Comenius

The first thing we’d like to say is that this trip was a good thing for all of us, we had wonderful relationships with our different penfriends and their families and friends. This experience has allowed us to have another vision of Turkey, nicer and warmer than what we usually see on TV news.
One week before leaving and going to Turkey, we  were really afraid of how we would be welcomed by our penfriends and their families, how they would be when we would be in their flats.

 Even if we had spoken to  them on facebook, and created connections, we were still nervous about other people. Some of us wrote all our feelings in our travel books during the trip.  Everything was easier when we arrived and met them: all the families and penfriends were waiting for us in Buyukcekmece. We spent the whole week with them: We visited the city, the big bazar and ate in a typical Turkish restaurant. We took some photos and practised sports with teachers, this was really pleasant and funny. In the afternoons we visited monuments, factories, went on horse riding. This was so great and we visited the old Istanbul too and even a mosque. In fact, in only one week we visited wonderful places and met wonderful people. We tasted all meals which were typical Turkish meals,  some of them had bad taste but others were really good.

In a nustshell this week was filled with happiness and amazing encounters, and we discovered a country  we didn’t know anything about ; besides, now, we know some words in Turkish.

                     

Belbecir Chahrazade
Paluszkiewicz Valentine
Schliwanski Audrey

Beautiful trip in Spain

I was very happy take part to this beautiful trip.

It was the first times that I went to Spain and especially take plane. I liked.

We were two French girl in the same family, her name is Angélique, I didn't know her, now she is my friend. My penpal,Clara and her family welcomed us with open arms.Clara is a beautiful and very nice girl. She introduced us her friends. We went to her school with others pupils.

During this week, I have met lot of people with different nationalities, it has allowed me to discover different ways of life and foreign languages.

I spoke Spanish and a little English. Spain is a beautiful country because we visited Alambra Palace and Alcala La Real's castle.

I am ok at remake this beautiful journey because I loved.

Thanks Comenius

Marion Czierna

Chocolate with insects !

The ideal gift for start the Entomophagy :

This box of 12 chocolates is the result of a collaboration between Micronutris and Master Chocolatier Guy Roux. It is a mix between the voluptuous chocolate and crunchy insect : they delight the curious. It is also an original gift to offer that will surprise your family as friends .

 

Chocolates and insects of quality :

Insects are edible insects born and bred in France by Micronutris , and fed from healthy and natural foods. Without Sugar and 100 % natural, these chocolates are manufacturing handcrafted by French.

 

Chocolate scorpions

After some years, the mondial population will have not food enought. So, we will eat  insects to save the world and because  it will have not meat for all the population. We suggest one of recipe of insects.

Recipe of chocolate scorpions :

First, we bake the scorpions on the stole and melt down the chocolate on the microwave at 40°C. Soak the scorpions on the chocolate. Wait they harden and you can eat them with a cup of coffee or a cup of tea.

Kadylak Marion                                               Guedj Mandy                                                                                  1S1

insects in gastronomy

In the future, the insects will be present in the gastronomy. The insects are source of proteins. The population eat more and more insects. There are differents recipes like this :

 

Grasshopper Fritters
from 'Ronald Taylor's "Butterflies in My Stomach"

3/4 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3/4 c milk
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 c grasshoppers
1 pt. heavy cream beaten stiff

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl. Slowly add milk and beat until smooth. Add egg and beat well.
Pluck off grasshopper wings and legs, heads optional. Dip insects in egg batter and deep fry. Salt and serve.
 

                                                                                                                         PRUVOST Corentin

MAKLES Carine

SION Justine

1S1

Recipe insect food.

Salad « cri-cri »

 

Ingredies

green salad

Redpepper

Tomato

grated carrots

diverse vegetables

Put crickets in decoration.

You will have an original salad !

Bunch of crickets.

 

 

Ingredies

3/5 crickets by 1 people

Tomato

Greenpepper

Oinon

Thyme

Put in this order : tomato, greenpepper, oinion, crickets (put in the oven about ten seconds)

Salt slightly and put the thyme and make roast in the ember.

 

Fried larvas.

Put the larvas in the hot oil.

You can put the larvas in the flour before the hot oil to make doughnuts

 

Bananas singed in insects and in rum

Ingredies

Banana

Crickets

Rum

In a frying pan put banana, put the crickets and the rum, make burn few minutes. You can eat with ice cream and whipped cream.

Eat insects !

                                

 

In world, we can eat today insects in differents forms : direct or indirect.

As there is less and less meat, the Scientifics showed that it was good eating insects which give vitamins B ;B2 ; and D.

This gastronomy that has already started is called « alternative food » and the insects are less expensive and more vitamined than meat.

 The insects are future !!!

