03.11.2018

 We went to the Adana airport in order to welcome our partners. First the Slovakian’s arrived.Then Italian and Polish guests arrived. We met them with joy. After we had arrived to Silifke, we made the guests students meet our host students and host families. They were all happy. And our guest teachers were settled in “Taşucu Marina” hotel.

04.11.2018

We made a sightseeing tour to “Göksu Delta “. To introduce the country culture, we visited “Sökün”. We went to a citrus garden then to a strawberry field and also to a banana greenhouse. We had a chance to watch different kinds of birds in the lakes between endemic flora. We visited the kiddle to get some fishing information.

05.11.2018

We welcomed our guests at 09.00 at our school. In the opening ceremony our principle made a speech and told that he was very pleased to be partner of this project. Silifke’s folk dance group made a regional dance show. Then our principle hosted the teachers to his room for tea and Turkish Deligth. After that we went down to the meeting room. We made the logo competition. Slovakian’s logo was chosen as the project logo by a consensus. At lunch we ate Mersin’s famous food “Tantuni”. Then we watched the partners presentations about their countries and school.

At 15:30 we visited Silifke’s Governer. With traditional Turkish desserts and Turkish tea we had a warm conversation. After this visit we walked down the Göksu River, By pasing the historical stone bridge we arrived to the city center and did some shopping.

06.11.2018

We went to “Mersin Üniversity Technoscope” for a visit to companies using Google applications. After a warm welcome, we attended a presentation made by a Tech firm called “Tokmak Technologies”, He shared some useful information and experiences about using the Google applications. The visit ended after visiting the innovation center and the other places. We ate lunch in Mersin marina then on the road back visited  “Maiden’s Castle”.

07.11.2018

Our team met at school at 09.30 our teacher presented a lesson sample by using Google “Arts and Culture” applications. He gave some information about the application and its usage.

After eating “Turkish Döner” we went to countryside in order to see and meet the country side culture. We visited an open air museum, “the ruins of Olba civilization”. We visited a historical church called “Canbazlı church” After visiting a kiwi garden, we went to “Heaven and Hell” sinkholes.

 08.11.2018

The guest students attended a workshop lesson about web designing and programming. In the lesson our teacher “Ufuk SEÇKİN” taught how to make a simple web-site by using HTML. The guests students learnt how to make frames and banners. They designed a simple web site and they added tabs linked to Google’s “Arts and Culture” web site. In these tabs you could visit historical and cultural places in each partners countries. So the students had a chance to use “Arts and Culture” application. and web site. They also had a chance to view the other countries’ museums, places and etc.

After this lesson students attended an English lesson. In this lesson they met the other Turkish Students. They did “a Fill in the blanks” exercise on a song lyric. After the exercise all the students listened different songs of the partner countries.

In the afternoon we went to a famous cave called “Grindere”. The cave’s karstic nature fascinated the visitors(In this cave There is a lake at the bottom. And it is under sea level.) After this visit, partners had a chance to do traditional sovenier shopping.

In the evening Our principal organized a dinner. In this diner traditionally cooked fish kalamar and some special salads were served to the visitors. The principle gave the visitors their attendance certificates and he gave a special gift which represents Silifke’s folk dance and Stone bridge.

09.11.2018

It was time for our partners to leave. We had great time teacher. We took our visitors to the airport. And They got on the plane safely.

Hakan DEMIR