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Norwegian

The project

school system News from Olsztyn Culture facts Interviews

Participating schools Gimnazjum Nr 14 im.

Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego, Poland

School Icon college marcel riviere, France

with Roar Steihaug and Joan Myers How to make Bulgarian pitka

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: PARTNERS

1

THE NEWS

2 5

CULTURE

6 9

LIFESTYLE

10 13

RECIPES

14 15

INTERVIEW

16 19

SPORT

Collège Jules Ferry , France Alvdal Ungdomsskole , Norway Hristo Smirnenski Primary School, Bulgaria Escola International de Linguas santarém, Portugal The project aims at editing a newspaper. Students write articles and publish them online. The project

results in creating one international e-newspaper.

Aims: to improve the command of English to create and use authentic materials in English to develop writing skills in English to develop collaborative writing to write different types of articles to get familiar with the job of a journalist to take digital pictures and use them in articles to use ICT tools for publishing, editing, commenting articles to communicate efficiently with both classmates and partners abroad to develop their intercultural skills Results: Students create a paper version of their newspaper. They improve their command of English and ICT skills.

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The Eiffel tower Halloween Sports in the countries Recipes from Europe

Book, music and movie reviews The first school day Students’ life

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THE NEWS

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NORWEGIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM In Norway we have 3 100 primary and lo wer seco ndary schools. It is 620 000 pupils and 64 000 teachers. In primary school it isn’t grades,

In Norway we have different types of schools. Primary school is the first school we go to. That is 1.th class to 7.th class. We are six years when we start on school. After primary school it’s lower secondary school. In this school it is classes from 8.th class to 10.th class. When you have finished with lower secondary school, you can choice to go upper secondary school. And after lower secondary school you can go to University College or university. Now we going to tell little bit about this school.

but we find grades in the lower secondary school.

Norway has a small population and therefor the primary and the secondary schools are small and have small groups.

On the lower secondary school you can choose a foreign Languages and electives. In primary school its years 1-7 and lower secondary school is 8-10.

In Norway we all have the same school subjects until 7th.

Day care Facilities for school children (SFO) From 1999 The Norwegians schools introduced day care facilities before and after school for children grades 1-4. This is

to allow the children to play and a good time and have activities that are suited for their age and interests. The grades from 1-4 ends early. And therefore some of the

kids go to the SFO. Upper secondary school have 190 000 pupils and 23 000 teachers by 450 schools. It is young people between the ages 16 and 21 years.

Young people who have completed primary and lower secondary school have a right to three years’ upper secondary education and training leading ether to admission to higher education, to vocational qualifications or to basic skills. We have several programmes. In the vocational fields you take two years and apprenticeship. In the other lines you go three years.

Upper secondary education and training is organized in 12 different education programmes.

It three programmes for General Studies, and nine programmes for vocational education.

Private schools Private schools are schools that have private ownership. This school is not free, and you must pay. In Norway there are about 150 private primary and lower secondary schools with a total of almost 14 000 pupils.

Higher education You find 7 universities and 24 university colleges with 195 000 students. Of them 24 500

study at private colleges/ university colleges.

http:// www.udir.no/ Upload/Brosjyrer/5/ Education_in_Norway.pdf? epslanguage=no Made by: Julie Nygard and Mali Hansen

THE NEWS from Olsztyn The city in which we live is called Olsztyn. Olsztyn has about 200,000 residents. This city has lots of historical sites such as:

∙ the old town in which is the royal casle – in the 15th century in this castle lived astronomer Nicolas Copernicus.

The castle is a very popular destination for tourists. You can watch the beautiful views of the city. Near the castle is a monument of Copernicus, which you ∙ shopping center - we can doing there could take pictures. shopping and watching movies at the cinema. high gate - It separates the modern city of old city.

amphitheater - formerly castle moat. From time to time concerts take place there. You can sit there

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My town Olsztyn is a very beautiful and picturesque city located around 'land of a thousand lakes'. Lakes is one of biggest assets of this city.

This is the rest of the images of our city.

Planetarium – you can watch the stars there.

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∙ bridge lovers - on this bridge lovers hang padlocks with their initials. It’s very romantic.

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OUR SCHOOL

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College Jules Ferry

When we got to college we already thought was the end of the third year but when you look better, it spends a good time and we made wonderful memories.

Our school is in Champagne-Ardennes in France.

It is CALLED College Jules Ferry. The building is blue.

There are 258 students and 24 teachers.

The Headmaster is Mister LAURENT; it’s his first year here.

The Deputy Head is Miss LACOT. The accountant is Miss SACHOT. The CPE is Miss NO-

IZILLIER. There are 22 Classrooms.

For the students they have a room where they can play chat and

read.

And there is a staffroom where the teachers have their break.

Being a student in France , a student wakes up at 7:00am.

He has 10:00am 10:15am.

at plays to

He has , then he has a . He gets . He his teeth and his hair. He his school bag, and he it to go to .

