Aorai High School students' video about our activity school garden

Our project on Tahiti Nui television, our mobility in Basque Country and the end of our Erasmus+project in the newspaper " La Dépêche de Tahiti"

Erasmus + "It's my life, it's my choice" at Aorai High School 

A chinese day at school with the Erasmus group

A Special Day at School to Understand the Chinese Culture

Last Friday,  Aorai High School celebrated the Chinese New Year. 

Before the morning break, a show was presented by the  class studying drama as an optional subject. It was followed by the speech delivered by the  well-known Chinese writer, Jimmy Ly. Then, the students could go to the school library and discover the exhibition about the Chinese family trees. 

In the meantime, workshops had opened for those who wanted to learn how to make some Chinese ravioli, how to count with an abacus or how to play mah-jong. The art of handwriting, making Chinese knots and  red paper decorations were the other activities proposed after the morning break.

" This year we were happy to greet some representatives of the Wen Fa and Hei Taina associations as well as the director of the Confucius Institute, " Mrs Catherine Ganaye, Aorai High School Headmistress, explained. « Thirty-eight pupils who study Chinese as a second language were invited to join our students who study Chinese as a second or third language, «  she added.

The students took a great interest in the film dealing with  the importance of maintaining the Chinese traditions in French Polynesia. They were also fascinated by  the  history of the Chinese families in Tahiti, presented by Mrs Catherine Lusseau, a history and geography teacher in charge of coordinating the programme Erasmus. 

Mrs Lusseau had previously worked on that same topic with the Tenth  and  Twelfth graders who presented their work on that occasion.

That very special day was initiated by Mrs Fabienne Li, Mr Alphonse Chene and Mr Maxime Venturin, a Chinese teacher in agreement with Mrs Ganaye.

                                    Translated in English by Terminale GF students and Mrs. Macouin, their teacher

Welcoming ceremony at IES LAUDIO BHI

Our project, once more, in the media

 

"El correo" newspaper May 9th, 2017

The President of BUBISHER, MR LIMAN BOICHA, thanks our collaboration to build a new library in the refugee campsites in TINDOUF (Algeria)

 

Next October,2016, if everything goes fine, we will search for the most convenient site to build Bubisher Library at Dajla. By the time, the library-bus will have arrived. This bus will be driven to all its schools and neighbourhoods to announce all the children and youths that human right, that of reading, the same as that of education, health or decent housing, is theirs. Those youths´ homes tumbled down and their adobe walls just turned into mud one year back, when, all of a sudden, it started pouring down in Sahara like it had not rained in the last 25 years. Dajla is the furthest camp, the least inhabited, the one which has suffered exile´s scourge the hardest. The most loved, though. Those who still live there feel they are Dajlians, have a group spirit, love their poor landscape, stand against so much adversity. And Bubisher´s library will become, if everything works out all right, their common room, a place for pleasure, in a  camp that lacks bars, lacks everything which does not serve to the most immediate survival.

Some months back, when we paid you a visit, we suggested you embrace each other so as to guarantee a month´s  wages to one of those Saharan youths who have already become librarians at Bojador or Smara. However, we have decided that we must be daring and that your effort will enable for us to hire the first librarian at Dajla. You are just not aware of how much we value your efforts, your imagination to raise funds. It is true that the Basque Country has always been generous  as well as supportive, that what you have done has not been alien to you, such has been the climate that you have grown up to. Some of you may think that what you have done has not been big deal, that you might have achieved far more had you tried harder. But you have made a new library possible, together with other people´s efforts somewhere else.

Saharan youths are no abstract beings; neither are you. They are Bachir, Mahyuba, the same as you are Aitor, Aintzane or Maialen. And when you go to a library to borrow a book and you don´t know why it´s there or why the librarian is doing her work there, do please think that many a people once fought, risking their jobs and even their freedom, for there to be books both in Spanish and Basque, without any censorship or restrictions. There are people behind those shelves, dead or alive, silent heroes who have paved our ways to those libraries. Well, when Ebnu or Nuha make it to that library in Dajla and borrow a book in Spanish or Arabic, you will also become a voiceless, anonymous hero. I don´t know whether you will feel a breeze in your neck, the breath of someone from far away. But that breath will exist and so will you.

We will only be free if we know which path to choose. Your Saharan peers will be free because you will have provided them the map of all those paths.

It is on behalf of all our teachers, Bubisher´s two hundred members, on behalf of the students who have also contributed with their effort at all the schools of the state that we thank you.

This library will also be yours. Who knows whether you, or some of you, or even many of you will ever come over and see it, enjoy it. And also work in it, reading their first tale a Saharan child who will not be able to read it by themselves. Maybe one of your teachers will come over to teach techniques and ideas to the new librarian. Your Saharan friends will be only too pleased to welcome you and make tea under the stars. And there will be laughter and hugging. And our hug. Leid fi leidi: hand on hand.

Inés and Gozalo, on behalf of Bubisher.