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The main aim of this school project is to create the right atmosphere so that the students from different European countries can compare their lifestyle, attitudes and values in order to – being aware of the similarities and differences - become more open and tolerant, reject the different types of racism and xenophobia and start a relationship of cooperation and friendship. Using the resource of the new technologies and the exchange of materials produced in English, these teenagers will trespass the barriers of in communication and they will have the opportunity to be in touch with each other, exchanging ideas and dealing with subjects of interest about their everyday life at school, at home or in their free time (hobbies, problems etc) analyzing the past and the expectations in the future.
Students of the partner schools, producing the materials in English, will elaborate a digital newspaper in the Internet with different links, and will publish a school newspaper in a traditional framework with photos, articles, pieces of news that teenagers consider relevant in their region or country. At the same time, they will write reports, articles, and essays about the different topics to work about in the three years (education, free time, and European citizen). So it will be offered to all participants a vision of youth life in each region and country.
The project was developed with the financial support of the A.N.P.C.D.E.F.P./National Agency for Community Programs in the area of Education and Professional Training.
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Our school is one of the largest schools in Buzau, with a number of students that almost reaches 2000.
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In the first Romanian schools the teaching language used to be Slavonic or Greek, but eventually Romanian became to be used in all schools. With the reign of A. I. Cuza in 1864, primary education became free and compulsory. After the second World War, illiteracy began to disappear.
In Buzau we have 5 schools for disabled children and 10 highschools, as well as many vocational schools and other forms of education. In our county there are some 84,000 students.
Our school year has two semesters. The first lasts from September 12th to February 3rd, with a holiday period from December 24th to January 8th. There's also a holiday period between February 4th and 12th. The second semester lasts from February 13th to June 17th, with a holiday between April 13th and 24th.
Dobre Madalina - IX f SAM
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• Each teacher teaches the subject he’s qualified for after graduating from the university, but can also teach a secondary subject.
• There are full teachers and substitute teachers. The former get their jobs after taking an exam organized by the Ministry of education and the County’s Inspectorate. The exam is meant to test the knowledge in the respective field and methodics. There are now more teachers than jobs available on the market, exepting the capitel, because here the teachers can find better paid jobs, mainly with private companies. Substitute teachers also take an examination, competing for the positions still available, but their job is available only for one year.
• Each teacher usually teaches 18 classes a week, and after 25 years of service only 16. Male teachers retire when they’re 65 years old and women when they’re 60.
• At the end of each year teacher are evaluated according to a grid set up by the Ministry and the School Inspectorate and only those who obtain a maximum number of points can apply for the gradation examinations.
• The County Inspectorate (ISJ) coordinates and monitors the activity in each county, for all the pre-universitary forms of education. (there are 41 counties + Bucuresti Municipality). Each ISJ is co-ordinated by an Inspector general, 2-3 vice-inspectors. For each subject taught in schools there is also one specialized inspector. Those County Inspectorates are coordinated in their turn by the Ministry of Education and Research. The head masters and vice masters 92 or 3, depending on the numbers of pupils) are appointed by the County Inspectorate, following the results obtained in the examinations.
• Each teacher can advance in his/her career by taking certain examinations, from periods of time varying from three to four years. These are the Definitivat ( inspections and exams), Second Degreee (the same) and First Degree (inspections and a research work 100- 200 pages long.) The examinations are quite difficult (university matter, methodics and pedagogy).
• The salary varies according to the number of years on the job and the didactic degree.
• For each subject there is a national curricula approved by the Ministry. Each teachers has to plan his subject matter following this curricula, and has to set the objectives and competencies he expects from his students.
• Education in Romania is free and compulsory. The first form of education is kinder-garden ( 3-7 years old), Primary education (7-11 years old), lower secondary school (11-15 years old), upper-secondary school or high school (15-19 years old). Education is compulsory until the second year of high school.
• The number of pupils ranges from 25 to 30. The subjects for the primary school are:
• Romanian 2 -4 classes a week, Mathematics 2-4 classes, Music 1 class, art 1 class, Practical works 1 class, Physical education 2 classes. Beginning with the third year: Natural sciences 1 class, Religion 1 class, Ethics 1 class and a foreign language, 2 classes (usually English). The languages are chosen according to the number of qualified language teachers in each school. (there is a shortage of foreign languages teachers at the moment. Pupils start studying the second language (usually French, but also German, Spanish or Italian) in the fifth year. From the fourth year on, pupils also study Geography and History 1 class each. The students also get grades for their behaviour during all their school life.
