Introduction This booklet is the result of a two year cooperation in our project: “The Melting Pot Of Diversities.” It started in September 2013 and ended in July 2015. The English explanations and stories written down in this booklet, isn’t always without any mistake. Our schools are lower vocational schools and therefore some mistakes will be there. We didn’t want to correct the stories our students wrote, only there where it would be impossible to understand the stories. This booklet also contains DVD and CD parts which you can open on a DVD player to look at images and film parts and the CD in meant for the PC to have a look at the presentations and the dictionary we created. During the 2 years we had our project, all the partner schools and their students and teachers did their utmost to achieve the goals mentioned in the application form. One of the most important one is to get a wider perspective in differences in culture, history, way of living and acceptance and respect those differences throughout Europe and especially between the participating countries. We do believe we did achieve these goals, because we experienced friendships between pupils and teachers, lasting a lot longer that only in the two years we worked together. Differences disappeared in the two years we worked together and an attitude of acceptance was growing in a mutual friendship between students and colleagues from all the participating schools. We are lucky we were a part of this beautiful story and proud we could add all that we felt was necessary to achieve our goals. Participating schools: I.E.S. San Matías – La Laguna – Tenerife O.S.G. Piter Jelles YnSicht – Leeuwarden – The Netherlands Gimnazjum Publiczne Im. Gen. M. Zaruskiego – Insko – Poland Istituto Scolastico Statale Comprensivo - Polo 3 – Gallipoli – Italy Leeuwarden Gallipoli Insko La Laguna Insko Table Of Contents: Introduction Participating groups in Leeuwarden, Gallipoli, Insko and La Laguna. Antonietta de Pace – Heroine of the Risorgimento (Italy – Gallipoli) ……………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 1 Beneharo, the mencey of Anaga (Spain – Tenerife – La Laguna) ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 7 The Crayfish (Poland – Inskó)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… p. 9 Sven Kramer – Speedskater (The Netherlands – Leeuwarden) …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 11 Beneharo, hero in Gallipoli …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… p. 17 Sven Kramer skating in Gallipoli ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 20 The big crayfish in Gallipoli ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 24 An incredible story on Tenerife ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… p. 26 Antonietta de Pace in Leeuwarden ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... p. 30 Dutch Recipes ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… p. 32 Recipes from Gallipoli …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 35 Recipes from Insko …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 42 Recipes from La Laguna ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 47 A virtual trip to Tenerife …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 50 DVD and CD: Video and Presentations ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. p. 53 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 2 9 10 11 12 3 13 14 15 16 4 17 18 19 20 5 21 22 23 24 6 In the XVth century the Spanish soldiers arrived in Tenerife. They wanted to conquer the island. They fought against the aboriginal inhabitants, called Guanches. One of their Mencey or leader-kings, was Beneharo. The Spaniards promised that they only wanted to build a castle to provide water and food for the Spanish ships. They wanted peace. Beneharo accepted this agreement. The conquerors broke this agreement because many Guanches were made slaves. Beneharo, Mencey of Anaga –one of the kingdoms of the island- fought against the invaders, and they had to run away. They defeated the Spanish Army using javelins, called Banots, round, polished stones, spears and maces. Beneharo was sent to the mainland to meet the King and Queen of Spain. He went back to the island years later. According to a legend, the Spanish soldiers sacked Taganana, a peasants village in Anaga. When they came back they had to fight against Beneharo. The Guanches were defeated. When he saw that he was alone, he threw himself into the void from a hill so the soldiers didn’t catch him alive. Although he didn’t die, he went mad when he saw how his people were made slaves Images of Beneharo 7 Kingdoms of Tenerife before the Conquest LA CANTATA DEL MENCEY LOCO The following lines are part of the song which tells how Beneharo tried to kill himself when he understands that his future is slavery. La sangre de hombres y mujeres libres que lucharon con valor por seguir siéndolo. El dolor de sus hermanos que no querían otra cosa que vivir en paz. Ese dolor lloró en los ojos de