He has 12:00am.

at

He school at 8:00am but he later if a teacher is absent.

games, the net, watches TV, He has diner at 7:30pm.

He has a , brusat 3:45pm to He hes his teeth and 4:00pm.

at finishes at 9:30pm.

Pauline Guiot & 5:00pm.

At home, he Laurine Adnet He

does his ,

Marcel Riviere

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Our school

Marcel Riviere is a school

Every morning, school

located in the South of France, in

opens doors at 7:30 am and clo-

Hyères. It is composed of three bul-

ses doors at 5:30 pm, except

In this high school students have between 10 and 15 years old so we studied 4 years in it. We haven’t got Wednesdays (7 :30-12:30 am). dings. And there are, the self, the

We have 2 breaks every morning

gym and the stadium too.

and afternoon (15 minutes long).

We are more than 500 stu-

On Wednesdays, there are many

dents in the school and we are

activities, for example : dance,

around 25 pupils in each classroom.

tennis, golf,…

We have 3 kinds of rooms : I.T

We studie aproximatively 9 sub-

rooms, science rooms, technology

jects (French, English, Physical

rooms (with many computers). Mar-

Education, Music, Spanish or Ger-

cel Riviere has an internet site and

man, Maths, Arts, Sciences, His-

on it we can see many informations

tory). any uniforms.

In Marcel Riviere there are differentes people who work, like teachers, a nurse, supervisors, documentalist…

(about results of pupils, …). In this

There are 47 teachers in the school

school there are project classes like

(Physical Education, Mathematics,

europeane, sport classes

English, Spanish,…) and 8 supervi-

(swimming, rugby, …)

sors.

We like this school because teachers are good and nice, the school is beautiful.

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CULTURE

6

NORWEGIAN TROLLS Trolls are typical Norwe-

them so many believe

Stone Age and there they

gian. Trolls lives in for-

t h e y

created a lot of trouble.

ests and hides at day. If

Often trolls are big and

They

they get sunshine on

stupid, but they can also

farms where they hunted

them

become

be very small. Trolls can

for food, they often take

stones and die. No one

be very very old; some of

pigs and eaten them

living now has really

them are more than 500

alive.

seen a troll, but there

years old. The first trolls

are lots of myths about

occurred in the early

they

e x i s t .

destroyed

many

By Jørn Sandli

MUSIC REVIEW: RIHANNA This is Rihanna. Her name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty. She was born in 20th February 1988 in St Michel. She is a singer, her type of music is R&B, Pop, Dance and Reggae.

people love her because they love her type of music.

Rihanna produces an album every year. It’s a lot of work for her !

Rihanna is famous all over the world. She is She is very famous worldwide. The young the Queen of R&B !

Rihanna is on the 15 place in the ranking, she made the best of place for a new song with her song “Diamonds”. Her music is played on every radios stations. Her fans buy a lot of album.

BOOK PREVIEW: THE LAST WISH The last wish is one of the two collections of short stories written by great Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. This book is about Wither Geralt.

Sapkowski show apperantly normal fantasy world with elves witches and magic. This fantasic world is very similar to the our world. Human failings, wars and ills.

Sapkowksi impress the

reader his text, dialogs or discription his world.

When you read this book you can imagine places and people with details.

The character of humans are incredible realistic.

You feel that they lived in our world. The only book character I can compere to his is Sherlock Holmes writen be Sir Artur Conan Doyle.

People who read this

The Saga of Wither is translate into 20 lenguages including Bulgarian, English, Portugal and French.

Few years ago there was a computer gameWither. This was the best polish game ever but in 2011 there was second edition of this game and its even better then first.

I really recomendet this book becoase this is one of the best books I've read.

CULTURE MOVIE REVIEW: Max Manus was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War 2. Max Manus was a Norweg i a n f i l m biograp h y from 2008.

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“Max Manus: Man of War”

zis, 9th of April 1940. He was a pio- ter Pia with the father and they two neer of the Norwegian resistance others moved with her mother. Max movement and was arrested by the gone on Ljan school to he and his sisGestapo in 1941. ter moved with their father again, to

Max Manus was born in Bergen 9. the fathers brother to Cuba, when December, died in Baerum 20th of Max’ September 1996. Max Manus has Norwegian father and a Danish uncle mother. was a They made a statue of Max Manus M a x at Akershus fortress. It’s was finship Manus ished in 7th of June 2011. chana NorFor his effort during World War 2 dler. wegian film biography from 2008. It is Manus was highly decorated with He was both Norwegian and foreign medals. about the occupation of Norway by the His father’s real name was Johan some German nazis until the peace time in Manus, but he was very much in years 1945.Aksel Hennie is Max Manus (the Spanish-speaking countries, so he in Cuba main character) in the movie. changed his name to Juan Manus. as a sailor, before he moved for himMax Manus comes back to Norway afHe moved to Copenhagen, he reself to Norway. ter volunteering with the Finnish ceived four children with his Danish Made by: Roar Enget and Kristian nd against the Soviets in the 2 World wife. They been signs and the father Kløvstad 16.10.12 War. When he comes back he finds out moved to Oslo and Max and his sisNorway was being occupied by the na-

CELEBRATIONS: 1ST NOVEMBER 1st November - The day of the leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival Every year on 1st November Bulgaria fetes the day of the National Revival Leaders. It is an official holiday in Republic of Bulgaria. After Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottoman Empire (03 -03-1878), there was a need to mark the bulgarian intellectuals’s contribution to the cultural development of ordinary people.