Marry Cordowinius

An american breakfast

Do you want to take an american breakfast ? I suggest you locuts pancakes caramelized. In fact, because of population growth, we have to find solutions so as to feed everybody. Entomophagy is one of the more important one. Thanks to this, restaurants can propose you new receipts such as locusts pancakes caramelized which is a traditional breakfast in America, of course without insects. This is the french touch.
 

 

 

You can also savor a traditional japanese dish :

 

Pizz’Bugs

Ingredients (for a pizza 25 cm)

1 pizza dough
10 g of dried insects
5 small mushrooms paris
1 tomato coulis
black olives
grated cheese

Preparation

1.On pizza dough, spread the tomato sauce.
2.Trancher into thin strips Paris mushrooms and place on the pizza.
3.Add insects and dried black olives.
4.Parsemer grated cheese.
5.Mettre oven thermostat 7 (210 ° C) for 1/2 hour or more if necessary.

 

Pancakes Jig

Ingredients

 

Insects between 30 and 40 (go to the well for this recipe)
150 g flour
70 g chocolate
3 eggs
1 ½ glass of milk
sugar
butter
Put the cider cool and go!

1) Mix flour, eggs, milk, a little sugar and 20 g of butter into pieces in order to make a batter . Add the chopped insects ( at the last moment not to blacken ) and chocolate cut into small pieces .

2) Put everything in a small pan (for the pancake is very thick , about 1 cm) over high heat , then reduce to medium heat, and when the pancake took .

3) Cook without turning , and sprinkle with a little sugar a few minutes before it is cooked. Be careful not to over cook , so it does not dry out.

Serve warm for chocolate is still melting and insects still warm .

Axel Poullain, Alicia Libberecht, Alexandra Lefebvre, Céline Mayelle

Insects, food of future !

The permanent increase of the population will oblige us to eat insects in a few years. Indeed, cattle,pigs, sheeps and chicken farms require many space whereas the insects need less space.

                                                          small pea and these worms of flour

There is a restaurant in the Bretagne  the chief David Faure offers dishes with insects. In some countries the population already eat insects, for example in Mexico and in Colombia, the people eat the insects. An American expert has calculated that eight kilogram of crickets do 23479 calories either 43 hamburgers. While, we already eat about 500 grams of insects per year. May be that in 5 years the population will eat insects.

By Anthony, Maxence, Chloé, Manon, Audrey, Océane

Would you eat insects ?

Do you want a pizza with animal protéins which comes from Insects or towards flours. A restaurant in Guidel a city which is loacted in Bretagne in France serve this kind of food . Yes I know, it seems disgusted but the restaurant serve this kind of insects are hidden in the pizza.

In the future, because of the demographic increase, the traditional breeding could not give animals proteins enough.

But it is easy to breed insect, quickly, with not a lot of water, and surface ground. This breedings are environmental safely.

We already eat some insecst about 500 g when we are riding a bike or in the jam, the fruit juices, the bread…

Our ancètres from Lucy the australopithècus to Cro-Magnon were eating such a lot of insect that they wer be able to eat the all termite’s nest for breakfast.

 

 

About 1.2 millions of people already eat insects in Asia, Africa, South America. In Colombia, people eat ant like caviar.

The European community give 3 millions of euros to scientific research to consumption of insect.

So will you eat insects?

By Christophe Abraham

Travel in Greece

In September, I went in Kilkis in Greece. I was stressed because it was a first time that I went in a country without my friends or my family.

When we arrived in Greece, a Greece teacher we brought in Kilkis in car. I was afraid because I did not understand Greece teacher. She spoke quickly!

When I saw my correspondent, I was not stressed because Kiki, my correspondent is a nice and beautiful girl, and her friends too. Her friends spoke and laughing with us. And his mother speak a little French, it was good for me to communicate

We visited a cave, Kilkis, a wine factory, a traditional food factory in Goumenissa, the Archaeological site of Vergena and Thessaloniki

Thanks to this travel, I progressed in English, and I learned to speak with different people. I learned different cultures.

If I could do this trip, I would like do again.

As for me, this travel was very enriching.

Audrey Duhamel

My travel in Greece

In the last week of September, I flew to Greece. I was a little stressed because it was the first time I took the plane. However, I was very excited.

We first started seeing Greece from the plane : it was a gigantic view, there were swimming pools, big houses, I liked this landscape.

We arrived in Thessanoliki airport, the scenery was very beautiful. An English teacher drove us to go to Kilki which is a small deserted town. People were very nice, there was a right friendliness. We spent the night in a hotel.

On the following day, we met our penfriend. Mine, Anastasia was very beautiful, generous, and friendly . Her family loves Paris. Her mother and sister speak French.

We did many activities : we visited museums, a wine factory, a cave and Thessanoliki.

Even though I haven’t progressed a lot in English, I managed to communicate with people.

I think we were very lucky to be in this program : we visited new countries, where the cultures and customs are different. This journey has opened our minds and has been an unforgettable experience.

