How did it all begin?

At the beginning, there was an idea… An idea that it would be nice or even fantastic if we managed to find some partner schools abroad and cooperated on a project, if we could give our students a chance to use English, to make new friends or even travel abroad. But it is not easy to find partner schools. And that´s why some of the English teachers spent hours on the internet looking for some partners who would like to join us. Everything began to speed when the English teacher managed to find a web page with advertisements of schools which were also seeking some more partners. A few e-mails were exchanged, an agreement was made and the hard work began. We filled in the first application in 2003 and waited for the YES or NO of our National Agency. We were very happy when we received a positive answer, but a few weeks later a great disappointment came because only two schools (Hamm/D and Orlová/Cz) got an approval from their agencies and the minimum is three! So we hoped to have better luck next time… However, we already made a group of volunteers wanting to work on the project and began to meet. Although our project wasn´t approved for the school year 2003/2004, our partner school in Cittá di Castello invited everybody to come to Italy where we made new friendships and discussed how to improve the applications next time. But this is already the next chapter…