We can bee friendlier to the nature

This day is our day of farewell. At yesterday some of us let tears because they had to leave this lovely place, friendly and loving people.
After an early get up and breakfast we got all a lunchpackage.


Our colleagues from Maribor and a student brought us with the bus to the airport Graz.


We had one and half hour to wait before the airplane leave Graz to Amsterdam.


Actually our class is back in Hamburg we all arrived secure but some of us are really sad that we left Maribor!
But we also happy to got this possiblity to do this kind of journey met friends or got new friends, saw a wonderful country and culture with loving people!
In this case we thanks a biggest thanks to our colleagues and friends in Maribor for all the wonderfull and hard work and warm commencement!
We also have to thank the Eu and the Erasmus Plus-Projekt to make possible to enjoy this kind of work trough out national borders!
Thanks all they make the last year possible!

Our last full day at this nice and wonderful place. after breakfast we had a small meeting for planing the day. The students got a free morning to visit Maribor and buy some presents for there friends and families.


At midday we had barbecue.


But we don`t get eat only something, we had games and social games.


The students got free time and some of them gone up the hill.
They what to enjoy the last possiblity for a view over Maribor and school.
The teacher had a further meeting to plan the project future after Summer holidays.


That evening we gone as group with some students from Maribor to our valedictory dinner. We gone the footpath beside the river Drava up to the restaurant.


At this wonderful restaurant beside the Drava our students could eat slovenia food.


Also it was a meeting for a review of the last week, the work and working and social processes. It`s showed that in both therms the students made steps forward.
One teacher talled at this time, that he will leave the school in Hamburg.

This day will be a very intersting day because at this day we will make a eco market in front of the Maribor school.
Than we will having a workshop how to make candles.
And at afternoon we will carry out the market.


One poster at the school door.

Our products drove with horse and carriage to the school building from old stable where the production was.


After preparing the market we had a snack in the canteen from School and following a workshop to preparation candles from waste cooking oil.

A guy from Oilright explained why and how to make candles from waste cooking oil.


The first step is to filtered the waste oil and put two spoon of "magic powder" in.


The temperature in the microwave let dissolve the "magic powder" in the oil.

All is hot Hamburg, Maribor and the oil out from microwave.


After colouring and aroming the oil with "magic powder fill in the small container for cooling out.


At last step the cooler fluid got after two minutes the wick.
If you intersted in this kind of pruducing candles you get the necessary things on this webside:
https://www.oilright.eu/

After that workshop the students sell there products at the stall.



Our products was sell very fast and the people was very interested in the Erasmus+ Projekt.


After finished the market around 5:30 pm our students get free to visit maribor city.

Now we have the half of our jouney time to visit Maribor behind us.
At first we had a plenum at morning about what kind of work we have to do this day.


By night a cherry tree crashed by wind and oldnest.
Our students went there to saved the cherrys.


After collecting the cherrys they had to been opening up and wash.


Than they to be in the making of mixing an cooking.


After filtering and fill up,...


...the glasses with cherry jam got a button.


The glasses had stand with the button down to save the vaccum.


After cooling the glasses got price tags.
Yesterday we harvest the honey from krainer bees, today the students made also products from wax and with the honey. they mixed different types of contdiments into the honey. Mixed it gone creamy.


Another work was to finished the beehive pictures.


Some of our students cuted the price tags, not only for the jam also for the wax candles, honey and so on.


The candles was made from old wax. It was melted and filled in forms....


...or wax plate was rolled.


Students also made soaps and fill in pakets.


The honey glasses was puted into boxes to bring them to our stall by the school.


The other worked hard project and not for sale was the stone wall. Yesterday the stone don`t hold. Today we constructed the wall higher and it`s crashed down again.


We atted cement and sand for more stability and mixed up.

After all stress and two days hard work for the students it stands by the half.

Now the teachers know the technic and the problems so they will build the other part of wall after summer holidays.


After lunch our students drove with the train Jur`cek trough Maribor city.


The goal of the trip with the train was a special place on the other side of river Drava.


The bowling center was a pleasure for all.

Today was a really working day.
After that we gone by feet to the school we had a plenum where we talk about the groups and which kind of work they will do.
Unfourtunally we didn`t have from all our work pictures.
Some students made marmelade.
Other one work with the harvested honey from monday.


They filled the honey in glases.


Made honey cremy and fill up with natural flavours.


Some students made candles from bee wax.


Other packing and label the wax candles for the eco market on friday.
Some students painted the front of beehives with different pictures:

Lake Bled


Hamburg Skyline

And we started with the project "A natural stone wall in Maribor"

Step 1


Step 2


Step 3


step 4 filling in the soil.
The problem was that the stones are smooth, round and small. In this way it`s a real problem to got a stabile Structure and static. It`s possible we will use tomorrow cement for the critical parts to save stability.

After Lunch the students had time to visited the town.
The teacher discussed at this time about the project ways after summerholidays.
Right at time all students gone in three groups into escape rooms.


After dinner and our traditional afternoon plenum we have all free time.

Dear Readers today we had a relaxing day although we had stand up at 6:30. We had the schuttle service from biotechnic school Maribor to go to the West of Slovenia.


After one hour on the road we made a stop for exchange the sitting places. People had found together, people with the first Letter A, for exemple sat together with anyone with A.
Without energie some of the students played that game.
After two hours we arrived in Radovljica. A small town nearby Bled.

There we visit the beekeeping museum and got a guided tour through it.
Its showing a lot of thinks about the history of beekeeping and the krainer Bee sort. You can see a Swarm life in a show hive.


We looked a film in german language about the live of honey bees.


A typical kind of bee hives in slovenia have painted storys as pictures on the wood from the hive.
That can be situations of history, fairtales, christians stories or moral stories.
The next picture we can named under: "The nature strike back."

