Mark Pentleton » videoblog http://www.markpentleton.com A place for my music, my photos, my thoughts and my ideas Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Throughout 2010, Mark is going to try to record one song per day and post them to his website at markpentleton.com. All songs are live improvisations. Feel free to suggest a song! Mark Pentleton no Mark Pentleton markpentleton@me.com markpentleton@me.com (Mark Pentleton) Performance Copyright Mark Pentleton A daily song performed by pianist Mark Pentleton music, piano, mark pentleton, pentleton Mark Pentleton » videoblog http://www.markpentleton.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.markpentleton.com What it’s all about… http://www.markpentleton.com/2008/11/24/what-its-all-about/ http://www.markpentleton.com/2008/11/24/what-its-all-about/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:06:00 +0000 admin http://www.rlnvault.com/personalblog/?p=6 IMG_5159

This past week I've had the privilege of spending six days in Strasbourg in the company of a fantastic group of young people from schools in East Dunbartonshire. The students were taking part in a Euroscola activity, a day of debate and discussion organised by the European Parliament. Throughout the day the students were mixing with their counterparts from across the EU, discussing the future of Europe in a mixture of French and English.

 
While the formal discussions during the day itself were of huge importance and value to the students, I feel that in many ways the most memorable discussions were in the more "social" parts of the week. The photo above shows two of our students getting to know two of the Belgian students who happened to be sharing our accommodation, and the excitement and genuine interest in respective cultures and languages shared during these moments was, in my opinion, what it's all about. It's just a shame that more young people can't benefit from these opportunities.
 
In addition to being one of the accompanying members of staff and helping out linguistically on the visit, my main responsibility was to maintain the official trip blog and podcast which was posted to EuroscolaOnline.com, receiving over 4,500 hits from parents, friends and teachers during our week away. There are lots more images on the site, and indeed on my Flickr set.
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Bon vespre, jo sóc en Mark, i com na Lisa jo també estic intentant de millorar el meu català. Sóc també professor, o sigui sóc antic professor de castellà i francès i ara tinc la meva pròpia companyia que produeix materials per a l’ensenyament de les llengües. Visc a Escocia amb la meva dona que s’en diu Catriona i els nostres dos fills. I cal dir que prefereixo escriure en el meu bloc que parlar davant una càmera de video!

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