• In primary schools pupils get 4 marks ( very well, well, satisfying, insufficient) If a student fails to get sufficient marks in three subjects, he has to repeat the year.
• All these subjects (except the foreign languages) are taught by a single teacher. At this level of education a school uniform is compulsory. For the other levels the uniform is optional.
• For the lower secondary school each subject is taught by a specialized teacher, and a class is coordinated by a form master.
• The supplementary subjects are: the second foreign language 2 classes and technological Education 2 classes, Informatics 1-2 optional classes ( from the first year), Biology 1 class, Physics 2 classes from the second year, Chemistry 2 classes from the third year and one class of Latin from the fourth year. The marks are from 1 to 10. The marks are given during the whole semester and at the end of each semester pupils have to take a final examination orally and in writing. The grades are written in a class book, and the average(for each subject) has to be minimum 5 for a pupil to graduate. For certain subjects pupils have to take a final written examination which counts for a quarter of their final results. In the first three years the subjects are Romanian and Mathematics, and in the final year they may choose between History or Geography. Evaluation of the student’s work is done all along the semester.
• At the end of the four years, pupils take a final (national) examination (called Capacitate). The subjects are Romanian, Mathematics and Geography or History. The final grade (minimum 5) is the average between that examination and the averages obtained during the four years. According to these results the pupils are admitted to the high schools for the following four years.
• Those who fail to take this exam may study in vocational schools. In the future this examination will take place at the end of the second year of high school.
• There are four years of highschool, with a number of 15 to 20 subjects and an average of 30 classes a week. During all the school years all pupils are given homework for each subject, which takes them a few hours every day.
• The best students can participate in contests (Olimpiads) for each subject. They can also organize all kinds of activities with special occasions.
• At the end of the four years graduates take a final examination Baccalaureate, in 6 subjects (Romanian, Mathematics and a foreign language – compulsory and the others according to the school profile). The minimum necessary is five in order to pass the exam. Pupils from technological high schools also get a certificate for their practical competences.
• The mark obtained at the Baccalaureate examination is important for the matriculation exams at the Universities.
Petre Catalin - X D
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Our school is a very large institution, with a large number of students and teachers. As Romania is about to be accepted in the European Union, we are trying to make contacts and establish collaboration programmes with other European institutions. One of our most important collaboration project is the Phare programme, that will help us enlarge our material base. For us, as students, it's a very good thing that our headmasters and teachers are willing to give our school a European dimension. That makes us feel ready to face the demands of living, learning and working in a unified Europe.
Dragu Loredana - X B
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BALUL BOBOCILOR - FRESHMEN BALL
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At the end of each term our students take an examination which counts half of their final results.
Our school schedule is quite busy. We start classes at 8 o'clock every day and end at 2 or even 3 in the afternoon. Classes usually last 50 minutes and the breaks are 10 or 15 minutes long. After our teachers' strike classes begin at half past seven and our breaks are only 5 minutes long, because we have a lot of catching up to do.
Hornet Livia - X A
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In December this year our students had the opportunity to get together and celebrate their admission in our institution.
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Each year, older students and teachers from our school organise a welcoming ball for the first year students. This ball bears the name of ''Balul Bobocilor'' (sort of a Freshmen's Ball), and every year we choose a Miss Boboc and Mister Boboc from among the most beautiful and intelligent competitors.
The event takes place in one of our favourite clubs, NO LIMIT, and we received the help of a professional DJ, Paul Oprea.
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The competitors had to answer sets of questions prepared by their colleagues and teachers, to prove that they are spontaneous, that they are good dancers and that they are ready to face any situation with a lot of humour and a big smile on their face. The help they received from their supporters was also very important, especially when the jury had to make a decision. This was of course no easy task, but after the final festivity, when the winners received their rounds of applause and prizes, everyone was happy to have come.
Oprea Ramona - IX C
Savulescu Luigi - IX B
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The happy pair: Miss And Mister Boboc
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''The fact that they chose me as Mister Boboc was a unique experience for me, one that will be very useful to me in the future. It was a great contest and I'm glad I took part in it.''
Savulescu Luigi Angeli - IX B
''If I hadn't participated in the project I would have regretted it enormously. I had lots of fun, despite the fact that I was only fifth in the contest...''
Andreiu Andreea - 9 f
''A great contest and show, even though, in my opinion, the girl that won the competition wasn't the best....''
