Bertha von Suttner is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, receiving it in 1905 for her book, Die Waffen Nieder/Lay Down your Arms. The Schulschiff in Vienna, docked at the Danube was named after her and just as the bookโs name suggest, despite being an international school in its own right, you can feel the ย camaraderie of students when you enter. These students have parents coming from different countries yet here, thereโs no blue, no black, no red, no yellow for them.
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Friday was somewhat a bit colder than usual with the weather hitting -1ยฐ a first time for this season. Bundled up we braved the cold, boarded the tram and off we went to the school. Dawty will move up to a higher school next year so we were looking for schools around. We tagged the boys along because they thought itโs such a cool place to see. It is!
The exterior is every inch a ship, there was even another ship that passed by while we were in one of the rooms โ craft/home economics room. Too cool! But whatโs cooler is the reception we received from both the students and the faculty. They were all accommodating, answering questions school-related or otherwise.
Two students of the fifth grade toured as around the ship, showing us the more important rooms โ library, computer room, gym, cafeteria, faculty area, and the music room among others. We were also showed and brought to some of the classes while the โtour guidesโ share their own anecdotes.
After the tour we were told that kids could participate in activities in assigned rooms. All three were given passes which will be stamped if they finish a task. We first got into surprisingly, French room. ^_^ The two older kids had to match the names of animals with the picturesโin French. It was a good thing that the names are a bit the same with their Spanish and English counterparts. They went to the next table and did numbers with little boy joining inโฆitโs a good thing he is taught by his siblings well, he answered quite well too.
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We later on went to the library, the computer room, the craft room and made lots of stuff. Will tell you about those on our other blog. Notice the colorful stool โ it has been painted by kids.
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ang galing naman ng school n to ๐ so nice ng idea! And i am sure ang mommarazzi ay nag enjoy dn sa tour :)) Thanks for joining sis! eheheh next week ulet and sa toy stories ulet ๐
[โฆ] translates to dragons as well as kites. During our visit at the Schulschiff we went into the art room where they were making these mini kites. It was actually past 3P.M. and [โฆ]
Must be a very nice school, Tita!
a school in a shipโฆ wowโฆ ngayon ko lang nalaman na me ganunโฆ thanks for sharingโฆ at least di na ako ignoy about it. the school shipโs facilities sounds greatโฆ how much more ung nasa lupaโฆ Yahweh bless
This is so interesting and quite unique.
This reminds me of that show โThe Suite Life on Deckโ aired on Disney Channel. My niece loves that show and I didnโt expect its actually realโฆI mean, that there is such thing. Thanks for sharing this. ๐
a ship as school? how interesting. the kids are speaking in german, then they knew also french, spanishโฆIMPRESSIVE!
i remember a book i read over and over again, The Prize, by irving wallaceโฆit got me into delving much about the prize that is Nobel:)
(er, that was thousand years ago^_^)
wow, i didnโt recognize it was a stool! hehehe cool ๐
visiting from WW!
http://theothersideofme-vhen.blogspot.com/2011/12/long-hair-no-more.html
hope to see you there too ๐
cool place indeed, sis.. and I am sure very educational for your boys. Doing my early rounds for WW.. ๐ thanks for joining!
Very educational place. They donโt have like this before..hehehe
I would like to experience learning in a school.
Thatโs cool and different..
Visiting for WW! Hope you can visit mine too..
http://www.cassandrasminicorner.com/2011/12/wednesday-whites-personalized-bracelet.html
this is very interestingโฆ visiting from wednesday whites
wow! this is one cool ship. pretty sure your kids enjoyed the tour.was here for WW!
wow.. ang galing naman.. sure kids will love to go to school in a ship..:)
Visiting from WW
Grocery with Xye
here again for Family Time ๐
http://vlayugan.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-day-in-baguio-city.html
Looks like a fund adventure , visiting from WW
sounds like a great school of diversity, loved it ๐ Dropping some love for WW, hope that you can return the favor too.
What an education post! I surely learned a lot, from the title itself! ๐
Visiting for WW! Better late than never, right? ๐
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Fila for Him
Chandelier
Glittery
that school really is different. At least your daughter will not be confined in a โboxโ when she goes to school there. ๐
visiting for family time! ๐
Oh ate, I went to that school back in 1994 ๐ itโs really nice!!!
And one thing i liked about the Schulschifff is that I could stroll around Donauinsel during my one hour break:)
My nieces used to go to an international school when they lived in China.