O zi la Biblioteca Judeteana "Petre Dulfu", Baia Mare

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Eu, in ziua in care am vizitat Biblioteca Judeteana, dupa un tur amanuntit am iesit un om nou. Eram tot eu in aparenta, dar am realizat la nivelul subconstientului ca am acumulat noi cunostinte care vor ajuta in continua dezvoltare a personalitatii mele. Aceasta pentru mine a fost o adevarata experienta din care am iesit mai bogata.
Am intrat in Biblioteca Judeteana de nenumarate ori, chiar mai mult, trec pe langa ea zilnic in drumul meu spre scoala. Nici prin gand nu mi-a trecut, pana in acea zi, ca aceasta cladire ascunde atatea frumuseti. Ma refer si la grandoarea in sine a cladirii, dar si la ce cuprinde ea in interior. Camere ce ascund absolut toate cunostintele lumii, de la inceput si pana in prezent, mistere despre oameni, locuri si evenimente care asteapta ca cei interesati sa le descopere.
Ma bucura faptul ca in cadrul bibliotecii se petrec foarte frecvent evenimente deosebite care marcheaza anumite zile, si noi, prin acestea, avem sansa de a evada din cotidian si de a ne bucura din plin de acestea.
Din prima clipa am simtit caldura si amabilitatea cu care am fost intampinati, m-au bucurat zambetele cu care am fost condusi si pot spune cu tot sufletul ca aici am petrecut un timp de mare calitate.
Din nou am descoperit ca lucrurile ce sunt aproape de noi si par banale se pot transforma in adevarate lectii de viata.
Sunt fericita ca aceasta lectie am trait-o alaturi de persoane dragi mie, precum colegii si doua stimate doamne profesoare.
Aceasta a fost o experienta placuta si utila de care imi voi aminti mereu cu mult drag.

Ma simt onorata ca am avut aceasta oportunitate rara de a vizita Biblioteca Judeteana si de a descoperi toate minunatiile ei.

Horvath Timea, XE

Exhibition - Photos

Photos

The Exhibition

The exhibition was great!
I was very happy when I saw that my drawing was on the panel representing our high school!
I was really pleased and I want to thank you teacher for the invitation.
For those who haven't been at the exhibition yet, I tell you to go because you can see a lot of products made by children aged 8-16 years...It is really interesting and instructive.

Andreea Coman 10 C

Hello,
I want to say that I was really surprised by this exhibitio and I was mostly very satisfied because I got a lot of information about the county library and its departaments.
I want to congratulate the contribution of the persons who made the exhibiton of the Bordeline project, it was really interesting and original.
Now, I also know that The Britanica departament is the exact place where we should go when we need information about America or other things.
Congratulations , my dear teacher !

Lia Hoban 11th form

Vizita la biblioteca

Azi clasa noastra a fost la biblioteca...a fost o actiune extraordinar de buna. Cu totii am fost impresionati sa aflam multe lucruri noi despre biblioteca la care cu totii mergem de mici. Eu una am fost placut impresionata sa aflu ca sunt anumite parti ale bibliotecii de care nici macar nu stiam ca exista...de exemplu: sala multimedia, sala cu carti in toate limbile. Nu stiam de asemenea despre sala de inventii sau unde se afla sala cu ziarele.Mi-au placut enorm aceste 2 ore petrecute la biblioteca in care am vizitat-o si am vizionat deasemenea un minunat filmulet despre insula Eliss la sectia Britannica. Sper sa mai fie astfel de activitati alaturi de d-voastra si de alti profesori...Va multumim!!!