Dobre Madalina - 9 g
''I danced all night with my friends and teachers, and felt great. It all ended too soon in my opinion.''
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On the first of December 1918 the former provinces of Moldova, Muntenia and Transilvania were united to form one country, Romania, with a unitary population speaking the same language and having the same origin and traditions. Until 1944 the country was a kingdom with hereditary kings from the house of Habsburg. After the Second World War and with the communist regime, the country became a republic again. In December 1989 the communist regime was overthrown by a popular revolt and the republic became a democracy again.
This year we, together with our teachers, celebrated this day by various activities including visits to monuments, music and dance.
Dobre Alexandru - X F
Cutitei Daniela - X C
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The 1st of December is a very special day for us the Romanian people. It began to be celebrated at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1918 more exactly, when for the first time in history, the sons of the same people lived inside the same borders.
Even from their birth as a nation, Romanians were forced to obey the will of the vast multinational empires that surrounded them and had always wanted some part of their territory. In the beginning of the Middle Ages and until after the First World War, the intra-Carpathian region, known as Transylvania was under Hungarian or Austro-Hungarian rule. After gaining its independence from the Hungarian Kingdom, in 1359, the Romanian territory in the east of the Carpathian Mountains was to come under the influence of the Tzarist Empire, towards the end of the XVIIth century and the beginning of the XVIIth. The interests of the great powers that were quarelling over the Romanian land, The Tzarist Empire, The Otoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire (and after 1867 Austro-Hungary)concerned multiple aspects such as political influence or open conflicts on the Romanian territory that lead to important material and human losses, the loss of Romanian territory and administrative control.
The first steps taken by the Romanians in order to change that state of facts was taken in January 1859, when two of the Romanian provinces elected a single ruler Al. Ioan Cuza. Between 1859 - 1866 Cuza managed to lay the foundations of the Romanian unification: he unifyied some services such as the post, the telegraph and some institutions such as the army, the police force and the firebrigades.
Popa Ionut, Savulescu Luigi - IX B
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On May 10th 1866 a large part of the political class overthrew Cuza and brought Carol Hohenzolern of Sigmaringen (the son of Prussian king Anton Hohenzolern of Sigmaringen) in his place, as ruler of the two Romanian provinces that were still under the administration of the Otoman Empire. Under the enlightened rule of this king, the Romanian gained their independence by taking part alongside the Russian forces in the anti-otoman war (1877-1878). The war is known in our history as the Independence war.
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This time of the year is a very special one for us, because it is very rich in events and festivities. Most of all it is a period when all the members of a family come together, no matter how far they are and spend some great time together.
Our mothers cook traditional courses, mainly pork, and all kinds of cookies and everyone helps decorate the Christmas tree. As we are Orthodox, we don't have any meat six weeks before Christmas and we go to church to take part in the religious service.
Our tradition is to visit our teachers, to sing them carols and to wish them all the best. We also visit them in the teacher's room, wearing popular costumes and sing them carols and recite poems. They treated us with small gifts as is our tradition.
Petre Catalin - X D
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The weather in Romania has been a little strange this winter. It didn't snow a lot and the temperatures were quite high.
But in January there came a period with very low temperatures (-25 /-30 degrees Celsius)that lead to a very interesting phenomenon: the water of the Black Sea froze over a 2 km distance from the shore. You could easily make a snowman 100 m from the shore. Some 150 swans were found dead, caught in the ice. Some ships were also stuck.
Many inhabitants of Constanta, our main city at the Black Sea, enjoyed the beautiful scenery of frozen waves. We hope that you will also enjoy these images.
Teodorescu Alina - X D
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Eminescu was the greatest national poet and through him Romanian culture gained its true identity.
Eminescu, a young genius and a true romantic poet, manged to create a work that is both national and universal through its themes and political images.
We may isolate eight major myths in his work. The first is the myth of the birth and death of the universe.
History also plays an important role in his work, from the beginnings of humanity to the present, and with numerous national aspects. There is a permanent imcompatibility between the wisdom of the past days and the decadence of his contemporaries. He is a satirical and visionary poet, but also a poet full of love and compassion when his themes are love or national values.
The third myth, that of the scholar is related to the first two. The wise men in his poems are the defenders of the old rules and way of life, and are often in evident contrast with the world around them.
Love is idealized in his poems, and the loved one is seen as a supernatural, angelic being.
In the poems dominated by the myth of dreaming, Eminescu finds an opportunity to imagine a world that is very different from ours.
Another one is that of returning to the basic elements and of living in harmony with nature.
