots
of boys and girls cannot go to school because
they have to work in the countryside, in the
building industry or help at home.
“I used to live in Rufisque, on the
outskirts of Dakar. Fortunately me and
my siblings could go to Notre Dame du
Cap Vert School until we were 13. There
everything was taught in French. Then I
studied in a secondary school until I was
16. At the age of 16, I came to Catalonia.
I didn’t want to come but my dad advised
me to come in order to change and
improve my future. I am just about to
finish my secondary school studies and I
hope to continue my education enrolling
on a Vocational Study course.”
other cultures
HONDURAS: Political chaos and crisis
The second poorest country in Central America.
Many of the Hondurean living abroad
like me, cannot revalidate our passport
because there are countries that don’t
acknowledge the new government after de
2009 coup.
The Honduran military coup on
June29, 2009 aimed at bringing
down president Zelaya, allied with
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Carolina Zepeda, 3 ESO A,
Zelaya intended to reform the IES BAIX CAMP, SPAIN
Constitution in order to be elected
President again.There were lots of
riots, killed people, demonstrations
and confrontations between Zelaya’s
defenders and his opponents.
Weary of political crisis, Honduras
finally held new elections but still
some countries do not recognize the
new government.
MOROCCO: Immigration
Fatima Ahrouch, Abdellah i Sara Maach REUS, SPAIN
Currently lots of people from Morocco, Central and South America, China,
Pakistan or Romania are living in Europe after having left their own countries in
order to improve their living conditions and offer their children a better future.
WWhy and how did we arrive here?
“My dad was a building worker in Morocco but his salary was too low
to support the six of us. That’s the
reason why in 2000 he decided to
emigrate to Spain, where he tried to
find a work in the building industry.
After that, all of us came in here too.
Unfortunately he is unemployed at the
moment as a result of the crisis. Next
year I am going to start my studies to
become a nurse” ” FATIMA
“First of all, my dad came in to Spain on his own to work in the countryside.
He lived with my uncle in Reus. Once he got a house, he went to Morocco
to pick us up and all of us came in here. I actually did not want to come for
several reasons: I didn’t say a word in Spanish or Catalan, I didn’t want to
abandon my life there, etc. Now I have been living in Reus for 10 years, I’ve
got used to it and I actually like it.”
ABDELLAH
“My parents are living in Morocco. I’ve lived in Reus with my sister since 2007
because my parents thought it’d be good for me to study here and learn some
languages; they wanted me to have a better future than in Morocco where
it’s really difficult to find a good job no matter how well you have prepared.”
SARA
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 Des del pati

IES BAIX CAMP, REUS, CATALONIA, SPAIN, www.iesbaixcamp.org

College FRANÇOIS MAURIAC, Léognan, FRANCE, www.ejournal.fi/mauriac
BESSENYEI GYÖRGY, Kisvárda, HUNGARY, www.besi.hu
UMBERTO SORACE MARESCA, Catanzaro,, ITALY www.iis-maresca.it
JOSEPH LAGROSILLIERE, Saint Marie, MARTINICA, FRANCE
V LICEUM OGOLNOKSTALCACE JAKUBA WEJHERA, Wejherowo, POLAND , www.zspg4.wejher.pl
LISA MEITNER GYMNASIUM, Neuenhaus, GERMANY, www.lmg.neuenhaus.de
ADYAMAN ANATOLIAN HS, Adyaman, TURKEY, www.adiyamananadolu.meb.k12.tr
VECHTDAL COLLEGE, Hardenberg, NETHERLANDS, www.vechtdalcollege.nl
ZDRUŽENÁ STREDNÁ ŠKOLA, Levice, SLOVAKIA, www.zssoaslv.edu.sk