Day 5 (Friday,12th of May): 

Comparing European values and European biographies in our board games; 

"Peace is not something that can be taken for granted" (Peace wishes);

"All we are saying is: Give peace a chance"

Comparing European values and European biographies in our board games

On the final day, we compared the European values, history and biographies in our board games. We also enjoyed another session of playing. 

"Peace is not something that can be taken for granted" (Peace wishes)

"Frieden ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit." (Jean Claude Juncker)

When we started planning our project more than three years ago, we chose this sentence as a motto for our project. At that time, nobody suspected that three years later this sentence would have proved itself true. There IS war again in Europe now. And that is why we ended this final meeting of our project with a sign of peace.

Each students group - having worked together for several days now - thought about symbols for peace, draw them and wrote "peace" in the six national languages of our project.

Each national Erasmus group took one set of "peace wishes" home and made a poster or a mobile out of them. So our wish for peace is present at all of our school, is present in six countries and six languages.

"All we are saying is: Give peace a chance"

We finished our meeting (and, alas, our project!) with music and dance. Students and teachers learned and danced a traditional Slovenian circle dance called "Kolo".

Music united us again in a final activity, also this dedicated to peace. "All we are saying is: Give peace a chance" - these words of the peace movement, half a century old but fully up-to-date: we sang them all together, accompanied by body percussion, bongo, drum, cello and piano - "united by playing" according to the motto of our final project meeting.

And then, it was time to say "good bye" as the Italian and Croatian group was ging to leave on Friday afternoon, while the German, Greek and France students enjoyed another evening with their Slovenian partners or met in international groups. Saturday at noon, however, everybody had to say good-bye as in all meetings before, but nevertheless differently. A project of three years had come to an end - but NOT our friendship and sense of belonging together!