Short-term joint staff training event in a Dutch School

Short-term joint staff training event in a Dutch School:

           Dr Nassau College Penta 12-19 March 2016, Assen in Holland

Participating Polish teachers: an English teacher-Mrs. Maria Zaor,a Biology teacher-Mrs. Małgorzata Golec, a Physical Education teacher-Mr. Tomasz Wnętrzak

The first day (Saturday)-12 March- arrival in Assen

We arrived in Holland at the airport in Eindhoven and first we took a bus to the nearest railway station and got on the train to Ultreht and there we caught the train to Assen. During the two-hour journey we noticed that Dutch people are very friendly and helpful and owing to their help we came safe and sound to the Hotel de Jange in Assen.We rested for a while and went for a short walk into the town. In front of the hotel there was an open-air market where  you could find a big choice of food(meat, sausages, fish, bread, cakes, sweets),flowers  and different kinds of handicraft products and souvenirs.

 

                                                           The flowers in the market.

In the evening our partner school teacher, Ellen Franken came to welcome us in Holland. In the late evening we watched the news on TV and we couldn’t see any information about Poland.

Apart from that we noticed;
-the sunny and a little windy weather,
-no heavy traffic in the streets,
-good roads, a lot  of paths for bicycles,
-many bikes standing along the streets without any lockers,
-friendly people, willing to help with finding places,
-Dutch people know English well.
The other activities:
-a long stroll around the town, admiring the canal banks,
-taking part in the mass in a Catholic church-not many churchgoers inside the church; the woman celebrated the ceremony and all the gathered people were taking part in the mass-saying prayers and singing songs.

                                                           On the canal bank