All Saints & All Souls

All Saints festivity is very important in Poland. For those that haven’t been visiting Poland on thursday, we do recommend you to write this in your «to do» list because is something that you won’t forget.

Polish people see this days in a different way as we do in Spain. On thursday, thousands of families gathered together in the cementeries to visit their lost relatives and friends and put flowers and candles for them, filling, at down,  the cementeries with light and colour. But it wasn’t a melancholic evening, as many can think, we would describe it as emotional but never gloomy or sad.

As we are in Kraków, we went to cementery Rakowicky, an enormous cementery full of people (polish and foreigners that didn’t want to loose the opportunity of this experience). Normally there are many trams and buses that go there but on All Saints day, there are special lines avaliable due to the amount of people that go there.

In Spain, our tradition is similar but in our opinion is much more mournful that in Poland. In our country the families also get together but the feeling in the cementeries is not that bright.

Miłego weekendu!

El pase de diapositivas requiere JavaScript.

Collaborations and Secrets

Yesterday we had our second meeting with students from Informacja «Naukowa i Bibliotekoznawstwo» (Librarianship and information/communication sciences) from Jagiellonian University. We are planing a colaboration between and them.

 

We enjoyed having a brainstorming of ideas and from there we had chosen some of them such as having some Workshops with young people and university students around the topics of «Erasmus», «EVS», «Spanish culture and language», etc.

 

We are thinking about doing some film sessions and discussions about spanish cinema in future months and also we have an amazing project where we need your collaboration. From now, we will start collecting books from people. We do not mind about topics or languages. Neither about if their new or old. Or if they were interesting or boring for you. We just need your help in order to get as many books as we could.

 

This is a call for any kind of book you could have at home and you are not using. The idea is to share them with us to contribute in the amazing project we have in mind that is still a secret. But you will be proud of having participated. We promise it!

 

You can leave your books in Rajska Library, office number 239, from 9 till 15h every day. Or even later in the office number 243. Just say is for the ingridiriawkrakowie project and they will arrive to our hands.

 

From now we are really thankful for your effort and potencial help. We expect to meet you and your books in the library as soon as possible.

 

Do następnego razu!

 

 

Don Quijote, Workshop with kids

Today we had our first Workshop with children. The «Don Quijote» session took place in the reading room for children in Rajska Library.

We were ready waiting for our 22 children and then they appeared by pairs following an order with their teacher from their kindergarten. They had five years old and they were expecting to play and learn some words in spanish. We can say that the experience was successful because at the end they knew how to say «Hola», «Adiós» and «Gracias» (it means hello, goodbye and thank you).

We started dancing «Al corro de la patata», tipical children song in Spain, and after playing «Pasemisi Pasemisa», a game that they enjoyed much. After, we were painting some animals draws with their names in spanish. And to finish our workshop they were asking us how to say some words in spanish such as butterfly, tree, justice or star.

Here we leave you some link about songs that belong to our childhood and that we wanted to share with our children today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sPUxutLhnU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJBMyiq0Mo

El pase de diapositivas requiere JavaScript.

Targi Książki w Krakowie

On friday we had the opportunity of visiting the 16th Book Fair in Krakow.  This is the largest publishing fair in Poland and had more than 35 000 visitors during last editions.

What to do in Targi Książki? Easy, go and find the last editions of your favourite books, meet several authors or discover new things about places you thought you knew.

But visiting this fair is not going to take you one hour, we were there for 5 hours due to the enormous amount of exhibitors! Also, you should take the opportunity of receiving many gifts such as sweets, pencils, badges or notebooks.

Don’t worry if you get hungry because you will find several places to eat something along the whole fair.

It was very interesting for us to be able to visit this kind of publishing fairs because this experience is not something that you will forget soon.

From here we encourage you to visit this kind of events because culture is always an enrichment element. Niestety, you will have to wait until the next edition because Targi Książki finished past sunday.

Do następnego razu!

Czytelnia Główna

Cześć everyone!

 

Today we’ve been working in the last floor of Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna w Krakowie, in Czytelnia Główna, an enormous space for studying, reading, doing your homework… and where you can find many books that may help you in case you need. Niestety, we weren’t working in the main room but in other. What were we doing? It was an easy task but important as well: labelling books with an adecuate bar code.

But we are also preparing our next spanish workshops! Tomorrow, Begginners and Advanced strike again! Aaaand, we are waiting for the next week with a mix of fear and nervousness because next week we will face a very important challenge: 30 children under 6 years old!

 

Oh, Boże! 😀

 

Do następnego razu!

 

Iria&Ingrid

Rajskie Jabłuszko, the apple of Eden

Today we have been visiting the new Małopolska Garden of Arts. We had the pleasure of joining some workers from our library in a guided tour through the new amazing building in wich Teatr Słowackiego and Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna w Krakowie will cooperate.

It consists of three floors, the first one, dedicated to music and musicians; the second dedicated to graphic arts and the last one is a reading room where you will be able to borrow kindles, e-books and tablets.

More information in the link below:

http://www.krakowpost.com/article/5912

But remember that it won’t be open till January! We hope you are already dreaming about going there!

 

 

Do you know our department of Foreign Languages?

Our main task in our EVS Project is to promote our language and culture but also we would like to introduce you the Department of foreign Languages in Rajska Library where you can borrow books in many different languages as Spanish, English, Italian, Romanian, German, Hungarian, French, Polish for foreigners, Norwegian, etc.

You can take a look at the catalog online here:

http://opac.wbp.krakow.pl/cgi-bin/wspd_cgi.sh/wo2_search.p?R=1&IDBibl=63&ID1=DGNMKOMIRPGJODGQDSQMK&ln=gb

Also, there are many magazines and newspapers available.

If you come in the morning, you can visit us. You will find us in room 239 or in the cozy coffee in the first floor.

 

We hope you find this information useful and interesting!

Summary of our first Workshop

Yesterday, 18th of october, we had the pleasure to start working in the Workshops «Uno, dos, tres» y «Hasta la vista» into the project «Meet me in the library», on the levels Begginners 1&2.

We really enjoyed teaching spanish to beginners and we got surprised about how popular is spanish language and culture here in Poland. It made us feel proud about our origins and we were glad to share our knowledge in the best way we could.

We have already prepared some activities for next meetings. For the group «Beginners 1» we will continue with useful vocabulary, some games and speaking. We wish active participants and feeling free to express themselves in the new language we are introducing to them. In the other hand, we have already some ideas about conversation topics for the «Beginners 2» group, in relation with spanish cinema, spanish culture and daily life in our country.

So, we hope you will enjoy our next session and feel it useful for your continuing learning in spanish culture!

Zapraszamy

Cześć!
Jesteśmy Ingrid i Iria i jesteśmy z Hiszpanii. We are EVS volunteers and we will be working until June in the Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna w Krakowie, where we will be performing different tasks and activities in relation with our country, languages and culture.

Our first activities are already planned, they will be Spanish workshops and they will start… tomorrow!  But don’t worry, you can still join us for other meetings! There you have the link!

http://www.rajska.info/aktualnoci-zobaktualn-162/1-relacje/1093-bezpatne-konwersacje-w-jzyku-hiszpaskim.html

But these are not the only activities that we will do, we are planning many more and we want you to come and participate!

 

See you around!

 

Ingrid i Iria