Georgeta Peter 10 F

Memories

Every since I was a little girl I have dreamed about travelling overseas.
Strange lands, exciting places and new cultures have always fascinated me. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to speak another language, to grow up learning different customs or to live in a completely different way than I do now. The main thing about living in Europe is being able to travel all over. Each country has something that can amaze you. And who would have thought that someone’s life could change in just 7 days?
Well, mine did.
This spring my dream came true. I got to travel to Italy within a Comenius project. And suddenly it seemed like the world was at my fingertips.
Italy's green hills, beautiful mountains and city life are unforgettable. We were happy having such a great chance.
We managed to get used to living in Italy for one week, to it's people, culture and customs. We adapted easily to their way of life, especially because those who took part in the project were boys and girls of our age, pupils from France, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, Liechtenstein and of course Romania. We travelled almost all over the Belluno district , we visited Vicenza, Treviso (but unfortunately, just a small part of it), Belluno, Longarone, Venice and other cities and villages, places I’ve probably seen only on the television screen.
What I enjoyed the most was the "Dream Museum" from Feltre (Museo dei sogni e della memoria), the most beautiful museum I’ve seen so far. It's not a usual one, it's something more than that. It has so many stories that can change your life completely , in just 2 or 3 hours, if you just listen what "it has to say". So, if you ever go to Feltre, don't miss it, just take 2 hours of your time and visit it, because it is an incredible place, and visiting Feltre is a very educational and interesting thing.
Another place I enjoyed was Venice. I've always wanted to go there and to see the famous "Lovers' City". It was beautiful; I can't even believe I was there. Travelling on the sea by the "vaporeto" was something I will never forget. We even got in contact with a boy from Napoli , he was very kind and asked us a lot of questions regarding our staying there.
Italy is great, Italians are very friendly , even friendlier with the foreigners, optimistic and the landscapes are awesome. I'm not sure they know how lucky they are. Their cities are very different from ours, I haven't seen there any 10 stores block of flats, all the shops are very well-groomed, thousands of ice-cream stores, and the ice-cream is incredible good and tasty. Italy is not only the pizza, pasta and macaroni's country, the food is really delicious, if you have somebody ready to cook it for you.
After the days spent there I know that I can take on any responsibility, and I’m not afraid of trying new things. This trip gave me the opportunity to experience something I never thought I could. Being in a different country and adapting to its customs is not such a difficult thing, you just have to understand them.
This chance I had made me wish for more and more projects and trips like this one. The project was based on English, and its main topic was crossing borders and it was the best thing that could happen to me because it helped me a lot. It helped me practice my English skills and it made me realize that there is not difference among people coming from different nations, because we all are human beings, with the same feelings and the same dream: a peaceful and united world. I think that the most important thing is to work together, and if we do that we can do wonderful things, like this project.
Bindea Andreea
11th C
Eminescu College Baia Mare , Romania

The Last School Day 2007

Here we are at the end of two fruitful school years.

I wish you all best of luck in life.

I also want to thank you for your involvement in the Borderline project.

I do hope it has been a wonderful experience for many of you.

Me, a EU Member

On the first of January 2007 our country became a EU member and on that day we became too.
The day that we were waiting for came at last and all of us celebrated in his on way. But still as the days past we didn't do anything for Romania. Nobody does anything...our president goes to all kind of meetings on this theme, but he still doesn't do anything for us or for Romania.
That's why I think that if we want a better life for us, for our parents, for our children...for everyone, we have to take attitude.
By being a EU member we have the opportunity to do things that the people from other generations couldn't do.
My message to all the children of our age, or younger, or even older is to learn as much as possible so that together to form the army of children from Romania. We have to make this country a powerful one and not to go away and leave it because we can go to other countries to build a future, this is not the solution because we can have a future here to...together whit our family and our friends.
This is my message as an EU member.

Eleonora Mic

9th E

Globalization

You can find a very good article about this topic in WIKEPEDIA

Kin Ancuta
Form 12th C

Calendar

Don't forget to visit the Calendar made by the Slovakian team with the contribution of all teams.

