Stop 12 - São Paulo (Brazil)

Our 12th postcard has been sent to São Paulo, in Brazil, 8327 km away!

The postcard was written and sent by Iván Camba Dopazo, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote on a postcard featuring the outside of Santa María a Nova, one of the best and most beautiful examples of a Seaside Gothic church in Galicia.

Thank you, Iván!

Stop 11 - St. Petersburg (Russia)

Our 11th postcard has been sent to St. Petersburg (again!), in Russia, 3256 km away!

The postcard was written and sent by María Xosé Vázquez, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote on a postcard featuring the beach of Boa Grande, one of the best and most frequently visited beaches in the township.

Thank you, María!

Stop 10 - Douliu (Taiwan)

Our 10th postcard has been sent to Douliu, in Taiwan, 10988 km away!

The postcard was sent by Noriko Fukushima, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote on a postcard featuring a view of the inside of the Santa María a Nova church, a prime example of the Maritime Gothic style and an old tombstones museum today.

Thank you, Noriko!

EOI Los Cristianos - Travelling Notebook

We have just received the Travelling Notebook (or rather, notebooks) from the EOI students of Los Cristianos, in Tenerife. Hooray!!

Our Canarian partners have done a superb job! We are very impressed (and a little shamefaced), as can be seen from the pictures.

Our own notebook will be travelling next Tuesday to EOI Negreira, and the following week, we'll also send there the Los Cristianos volumes, with our comments duly noted down.

If you want to learn more about our insular friends, you can find information here and here.

Stop 9 - Madison (The USA)

Our 9th postcard has been sent to Madison, in the USA, 6280 km away!

The postcard was sent by Oliva Fraga, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote on a postcard featuring a view of the old Noia bridge that connects the two shores of the Traba river.

Thank you, Oliva!

Stop 8 - Oelde (Germany)

Our 8th postcard has been sent to Oelde, in Germany, 1624 km away!

The postcard was written and sent by Irene Gándara, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote on a postcard featuring a general view of Noia.

Thank you, Irene!

Stop 7 - Minsk (Belarus)

Our 7th postcard has been sent to Minsk, in Belarus, 2922 kilometers away!

The postcard was written and sent by Fernando Berdullas, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring the Town Hall.

Thank you, Fernando!

Our groups - Basic 1.1

The first of our Basic 1 groups is composed of a total of 17 students with class sessions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 18:30 to 20:00.

We haven't written any postcards yet, but we hope to start in December. At the moment, we have been preparing a couple of texts for the Travelling Notebook.

Our groups - Basic 1.2

The second of the Basic 1 groups is composed of a total of 11 students, with class sesions on Mondays from 18:30 to 20:00 and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 20:00 to 21:30.

At the moment of writing this entry, four students of this group have already sent postcards tand are waiting impatiently to receive their own: Alfonso (wrote to Germany), Pili (The USA), Daniel (to Russia) and Leticia (to Russia too). You can see their postcards below.

Our groups - Advanced 1.2

The second of the Advanced 1 groups is composed of a total of 13 students, with class sesions on Mondays and Wednesdays from 20:00 to 21:30, and on Thursdays from 18:30 to 20:00.

At the moment of writing this entry, two students of this group have already sent postcards tand are waiting impatiently to receive their own: Silvia (wrote to the Netherlands) and Lorena (to China). You can seen both of their postcards below.

Our groups - Advanced 1.1

Four groups of students at the Noia EOI Satellite School are participating this academic year in the postcrossing project: Basic 1.1, Basic 1.2, Advanced 1.1 and Advanced 1.2.

The first of the Advanced 1 groups is composed of a total of 14 students, with class sesions on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 17:00 to 18:30.

At the moment of writing this entry, three students are working on the postcards they are going to very shortly send to their destinations: Oliva to the USA, Fernando to Belarus and Irene to Germany. 

Soon we will be posting pictures of the postcards they are going to send!

Travelling Notebook - cover

They say that you can't judge a book by its cover, but that is precisely what I did when I chose this notebook for our peculiar enterprise.

In the following days, my students will be writing things on it and by the end of next week, I hope to have it ready for sending to our network of school friends and get them to know and learn about EOI Noia and its members. And to include a peek into its contents...

