The National Stadium (Polish: Stadion Narodowy) is a football stadium located in Warsaw. It is used mainly for football matches and it is the home stadium of Poland national football team.

The National Stadium hosted the opening match as well as the 2 group matches, the quarterfinal, and the semifinal of the UEFA Euro 2012, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.

'Narodowy' has two-level stands with almost 60,000!

Partially transparent, the retractable roof was made of fibreglass covered with teflon. This kind of material is resistant to weather such as rain, heat of the sun, and can hold up to 18 cm of wet snow.

It's not just a football stadium: there are many, many events. There was a time when you could do surfing, ice skiing, swimming(heh, the polish will understand 😊). Music concerts, gigs and a lot ofexciting evnts take place there.

The music side of 'Narodowy' is pretty interesting.Many stars like: Madonna, Depeche Mode, Coldplay or Beyoncé. Snoop Dogg or David Guetta took part in 'Orange Warsaw Festival' (link: http://orangewarsawfestival.pl ). It's a set of gigs from the best stars in 3 days - especially in holidays.

 Another important event is 'Festiwal Nauki'('Science Festival' ?). One day a year the whole area around stadium is occupated by exhibitions/experiments focusing on only one piece of science(phisics, chemistry etc.). Examples: 'How light flows from...' or 'What will happened after mixing this and that..' .It's a big fun! You don't know when your day passed 😜.
Link: http://en.stadionnarodowy.org.pl/  

~Michał

 
 



 
 

The Palace of Culture and Science

Hi! :)
I'm going to tell you below a little about one of the places you can see in Warsaw - THE PALACE OF CULTURE AND SCIENCE.
It's the tallest building in Poland, it was "a gift from the Soviet to the Polish nation". Nowadays there are lots of activities to do in here. There is a cinema, a pool, there are many different clubs and also concerts are held there. It has 42 floors and we would go to the top, there is an observation deck from where you have a nice sight of Warsaw. The building is right in the center of the city, so you're going to see it a lot anyway but i think going in is a good idea.

- Nuria

A video of some parts of our school

HeyHey! So I've made this video, it's a small part of my individual project. In this video you will see some parts of our school. 

By the way, I'm not so good at filming, as you can see in the video, but I tried my best Haha :)

It was raining earlier the day I was filming...

Anyway... Enjoy! :D

- Keiana

Currency in Norway and Poland

Hi, there! I bet you all are wondering how much pocketmoney you want to bring too Norway! I've made a view of how much for example one krone is in Zloty. I hope this will be useful.

Norwegian Kroner	Polish Zloty
1  kr	0,43 zl
10 kr	4,31 zl
50 kr	21,57 zl
100 kr	43,15 zl
150 kr	64,72  zl
200 kr	86,30 zl
250 kr	107,87 zl
300 kr	129,45  zl
350 kr	149,12 zl
400 kr	170,42 zl

In Norway, normal prize for a sweater is around 100- 300 kr, meaning 43,15- 129,45 zl.

Normal prize for jeans in Norway is around 200- 600 kr (depends on the brand), meaning  86,30- 258,90 zl…

Polish Zloty	Norwegian Kroner
1 zl	2,35 kr
10 zl	23,47 kr
50 zl	117,35 kr
100 zl	234,71 kr
150  zl	352,06 kr
200 zl	469,42 kr
250 zl	586,77 kr
300 zl	704,13 kr
350 zl	821,49 kr
400 zl	938,41 kr

The currency will of course change a little from time to time, but not much :)

- Keiana:)

Updates

Hi there!
A lot of things is going on right now so I wanted to shortly describe them ;)
First of all, both sides of our project has started collecting information about the places worth visiting. Students from Poland are going to add some posts soon about each place for you to get to know about them better and think if you'd like to see them :) We hope some of them will interest you, you're not going to be bored, we can assure you.
The second thing - a picture of our group. Finally, after a long time of trying we took it so you can see almost all of us (unfortunately, one girl is not on that photo). So here it is:


We also would like to know what do you guys think about talking on skype together. Of course we can talk with each other in our houses only in pairs but what do you think about the skype on one of the lessons with all of us, with the whole group? Let us know, in the comments below or in our group on Facebook :)

Okaay, the last thing we wanted you to know for now is that we've already bought the tickets to Norway!! Sooo yeah, guys there's no chance for you to get rid from us right now ;P Prepare your houses, families, neighbours and yourselves for us cause we're coming to you in April, yayyy!!

So that's all for now, if you want to know something or just talk - don't be shy, we don't bite, just write on our Facebook page or directly to us, we'll talk with you with pleasure :)
Byyeee!!

-Milena

 

Fundraising

A big part of our Poland exchange project has been about fundraising.
The last three years we have put a lot of time and effort inn to it, and we are pleased with our result.
Here are some of the things we have done to raise money for the exchange:

Bazaar
Last winter we arranged a bazaar at our local elder center, where we sold lottery tickets and the elders could win prices.
The local stores were really helpful and sponsored us with a lot of nice prices.
The elders seemed verey pleased and we all had a really good time :)

 

 

 

Collecting bottles for deposit
I don’t know if you have the same system in Poland, but in Norway its normal to return used bottles for deposit and get money in return. Therefore, the boys in our class collected A LOT of bottles.

Arranging products for a Christmas market
Last week three of us got a job at “Egmont Publishing” which is Norway's largest publishing company of weeklies and magazines. They also publish cartoons, books and movies.
Our job was to unpack products out of boxes, arrange, and store them for one of their Christmas markets.

Other than this we have had several bake sales, sold toilet paper and we have been babysitting.  We have also arranged two school parties. One last year celebrating summer break for 9^th graders (our grade) , and one welcome party for the new 8^th graders starting at our School.

Hey, hey  here’s  Bartek,

I think everyone  should know about their projects. Everyone’s going to make it with an exchange partner. In it we are going to talk and write about differences betwen our countries.  Our projects are going to be done at exchange’s time. So let’s start and good luck.