Romania's National Holiday

December 1st 2006

Workshops

Breaking Time and Space Barriers

By Alisia Muresan, 12th C

Borderline...the wall that we built between us, the barrier that separates our minds as well as our bodies, the appearances that we must fight against.
This is what we tried to do during our meeting with our colleagues from the project. After spending a wonderful day in which each team presented its work, our school organised a trip that, by taking us back in history helped us better understand the realities that we face today; a trip that showed our integrity as Romanians and our true character as humans.
It was also important due to the fact that we travelled along our border with Ukraine, and this way we had the possibility to observe how the people that live near borders get along and how this situation evolved in time, because our borders are not the same as were years ago.
We first visited what used to be the house of a historical personality from our county, Vasile Lucaciu. Known as “the lion of Sisesti”, he was a famous fighter for the rights of the Romanians from Transylvania. The ensemble that we visited includes: the parochial house, the school and The Church of the Saint Union of All the Romanians. Lucaciu was one of the fearless leaders of the Transylvanian fight for emancipation and he was one of the people who wrote the “Memorandum”, which contained historical arguments, the motives that stood as a base for the Romanians desire: not to annex Transylvania to Hungary.
After this, we had the chance to visit the famous wooden Church from Surdesti. It dates back to 1721 and it is remarkable due to the tower’s impressive dimensions. This church is known as the highest construction of wood from the whole world, the tower measuring 54 m. The beauty of the place is increased by the marvellous interior that has paintings with scenes from the Bible.
The Museum of Ethnography and The Village Museum are important sights for any Romanian. And especially we, the people from Maramures, have a lot to be proud of when we speak about The Village Museum from Sighetu Marmatiei.
At the entrance of this museum we are „welcomed” by the symbol-monument of central Europe, the point where the 0 kilometre is marked.
The Museum is composed of peasant architectural monuments, houses and churches, arranged in a village that reconstitutes the way that these peasants lived and were organized. This place creates such a strong impression of reality, which I confess that I sometimes felt like I have barely got out from a time machine that took me back in time, to those ages.
Of great importance are also the Gates from Maramures, which, for Europe, made a considerable contribution to enriching the cultural treasure of our ancient continent. This Gates separate the sacred space of the house and its surroundings from the outside space, representing the pride of the peasant as an inhabitant of Maramures.
What we visited next is also what impressed me the most: the Memorial from Sighetu Marmatiei, and some famous words that I read there will always remain in my memory:”He, who forgets the past, is condemned to repeat it” (Santayana) and “When justice does not succeed in becoming a form of memory, memory alone CAN be a form of justice”(Ana Blandiana). These words impressed me even more after I found out the history that they refer to.
Placed in the former "Prison of the Ministers" in Sighet, the MEMORIAL of the Victims of Communism and anticommunist Resistance was opened in 1997 in the town of Sighetu Marmatiei ("Sighet") located in the far North West, in the beautiful Maramures region.
The prison, which was active from 1897 until 1977, takes its name from the period during the 1950s when it held many political prisoners (former government ministers, generals, academicians, and religious leaders - the cultural and political elite of Romania) in terrible conditions - brought here because it was thought to be particularly secure since the town was just 2km from the Soviet frontier. 180 prisoners were held in terrible conditions in 72 cells. Many were elderly but this didn't save them from beatings and punishment so it is no surprise that many died. These included one of the most respected pre-war politicians.
The Memorial Sighet was established as a reminder of the atrocities committed by the communist regime - for years the population has been brain-washed to create the so-called "New Man" through the rewriting of history and poisoning the memories of generations. Moral and civic values could only be recovered if the collective consciousness is recuperated. The Sighet prison was chosen because it was the first of many political prisons set up in Stalinist times and because it was where the country's political, spiritual and cultural elite of the pre-war democracy was exterminated.
An International Study Centre was established here because out of all of the former communist countries, Romania's experience had been the longest and most painful.

Press Release

Detectivul de presa http://www.detectivuldepresa.ro/

25.10.2006

Press Release

Graiul Maramuresului
25.10.2006

Un proiect şcolar fără frontiere
http://www.graiul.ro/

Press Release

Informatia Zilei
25.10.2006

http://www.informatia-zilei.ro/BM/index.htm

Project Meeting in Baia Mare

A new project meeting will bring together in Baia Mare the partners in Borderline project.
They will be 10 teachers accompanied by:
Italy: two girls
Liechtenstein: two girls
Slovakia: two boys
Vaslui Ro: two girls

Total: 8 girls and 2 boys.