Many citizens and people from the countryside wanted to pay honours to by naming many streets, schools, libraries and cultural clubs after them. The Bulgarian leaders are Paisiy Hilendarski, Sofroniy Vrachanski, Vasil Aprilov, Petar Beron, Neofit Rilski. Paisiy wrote “History SlavonicBulgarskaya”

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CULTURE

8

Music in France French

like

- 17 % listen to R'n'B

- 6 % listen to Jazz

to

- 10 % listen to Pop

- 6 % listen to Metal

French songs , classical

- 8 % listen to Rock

- 3 % listen to Blues

music and international

- 8 % listen to Dubstep

- 3 % listen to Rap

variety.

- 8 % listen to Electro

- 3 % listen to Reggae

We made a little survey

- 7 % listen to Interna-

- 2 % do not listen to mu-

with the pupils in the

tional Variety

sic

class and we had these

- 7 % listen to Classical

results :

Music

mostly Loudblast is one of the pioneer group of trash / death metal in France. Founded in 1985 in Lille (France), their first two demos were broadcasted via a trading tape. This enabled the group to be famous in 1986 when they have released LP Licensed To Thrash that they share with Agressor. They made a concert next to our town in October 2011.

Their most famous songs are : Evil’s Power Black Death The Threat

people to

listen

MUSIC REVIEW: DAFT PUNK Daft Punk is a French band playing electronic music. They come from Versailles. They founded this band in 1993. The different musicians (Thomas Bangalter, GuyManuel de HomemChristo) have unified their musical style : electro, house, techno with

rock, groove and disco.

Daft Punk is an original group because they want to stay anonymous wearing helmet and costumes.

One of the most famous song is « Around the world ».

In 1993, during a raveparty at Eurodisney, the

Darlin’, have met the boss of the Irish label : Soma. Meanwhile, Thomas and Guy-Manuel have started to work with electronical hardware like samplers. The band, one year later, recorded under the name of Daft Punk their first album.

MUSIC REVIEW: SKRILLEX. This summer, Skrillex, an Before being DJ he was a American DJ, played on the scene of Cabaret Vert in CharlevilleMézière, we went to see him and it was amazing! He did dubstep music. singer in the band: First His true name is Sonny from to last.

He

collaborated with Damain Marley, KoЯn, Avicii, The Doors, Birdy Nam Nam, Deadmau5, Steve Aoki..

He made four albums and six music videos.

CULTURE BOOK PREVIEW:

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John Steinbeck and « Of mice and men »

We write an article on « Of mice and What is interesting in of mice and men » because we read the book and men? we studied it with our English and French teachers.

This book is a tragic novel, it was published in 1937.It takes place in the John Steinbeck’s life John Steinbeck was a writer who was born on February the 27th 1920 in S a l i n a s (California).

He is famous because he wrote twenty-seven books 1930’s, when it was the Great Delike «Of mice and men » and won the pression, a severe worldwide econonobel prize of literature. He grow up on mic crisis. the countryside (in Salinas).

The book is interesting because the He studied and gratuated Salinas High- friendship between the protagonists school and he droped the Stanford uni- is very strange, they haven’t got the versity without degrees to writing. He same character. « Of mice and decided to become a writer at the age men » is like a drama. John Steinof fourteen. beck adapted his book for the stage.

He settled down in New York City and It was also adapted as a film. next to Tahoe City to write.

He died on December the 20th in New York City.

Summary George and Lennie are two hoboes who travel together, and who want to find a job in ranches.

They are friends but they are opposite : Lennie is an idiot but he is very strong whereas George is smart but he is not very strong.

Lennie have many troubles and George always protect him.He is like his father.

Survey Our class have read the book and we have made a survey.

Fourteen persons in our class are crazy about the book because : -The protagonists are touching.

-Their friendship is strange.

-It’s different from other novels.

-It’s a beautiful story but it’s sad.

-The end is more interesting than the beginning.

Twelve persons in our class dislike the book because : -There’s not much action.

-The story is cyclic.

