Page 73 - Microsoft Word - CMA BOOK_2

Cultural Migration in Autobiography Grundtvig Partnerships 2009-2011

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

e-mail: kszia@komesnet.com.pl http://cma.internetdsl.pl

73

From a challenge to a great experience Livija Mukane

Every project is like a life long learning lesson for all participants and every project team. It relates also with the „Cultural Migration in Autobiographies” project. We all could learn a lot about each other, about our –so different and very interesting – cultural traditions, about the life style in many places of the world. We discovered many life stories of people from different countries and continents –sometimes funny, but sometimes also dramatic and painful.

What we did in Malpils? In October 2009 we published an announcement about this project in our local newspaper „Mālpils Vēstis”, invited our English teacher Envija Sviksa to be a tutor of the writer’s group. All people were ready to use and improve their English knowledge, to communicate with other partners during the international project meetings, were invited into the writer’s group.

In order to improve writer’s communicative skills we organized an English Speaking Club, leaded by English teacher Ina Turkina who decided also to join the writer’s group. The meetings of the English Speaking Club participants have been held once a week. It was not a closed society – everybody could join the group at every lesson. Also computer basic skills course had been offered to our writers for their more successful work at the texts, presentations etc. Therefore we can say that this project has a positive impact not only to its direct participants –writers, teachers, project team, but also to wider local community.

But of course not only biographies writing, English and computer courses are events we’ll remember after the project. There are our new colleagues and friends from 5 countries we met during all international meetings, their hospitality, smiles, friendship, creativity that we could enjoy during these 2 years. On behalf on our Project team I would like to say thank you very much all our partners for the successful and creative cooperation. See you in the next projects!