Beneharo, doblegando sus fuerzas y postrándole de rodillas. Cual era aquel dios, que adorara aquel pueblo, que hiciera distinción entre los hombres. Que le impulsara a llegar, desde el otro lado del horizonte, a tierras ajenas y matar las almas de sus gentes con el veneno de la esclavitud. ¡Guañooooooooht! ¡Achamaaaaaannn! ¡Yo soy libre! ¡Siempre seré libre! Se puso en pié apretando los puños y lanzó su añepa al abismo. Miró al Echeyde, a lo lejos, por encima de todo. Miró la tierra a sus pies, cada roque, cada barranco. Y comprendió al fin. Nadie podrá esclavizar su alma, jamás, pues no existía dios conocido o extranjero que pudiera arrebatarle el poder de decidirlo. Y con la templanza, el orgullo y la nobleza de un Mencey, Beneharo saltó al vacío, seguido por el eco mientras aclamaba por última vez a su dios. ¡Achamaaaaaannnn! You can have a look at the videos about the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZV5V5IRJo -Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8TWsryBUwA –Part 2 8 A long time ago there was an enormous crayfish in the Ińsko Lake. The oldest people told that is was bigger than the biggest bull and stronger than the strongest lion. 1 2 3 4 One day the crayfish destroyed the walls Whenever the crayfish wanted it went out of the lake and destroyed surrounding the town and sarated to everything with its giant pincers - cut the trees and crushed the stones. All the people were scared of the beast living in the lake. Everybody ran away demolish all the houses. When the beast appeared in the town, the inhabitants hid in fear to their homes when the crayfish left his shelter. in the church. They hoped they would be able to save their lives in that scared place. But on beautiful Sunday the crayfish simply ripped off the church’s roof. BEAST IS HELP! RUN ! ! ! COMING! 9 The people of Ińsko decided to make an A young blacksmith had an idea how to defeat the horrible enormous steel net and catch the crayfish. beast. He made a large thick iron chain. At night the bravest But the beast was so strong that it cut the men sailed quietly to the place where the crayfish usually net easily into pieces. slept. They tied its tail to one end of the chain and the other they fixed to the bottom of the lake. I KILL THIS CRAYFISH! WE’LL HAVE REST FOREVER! 5 6 7 8 The crayfish tried many times to free itself but luckily the beast The crayfish is still on the bottom of the lake. wasn’t successful. Everybody was happy. The people returned ruined houses and slowly life in Ińsko became normal. OH, GOOD, THANKS! FINALLY QUIETLY! HOW ARE YOU? IT’S A BEAUTIFULL DAY! 10 Sven Kramer was born on April 23, 1986 in Heerenveen. Sven Kramer knew early on that he would want to be a professional skater. His first skating coach Rob Rich said: “He had never dreamed that Sven Kramer would win so many medals”. In the season 2003/2004 he made his professional debut skate. Sven Kramer his parents are Eli Kramer and Yep Kramer. Sven Kramer’s father is a former Dutch long track and marathon skater and now coach of the Region Friesland. Sven Speedskater!! Kramer is now playing with his mother in a promotional commercial for laundry detergent. Sven Kramer also has a girlfriend named Naomi van As. She’s playing in the national team of hockey. Sven Kramer and Naomi van As, are a couple since December 2007. (Father Ype Kramer) (Mother Eli Kramer) Girlfriend Naomi and Sven 11 In the19th century there were three types of skating emerged : the Dutch curl skate, Already in Middle Ages (1000 – 1500) is the South Holland skating and the showing us that men already tried to travel Frisian skate. across the ice faster. The skates were made by The first two were used to swing , the latter was animal bones. purely for speeding. These were sharpened until the surface was The Frisian skates have a sharp point. So smooth enough. sometimes there were dangerous situations Skating in those days was mainly a way of Therefore the Frisian skates got a curl at the sliding. front of the iron. A lot of varieties were created. The first skates were called gliders. The gliders were provided As a result, the irons were becoming longer and more stable. with holes. Archaeologists have found skates on the bottom of a Because of this, the popularity of this type of skates grew. They Swiss lake were called: ’Frisian doorloper” A lot of speed skating matches which dated from about 3000 BC. were organized. Around 1800 races were already played. Especially in Friesland and Groningen. There was good money to Similar findings were made in countries such as Russia, be made when you could win one of these contests. Scandinavia, Great Britain, Netherlands, and Germany. In these On September 17, 1882 the Royal Dutch Skating Association was parts skating was envolved from a simple bone to a construction established as an organization for skating. with an iron knife. The oldest findings of skates dates from Today, the long - and short track speed skating, figure skating, around 1225 in Dordrecht and Amsterdam.