BOOK PREVIEW:THE HUNGER GAMES The Hunger Games is a book by . There can be only one winner and Haymitch become their mentor, he Suzanne Collins. This is a story about only one person can save their life. has to help them survive. In the arena Katniss Everdeen who lives in the post- With her was drawn boy, the son of evrything is diffrent nobody is your apocalyptic nation of Panem.The day of a baker who few years ago saved her friend, everybody is your enemy. draws has come and Katniss little sister life.They come to Capitol where Is Katniss able to survive? How the was the choosen one and Katniss has people are different, citizens of story ends? To find out read this no choice, she decided to take her Capitol love the Hunger Games, they amazing book and come to the cruel place.

She has to fight in the 74th love bloodshed.

Hunger Games.

world of ,,Hunger games''.

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LIFESTYLE

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MY DAY

Hi, I’m Alex. It’s my school day. So I wake up at 6:30 a.m. I go to the bathroom and take a shower and wash my hair. Later I get dressed and come back to the bathroom to dry my head.

My mum makes breakfast. I eat and go to school.

I pop into my friends: Natalie and Simon and we go to school together. Simon’s 9 years old and Natalie’s 14. Lessons start

at 8 a.m. One lesson lasts 45 minutes. I finish my classes at 3 p.m. I go to my grandma’s home.

Then I eat dinner with her and I go home. I do my homework, but I do only easy homework. I go to additional classes. I learn to play the guitar, Russian, German and English. On Monday I have English and German, on Tuesday and Thursday I have Russian.

On Tuesday I learn to play the guitar too. I usually get back by car, because my dad or my mum picks me up. When I’m at home, I study.

Sometimes I watch TV series with my mum. But

I prefer to read information about my friend and my favorite band. Than I chat with my best friends. I have a shower at 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. I go to bed and I read school reading. Then I go to sleep at 11 p.m.

In the week I have only 2 days free - Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday I wake up at 10 a.m. my mum and I make breakfast together. We eat and later we clean home.

I often do the ironing or dusting. After I clean home, I’ve got free time.

I watch movies, meet my friend or sleep. This is my day. What about yours?

An ordinary day of the student in Hristo Smirnenski Every morning the student wakes up, washes his face and has breakfast.

After that he dresses up and goes to school.

There he prepares his student’s books and waits for the teacher. After the second lesson there is long break and the student can have breakfast and goes to the toilet. After that the lessons start again. The

lessons finish at 1:00 in the afternoon and the student goes home. He has break, lunch and starts doing homework.

If there is time he goes out with friends or plays computer games. During the dinner he shares how his day is spent. After that he has a shower and goes to bed.

By Valentin Yachev from Bulgaria

Let me tell you what I did yesterday I woke up, I got dressed , I washed my face and hands, brushed my teeth and I had breakfast. I went to school.

We had six lesson but the most interesting was English language. I went home and did my homework. After that I went out and played with my friends. I went to bed at 10.

By Alex Sharkov

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MY SCHOOL The name of our school is Hristo Smirnenski Primary School. There is a big yard, basketball court and football field. We have also a big gym.

It’s got three floors. On the first floor the students from 1st and 2nd grade study. You can find our students from 3rd and 4th grade on the second floor . 6th, 7th and 8th graders are on the third floor.

We have some special rooms Music room, ICT room, Techniques room and a room with an interactive whiteboard, laptop and projector.

Here are some photos from my school.

You are welcome to visit Hristo Smirnenski Primary School

By Petya Petkova Gabriela Marinova

and

The first school day The first school day in Bulgaria is on 15th September. On this day all the students come with their school uniforms bringing flowers to their teachers. There is a short programme - songs, verses, the headmaster has a speech. The priest blesses all the students for the new school year.

After that the first who come in the school are the 1st graders holding by hand the 4th graders.

They eat a piece of round loaf with honey. The parents go after their children.

All the students come in the school. They get their students’ books and the timetable. There aren’t any lessons on this day. :)

Short letters from Bulgarian students Hello! We are two girls which like listening to music - Sheket up, Leo Rodriguez, Katy B, Flo Rida and etc.

Our teacher in Music is Ani Angelova. We love this subject but the most we love singing. When we have free time we dance!

By Stela Yacheva and Natali Karlakasheva

Hello! My name is Nedelcho. I am from Bulgaria. I am in 5th grade. I like playing computer games and go out with friends. We usually play football or volleyball - these are the most liked sports in Bulgaria too.

By Nedelcho Stoykov

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LIFESTYLE

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Let’s learn about the Eiffel Tower!

The Eiffel tower is the

French architect, and its

have visited the tower

symbol of France. It was

nickname is the iron

since its construction in

built between 1887-1889

lady. It is located in Paris

1889; it’s the most visited

for the 1889 World’s Fair,

on the Champs de Mars

monument in the world.

and it was supposed to

in front of the Seine.

This project was an ex-

be destroyed just after

It is totally in iron and

traordinary

the exhibition; in 1903.

every 3 years it is re-

achievement for this cen-

At the beginning the

painted. It is 1 172, 90

tury. Its conception has

French didn’t like it but

feet/

requested 5300 drawings

after they became famil-

high.

and 50 engineers and de-

iar with it they didn’t

It has 4 floors and we

signers.

want to destroy it any-

can only visit 3 of them.

