I started this project in September 2015 with the main objective of encouraging creative writing in different languages by establishing links among different schools. One of the ways to achieve that were traveling notebooks, which are already being sent and received all over the world, much to the satisfaction of students and teachers alike.
One other action we had in mind was "pass the parcel", which proved to be a little overambitious (at least for a newbie project organizer like me). I don't mean to dismiss this idea, because I think it can prove to be very enriching, but it takes some planning ahead and starting earlier in the year.
As it is, over the past few months, I have been trying to get in touch with schools all over the world interested in promoting writing among their students and in doing so by using snail mail, in this case, by means of postcards. The initial commitment is only ONE exchange, given that we are in January and it's a busy time of year and most schools also have other projects going on which take up most of their time and efforts.
However, I must confess I am deeply impressed by the interest and enthusiasm teachers from all over have shown in the project, and by their willingness to collaborate and join efforts.
As of today, there are 20 schools (other than the ones already participating in our traveling notebook project) wanting to exchange multilingual cards with our local schools. There are schools from Albania, Australia, Austria, Bahrein, Canada, Colombia, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Puerto Rico, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and the USA.
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You can check out the map showing our network here. It will be updated as soon as I have all the schools' addresses.
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