Maybe I should introduce myself first. My name is Anja Naacke. I study biomedical science at the University of Rostock. I’m glad that I took part in the project “Common, Goods and Peace-Ischia”: The people of this Island Ischia belong to one of the chaotic but loveliest of the world, which I ever got to know. On Ischia motoring is a tough sport but fair. The streets with maximum 2 meters width are not made for 2 cars at the same time. But a demolished mirror and absence car door are not a reason to leave everything behind and to have a cup of coffee together. Material things are not as important as human relations. That was the first impressing I saw when I arrived on Ischia.
The topic of this weeks’ program was ‘water’ as a common good. Questions about water-saving in everyday life, wellness and the ocean came to my mind and I couldn’t wait to jump straight into the sea. The coast of Ischia is a variety of gorges, mysterious caverns, hidden bays and long beaches with small colorful pebble stones. At these picturesque corners of this paradise the water of the sea compounds with many thermal springs. We had the chance to visit ‘Parco Castiglione’, a thermal bath with various thermal treatments. Usually it is a place to relax in the wowing calmness but we did an acquagym lesson. That’s definitely one of the exhausting things I’ve ever done: Up and down, forwards and back through the whole swimming pool and there’s no end in sight.
But even better is to experience water in its utmost purity within a skin-dive in one of the many national marine parks of this island. Our discovery tour next to a low coastal plain and rocky sea beds, led us to the colorful playground of marine life. This trip was the most inspiring for all project members of all this different EU-countries. Earlier we had heard about the importance of saving marine life in a conference given by the marine biologist Valerio Zupo.
During our stay we had a lot of different speeches and lively debates about the importance of water. Each partner school had the same assignment of tasks given by the teachers. But somehow everybody understood the definition of the project in a different way. Everyone prepared something else and so it didn’t get boring at all. That’s the fantastic thing about EU-Comenius Projects: It was an original composition!
The human relations we built during our stay on Ischia will persist lifelong. Beside the official project we met each other in the evening to hang around and to get to know our partners more personal. The time we had at ‘Maronti Beach’ was amazing. Some of us were baptized to become a part of Neptune ocean kingdom: Lucky ones who could escape this crazy Norwegian rite.
Ischia, we miss you: the sun, the sea, the traffic and most of course the people. Even if we, according to our host sister, always made “strange faces” when we didn’t understand her but with a mix of German, English and Italian it was a funny time!
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