The myth of the almighty creator is expressed in poems such as Ode and Hyperion.
Sava Marilena, Cutitei Daniela - X C
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Every year we celebrate the birth of our national poet, by organising special activities which include singing, reciting poems and role playing.
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O remain
"O remain, dear one, I love you,
Stay with me in my fair land,
For your dreamings and your longings
Only I can understand.
You, who like a prince reclining
Over the pool with heaven starred;
You who gaze up from the water
With such earnest deep regard.
Stay, for where the lapping wavelets
Shake the tall and tasseled grass,
I will make you hear in secret
How the furtive chamois pass.
Oh, I see you wrapped in magic,
Hear your murmur low and sweet,
As you break the shallow water
With your slender naked feet;
See you thus amidst the ripples
Which the moon´s pale beams engage,
And your years seem but an instant,
And each instant seems an age."
Thus spoke the woods in soft entreaty;
Arching boughs above me bent,
But I whistled high, and laughing
Out into the open went.
Now though even I roamed that country
How could I its charm recall ...
Where has boyhood gone, I wonder,
With its pool and woods and all ?
(Translated from Romanian by Angela Clark, London, UK.)
Ode (in ancient meter)
Hardly had I thought I should learn to perish;
Ever young, enwrapped in my robe I wandered,
Raising dreamy eyes to the star styled often
Solitude's symbol.
All at once, however, you crossed my pathway -
Suffering - you, painfully sweet, yet torture...
To the lees I drank the delight of dying -
Pitiless torment.
Sadly racked, I'm burning alive like Nessus,
Or like Hercules by his garment poisoned;
Nor can I extinguish my flames with every
Billow of oceans.
By my own illusion consumed I'm wailing,
On my own grim pyre in flames I'm melting...
Can I hope to rise again like the Phoenix
Bird from the ashes?
May all tempting eyes vanish from my pathway,
Come back to my breast, you indifferent sorrow!
So that I may quietly die, restore me
To my own being!
(1883, Translated by Andrei Bantas)
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Dragobete – A Romanian Valentine’s Day
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Valentine’s Day has started to be celebrated in Romania for 7 years ago as a result of the American popular culture. But we have our celebration of love called Dragobete. It is traditionally celebrated on the 24th of February -considered "the day when the birds are getting engaged". Dragobete is in fact the name of the master of love of the good mood in our country.
If a girl hasn't met a boy that day, it was told that no one would love her all year long.
People would gather to pick snowdrops (the first flowers of spring), light fires in the woods and have all kind of parties. The popular belief was that the ones that took part in the Dragobete festivities would be spared by illness all year long.
Women used to touch men from other villages in order to be more loving all year. No animal was killed that day.
The custom is still present, but unfortunately, Valentine’s Day is beginning to gain the upper hand and all is rapidly becoming more like a commercial enterprise.
Popescu Anca, Apostol Gabriela - IX f SAM
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The Martisor is another Romanian spring tradition. It is a custom that welcomes the coming of the spring and the rebirth of nature and life.
It first consisted of coins that were given as presents meant to bring good luck and to keep illness away. Then coins were replaced by small river rocks painted in red and white. Those were replaced in their turn by red and white threads that were tied around the joints of the loved ones. Today we have small manufactured objects that still have red and white strings. The red colour symbolizes vitality and the white is a symbol of purity, health and snowdrops.
Today these small signs of affection are given especially on March 1st by men to mothers and loved women.
Ionita Sorin, Jega Daniel - IX B
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Hello everyone!
Romanian students salute you and send you all the best on this special day. Even if we re not there, we are with you and hope that we could meet soon, in an unified Europe.
We send you a few pictures from the activities we have organized in our school to celebrate this special day. We organized a contest among a few classes, on European topics, and even if only a few were declared winers, everybody won. Each group presented their vision of Europe in a drawing and during the disscusions that took place.
We would like to make an exchange of opinions and a debate on this topic, so, if you are interested, please send us your opinions and suggestions.
Romanian project Team
The message of the Romanian students with the occasion of Europe's Day, sent with the occasion of the meeting in Palermo
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The majority of Romanian students like to spend their free time practising a sport, especially football if they are boys or volleyball as girls. But they also really enjoy to get out in town with their friends at week-ends to go to a club or a disco, dance, drink juice or something else.