After we visited the museum we drove to bled lake with clear and wonderfull azul water.

We learned some about the history of this place before we eated spezical Cake.



A dream of a cake at a paradiese place.


After rest and delight the most of us gone schwimming into the lake. Other one gone up to the castle.

At three o`clock it`s started a heavy rain so all we was wet also we didn`t swom in the lake.

On the way back to Maribor we made a dinner nearby Resce with the biggest pizza at the world.



Slovenia is a country of superlatives and records, so that is not a wonder that we got the biggest "Berliner" ever.


After the rain wear the mountains clouds and the sunset bring the right light for a romantic moment.

This day started relaxing. A simple breakfast at 7 o`clock and going by feet to the biotechnics school Maribor. Than they show us the school and we will see the beekeeping at this school. What is quite different. After all we go for lunch in Hostel. At afternoon we will go up to Pohorje (1028m). The day will finish with dinner and plenum around by 22 o`clock.


The way from hostel to the biotechnic school Maribor in front of there terrain.


At first we had a day plenum where we all get a t-shirt with the Maribor scchool logo for free. Thanks for that wonderful present from all of us to Maribor!


They showed us the building, the growing of vegetables with different spezies.


In the veterinary part of that school we get closer to stigmatized animals. We learn that all animals can be friendly and kind.


We gone around the terrian from the school, see the wine yard and that the blossoms from wine further developed than our wine in Hamburg.
If we look to the appletrees, there is no different in the bigness from apples.
In the background you see Maribor town.

The pumkin plants are actually really bigger than ours.


How do you find at that picture? beekeeping first!
Than was looked at bee queen and harvest honey.


The Glas add water for the bees to build honey and wax. In Maribor are used a old regional sort of bee, the krainer bee. It`s different from other bee because it`s have a grey colour and it`s a little more aggressive than our bees in red.


After harvested we endcover the top of the honeycomb. for making Honey.


We waiting a time for the lift tickets up to the top of the hill pohorje (1028m).


This trip set off fear for some body but all of us get as hero on the top of the hill.


We all arrived save and glad that we are here. We can proud of us.

We gone the piste from the top down. after the half of way some of us use a small lift, other a slit and some gone by feet and found wonderful green and silence and also clear falls of drinking water.


After a hard walking day our students want bee friendly eating by Mc Donalds in this chase we gone to the Euro schopping mall in Maribor. After that they have free time for this day.

Oh, what a day! The most of us awaked round about two a clock in the morning. We drived on different ways to Hamburg Airport. Our meeting point was Terminal 1 beside the KLM desk at four a clock am. Unfortunaley the personal can`t really help us up the way trough the bording technic. After all we found us of the other side of the customs duty desk. The first test was passed.
The heros of the day where two students they never flight before and one who with fear to fly.
At 7:20 we arrived at shipol-Amsterdam.

At the airport we refill our accus and that from smartphones.


At 9:30 the next flight to Graz (Austria) lift off.


At ten fourty we pass the line to Austria at Graz Airport.
After cold hours in Amsterdam we found the sun and warm in Graz.

Our friends welcome us with self painted letters and laughing in there faces.
After a happy and cordial ambrased we ws brought with there mini bus to Drava youth hostel in Maribor.




We got a historic walk through out the old town Maribor down to the Drava up to the passage and higher to the centralpark of Maribor.

Down by the riverside is the house with the oldest wine of the world.

In school orchard we have two offshoots of them.


We go up to the market place with town hall.


We visited and relaxed in the central park and found some stalls with hand crafted items.


Back in town we had our dinner.


The weather was warm, a little clowdy sometimes but there was a rain machine which gave us a little coolness.


If the night is coming the atmosphere of the town goes smoochy.
And more deeper the night at the house goes more ghosts around.

I've been employed for 11 years at the Biotechnical School Maribor and I've always liked to take on new challenges and come up with crazy ideas. One of them was also bees. When we renovated the old beehive at home and started to be beekeepers, I also had an idea of having bees at school. The hives were set up and the bees flew around and Simon invited me to participate in the project We can bee friendlier to the nature. One day in May Simon introduced me to our new friends Polona and Sven from the cooperating school. Although we only saw each other for a short time, they made a good impression on me. Perhaps it was because of the queen bee, that I was going to insert into the hive that day. It was a good sign. In this year of beekeeping I have realized that bees carry out a lot of useful tasks - among other things, they bring people together.
Short after the meeting of the teachers and principals from Hamburg Simon invited me to the November exchange. I was happy and I am waiting for another unforgettable experience.
On Monday, 20th November, 2017, we drove away with two vans to the airport to Venice. The ride passed quickly by the sounds of entertaining folk songs. The flight was pleasant, and even more pleasant was the reception of students and teachers at the airport. It was followed by a joint dinner, an introduction day, the preparation of products for the market, fun afternoons. We learned languages and got to know each other quite well . We found out that together we could achieve more. There were new ideas, improvements, and our products were growing faster. On Saturday, the market place was full of products. Students were very good at selling. They also made a great raised bed garden. The most important are new friendships between our students. As a teacher I can be proud of all our students. They are reliable. They did everything and much more than we'd expected.
The week passed too fast and we had to go home. Thanks to modern technology and social networks, we have stayed in touch. We can exchange new ideas and experiences.
Thank you all, who helped to organize this week, as great as it was. Thanks for hospitality, advice,cooperation, fellowship and drinks. Thank you all, Polona, Simon, Jolanda, Marcus and especially to Sven. Thank you for all your time, which was spent only for us. Together we can make great products and amazing things happen.
“So work the honey bees. Creatures that, by a rule in Nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom.” (William Shakespeare)

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