On the 11th of November, Chios celebrates its liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. As the 11th is a Sunday this year, our schools celebrated already on Friday the 9th of November.
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On Wednesday the 7th of November, we had a free day as the schools had elections. We used this opportunity to go to our sailing boat. As winter is coming and the weather is not that good anymore, the decision was made to get the boat out of the water. […]
The 28th of october is an important date to all Greeks, for it is the date on which, in the year 1940, the Greek prime minister rejected Mussolini’s ultimatum. The ultimatum was about axis forces entering Greek territory and occupying certain, unspecified ‘tactical locations’. ‘Ochi’ means ‘No’ in Greek, and […]
On the 5th of October 2018 the 1st, 2nd and 3rd primary schools of Vrontados had an excursion, where the students spent the day outside.
Last sunday, we combined exploring Chios Island and getting water by making an excursion to a spring in the north of the island.
Chios Island is well known for one thing: the mastic. But did you know that it actually can only be produced in the south of our Island? This and many other things can be discovered in the Mastic Museum near the village Pyrgi.
At the beginning of September we had the chance to participate in the On-Arrival-Training for EVS volunteers who recently started their project in Greece.
This year we went during the summer activities to Tholopotami, even tough it is quite far away from our hosting places in Katarraktis and Vrontados. To make the transfer the mothers kindly picked us up in Katarraktis or we got droven from the organisations director from Vrontados.
Last Saturday, we had the chance to explore our island a little further. Our first stop was the abandoned village Anavatos.
From the 18th to the 25th of August 2018 the Aegean Regatta took place in the Aegean Sea. There were two categories of participants: ORC International and ORC Club, of which ORC International is the more competitive one.