Other students like very much to navigate on the Internet as they have in this way the opportunity to communicate a lot, to make friends from different places, to get information from wherever or whatever. They adore listening to music or driving a car. They are helped and instructed in our school so they can get the driving licence and like very much doing this. Many of them spend their free time either reading books or watching TV.
Like any other children from the world we like to travel whenever we get the chance. We are lucky to have a lot of places worth visiting in our judet (county) and we invite you to see some of the most attractive ones.
Vlad Zaharia - XI A
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Built on the highest peak next to the town with the same name, the fortress was built under the rule of the voevod Constantin Brancoveanu (1688-1714) and under the directions of two noble men, Cindescu and Cantacuzino. it was strategically situated, overlooking the whole valley of the Buzau River.
It was made from burnt brick, with massive walls, disposed to form a quadrilater. It had towers and many underground galleries that gave the inhabitants the opportunity to reach long distances underground when they needed it.
In an age whrn the Turkish invasions were common and the area was threated by many dangers, the fortress was the last defensive stand that Buzau had. Inside its walls it sheltered the Berca Monastery, which was built at the same time. Many of the monasteries from Romania in fact are were built inside such defensive walls.
Ciulin Ionut - X B
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Buzau's Salt is a geological and botanical reservation with an area of 0,80 ha. On an afforested hill , 1 km long we may find many salt efflorescences, generated by salty springs in the area. this fact proves the existence of a massive of salt at a small depth from the spring.
The Badila Limestone Blocks is a geological and paleontological reservation with an area of 1 ha. It is an ensemble of aproximatively 40 fragments of rock, mainly limestone and conglomerates which penetrated the newer neozoic stratum. They were shaped in time under the influence of waters and other external factors.
Nistor Tudorel - XII E
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Colti village takes its name from the rocky mountains disposed in a semi-circle and having seven most important peaks. Here we may find many springs rich in sulphum or magnesium that can heal many diseases.
The amber or ambra is in fact fosilised tree resin and was called by some The Sun Rock or The Tears of God. Its existence in the Buzau mountains is known from ancient times. In the past, the knots of amber were collected from the river sediments.
The amber extracted from the ground is of very good quality. because of the great pressures to which it has been subjected, they present many cracks, which give birth to beautiful light effects and reflections. The inside surfaces may take the colours of the rainbow or may seem reflecting mirrors.
The amber found here is very pure and counts 160 varieties of colors: yellow, red, black and the most precious one, the red-black one. The biggest piece of amber in the world was discovered at Colti and it weighted no less than 4 kilograms.
The Amber Museum was opened on July 14th 1980 and is the only one of this kind in Romania. It illustrates the history of these places, and especially the life and working conditions of those who worked to extract the amber, from the early days (1829-1834) till more recent times.
Necula Oana, Stoichita Adrian - XII E
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High in the Buzau mountains a dam was built in 1985, on the valley of Buzau river. it is the biggest clay dam in Romania (a mixture of earth, ballast and concrete). The lake which was formed is 10 km long, it has a surface of 500 ha and a volume of water of 155 000 000 cubic meters. It is used to set in motion a hidro-electric power-plant with a capacity of 42 MW which was put into work in 1988.
Ciulin Ionut - X B
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In Alunis village, situated some km from Colti, there is the church called “The Head-cut of John Baptizer”. Is one at the old church from the territory motherland
It has been here since 1274 and was carved into a massive rock by 2 shepherds, named Vlad and Simion, grazing their flock on these places.
The legend says that one of the shepherds heard in sleep time a voice which urged him to carve in rock because he will the icon of “Nun of God”. Faithful man, the shepherd makes exactly, and he finds the icon.
This act determines him to carve a church together with the other shepherd and with help of the men from village.
On the left and right of the church there are 3 rooms carved similar in rock and which were also cells for the monks of the church.
Size of the church, more exactly of this stone place are 8,80 m length, 4 m wide and 2,80 m height. We find here pictures on plate of zinc. There are a few inscriptions. The most old one written in Cyrillic words is from 1548.
Albescu Ionel, Ungureanu Catalin - X B
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At the very beginning of the most beautiful month of the year, on the 4-th of May, the students of our College and two of their teachers as organizers went on a trip to Sibiu, which is the European Cultural capital in 2007, and to some of the most impressive monasteries on the Olt Valley.
