Há muito tempo que não me hospedava no MARINA ! … Excelente ambiente, sol maravilhoso !

Suite


Quarto

área de estar e escritorio

Excelente vista da marina

Vista da  piscina  e  da  praia

O  Hotel  visto  da  piscina

Ginasio,  health  club  e  piscina  interior

Sauna  e  banho  turco

piscina  interior

Piscina  interior e jardins

Uma  visita que, entretanto,  tive !

Varanda  exterior  e excelente vista para o mar

Pequeno  almoço

Your Europe, You Say ! I just visited Escola Secundária de Loulé, in Portugal

Every year,  EESC  gives the opportunity, in  each 28  Member States, to choose  three schoolboys /girls,
to  go  to  Brussels with one of their teachers,  work  on  a subject  concerning youth  people subjects,  and   simulate the work  of  the  EESC  Members,  approving  Opinions.


But,  the  text  prepared and approved by  all the students  will be  distributed among all  the  European Institutions and  will be  at  the EESC  web page  for  citizens,  in general.


This year,  2014,  the  choice, in Portugal  ,  was  Escola Secundária de Loulé .

This   school  is  the  largest in Algarve,  the  truistic region  in  the south of Portugal. There are,  attending  schools ,
 1 200   schoolboys/girls.


I  was impressed  because  they have , as  well,  a  delegation,  a  local  group,  of  International  Amnesty.

Because of the  crises, and all difficulties of  the schoolboys and their families,  they  improved a section  of  volunteers  to  give  some support  to  young boys and also  to  their families !

The "Cantina",  the  restaurant of the school,  gives, each day , around  500  meals,  some  completely free  to  schoolboys/girls  who  cannot pay,  for some others  at  ,  more or less, 1 euro,  and  normal  prices but  extremely economic, to  all the  the  others.


I  just  spoke  about  the  different European  Institutions  and show they  work, and, in particular,  EESC,  the  House  of European organized Civil Society.



I  informed the 3  young  students,  two  boys  and  one  girl,  Pedro silva, Rosa Murtinha and Rodrigo Sequeira,   what  is expected  from  them  in Brussels,  next  26, 27 and 28  March,  working and  taking advantage of  all the friendship  with all  the other Member States students.



Here,  some  photos  of some invited local persons,  the School  Director,  Teatchers, the Regional Delegate and Director for Education, some representatives go the local Municipality,   and  myself.

A  large number of Students and teachers attended this event, what was very nice , friendly and amazing for me and for EESC.

 I  presented  the  powerpoint  prepared by  excellent   EESC  communication Team,  and a  movie  about   last  year  Your Europe, Your Say  event   and  the  video  made by myself about Cais, the  Civil society Prize  portuguese homeless organization winner,  whose candidature I prepared and presented to  EESC  in  December 2012.

Presenting  the  powerpoint  about  YEYS  

 Also  amazing was  the  lunch  with  the chosen students, Professors  and  invited local representatives.
just because,  the  lunch was very good,  with local food and  specialities, local products  and  prepared inside  the   School  by  the  students of some vocational courses, professional  units,  this one  concerning  restaurants, hospitalitty  and cooking,  attended  by  many  students from  different  European  Countries ( young people  from Stockolm, Vilnius, etc),  and  from  Africa,  the  portuguese speaking countries - Cabo Verde, Angola, etc.

Lunch  prepared by the students and  saved by themselves

Students and Teachers

Students

Voltei á Pousada de Viseu, antigo Hospital de São Teotónio, lugar onde nasci

Desta  vez,  com o meu filho e o meu neto, os  dois Nunos,  para festejar o 88º  aniversário
do meu Pai,  no   dia   24  de  Janeiro  de  2014.