Sergiu

It all started when my English teacher told me about an English camp that finalizes with the TOEIC exam.
At first I wasn’t so sure about this but I thought it could be a very god opportunity for me to practice my English with native speakers, and so it was.
Even from the first day I found very interesting people that had a common hobby and that was “speaking English”; and they were very good at it.
I found there lots of new people, people full of life and initiatives and new ideas. I was very glad that I went there.
Everybody was friendly, curious about each other and the people we met in the group, were very interesting for us and also a true inspiration.
I was extremely upset when everything was over… We have became a family of true friends and we were about to spread all across the country… Tears flooded our eyes as we watched the cars taking our friends towards the train station.
But we still communicate via Internet and SMS and we hope to meet again some day…
Sergiu Rusu
Baia Mare

Paula

A few months ago I found out about an English Camp that would be organised by one of my English teachers. Despite the little information that I had, I was sure that this camp would be a great opportunity to practise my English and have fun as well.
So I discussed it with my parents and they willingly gave me permission to sign up and they also gave me the money for it.

At the end of this tiring and enjoyable week I could not be happier and more grateful to every person who made this possible.
Now, I would like to share my thoughts with you and let you know how much I have learnt these days.

First of all, there were some special guests invited to provide us with some valuable pieces of information.

One of these guests was Ms Monica Marasescu from the British Council organisation in Cluj.
She spoke about the Common European Framework and the European Language Portfolio. She gave us a comprehensive presentation on these two topics and also on the Cambridge exams. The speech emphasised the formats of the exams and the future changes.
These issues should be well-known by both young and mature people. They can help every European citizen be successful in his career and improve his life in his native country and abroad.

Since it was a TOEIC Camp we met another important person who talked about the TOEIC exam. Ms Zsofia Horvath from the Institute of International Education in Budapest highlighted the advantages of taking the TOEIC exam.
She also mentioned its reliability, popularity, utility and accessibility.

I have to mention the fact that, at the end of this TOEIC Camp (on Saturday), the participants had the chance to take the TOEIC exam.
In order to become more acquainted with the exam itself during this week four TOEIC exam simulations were organised for us.
These simulations proved to be very useful.
Since we had got used to the exam we were able to do well at the actual TOEIC exam on Sunday.

However, this camp was not just about exams. Many activities were organised to help us relax, have fun and enjoy ourselves.

All the participants took part in a pizza party which was meant to give us the opportunity to get to know each other better. And we did mingle and have a good time while eating a tasty pizza.

We also visited two museums: The Mineralogy Museum, since Baia Mare was an important mining centre, and the Village Museum to try to imagine how the people lived hundreds of years ago in this area.

Beverley Killeen was one of our trainers. She conducted some interesting and funny games which we all liked very much.
We were divided into teams so we had to collaborate with our team mates, but every team competed against the other ones.
This way, the games fostered our team work skills but also our competitiveness.

Anyway, these are just a few of the beautiful moments I will never forget.
We had the whole week scheduled but I have enjoyed every activity I was involved in.
There is only one more thing I have to say: This camp was a total success!

Paula Simona Ghete

Baia Mare

Beverley

Dear Everyone,

Hope everyone enjoyed the camp has much has I did.

It was the high point of my stay here in Romania.

I am very pleased that you all seemed to enjoy your time with me during the camp.

What we did together was a learning experience that I hope in the future will help you all to feel confident in speaking English, work as a team, integrate with people, and become independent adults.

I hope everything went o.k. for the ones who took the test today( Sunday) and you all have had a safe journey home.

Good luck to you all for the future.

Regards,

Beverley Killeen.

Feedback- Laura

I want to share some of my impressions about the camp with all of the participants, although I couldn't take part in many activities; but I was very glad when today, at the final festivity, I saw so many happy faces and I heard your feelings about what happened here, in our city. I noticed that all of you appreciated so much the work of Mrs. Killeen as your trainer and the effort and the good work of Mrs. Hudrea as the organizer of this great summer camp. I also watch the pictures from the Library and I saw the good and fruitful time you had there. I knew from the opening ceremony that you are such nice teenagers and that you will work as a team in order to have a good time! I'm sure you will also get high scores at the TOEIC exam and I hope you will always remember the time spent in our city. Maybe the girls from Eminescu College, Anamaria, Doris, Paula, will share their impressions about the camp with their colleagues and in the future their will be more of them willing to join such a wonderful and useful camp. I'm really happy I had the opportunity to take part in this important local event that gathered together so many nice persons, pupils and teachers, from all over the country!
Laura Szebeni

Teacher

Visit to Petre Dulfu County Library

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Friday, June 18, 2008, American Corner Baia Mare, at the Public Library in town hosted 47 students and 2 teachers of English from all over Romania for 4 hrs. They were participants in the TOEIC English Camp organized by Info Project in Baia Mare. All the students visited the library, then they participated in a quizz contest in English, on general knowledge. They were organized in 5 teams and had to look for information in the collections of the American Corner and helped by Mrs. Beverley Killeen, an English teacher, and Lia Sabau, librarian and American Corner coordinator.
In the end, everybody received a participation certificate and books as prizes.

TOEIC Camp

A TOEIC Summer Camp was held in Romania between June 16th-22nd.

Aims and Objectives:
- to improve the teenagers' competences in English, having the possibility, at the end of the Camp, to take the TOEIC certificate
-to develop entrepreneurship, social and cultural competences
-to acquaint the teenagers with European projects in the field of education

Program :
Training courses: 6 hours/day
Entertainment 2-4 hours/day
Maramures Sightseeing Tour
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Millenium Business and Training Centre

Number of participants : 45

Organizers :
Info Project – TOEIC Authorized Testing Centre
Maramures County School Inspectorate
Maramures House of the Teaching Staff
BIT Grup - The Association for the ICT Promotion
Millenium Business and Training Centre
Maramures Youth Agency

Petre Dulfu County Library

Trainers :
Beverley Killeen- Great Britain
Mariana Gabriela Hudrea- Romania

Special Guests:

Monica Marasescu, The British Council, Cluj Napoca, Romania

Zsofia Horvath, IIE Budapest, TOEIC Department http://www.iie.hu/

Camp Manager: Mariana Gabriela Hudrea

Financial Manager : Simona Zachia Laura