That day, after the lessons at school were over, students Paulina Burzdikaite and Laura Jaciunskaite from the form 8a, also Zilvinas Sinkevicius from the form 9a, English teacher Lilija Mikalauskaite – Dziumajeva and art teacher Ingrida Vaitkiene started their journey to Spain where they participated in the fourth meeting of the project.
The topic of the meeting was “Modernism or Art Nouveau”, so before going to the meeting we had several intergrated English – Art lessons about Art Nouveau, also about Art Nouveau in Lithuania and last but not least, we’ve got to know about famous Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi and his creations. We also prepared a small presentation on Art Nouveau in Lithuania…
The flight from the international Vilnius airport lasted 3 hours and a half. When we landed at Barcelona airport it was already growing dark, we were welcomed by pleasant warmth and were fascinated by the large palm – trees growing at the territory of the airport… It took us one more hour to reach our destination – the town of Artes, where families of the host students met us by the school… And teachers had to travel for half an hour more to Manresa, where they stayed at the hotel…
Hello, Spain! Hello, Catalonia!