They will be hosted by:

Andra Sas
Florina Fanea
Diana Rusu
Andreea Bindea
Dana Câmpean
Karla Popp
Alexandra Mureşan
Arthur Vişovan
Alin Şuteu

10 reasons to visit Romania

On May 22nd 64 students from the 9th forms had been invited to give 10 reasons why Romania is worth being visited.
This was a project activity for Borderline.

Dissemination

On Saturday 20th the project was presented to 42 teachers of English from Maramures.

Interview - AXA TV

This week Alexandra invited Andrada , Alin and me to give an interview about the project reunion from Poland.

The interview was presented on Friday evening and Sunday afternoon at AXA TV.
I referred to the importance of these international meetings for building a common Europe while Andrada and Alin referred to the things that impressed them most in Poland:
the people’s wonderful hospitality, the way the hosting families tried to make them feel at home.

They spoke about the friendly atmosphere among all the participants.

They also referred to the most impressive visit in Poland, that from Auschwitz. Alin mentioned that this visit had fully impressed him and made him think of several questions without an answer: Why? What for?

Marian Ilea - Vacek

The prose writer and contemporary dramatist, Marian Ilea, who was awarded numerous national and international, literary prises, published (among many other books), a trilogy which contains Gravimeter, The House of Gorki Market and Vacek.

The central idea promoted in this trilogy is that of transfrontier between social spheres, cultures, and ethnics. This is introducing the idea of borderline, between the characters, what they are and what they want to be.

In the same time, it is revealed the cult of shame/guilt.

The trilogy is structured in two sections. At first the story is narrated in a classic form, in a burlesque way and finally, using the “balzacian” pattern. The trilogy contains dramas, inspired from “Realia and Utopia” areas. It is achieved through meditation. The author explores the paradox, providing an appearance of normality.

By analysing the setting of the novel, we can notice in its development different places. This way, Medio Monte becomes an “axis mundi”, around which the characters gravitate in an inevitable way. At first they experience different states from calmness and tranquilli to that of machinery characteristic to all the inhabitants.

The faun seems to be contaminated by a germ of intimations, send out by the town Council. Denouncing has a sotheriologycal function, just like a purgatory, which allows the envy, the abnormality or the obscure, to insert entirety.

One of the lait-motives of this trilogy is represented by a vision, from dream-weak up status, of its own burial, to the author’s opinion about the voice of community, (the cult of shame) in this situation.

The narrative plans appropriated to this trilogy are separated in three plans, alternative, parallel and, even in some cases, over loped.

As to chronology, it follows a linear trajectory, with many regressions, all this in a blend of reality…, fiction and dream, in which they aren’t elucidated the metafictional fragments.

Medio Monte becomes the main character, built up on an archetypical manner, situated “at the middle of Good and Evil”. It embodied the premonition, (animal diseases, lost minded miners, who get out, or not from the mine-exploitation).

Vacek Syrovy, the chief policeman, from Medio Monte, is one of those, who have hallucinations, related to an Idea. Along the story, we can notice that the chief policeman seems to be deeply inflexible, when searching the source of all the evils, which had happened in Medio Monte. He thinks that bishop Joseph Kollowitch, is behind all the delinquencies and crimes that took place in Medio Monte.

By reading the book, we can find out “Bakeries with an aspect of latrines […] Merchandises are fully covered with ledges”, all this representing images that really reach an apocalyptic level, that have the role of destroying the Medio Monte natural paradise. In this way, the statues of the market, this attributes is due to the invasion of the Galatians and the Albanians, all protected by Felicia Gruntag, colonel Rady`s widow.

“Vacek” represents an agony book. It` s the agony of an imaginary, well hold up, by the writer. The characters are reporting, themselves to the Great Mechanism, just as to a great religion. One of these characters will die, another one will escape from being marginalized, going by train to Brno. Hereby “Vacek” is a frothy book, irrational and hilarious sometimes, producing a carnival “topos”, where beneath the surface, it can be noticed a large series of funny, tragic-comic situation, and the surface structure of the text, on a second thoughts, is defined by bizarre situations, a-typically, un-centrated epic contexts.

This book can be easily described, according to the obvious paradox, in each manifestation of the genuine human being.

Costin Alexandru - Daniel, XI G