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ISB Newsletter - February 2006
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THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BUCHAREST
INTERNATIONAL WEEK 13-17 February 2006
International week is celebrated at ISB Primary every
year in order to promote inter cultural friendship. We
celebrated the third international week at ISB Primary.
A variety of presentations, cultural dances, musicals
and an international fair was organized this time. Six
different countries’ embassies or cultural centres from
four different continents came to our school and made some presentations about their countries throughout
the international week.
The lessons focused on learn-
ing different cultures
throughout the week. Each
class chose a country and
studied their culture, history and geography in various
ways. A very international at-
mosphere could be seen at
the school by just looking at
the displays prepared by the students.
A Turkish musical and a Romanian folk dance was per-
formed in a special assembly by our students who helped to contribute to the diversity of the week. Dur-
ing the same week, a group of children from Palatul
Copiilor came to perform a Romanian folk dance.
Monday 13th February:
The first presentation of the week was by the Ger-
man Embassy.
Nisa Koc’s observations of the German Embassy’s presentation:
A man came from the German Embassy to tell ISB about Ger-many. It was a very good chance to learn more about Germany.
Everybody was interested. He also spoke about sports and the world cup 2006 which will be in Germany. He gave us stickers
and balloons.
On the same day, we also had some visitors from
Palatul Copiilor to show us a couple of traditional Romanian dances.
Romanian Folk Dance Some Romanian children
came from Palatul Copilor to dance for the international
week. There were three parts; the first dance was a tradi-
tional dance, the second
dance was a ballet, and the third dance was again a tradi-
tional dance.
Tuesday 14th February
The second day of the week started with the presenta-
tion by the Egyptian Embassy. At the end of the pres-entation, students asked many questions about the
pyramids, mummies, and the pharaohs.
Ceren Erten’s observations of the Egyptian
Embassy’s presentation: Egypt has lots of pyramids. The queen was Cleopatra. There were lots of mummies in the past. Most of the population is
Muslim. They know Arabic. The queen liked to draw things on the wall. They were drawing the past on the wall because
they wanted the people to see what happened in the past. The favourite sport is football. Egypt is bigger than Romania.
The presentation of the Nigerian Embassy was in the
afternoon. Students watched a very interesting documentary about Nigeria and asked lots of curious
questions. The number of questions they asked was
an indication of how interested they were in learn-
ing about the different cultures.
Wednesday 15th February We hosted the Indonesian Embassy
on Wednesday. Our friendly guests
from the Indonesian Embassy
showed a video about wild animals in Indonesia and answered lots of ques-
tions that our students had. At the
end of the program children were
very happy to receive some flags and
other gifts from Indonesia.
The presentation of The American Cultural Centre was
on the same day. Students learnt about diversity in the United States. Everybody was surprised to learn
that many different races made up the United States.
The brochures and
stickers they received
from our guests made
them very happy.
Thursday 16th February
Two of our parents, Mr.and Mrs.Kisvari came from the Hungarian Embassy to give a presentation to the stu-
dents. The presentation was very educational and a lot
of fun. The amusement park in Budapest attracted
much attention from the children.
Kate’s Report about the American Embassy’s
Presentation
The American Embassy was presented by
two diplomats: Alicia and Deborah. They had
a nice presentation about the USA and its
culture.
The USA is composed of different people. In
fact, the USA has different skin colours, like
white, yellow, pink and hazel. This is be-
cause when Christopher Columbus found
America different people came there. There
are Native Americans and emigrants which
came from other countries. USA has 50
states. Some of them are: New York, Califor-
nia, Los Angeles and Florida.
We had two special as-
semblies on the same day. First, there was a
Turkish musical called
‘Uskudar’a Gider Iken’
which was prepared by
our Turkish language teacher Mr.Yakup and
some students from
year 5 and 6.
The last activity of the
day was prepared by our Romanian language
teacher Ms.Livia which
consisted of a tradi-
tional Romanian folk
dance.
Friday 17th February The biggest event of the
week was organized by our
parents at the biggest ball-
room of the Crowne Plaze Ho-tel. Since the international
fair has gained popularity
over the last three years and
although the hall was not big
enough for all the visitors, the parents and ISB were
very happy to see so many
people.
After the opening ceremony,
visitors started visiting the tables. There were 29 coun-
tries represented this year.
Parents worked hard to pre-
pare their country’s table.
Everything seemed to be per-fect; the decorations, display
materials, useful brochures
and of course the delicious
food. As the guests were walking around the
tables tasting food
from different parts
of the word, the cos-
tume parade was an-nounced and people
paused to watch 60
teachers and stu-
dents walking into the hall wearing
their traditional cos-
There were lots of events during the two-hour long
event. It started with songs from different languages by our school choir followed by Andjelina Acimovac’s
violin play from year 3.
Soon after the traditional costumes parade came the Turkish
musical prepared by the Turkish language teacher with pri-mary school students.
Towards the end of the fair, a professional Romanian group of
folk dancers performed.
When the program had finished, people were happy to see
such a successful fair.
The international fair was viewed on several national televi-
sion stations during their news bulletins as well as national
newspapers published in Romanian and English.