After a wonderful time while crossing the mountains we’ve got to Sambata de Sus, a very old monastery, built in the 17-th century and finished by Constantin Brancoveanu. It has been destroyed by the catholic habsburgs in the 18-th century and rebuilt in 1926, as it is today. It contains a very impressive collection of paintings, especially of glass icons. Then we went to Sibiu and what impressed us from the first moment were the medieval buildings in the Upper town with their 13-th and 15-th century fortifications, the Stair Tower and other towers called after the name of the merchants: joiners, leatherworkers, potters. We are also completely amazed by the beauty Bruckenthal Museum or by the architecture of the Catholic Church, or especially by the monumental appearance of the Evangelic Cathedral. Everywhere in the church there are paintings on the walls or grave stones. How could we have forgotten the Tears Bridge and the very old stories. Passage which make as feel as if we had been sent directly in the Middle Ages. There are many monuments here, that it’s very difficult to choose one or another. Anyway all of them are real jewelleries which really worth visiting.
On the second day of our trip we started to cross the mountains down on the Olt valley bring unprepared for so many beautiful views and quite impressive landscapes. We visited first the Turnu monastery, located north of Cozia in a wonderful area, having a three storey church and containing a 16-th century shrine. There is at Turnu the stating point into the river Olt Gorge, with so many touristy attractions. After that we’ve got to that complex of architecture which is the monastery from Cozia located on the Olt river, just behind it. This was built by Mircea the Old in 1387-1388, extended by Constantin Brancoveanu at about 1706-1707. the complex contains Mircea the Old’s grave and that Michael the Brave mother’s , Neagoe Basarab’s Great. Well, the museum of Cerdacul lui Mircea with lots of manuscripts icons, paintings and embroidery.
In the afternoon, feeling quite great, with all our souls full of the religious emotions and livings, we finally got to another very charming place which is Horezu and where the people find a very special place, with a particular ceramics, and a magnifiant monastery built by the same extraordinary Constantin Brancoveanu. This is the oldest medieval architecture group from Wallachia formed by the Central Church with valuable 17-th century wall paintings, infirmary, 1696 princely house which now contains the art collection of the monastery. Everyone was very impressed by the quiet and peaceful atmosphere of the place.
Then we went to another monastery on the same valley which is Bistrita built by Craiovesti nobles before 1491, rebuilt by Constantin Brancoveanu in 1683 and finally rebuilt in the 19-th century in Neogothic style by Gheorghe Bibescu and Barbu Stirbei and painted by a famous painter Gheorghe Tatarascu. Here, we had a very special moment when we saw Saint Grigorie’s shrim who is kept there even since 1497. nothing can be comared with the wonderful church, the views around, a real woodland surrounding a blessed place.
On the last day of our pilgrimage as we decided to consider our trip we have got to Curtea de Arges, princely residence during 13-th century, the capital of Wallachia during 14-th / 15-th centuries. The best tourist sites of the place which we visited were: the Princely Church Saint Nicolae 1352, built in a Byzantine style, founded by Basrab I. monastery Curtea de Arges, built by Neagoe Basarab with exterior walls richly decorated. The later one was considered by a foreign traveler Paul de Aly in 1654, one of the wonders of the world. Quite close to it the famous Manole fountain, a legendary one which appeared on that place where Manole fell down from the roof of the church.
After so many legendary monasteries where we really enjoyed the views and the very peaceful and religious feeling, we admired the Dambovicioara gorge and the cave from there, one of the most beautiful in our country. The landscape is breathe taking and the air is terribly cool and fresh. We just noticed that very little sky as the road was so narrow, with cliffs on both sides of it.
Japu Marius, Dinu Aurelian, Olaru Ionel - XI B
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Free time is very important in everyone’s life, but for the students of our college “Dr. C. Angelescu” Buzau, means many things, one of this being the celebration of their birthdays. One of them, Cosmin, has celebrated his anniversary not long time ago. His friends decided to make him a big surprise, offering him a delicious orange cake. You have the recipe of the cake below.
Ingredients for the cake dough 6 eggs, 150 g sugar, 130 g flour, the juice from a ½ lemon, some orage peel, 3-4 g salt.
Ingredients for the cream: 250 g sugar, 6 yolks, 150 ml water, 200 g butter, one orange, the juice from a ½ lemon, vanilla, orange jam.
Ingredients for the syrup: 300 g sugar, 200ml water, orange aroma.
The preparation of the dough: the sugar, the eggs and the salt are mixed on water bath (on the fire in a pan) until the composition becomes foaming and it increases its volume. Then we set out the fire, take the pan with the composition and mix it until it’s getting colder and colder. We add the flour, the orange peel and the lemon juice. After that we bake the composition in the buttered tray, with flour on its walls, in the oven.
