We´ve joined the global challenge «Trashtag» or «before and after». We ride our bikes with students in PE lessons to a dirty place, take a picture before, clean the area and then take a picture after. The result is always surprising and inspiring.
Archives for 2019
Striking…? No, cleaning up!
We heard about Fridays for Future a month ago and started filling big sacs with recycled plastic. But this week, a huge international event is about to happen on March 15th: a global school strike against climate change. Unfortunately, we´ve got a local holiday that very day: San Raimundo, Fitero´s saint patron. So anticlimactic… Ummm, […]
Students and volunteers’ families from Corella meet
The families of students and volunteers from Corella met on February 28th with Alhama School teachers and volunteers from Biciclistas de Corella to review the trip plan, logistics, main activities… Besides, the families got the profiles of their Erasmus guests. All the students are already in contact with volunteers from LAG Suduva, Frie Fugle and […]
Meeting teachers, students, and parents in Randersgade Skole
Jens Erik Larsen, 6th of March 2019. Foreningen Free Fugle and Randersgade Skole have started collaborating thanks to “Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Community” Erasmus project. Two teachers, Rikke Villumsen and Niels Daniel Nielsen, and six students, all of them members of Foreningen Frie Fugle, have held a meeting with Jens Erik Larsen. The purpose of the […]
Fridays for Future
A new ecology movement has started in Europe. It´s called «Fridays for Future.» A teenager from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, stopped going to school last August to complain in front of the Swedish parliament. She carried a banner that read: «School strike for climate change». You can know about her ideas by watching this TED talk: […]
Alhama High School´s Erasmus host students
Sixteen students have volunteered to host four Lithuanian, six Danish and six Irish youngsters from the 25th to the 31st of March. Thanks for making this trip possible, without your help it just couldn’t happen. Erasmus friends, we are looking forward to meeting you! Meet, from left to right, Bautista (16), Javier (16), Víctor (15), […]
Nati and Maribel enjoy a new trishaw ride
We´ve organized eight trishaw rides and two training courses so far in Corella with our lovely Yayacleta. We are sharing today´s ride with Nati, 96, and Maribel, 84. Cristina, Pilar, Montse, Mila, and Toño have pedaled to «Plaza del Perejil» today and Nati, who (according to her) «hadn´t left home for four months» was already waiting […]
Turning recycled plastic into beautiful benches
Biciclistas de Corella started a new recycling project in October called «Recicla y recibe» («Recycle and benefit»). Alhama High School collaborated since the very beginning. The Art School (EASDi) of Corella designed the visuals that you can see on the bins. We´ve set bins in all the schools of our town and in the nursing […]
Meeting of Spanish CWA chapters in Zaragoza
Six Spanish chapters of CWA gathered in Zaragoza on February 16. The aim of the meeting was to help each other to implement CWA program, share know-how, and inspire people with similar goals and unstoppable enthusiasm. Ten representatives of Tarrasa, Barcelona, San Sebastián, Albacete, Corella, and Zaragoza’s CWA chapters attended the meeting, which took place […]
Meet St. Tiernan’s future friends
Student’s from St. Tiernan’s Community School, Balally Dublin, are preparing for the initial cultural exchange in Spain as part of the Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Community Erasmus+ programme. Along with Green-Schools An Taisce and Cyclist.ie volunteers, six St. Tiernan’s students will travel to Corella in Spain to meet with students from Spain, Denmark and Lithuania. The […]
