reading

The pleasure of reading

The realisation of the Comenius project has inspired a lot of ideas for wide cooperation with Europe. Maybe not everything will be easily done, but we are certain that there many areas for cooperation. Find out our suggestions for now and after Comenius.

WE READ NORWEGIAN BOOKS

By the touch of the fat it happened that our Norwegian partners live in the region presented in the literature of two great Norwegian writers: Henry Ibsen and Knut Hamsun. During our visit to Grimstad in May 2005 we learnt a lot about these two, and that is how it all started. We also feel ashamed that among European fairy tales published in Poland we can see only those from EU member states, whereas Norway has a beautiful literature, too. In opposition to those publishers neglecting Norway, we decided to deal more with Norwegian literature.

The oldest thing I can remember from Norwegian literature is Roald Amundsen's retelling his journeys to the Pole, which I read in primary school. They made a great impression on me. Not that I dream of such cold expeditions myself, but because I have always liked exciting journey stories. I searched through the Internet to learn who among contemporary Norwegian writers is popular and of course I found Jostein Gaarder. I started with "Sophie's World" and must say that read it with pleasure, but the ending did not really fall with me. I hope that J. G. is not able to read this because I have planned a short meeting with him when we next go to Norway. He will be presented with a locked box which he describes in "The Christmas Mystery". I read both books with great pleasure because some events happen in Norwegian towns which I know myself. I was particularly surprised though that in "The Christmas Mystery" the travel carefully skips central Europe. Do I suffer from some inferiority complex or something? (KKD)

See the original "The Christmas Mystery" covers

2006 - THE YEAR OF IBSEN IN GDANSK
We decided to join the cultural activities of the whole Europe in connection with the year of Ibsen - 2006, announced by Norwegians. We proposed for our local community:
25 April 2006
Workshop --> "Norwegian literature for children"

14 June 2006
Polish performance of "Terje Vigen"

Ibsen is said to have been Norwegian, but his spirit was universal. He spent many years outside Norway; he was like a modern European - open to cooperation with everybody. The opening of the year of Ibsen - 2006 was held on 14 January 2006 in Oslo, and a month later we at our school started preparations for staging "Terje Vigen" in Polish. If you would like to learn more about H. Ibsen, like we, we suggest the following sites:
www.amb-norwegia.pl/ibsen
www.ibsen.net

RETURN AT SEA
Three of our partner schools are located in seacoast towns, but clearly the Greek and Norwegian are much more bound with their sea than the Polish. Perhaps we should "come back to the sea". It is becoming clear that we are going to move around literature connected with the sea, so hopefully a physical come-back will be easier, too. Especially that in Górki Zachodnie the National Center of Sailing is being set up. Sailing, like traveling, is an eternal passion of man.

Greece	Norway	Poland
Eleftheria takes us to a Greek desert island...	...and in Poland she practises swimming in waters under a watchful eye of Krzysztof Zawalski MD	Norwegian teachers feel great in water
	When I finish this building behind me, I'll invite this sailor on the left


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