The preparation of the cream: the 6 yolks and the sugar are mixed to foam, then we add little water and vanilla. After that we boil the composition on water bath on the fire, mixing continuously. We wait then for it to get colder and colder and add the lemon juice, the orange juice and the orange peel. The butter is also added but little by little continuously mixing in the composition. The baked dough is then cut in 3 slices and filled with the orange cream. We may use whipcream and little bits of orange to decorate the cake.
Purcarea Diana, Groschi Simona, Gavrila Oana, Stoica Andrei - XI g SAM
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All the students of our college have celebrated the “Children’s Day” on 1st of June. So that took part to a sort of festival on that day with different cultural and artistic programmer.
The performance was opened by a talented singer, Andreea Danciu, who sang two wonderful songs in Romanian and in English language. Then a very nice group of girls came on the scene with some very impressive popular songs, one of them being “I’m a beautiful girl”. They were very appreciated by their mates and their teachers getting their enthusiastic applauses.
A quite extraordinary appearance was the “Flowers Parade”. The girls from 9th grade have marched on the scene wearing wonderful clothes with natural flowers on them. The atmosphere was absolutely great! All the audience was terribly impressed by them. In the end the organizers and the jury have chosen the winner of this parade called “The Flower of the Flowers”.
The theatre team of the college has played a scene from the “Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare. All the actors have managed in a very good way, acting like some professionals all their parts in the scene. Everybody was impressed by them and they got their applauses and best wishes for the competition they are going to participate the next week.
The celebration was ended by the group of dancers from our college. They presented six traditional Romanian popular dances: Ciobanasul, Brasoveanca, Hora, Sarba, Ovreicuta and Sarba studentilor. They, the dancers were absolutely great! The atmosphere was fantastic. Both the participants and the audience were full of joy and energy and they seemed very happy. All of them got diplomas and some presents.
We don’t have to forget that in this college the 1st day of June should always remain not just the celebration of the children, but for the adults too, at least for those who deeply in their souls, feel like children.
Andreea Danciu, Chiritescu Raluca - IX C
Tibulca Antonia - X f SAM
Ilie Adrian - XI e SAM
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Denise Ana Maria, Iordache Alin, Radulea Elena, Dobre Alexandru - XI F
Danciu Elena, Simionescu Claudia, Hornet Livia - XI A
Neagu Georgiana, Nicolai Adrian, Drimboceanu Ioana, Andrei Andreea - X f SAM
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In the last week of this school year 2006-2007 the theatre team of our college participated to a theatre festival which took place at the “George Ciprian” Theatre from our town. It was a competition between the all high schools from Buzau. The theatre groups from many colleges and high schools has played some plays on a real scene and they managed like professionals.
The students from our school has played a paragraph from “The Comedy Errors” by William Shakespeare, the 4th scene, the 4th Part. They all proved a real talent, when playing their parts. Their costumes and the settings were perfect for that scene. They impressed the audience getting their applauses. It was a wonderful experience for them as they had for the first time the chance to act on a real scene, in a real theatre, with music, settings like real actors and they did it very, very well. The students were quite appreciated not just by the others, but by their colleagues, and by their teachers. All the students worked a lot for performance and the results were great.
Podosu Bogdan, Mirica Bogdan, Carlomaneanu Nicolae - XII G
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It’s extraordinary to be European citizen! But being Romanian I really consider that I was European citizen before the 1-th of January 2007 when Romania became effectively member of the Union and that because geographically speaking we have never moved away from Europe, to come back at the moment. Anyway it’s good to be a part of Europe in this institution.
Me, as a young, I will have the chance not only to settle in a different European country, member of Union, but to study abroad according to the principle which confirms an equivalent diploma which depends on the curriculum which has to be similar for this. I can become a part of Erasmus programmed which means that I can study in a foreign country, member of the EU and this period of the time and the diploma I will let there will be recognized in our country, through the European system of credits’ transfer.
Claudia Simionescu, XIIC
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I will have the opportunity to work in Europe like any other citizens from other countries from the Union. I’m proud to be European citizen, to be treated like a normal person even abroad with the same rights and obligations like the others, to be respected in every situation; if I am correct person and I don’t ever break the law if I am in one of the countries, member of the EU.
I can’t wait to be 18, to graduate the high school in my country and even a college, to go abroad and to work there, to get more experience, in order to come back later here and to do then something more for my family, for the country itself, I can feel like the others although they didn’t live in a very difficult time like that before 1989 as our parents lived.
