Building snow sculptures

During the first exchange in Harstad in January 2014, all the fifteen exchange students from Escola Massana and all the 31 students from the Visual Art Department at Stangnes videregående skole made eight Snow Sculptures.

The teachers at the Visual Art Department made an oral instruction in English accompanied by photos of the entire Snow sculpture constructing process. This presentation is now updated with text and new pohotos.

On Internet you will find this "Making Snow Sculpture" Instruction.

You might also see the video "Snow Sculptures" showing most of the prosess.

The "Snow Sculptures from zero to finished" is also on video.

And at last you can watch one snow sculpture grow up in the video "From snow cube to snow sculpture".

Countdown for the exchange: 8 days!!!

Some of us live in Gràcia; Gràcia is one of the Barcelona most traditional neighbourhoods.

Gràcia is a very lively neighbourhood and many young people go there to have a drink or to have lunch or dinner outside in one its squares. There are many squares around and they are very beautiful, with a lot of benches to sit down under the trees, bars and restaurant terraces to have a drink or a full meal, there are also many small and traditional shops. This neighbourhood is quite old; it used to be a village outside Barcelona in the old times. There are some musical clubs where local musicians and groups usually do concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings, the one we know and like it’s called Fontana.

Every Barcelona neighbourhood is different from the other ones, not only the architecture is different, also the kind of shops and the evening atmosphere.   Just tell us if you would like to book a place for having dinner all the Comenius Group, it could be a very good idea to have a good time all together.  .

            

Countdown for the exchange: 9 days!

Just only 9 days last and the nerves are increasing!!  Our families are looking forward to meet you and we have finished planning all the school activities for the whole week.

These days we are having a very good weather; it looks like the spring has already arrived. We are having between 15 and 20 degrees at midday. We expect you will be able to enjoy this warm and sunny weather when you come here, to Barcelona. But to tell you the truth, Mediterranean weather can change at lot, and more at that time of the year. 

Barcelona is a very touristic city and in spring is full of tourists, people from very different countries. It’s funny to see them wearing summer clothes when we are still wearing the winter ones. You can ask us everything about what you have to wear, and we will be very glad to tell you. Don’t forget to bring your snow boots and skiis!!!!

Now that starts the nice weather people starts meeting and going out, for example to have lunch in Las Ramblas, shopping in the Portal de l'Angel or go to the Barceloneta beach during the weekend to sunbathe. There are many concerts and cultural activities to do,  so we are sure we will always have something to do during our free time.

Countdown for the exchange: 10 days!

After two weeks here in Barcelona we are still working hard to catch up with all the homework that our classmates did while we were in Norway.

Now we are working to prepare your stay here to make you have a good time. We have already planned most of the activities we are going to do and the places we are going to visit. Otherwise it would be grateful if you give us some ideas of things you would like to do in our free time. That way we will make sure that you enjoy the time.

Last week our parents met Cristina and Cécile to arrange how everything will go once you will be here. Moreover yesterday all first year Massana’s teachers had a meeting to decide the school timetable during that week. 

We started our last sculpture project. We are doing abstract shapes to stroke with clay and then with alabaster. We will show you when they’ll be finished.

Here you have a colourful picture of the Parc Güell designed by  Gaudí and the landscape of Barcelona. Probably we are going to be there a full morning to draw. 

Memories

The open air exhibition at Stangnes is probably one of the things we most remember once we are again in our daily routine in Massana.  We realized the exhibition was an important event for Stangnes Skole and Harstad; there was the local television to record the event and a journalist from a national paper asking us questions to write an article about our project.