In 1898, The Eiffel Tower

more. Its name comes

There are 1665 stairs in

is equipped of a meteorol-

from its builder called

the entire tower. More

ogy laboratory and in 1901

Gustave Eiffel who was a

than 200,000,000 people

of a transmitter Wireless.

357.50

meters

technical

The opening times: The Eiffel Tower is open every single day of the year!

Period of the year

Hours

st

From 15 June to the 1 of September

From 9am to midnight

During the rest of the year

9:30am to 11pm

My School My school is in Dajtki

where there are class-

four classes and headmas-

district in Olsztyn. It’s

rooms. On the first

ter’s office. There are four

located in the centre of

level there are German

classrooms, toilets and

Dajtki opposite the su-

language

Art

teachers’ rooms on the

permarket. It’s quite a

classes

school

third floor. The sport’s

new building connected teacher’s room. On the

hall and the library are

with primary school.

shared with the primary

It has got 3 levels,

and and

next level there are

school.

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Halloween takes place every

Halloween, sweets and pas-

year on the night of 31st Octo-

tries are in the spotlight.

ber to 1st November.

Each country has its special-

Symboles and tradition :

ties.

The most representative symbol

land,

of Halloween is the pumpkin.

women

On Halloween night, children

Cook

disguised go in groups ring at

buy) a

the doors of their neighbors in

bam-

instructing 'candy or a spell' (the

brack cake with fruit in which a

famous trick or treat).

ring is placed.

On Halloween night,

children

with the costumes go in groups

Ire-

(or

One who finds it will be loved in the year.

ring at the doors of their neighbours saying trick or treat.

All saints’ day It’s a celebration of the dead.

All Saints should not be confused

All Saints is a Catholic Festival

with the Commemoration of all

celebrated on November 1st,

souls, celebrated the next day

during which the Roman Catholic

All Saints should not be confused

Church honors all saints, known

with the Commemoration of all

and unknown.

souls, celebrated the next day.

All Saints was celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost.

During the thaw period, any of

It was then transferred to 1st No-

the peasant family, including

vember.

children, had gathered to manu-

People go meditating on the

ally harvest the potato.

tombs of the dead and their

During the thaw period, any of

families lay flowers.

the peasant family, including

The All Saints is a public holiday.

children, had gathered to manually harvest the potato.

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Halloween Halloween in Hristo Smirnenski Primary School

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RECIPIES

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BULGARIAN PITKA

products: 500 + 50 to 100 grams of flour for kneading and rolling 3 eggs - one yolk spreads 2 tablespoon oil 1 tablespoon sugar / honey / 1/2 tsp vinegar / lemon juice / 1/2 tsp salt 250 ml warm milk 100 g melted butter 20 g fresh yeast or 7 g dry Spreads: 1 egg yolk 2 tablespoons milk sesame seeds for sprinkling

BULGARIAN PITKA Method of preparation: Dissolve yeast and sugar in 100 ml of warm milk, cover and leave in a warm place to rise for 10 minutes.

In a bowl, sift the flour and salt.

Take in the middle well and add the beaten eggs into it, remaining warm milk, oil, vinegar and yeast leavening.

Knead the dough until it separates from the sides of the bowl ..

Remove, place on a lightly floured surface and knead until a soft, elastic dough 10 minutes.

Place in a greased bowl, cover with a cloth and leave in a warm place to rise until doubled in volume - about an hour.

Risen dough on a floured surface transfer, divide into 2 equal parts, each of them

another 4 - 8 parts.

Roll each into a sheet with a thickness of 3-5 mm, brush with melted butter.

Pick one over the other four sheets.

Wrap the roll together.

In the same way proceed with the remaining dough - received a total of two the four-rolls.

Cut each roll into three pieces.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Greased pan with a diameter of 28 cm In the middle of the tray, put the cut ends of the rolls.Cut each roll into three pieces.Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Greased pan with a diameter of 28 cm. n the middle of the tray, put the cut ends of the rolls. Around them, arrange sliced triangles.

Cover with a towel and allow bread to rise in a warm place for 30-40 minutes.

Brush with beaten in 2 tablespoons milk yolk, sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake bread 20 to 30 minutes, you can reduce the baking temperature to 160 degrees.

The finished bread spreadCut each roll into three pieces.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Greased pan with a diameter of 28 cmIn the middle of the tray, put the cut ends of the rolls.Around them, arrange sliced triangles. Cover with a towel and allow bread to rise in a warm place for 30-40 minutes. Brush with beaten in 2 tablespoons milk yolk, sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Bake bread 20 to 30 minutes, you can reduce the baking temperature to 160 degrees.

The finished bread spread with butter, cover with a cloth and leave10-15min.