I don’t feel different now than 2 years ago, but more anxious and excited and of course older. I believe now in other value, but I still remain Romanian, trying to adapt to the new circumstances, after the integration of our country Romania in the European Union.
Gabriel Toader, XD
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Maybe you would refer to the Romanian language and you’d say that being. Romanian and European you will have to talk an European language but there is no European language, but 22 languages including Romanian and Bulgarian.
In fact there are Romanian citizens in Romania who don’t speak Romanian language at home. Are they less Romanians than the others? Maybe you’d define then like those people who live and work in Romania, but there is others who do the same and they are already Romanians. Or, maybe should we consider Europeans those with deep roots in more countries? For example a Romanian citizen, half German and half English; his wife is British. Is she less European than him? No, of course not. These are a few traps of the definition.
But, in fact, being European means to believe and to live according to the European values. Which are these values? Who and when invented them? In order to answer this question I’d like to remember a little the history of European Union.
Alexandru Petrut, XIC
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This institution appeared from a very special need of all the peoples for not ever had another world war. This was Jean Monet’s hope and of the others visitors who first of all expressed this idea of the European integration in 1950, one which seemed just an important and wonderful dream after the dark time of the world war.
Their plan and their dream was a volunteering integration of the European economies so close that the war, not to be ever considered again. And they succeded and their process can be translated in a very clear and concrete European value: peace. After 1950 there were no conflicts or wars between the memberships of the Union.
Lavinia Bogdan, XIIB
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Another value which was and is a consequence of the first one is the prosperity. The economic model of integration which is characteristic to the European Union has brought not only an important economical development in some countries memberships but an increasing development in all the membership of the Union and a decrease of the differences between the richer regions and the poorer ones.
This fact was possible because of a new European value which was considered solidarity, that of the one who has more with the one who has less, of the one who is luckier, than the one with fewer chances. It new model of the development was imposed according to which everybody has to win something. Peace, prosperity, solidarity. These are just three values of the Union which can explain why this has become an extraordinary attraction for the rest of the continent.
More and more countries wanted to apply the some model, to enjoy the same values and principles, but these are not the only ones: there is another one which is really appreciated especially by the youngest:
• Be a democratic person and respect the human rights and the law more than anything else;
• Respect and use the 4 liberties of circulation (for goods, services, capital);
• Respect the environment where you live and make sure you leave to the future generations a very clean planet;
• Reject any nationalism and respect the multiple identity of the citizens;
• Cope with the others for the alls’ benefits;
• Don’t threat and don’t use force for any cause;
• Support the plural society, multicultural one, learn from the others;
• Be open to everyone, accept and integrate the others.
Cristina Avram, XD
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Finally, we have become member of the European Union! Finally, we have become European citizen! But are we completely different than 2 years ago at this time? No, I don’t think so! We are the same persons, older than in 2006, but the same!
Of course, with other rights and obligations. We can go in other countries without a passport, only with our Identity Card. We can work there with the some rights like the citizens of the country if we sign a contract if we are accepted by different companies there. We can also study abroad and this is for our benefit as we can get another diploma, or maybe a doctor’s degree in a field or another. We can get there experience we can use then what we learned and experienced there, in our own country when we come back home if we come back.
But we have to come back and to whatever possible to really ghange the mentalities, to believe and to enjoy the European values which means peace, prosperity, cooperation, human rights, good laws and respected ones.
Alexandra Cocos, XC
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I am European citizen! I can speak Romanian, my native language, but also English, well enough and French. I can make myself understood abroad I can say that I have more opportunities for myself development, after the integration, both here in Romania, but especially in the European Union countries which weren’t quite accessible for everyone before the first of January 2007.
Luigi Savulescu, XIB
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I am proud to be European citizen like the French ones, the Engish ones, the German ones…and those are just some examples. I dreamed at this moment although 5-6 years ago, I didn’t understand very much what the Union was, why was it so necessary. But I was only 12 at that time and now I am 17. I am a young miss with many hopes and dreams, a person who is proud to be Romanian, even if now I can behave (at least to behave) like the other Europeans do.
Cristiana Chiritescu, XC
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Although we are now members of the European Union, we live in the same country, we didn’t move away from here, from Europe, but we were unlucky more than 0 years after the World War II till 1989. I didn’t live in those times and I’m happy for this, because I’m now European citizen and very young so I have the whole life in front of me to live according to the Romanian and European values.
Vlad Zaharia, XIIA
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