Limoges Meeting

Going to the lycée des métiers "Jean Monnet" in Limoges, France, where the first comenius project meeting took place, has been for us a very special experience for the warm welcome of our project coordinator, the school staff but also for the nice atmosphere we found there and where we easily socialized with the other partners ans set to work.
Here is what we achieved during the meeting:
a)Presentation of the educational professional system and of the different fields of study in « the Lycée des métiers » and technical visit of the premises and fittings (kitchens, laboratories, workshop....)
-Presentations of videos and photos of the partner schools and their educational system.
-Proposal of the objectives of the first year and achievement of a common recipe card
-Visit of a distillery of local liqueurs .
-Demonstration of vacuum-cooked dishes made by a cooking teacher
-Preparation of the European buffet made with all the local products brought by all the partners. Each school presented some typical products of its country or region (pork meat, drinks, cakes...). The preparation was made by the teachers of the different schools with the students of the Lycée Jean Monnet.
-Visit of the « porcelain house » (Haviland)
-Visit of the town with the tourist train proposed by the Tourist Board .
-Visit of a pork butcher and caterer .
-Visit of the town center market and of the “taste market” ( a market of local products) during the “week of the taste” .
-Visit of the festival of « la Frairie des Petits Ventres », a yearly gastronomical fair
Integration of the group in the official delegation of the town hall of Limoges
-Preparation by the students of a typical local meal served in the educational restaurant
-Reception of the French educational inspector and of the press.

Planning of the activities for 2006/2007
We have all agreed on working at the following activities through the year
-Competition, exhibitions and logos
-Creation of a Comenius site
-Achievement of a CD Rom on the region of the different partners
-Realisation of a traditional and creative menu
-Making out of a word bank of the hotel keeping industry
-Exchange of works during the school year
-Exchange of students’electronic mails
-Preparation and achievement of a regional buffet
We also agreed on the next meeting which will take place in Gravdal , Norway from 8th t0 12th May 2007.