Thank you !

Laetitia Capon

Mobility to Romania From the 12 to 19th of may 2013

During Oyster Fest, we got the opportunity to discover a wonderful, colourful country.

 Romanian people gave us such a warm welcome, that we immediatly got a positive image opposed to that of the « Roms » we usually have in France .

 Romania is rather a modern country in evolution between two periods : we could meet cows and sheeps on the road nearby huge SUV’s.

 In fact it’s a multicultural country where all the specialities are well represented. Romanian rather speak Italian or English but not a lot of French. We tasted gastronomic specialities : lambstew with rice cooked as risotto and traditional cakes as desert. We drank « Muscat » wine with the main dish and Grappa to finish with coffee. What surprised us , was Sherry as an aperitif and not a liquor.

Each time we felt contradictions between a 50 year-old way of life and modern life .

We visited a technological highschool where they study catering or hairdressing with few resources. People are rather environmental-friendly : wood is the main material used to build houses and for heating. Each house in the countryside owns its garden and people rear cows or sheeps. Romanians are able to be self-sufficient.

This travel has given us the opportunity to keep in touch with pupils and teachers and it opened our minds and offered us a new way of life. We hope to go back to Romania this summer.

Alexis Cuisinier, Rémi Cossu

Travel in Spain : 11/11/13-16/11/13

 

Marie Perolat, Sarah Kean, Martin Angélique, Bonvoisin Pauline, Andrès Camille , Teddy zelazny,Valentin Dubois , Eleonore Cagin, Valentin Verdez, Valmori Celine , Ines Tassez, Manon Laurent, Amélie leprêtre, Maxime Pavageau

 

It was a great experience for us because the Spanish way of life is so different from ours. For example, the prices are very cheap and politeness is not the same as in France.

Our welcoming was very warm. In one week, we had a new family, new parents, and new sisters or brothers.

Spanish people wanted to fatten us !!!! Because they offered us so much delicious food like tortillas, churros or gaspacho.

 

They always cook with olive oil so food is so fatty at the end. Their breakfast is very generous, it’s like a morning lunch ; in fact for Spanish people it’s such an important meal : we had pieces of toast, tomatoes, olive oil, serano ham, orange juice.

At night, everybody is in the street, because the weather is fresher so it’s more pleasant.

This interresting trip has made European students closer from each other.

In the project, there were six countries, which spoke six different languages .

We haven't progressed a lot in English but we have progressed more in Spanish. On the first day, it was dificult to understand what Spanish students were saying but on the last day we understood more because we knew each other better and we no longer were afraid of speaking a foreign language.

For the first two days, everybody wanted to go back to France because we weren't comfortable and we felt alone.

Day after day, we started feeling better and at the end we wanted to stay in the Spanish families. On the last day, it was the hardest day, everybody was crying, all the families and the students.

We practised lots of activities but those that we prefered were:

• A visit of the Alhambra with everybody
• The castle of Alcala La Real, because the landscape was really beautiful
• The olive factory, because we could try the olive oil. And it’s one of Spain’s most famous products
• Hiking in the Natural Subetica Park
• We cooked altogether to prepare « tortillas » and fried chicken
• We practised some sport activities like frisbee and hockey
• We went shopping in Malaga
• During our free time we could speak with a lot of people to progress in Spanish.

Thanks to Europe we have lived a great and interesting experience. Allthe students were Europeans, even if we had some different cultures we could speak, have fun, laugh together.

We want to say « THANK YOU EUROPE » because without you we couldn’t have lived this travel in the beautiful, and warming country of Spain .

One of the most important experience in my life

 

I’m a French teacher. I teach biology and geology in France. I don’t usually work with language teachers. So, the Comenius Project is one of the most important experience in my life.

 

I think that the general organization is a model of organization. I think that the organization was a very big work from the Spanish teachers. I’m positively surprised by the blog and the web page about the Comenius project.

It is very intelligent to develop the target to create a game : the WIKI. The pupils have to write some articles about their country about the food, the personalities, monuments, etc  with some questions and also they have to read the articles from the other pupils. So they wil be able to play the game.

Personnaly, it was very rich to meet teachers from others countries and to share about our life, our work. I think it was the same for pupils. The Comenius project open our mind about foreigners but also, it open our mind to live with other people.

Christophe Abraham

French pupils in Turkey

LA GRANDE BOUFFE

La Grande Bouffe (Italian: La grande abbuffata, English: The Grande Bouffe and Blow-Out) is a 1973 French–Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret.

The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend with the express purpose of eating themselves to death. Bouffer is French slang for "excessive eating". (the Italian abbuffata means "great eating").

