Two years ago, pupils from the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Löbau were able to see for themselves that learning Polish can be a lot of fun. At that time, the students of our Business and Language Studies course organized a project day on Poland and the Polish language on the initiative of the school with such impressive commitment that they once again knocked on the already familiar door of our course with the desire to satisfy the students' taste and curiosity for Polish once again.
Our students from WSPb17 Dominika Bartecka and Justyna Gola, as well as Erasmus students Aleksandra Drąg , Natalia Frydrych (from Rzeszów), Justyna Ślężak and Maja Kiedrowska (from Gdańsk ) introduced the students to the secrets and peculiarities of the Polish language and culture on 22.11.2019 under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Maćkowiak with a lot of creativity and sense of humor.
A lot of sweat and hard work went into it. Preparation of worksheets, colorful materials, designing role plays, funny, humorous evening rehearsals proved that today's young people are happy to get involved in new projects and can identify with the region and university through their spontaneous work.
With overwhelming acting talent, they conveyed their own enthusiasm for the interpreting profession to the children by acting out scenes and reciting, which was met with applause from the children.
For our students, especially our ERASMUS guests from Poland, this was also an unforgettable experience:
"Today's workshop with children made us realize," said Dominika Bartecka and Justyna Gola, "that it doesn't matter what country we come from and at what level we speak the language. Openness and having fun together are ways of gaining the children's attention and sympathy. We are very pleased that we had an opportunity to show a touch of our culture and make young people curious about our mother tongue. We think that it is very important in our region to get to know our neighbors. And the best way to do this with children is through play. Many of them found the lessons extremely interesting. Their hugs and smiling faces at the end were the best proof of this for us and also the best reward."
