Visit in Athens

After having visited Thessaloniki, on March the 26th we started our second part of our visit in Greece. We landed in Athens at late noon under a heavy rain! As soon as we got into our rooms we had some free time.

The second day in Athens we visited the Departent of Education Programmes of the Ministry of Education. All students and teachers were given two Museum of Acropolis and the Parthenon. We then walked around Plaka, had lunch and continued our walk at Thision.

The last day in Athens we were guided into the Hellenic Parliament, visited the local market, walked at the National Garden, visited the Zappeion Magaron Hall Centre, the Panathenaic Stadium and the city centre.

Visit in Thessaloniki

It was a great pleasurw to have all our partners in Greece this March! Ninety five students and teachers visited Thessaloniki from 22 March till 26 March and Athens from 26 March till 29 March 2015 according to our timetable.

On March the 23rd the students and teachers of our MAGIC Comenius project visited the City Hall. The vice mayor welcomed the teams to the city. They then visited the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki where they had the chance to take part into a play role game and present their findings. After lunch, we all gathered to the conference room of the University of Macedonia where students participated in our first workshop when students presented theme 4: "Media bias".

The next day the students and the teachers took part into play role game in Thessaloniki. The activities were organised by Dot2Dot. All teams visited the church of Saint Demetrios, the ancient forum of Thessaloniki and the Bey Hamam. After lunch we again had our workshops in the University of Macedonia.They formed three grouos:

• Group A: Engaging in Causes Via ‘Hashtag Activism’
• Group B: News from Russia, Pakistan and China
• Group C: Challenging Hate Online

All groups members collaborated, discussed their topics and came up with ideas and proposals according to their approach. They then presented their ideas to the rest of the teams.

On Wednesday 25th of March the students and teachers were guided into the city centre. They visited the old byzantine and ottoman monuments of Thessaloniki and had their last workshop.

On Thursday 26th of March the students and teachers visited our school. Our head mistress welcomed the teams and the students had the chance to play basket ball in our school's playground and leave their message on a wall. After that all teams returned to the hotel, went to the airport and took our flight to Athens. Another great part of our visit in Greece had begun!