The first protagonist, Ugo, owner and chef of a restaurant "The Biscuit Soup" decides to commit suicide, probably because of misunderstandings with his wife. The second is Philippe, a somewhat important magistrate who still lives with his childhood nanny, Nicole, who is overprotective of him to the point of trying to prevent him from having relationships with other women, and who fulfills her own sexual needs with the judge. The third character is Marcello, an Alitalia pilot and womaniser, who is devastated by the fact that he has become impotent. In the first scenes in which he appears, he is intent on making one of his air-hostesses carry off the plane an entire Parmigiano for the villa where he will meet up with the other three protagonists. The fourth and final main character is Michel, who is an effeminate television producer, divorced and tired of his monotonous life. The four come together by car to the beautifully furnished but unused villa owned by Philippe. There they find the old caretaker, Hector, who has innocently prepared everything for the great feast, and a Chinese visitor who is there to offer a job to the magistrate in faraway China, which Philippe politely rejects with the phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes", quoting Virgil.

Once alone, the four begin their binge. In one scene Marcello and Hugo race each other to see who can eat oysters the faster. They discuss organizing a little "feminine presence" and decide to invite three prostitutes (not four because Philippe does not want to participate) to come to the house the following evening. Their breakfast next day is interrupted by the arrival of a school class who would like to visit the garden of the villa to see the famous "lime-tree of Boileau", a tree under which the French poet used to sit while looking for inspiration. The four willingly invite the class not only into the garden but also to view the old Bugatti in the garage and to a magnificent lunch in the kitchen. Above all, they get to know Andrea, the young and buxom teacher, whom they spontaneously invite to dinner that evening. Philippe is dismayed at the notion of the school teacher being in the same company as three prostitutes; he warns her but she appears not to be perturbed. The prostitutes arrive in due course and the atmosphere becomes frivolous and sexually charged. Andrea arrives and embraces the spirit of the party. She is attracted to Philippe, who proposes to marry her.

The eating continues unabated. Ugo is responsible for the preparation of the food. Michel, who seems to have been brought up strictly not to fart, suffers from indigestion. His friends encourage him to let go and fart. He goes to the toilet and causes the sanitary pipes to explode. The house is flooded with excrement.

Frightened by the turn of events, the prostitutes flee at dawn and leave only Andrea. She seems to sense the purpose of the protagonists and decides to help them in their efforts, establishing a tacit agreement and remaining with them until the death of all four.

The first to die is Marcello, after being enraged with his own impotence and following the explosion of the toilet. He becomes exasperated and realizing the futility of the farce, decides to leave the house at night during a snow storm in the old Bugatti that he had repaired earlier in the day with great delight. His friends find him the next morning, frozen in the driving seat. The first suggestion is to bury Marcello in the garden, but on the advice of Philippe (who, being a judge, warns that there is a severe penalty for the illegal burying of a corpse) they place the body in the villa's cold room, where it remains seated and clearly visible from the kitchen.

After Marcello comes Michel, who already suffering from indigestion and crammed to capacity with food (he cannot even lift his legs practising dance, his favourite pastime) literally dies of laughter at the exploding toilet incident. Amid flatulence and worse he collapses on the terrace. His friends place him in the cold room next to Marcello.

Shortly afterwards, Ugo prepares an enormous dish made from three different types of liver pâté in the shape of the Dome of St. Peter, which he serves to the remaining diners, Philippe and Andrea, in the kitchen in view of the two dead friends. Philippe and Andrea cannot bring themselves to eat it however. Philippe goes off to bed leaving Andrea to keep Ugo company during his determined effort to eat the entire pâté. Some time later she later calls Philippe back downstairs to help her stop his friend from stuffing himself to death. They cannot dissuade Ugo however, and end up attending to him on the kitchen table, the one feeding him, the other masturbating him until he dies. On the advice of Andrea, his body is left on the kitchen table, in his "domain."

Last to die is the diabetic Philippe on the bench under the lime-tree of Boileau and into the arms of Andrea after eating a cake she has made shaped like a pair of breasts. He dies just as another delivery of meat arrives. The delivery men react with incomprehension when Andrea instructs them to leave the meat - whole animals and sides of pork and beef - in the garden (the cold room being full). The film ends bizarrely with a scene of the garden filled with neighbourhood dogs, geese and poultry, and meat carcasses.

QUESTIONS:

1) The protagonists meet in the house of:
a) -Ugo
b) -Philippe
c) -Marcello
d) -Michel

2) The four men meet for a:
a) -Party
b) -Play cards
c) -Collective suicide
d) -Business negotiation

3) In the garden of the house, there is a historical tree because under its branches used to sit for inspiration the French poet:
a) -Boileau
b) -Lamartine
c) -Victor Hugo
d) -Alfred de Musset

4) The car that is in the garage of the house is:
a) -Jaguar Type E Coupé
b) -Bugatti Type 37
c) -Peugeot 404 Cabriolet
d) -Triumph TR4