BANANA MUFFINS Ingredients (Serves: 12) 3 mashed bananas; 125 ml vegetable oil; 2 eggs; 250 g wheat flour; 7 tablespoons sugar; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 100 ml banana milk; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 50 g chocolate.

Preparation method: Prep: 10 mins, Cook:25 mins Preheat oven to 180 C. Lightly grease a muffin tin. In a large bowl, mix flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and chocolate.In a medium bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, milk, bananas and vegetable oil.

Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture, and pour in banana mixture.

Fold together until blended. Spoon into the prepared muffin tin.

Bake 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, until a cocktail stick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

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Tropezienne Pie

TROPEZIENNE PIE

Preparation of the cake :

Ingredients : -300 g flour - 4 g salt - 20 g sugar - 10 g baking powder - 3 eggs - 130 g softened butter - 50 g caster sugar - 5 cl of warm milk - A yellow 'egg mixed with a little water for gilding - Orange blossom water

1. In the mixer bowl, put oven (Th 1 or 2 or 40 to the flour, the baking pow- 50 째 C) or at room tem-

cool and open the cake in

der, warm milk, eggs salt perature, still leave 10 or 20 mn.7. Spread the briand caster sugar.

Preparation of the cream :

2. Knead few minutes to oche dough into a pie dish and let it inflate. develop elasticity

glue the gelatin.

3. Add the softened butter 8. Pass the gilding with and knead very soft again a brush

try bag.

two, with a knife.

1. Prepare a pastry cream, 2. Put the cream with a pas3. Put more in the middle and

few minutes until the

a little less on edge to

butter

avoid overflows.

is

incorporated

into the mass and leave

4. Replace the trope-

twenty minutes at room

zienne cover and keep

temperature.

FRESH !

4. Place the dough on the

5. Sprinkle with icing

worktop and tear for first 9. Add caster sugar grind bake at 180 about 35 mintime.

sugar ENJOY TASTING !!

5. Knead by hand by folding utes the dough over itself and 10. The cake mustn't inpressing

until

it

thicker.

gets flate too much. It should be just golden.

6. Put the dough in the 11. And finally allow to

TARTE AU SUCRE

Belgian Sugar Pie Ingredients for the recipe (for 6 persons): # 250 g of brown sugar, # 300 g of flour, # 100 g butter, # 20 g of powdered sugar # 15 g of fresh yeast, # 3 eggs, # 10 cl of warm milk, # 10 cl of cream, # A pinch of salt

1. Mix the flour with 2

desired shape on a sheet

Pinch the edges like a

tablespoons of sugar, a

of greaseproof paper

nice pie.

pinch of salt and 40 g

5. Preheat your oven to

softened butter.

180 째 C (gas mark 6).

2. Dissolve the yeast in a

6. Sprinkle the pie with

glass of warm milk and

the remaining sugar

add them into the

(adjust the amount ac-

dough. mix well.

cording to your wishes).

3. Let the dough rest for

7. Arrange slices of but-

20 minutes at room tem-

(which may be placed on

ter on the surface of the

perature, it rises.

a hot plate). Wait 15

pie.

4. Roll out dough to the

minutes to rises it a bit.

8. Bake for 20 minutes.

INTERVIEWS Joan Myers is a volunteer from the Peace Corp. She is from the USA but she is in our school for two years.

She is a very creative person and always captures students' attention with different funny games and activities.

First name: Joan Last name: Myers Country: the USA Hobby: Travelling, reading good books

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Favourite thing: Relax, watching movie, Bobby :) Favourite sport: Rugby Do you like animals? - Yes, dogs.

Do you like Bulgaria? – Yes, I love Bulgaria.

What do you like doing? – I like drinking coffee with my friends; I like playing with my grandkids and watching their sports. I like travelling with my husband and be around my family.

By Luben Samuilov

You can see some moments from her work with the students.

-Hello. I’m Alex and I would like to interview you. What’s your name?

-Hi. I’m Natalie.

-Well, Natalie what’s your hobby?

-Music. I love music. It’s my life.

(She starts singing.)

-Ok. Do you play any instruments?

-Yes, I do. I play the guitar. It was my dream to be able to play the drums, but I wasn’t admitted to music school. (She’s joking and laughing) -What types of music do you prefer?

-I prefer pop and rock.

-Well music is your hobby and life, you must have your favorite band.

-Yeah! It’s a British boysband. One Direction. 5 boys, 1 dream, 1 band

and One Direction.

-How long are you a fan of 1D? Why are they your favorite band?

-I’ve been their fan from 7th January. Hmm… Well, they’re cute and they have a big talent.

-Ok, thanks. Who would you like to be in the future?

-I’d like to a famous guitarist. I’d like to have my own band with my friend. My band will be famous, because I’ll strive for my purpose and dreams.

-When you are famous where would you like to live?

-I’d like to live in London. It’s pretty there. And there lives my future husband. (She’s laughing again.)

-Well, what are you doing now?

