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After some months waiting and speculating about the big trip, we, Portuguese students, finally arrived to Turkey, on 2ndrd October, we woke up early to face a trip of more than three hours to Denizli, the place where we had the pleasure to meet our Turkish family, with whom we have lived for a week. It was a trip full of anxiety since we didn’t know how the people would welcome us there and the waiting time made the situation become worst (but of course we had our "big boss" always there, in order to calm us down as well as the other teachers). October 2009, day on which we began a race for a new experience. Of course, we travelled with the company of teachers of our high school, all of us involved in the project G.A.M.E.S. The travel was tiring, mainly because we had to change the flight in Frankfurt, then from Istanbul to Izmir, and finally we had to travel by bus to Denizli. Even so, we were anxious to meet everything which was waiting for us in Denizli. Before we arrived at our most important destiny, we stayed in Istanbul just for one night. We have to refer that Istanbul is such a wonderful city! On the 3
Not only is learning a foreign language easier for children than it is for adults, but children who are exposed to other languages also do better in school, score higher on standardized tests, are better problem solvers and are more open to diversity. A new lenguaje opens up a whole new culture. A foreign language gives us access to another culture, and our lives take on a new dimension. The comparable to a journey of discovery .This is what my students feel when they learn new things about their Comenius friends. Conversely, to lose a language is to lose a whole culture. This realisation has led to determined efforts to preserve minority languages, including, for example, in the Canary Island of La Gomera, “el silvo”=”the whistle” By learning (even if it´s a bit) about the European languages of our Comenius partners, our students gain new horizons, but at the same time they reinforce their own identity, and therefore also their self-confidence. Now we are going to introduce you to “The Whistle”: In La Gomera, it's whistle while you talk: An ancient language made in the Canary Islands. 
The main aim of the G.A.M.E.S. project is the interaction among students with different cultures, where each member of each country shows his country to the others. Some students of our school, Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Castelo de Paiva, G.A.M.E.S. project’s members, had the opportunity to represent our school in some countries. And we travelled to Germany. The departure was on the 19th July and we were six students in this journey: Inês, Ana Sofia, Pedro, Rui, Rafael and Carlos accompanied by our teachers Filipe Fernandes and Belmira Pinto. When we arrived to Germany, we went to our families’ houses, where we stayed all week long. We had a good deal of activities waiting for us in Germany; therefore, we had to wake up very early every day! In the morning, we went to the school where every member of the project met and sometimes we had the excellent opportunity to attend German classes which were very interesting for us! During the days, we made activities like going to the cinema, we had a little trip by boat, we swam in a lake, we went to a beerhouse, we went to a pool and sometimes we had dinner together. We also had the opportunity to go to a much known Music Festival in the town where we were staying.This town is called Ettlingen and it is a beautiful nice place where we visited some monuments: a castle and places where we spent our time. In Germany, we noticed some differences in comparison to our country like the weather, the food, the habits and the people’s physical appearance because we saw many people who were blond and blue-eyed. We came back to Portugal on the 24th July. We brought some souvenirs from Germany, but we also brought a great experience with us! Next year, we’ll receive our German friends in our country where we’ll profit to solidify the friendship ties that we created. We want to thank our teachers who gave us the opportunity of doing this journey which was great and awesome!