Stop 6 - Castricum (The Netherlands)

Our 6th postcard has been sent to Castricum, in The Netherlands, 1481 kilometres away!

The postcard was written and sent by Silvia Vazquez, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring the church of San Francisco and the adjacent Town Hall.

Thank you, Silvia!

Stop 5 - Changzhou (China)

Our 5th postcard has been sent to Changzhou, in China, 10299 kilometres away!

The postcard was written and sent by Lorena Costoya, an Advanced 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring some of the lovely and picturesque fishing boats from our seafaring town.

Thank you, Lorena!

Our dear colleagues

EOI Ribeira

The motor and primum mobile of our postcrossing project is Diana Pastoriza, chief of the Ribeira EOI section and an innovative, inventive and superb professor if ever there was one. She will be developing a postcrossing project in her section which already includes a blog you can visit:

 http://palabrasdamanaocorazon.blogspot.com.es.

Besides postcrossing strictu sensu, Diana is also participating in a project of travelling notebooks, and will be hosting a Postcrossing Congress in Ribeira the next year.

EOI Sar

Another byword for inspiration, good work and educational innovation, professor Ana Losada is also actively working in a postcrossing project and travelling notebook with her students in the Sar extension of the Santiago EOI, and also has a blog for the project:

 http://postcrossingateoisantiagosar.blogspot.com.es.

Check their blog for information on the postcards they've sent and the places they've gone to. You can also read extra information about the school and the research students made on the places they were writing to and about the city of Santiago.

Stop 4 - Saint Petersburg (Russia)

Our 4th postcard has been sent to Saint Petersburg, in Russia, 3173 kilometres away!

The postcard was written and sent by Leticia Silva, a Basic 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring a beautiful view of the ría. 

Thank you, Leticia!

Stop 3 - Tukwila (The USA)

Our 3rd postcard has been sent to Tukwila in The USA, 8040 kilometres away!

The postcard was written and sent by Pilar Mato, a Basic 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring the beach of Testal, the best and most frequently visited beach in the township.

Thank you, Pilar!

Our School

Our school (Extensión de Noia) is a satellite school of the Santiago de Compostela Official School of Languages (EOI).

The Extensión de Noia is, however, located in a completely different place (actually, in a different village): we are in the maritime and lovely Noia, just 37 kilometers away from the Galician capital.

The Escolas Oficiais de Idiomas (Official Schools of Languages)  are a national network of public educational institutions specialized in teaching foreign languages to young learners and adults, integrated in the Spanish Education System as Specialised Education. Spain is one of the few countries in the EU offering this kind of public education and issuing official certificates for it.

 

At our school we offer general courses in English that cover different levels in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): A1, A2, B1, and B2.

Currently, our local section includes 4 teachers and two languages, as besides English, students can enroll in EOI Noia for French language courses. We aim to promote multilingual skills among the adult population, as a way of enhancing European cohesion and new opportunities for mobility and employability.

Stop 2 - Naberezhnye Chelny (Russia)

Our 2nd postcard has been sent to Naberezhnye Chelny, in Russia, 4509 kilometres away!

The postcard was written and sent by Daniel Prado, a Basic 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring one of the historic tombstones (laudas gremiais) of Noia, the one with the figure of a pilgrim.

Thank you, Daniel!

About Us

We are a group of teachers and adult students at Escola Oficial de Idiomas de Santiago de Compostela-Noia, an official school of languages in Galicia (Northwest of Spain). 

We share the building you can see in the picture with the Virxe do Mar High School in Noia. this superb façade belonged originally to the original Town Hall of the village.

We really like the idea of exchanging handwritten postcards with people from so many different places! It's a fantastic way to improve our English travelling the world and meeting new people without leaving the classroom!! 

If you want to know more about our school, leave a comment below, please. Thanks in advance!!

Stop 1 - Wuppertal (Germany)

Our 1st postcard has been sent to Wuppertal, in Germany, 1534 kilometres away!

The postcard was written and sent by Alfonso Otero, a Basic 1 student, who wrote a postcard featuring the church of San Martiño.

Thank you, Alfonso!