-I’m studying now. I’ve got a lot of

learning. English, German, Bio, Maths, Polish, Music, Geo, Physics, Chemistry, History…

-Thanks a lot. You’re very nice. Bye. -No problem. Bye. So music is hobby of many teens in the world. Natalie would like to be a famous guitarist. She’ll live London and have a band. But these are only dreams. Maybe she’ll be famous. But I think she won’t be. Show business is dangerous. Everyone would like to be famous. I’d like to be a famous reporter. Of course, I’ll strive for my dreams. And I wish her and you to see your dreams coming true. I hope you’ll be famous and you’ll fulfill your dreams.

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INTERVIEWS This is the comment of one of the school’s French teachers : Mr Péchin

I think the school has got a good school materials and good working conditions. There is a diverse population too.

Mr Péchin’s interview : 1. What is your job ?

I’m a French teacher in Marcel Rivière school.

2. What do you think about Marcel Rivière school ?

3. Do you think you are important in the school ?

For me nobody is ireplaceable but when I’m gone, there will be no trace of me in the school, while in England, there is a room where the pictures of former teachers are exposed.

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4. Why do you do this jobs in this school ?

Because when I was a student I was the best of my class in French (LOL).

No, in reality I’m the eldest of my family and I took care of my brothers and sisters. So, I have found these values in this work taking care of students. And I didn’t choose this school because in the national education, we don’t choose the school where we teach.

Sports at school In this school there are different people who practise different sports in the UNSS or in some classes who have a special time table : there is a swimmer class, a rugby class and UNSS badminton.

Matthieu Angugliaro. Mathieu Smiley, Marius Galou And they train on Thursday afternoons with school.

It’s also possible to play tennis, dance hip-hop, play golf, practice boxing or swim.

The Swimmers classes :

HANDBALL IN FRANCE

UNSS badminton :

They swim every day. There are two categories of persons : swimmers and synchronized swimmers.

Swimmers : Bastien Cabioch, Quentin Escoffier, Chloé Gonzales. Synchronised swimmers : Mélanie Serrius, Liberty Alloy, Camille Chalaye.

The Rugby classes : Rugbymen : Léon Michel, Dimitri Pluss, Willy Santer, David Lambert, Jaime Gradoz, Sofiane Bouacha,

They train twice a week (on Mondays and Wednesdays).

In my class there are 2 people who take part in UNSS badminton : Jules Mapelli and Tom Benoist

We have chose handball because it is one of favorite sport of France. They are world champions for four years.

In this team, the player are: -Thierry Omeyer, Daouda Karaboué (goalkeeper) -Cedric burdet, Jerome Fernandez , Guillaume Gille , Nikola Karabatic, Daniel Narcisse (back) -Dider Dinart, Bertrand Gille , Christophe Kampe (pivot) -Luc Abalo , Olivier Girault , Mickaël Guigou , Joël Abati , Cedric Paty (wingers) the coach of team of france are Claude Onesta and Sylvain Nouet.

The legend of handball is Jackson Richardson.

Unfortunately, there was a rigged game, players team Montpellier have bet against their team.

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INTERVIEWS

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch was established in 1978, as a private American international non-governmental organization with the name Helsinki Watch.

Their main task was to focus on states that commit human rights violations.

During the 80’s it were formed several organizations which eventually formed an organization called Human Right Watch.

We have interviewed Ole Solvang which comes from our hometown, Alvdal. He works in Human Rights Watch. http://www.youtube.com/ w a t c h ? v=YMfE9_q6kvw&feature= player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/ user/HumanRightsWatch What were your ambitions in your childhood?

I had no particular ambitions. Early in my childhood I wanted to work with something international. I think I wanted to work with it because my parents took me on some trips. My mother went to work abroad when I was in lower secondary school.

Do other Norwegians work in the organization?

There are two other Norwegians, who work for Hu-

man Rights Watch. One of them is Jan Egeland. He is a man with extensive experience and has worked both of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, The Norwegian Red Cross and the United Nations before he started working with us.

The other person is Caroline Eriksen. She is England’s assistant. There is always room for more Norwegians.

Where do you sleep when you are on a mission?

It varies. On some missions we sleep at a hotel.

We obviously choose not the most expensive hotels, but they are usually completely unravel. Many times we have to adapt ourselves to the conditions. In Syria, some houses have been very nice but I have also slept on the floor without any mattress. In the last three nights in Syria, we spent the nights outside under the open sky in the countryside because we were worried about air raids in the village where we were

based. It turned out to be wise. The last day, a bomb from an airplane hit a house that was 50 meters away from the house we usually stayed. http://www.youtube.com/ w a t c h ? v=YMfE9_q6kvw&feature=pla yer_embedded http://www.youtube.com/ user/HumanRightsWatch What impressions do the job to you?

The job provides many different impressions. Sometimes it's hard to see that ordinary people are subjected to gross human rights abuses. Some of the things that make the biggest impressions are when children are killed, injured or arrested and tortured. It has been particularly difficult to work with it in Syria where children are exposed to many different attacks very often.

