Today we (the
Norwegians) started our Catalan lessons. Catalan is quite a different language
from Norwegian. We soon realized that they take our /e/ as an 'a'. The
Norwegian name /Marie/ sounds for Catalan ears like 'Maria'. Otherwise, Catalan
'b' and 'v' both are pronounced like our Norwegian /b/. We also listened to Catalan music, and learned some useful expressions in Catalan.
Then some students from the second year at Escola Massana told about a project in history. This was about "La Maternitat d'Elna". This was an institution founded in 1939 I the town Elna in southern France. Here some 400 children were born whose mothers were refugees from the Spanish Civil War. They were interned in concentration camps in southern France. Some 200 Jewish children also were born here. Gestapo closed the institution in 1944.
Most of the day however was used to work with our kite project. We completed our sketches, and then we made them into full scale on paper.
At lunchtime, we left school. Some of the Norwegian students went shopping.
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