Our "Summer Love" story

Maria wrote on our facebook page a summary of our collaborative story:

"Arthur and Elizabeth, Manos and Christine. The stream of time is leading them there where love is hidden. Feelings and thoughts, emotions and reactions, sexual behavior in time and places without borders. End of part 2, written by the Greek team. Poland, take the lead!"

Click here to read "Summer Love" story.

Sexual education in Poland.

Certainly we have sexual education in Poland. It’s very important in every teenager’s life. It learns us ‘how to survive addesence’ and ‘how to set up home’. First of all we have this subject I 4th class in primary school (we’re about 10 years old). We learn things about our first period, changers in our body and behavior. We also talk with teachers about our family, housework and things, which are important in adult life. Later, we have sexual education in high schools, when we’re older and more mature (but sometimes there are some exceptions ;)). We learn new things, for example: about having a baby, methods of contraception, we also listen things about being a good person and having good life in the future. Sometimes in high school we hear the same news as in Primary School. In my opinion sexual education in Polish schools I good, but I could be better. Authorities should make professional trainings for teachers, who will keep this subject. They also should prepare the program of teaching. If they make it, teenager’s sexual education will improve, so they’ll be better prepared for being an adult.

Patrycja K.

Collaborative creation of «love story»

On Friday, April the 16th, the portuguese team who created begining of «love story» talked with Maria (our greek partner) by chat. This photo report that moment...

To see more photos click here.

The Greek team is "travelling in space and time"

On Wednesday April the 14th, we gathered in the library and talked about the love story that the Portuguese team started and how we could continue it. There was an amazing brainstorming about it and we finally all agreed on the plot of the Greek part. We started writing!!

As you can see, we had a great time!

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Mantinades: the way Cretans express love

A mantinada (in plural: mantinades) is Cretan rhyming couplet, typically improvised during dance music. Rhymed Cretan poetry of the Renaissance, especially verse epic Erotokritos, are reminiscent of the mantinada, and couplets from Erotokritos have become used as mantinades. Mantinades have either love or satire as their topics. They are invariably composed in dekapentasyllabos verse and are often antiphonal, i.e. a verse elicits a response and this leads to another response and so on.

The word is derived from Venetian: matinada, "morning song".

Most Cretan teenagers love traditional Cretan music and use mantinades to express love. You can find mantinades written on their books, inscribed in their desks or written with markers on the walls.

One of my students (17 years old) recently attached a mantinada on my facebook wall. I dedicate it to all of you, students from Europe:

ΚΟΜΜΑΤΙΑ ΝΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΝΟΥΝΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΔΙΚΗ ΜΟΥ ΑΓΑΠΗ...
ΘΑ ΖΕΙ ΝΑ ΣΕ ΞΑΝΑΓΑΠΑ ΤΟ ΚΑΘΕ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΜΜΑΤΙ...!!!!!!!!!!!!

It sounds like

Komatia na tin kanune tin ediki mu agapi (g sounds as y in yes)
Tha zi na se ksanagapa to kathe tis Komati (th sounds as in think)

And it means

Even if my love would be broken into pieces
every piece of it will live, to love you again

If you follow this link, you can listen to a cretan song with mantinades as lyrics, performed by a well known young artist. You can see how traditional cretan music is performed nowadays and even watch a cretan dance. That’s what happens in cretan weddings’ celebrations!

Alina Soare From Romania and her love expression

Love is a feeling of love for a person of the opposite sex or a sense of affection and admiration for something or someone.
Love is like a wave, you lose, and you have another master, not yourself. William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet ''surprises'' this stage of love: Romeo Juliet replaces names with monikers ''mistress'' and ''holy''. For Romeo, Juliet is the icon that he is pilgrim worships Him.
Love is strong border limited life derives its power from generously and people dedicate hard. The connection between two souls is also holy, eyes other trigger certain chord in the heart, which vibrates not only the power of memories which animates them.
Love implies reciprocity of feeling, a certainty of pleasure that no one and nothing can affect them. She lives only as long as it believes are eternal and those who love truly believe their love alive and beyond the grave. It is eternal search than what is eternally beautiful and true, that love. It is a temple of all, a place that expects a steam desire is a paved road to eternity a way that involves compromises that sometimes exceed the power of understanding.
But one lie destroys that trust, which is itself under some souls love.
Lover feels as it blooms into something that is not there, I feel alive for the beloved.
The man is and can be viewed as an entity one. But it is and should be seen as a point of intersection of multiple and divers set of relationships and interactions. The system is so closed, and open to correlate with the world and survive.
Love is a theme existing in all literatures of all time. They shall give particular importance as a fundamental human experience, which differ depending on age, sex, social status, faith, historical era or cultural affiliation. Thus, the theme is widely circulated and circulates in the whole system of literature, is both work and in the great writers of the age, in the vision-specific genres: epic, lyric or dramatic.
Love is addressed in literature from different angles, over time there are different ideas or current ideas on love.

The three main aspects that of love, both in Romanian literature and in the universal are:
1. Love the initiation
2. Love the passion
3. Tragic Love

Mihai from Romania and his love expression

Hi, my name is Mihai, and I would like to address some words to the one that I consider my soul mate. Her name is Maria and from my point of view she is the most incredible and beautiful person in the world. .... You charmed me ever since you walked up to me and said your name, ever since your friend has introduced you to me. You were my sunshine when I was overwhelmed by darkness you knew how to make me love you more and more. When I was sad, angry, or even crazy your eyes calmed me, filled me with hope and confidence. I dedicate all the love songs to you and all the heat from my heart to your arms because you blow my mind when you look me into the eyes. I have loved you since I met you and I love you now, and I will love you in the future with more and more passion than ever.

Your soul mate Mihai, I love you from all my heart, my sweet little angel ....