3rd Post 3rd Term by Astrid Corbacho, Britta Ensinck, Lisette Habig and Matias Brugo

Partners project

During the last weeks, in Informatics, our teachers talked to us about the whole abroad partnership project, giving us in the process a little advice about how to start with the contacts and when to write the emails, etc.

Later that day, they gave us an email address that belonged to the partner from Sweden, that we had to contact via email.  This new project is about meeting new people, making friends and learning about different cultures or schools.

1. We sent an email to our partners introducing ourselves asking about their hobbies, appearance, families and of course which languages they speak.
2. After that, we waited for an answer. In doing so, we had to be patient, because of the different time lags,.. When we first got an answer, we were all very excited and wanted to know, how the partner of sweden was like.
3. Then, we started with our project.

"Some of the students didn´t get an answer until weeks later and that really delayed our work."

We also had to first ask the abroad partners about their other social medias and then communicate over these.

Social media over which we held the contact with them is:

• Snapchat
• Whatsapp
• Instagram
• Facebook

We used Instagram, Snapchat and Skype to communicate with them.

We personally think, this is a great idea, because we met other people from another country and thereby formed friendships. Also we learned about the partners´ friends and families and different school systems and in general we got to know the swedish culture.

This is Lea.

This is Hanna.

What was a little difficult, was the time lag. Sweden is four hours ahead of Argentina and if you want to ask your swedish contact something important, it could be, that you get an answer not before early in the morning. That was a little difficult, because you always had to think ahead, if you would get the answer early enough. This was a little annoying, because sometimes you wanted to work on the Post and you could not, because you needed that answer.

But all in all it was still excellent and fun and we are happy we could experience such a great thing.

Document with information about our partners:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hs1BL88uxtX0Wrft6BEWrWCD6SuS2GmZZgWGyNKcHBo/edit#

POSITIV	DRAWBACKS
Make new friends	It is difficult to contact the partners
Learn about new cultures	Time lag
Find new Interests	Different vacation times
Practice reading and writing (we: English and he/she: Spanish)	Some don’t have the same social media as you have