But the job gives also very positive impressions. As war usually brings out the worst in people it also brings something good out of people. It is always very inspiring when we see people helping each other, although they often expose themselves to danger itself. It is also impressive to see how strong some people, even if they or their families have been subjected to terrible things.

INTERVIEWS What do you do to process all the impressions?

I'm lucky to have a wife who works with exactly the same.

We talk a lot about what we see and experience. I think this is very important. You have to share impressions. I think it would be very difficult to deal with it all alone.

In addition, it is important to maintain a gentle optimism. I try to focus on the positive when I can, that we sometimes are able to help people, and sometimes we even save lives. It is important not to focus on how difficult everything is. Then it is easy to despair. Solan’s (Alvdal’s mascot) motto is good: For he is a trifle difficult, the impossible is a challenge Are there any advantages or disadvantages to come from a little village as Alvdal?

The main advantage of growing up in a small village as Alvdal is that you have a very safe and good upbringing. There are not too many dangers here and you develop friendships that last a lifetime. It provides a good foundation to move out into the world later. Alvdal will always be "home."

The downside of growing up in Alvdal is that we have it too good. I think it's almost hard for us to understand what goes on outside the in the world. It can also be a bit difficult to "get out" of Alvdal the first few times.

Therefore I think it is very important to be involved, watch the evening news,

read about what goes on in the outside world, and to travel to see with your own eyes how different the world is. Then you can decide afterwards that Alvdal is still the place to stay (sometimes I think it myself), but then you have at least tried something else and made a conscious choice. I think you're going to set more appreciative of the positive aspects of Alvdal.

What is the worst thing you've experienced in the workplace?

I usually remember the first and last impressions best.

When I worked in Uzbekistan in 2002, I followed a trial to document human rights abuses. Both of the accused, witnesses and the defendant's family members had been grossly tortured. Even so, the culprits were sentenced to death. At that time, as did the very idea that the world could be so unfair and that there was nothing I could do about it.

At least so it felt like then.

But I also remember some of the last impressions of Syria last week. On Friday it was the artillery attack on a building 200 meters from the hospital where we were. A few minutes later, they brought in a 10 years old boy. He had been hit, so much of his head was gone, and he was obviously dead when they brought him. It made quite an impression.

Is there a gender dominated profession?

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There are very many women who work in Human Rights. I think there are a lot of more women than men who work for Human Rights Watch. But unfortunately, most of the bosses are men, as in many other organizations. So we need more men in the organization in general, but more female managers.

How was it to learn Russian, and how is it to be fluent Russian in everyday life?

Russian was very hard to learn! I've never studied so much and worked so hard. I got up at 5 AM every morning and studied all day until I went to bed around 10 o'clock At the most, we had to learn about 150 new Russian words every day. But it was worth it. To know a language that not everyone else, did that I got very good job offers and that was how I managed to get my first job at Human Rights Watch. You also get much better contact with people when you can speak their language. I'm not so much with the Russian daily anymore. But my wife is Russian and she has a 12year-old son. We try to speak Russian sometimes (mostly so I do not forget everything), but I must admit that it is mostly in English.

But Russian is obviously very handy when in-laws come to visit.

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SPORT ROAR STEIHAUG By: Rolf 16.10.2012

Steihaug

Which sport do you do?

I do shooting.

How long have you been doing that?

I started in 1983 – 2012.

Why did you begin with shooting?

My father started shooting.

Do your girlfriend like shooting?

A little.

How long do you exercise?

One hour a week.

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Are you good with shooting?

So so.

What is the best thing you’ve got to?

I won at The National Championship Veteran55 in field.

The sport in Bulgaria The most popular sports in Bulgaria are football, basketball, volleyball, tennis and gymnastics. Due to the poor finance sports in Bulgaria are not on such advanced level as the sports for example in England, but despite that young people still get involved in them.

Probably one of the most popular sports in Bulgaria is football. Bulgarian players are known all over the world for their skills.

Many European teams often buy out players in the Bulgarian national championship; this is probably the only way for Bulgarian players to succeed in sports. Some of the most successful soccer players from Bulgaria are Dimitar Berbatov, Hristo Soichkov and Martin Petrov. Dimitar Berbatov and Martin Petrov are now playing in the English premiership and Hristo Stoichkov has played in the Spanish Grand Barcelona. Like all of the sports in Bulgaria, players that stay in Bulgaria often get the minimum wage for that country.

One of the best gym athletes of Bulgaria is Jordan Iovchev. He is probably one of the most successful gym athletes in the history of the sports in Bulgaria. Jordan Iovchev usually wins the gold medal at the Olympics.

Bulgaria fields one of the leading volleyball teams in Europe and the world. As of January 2009 the team held 4th place in the world according to FIVB rankings. Bulgaria has regularly featured in the Top 10.