Parcel
The name of our project stems from the means through which it is carried out. Letters, objects and pictures representative of students’ daily life will be put in a parcel, the “culture capsule”, and sent abroad to the partner class. Imagine students “ooohing” and “aaahing” as items are brought out of this “culture capsule” coming from a distant country!
Here is a list of what can be included in the parcel. These are just proposals, as students or teachers may come up with original ideas. What has to be kept in mind is the objective of Culture Capsule, i.e. to promote mutual understanding and respect between young people from different countries.
- Each student should find a (nor too big nor too heavy) object that he think best describe his country and environment. This object can be a toy, a CD, a picture, candies, typical food, a t-shirt, a drawing, a book, etc.
- Each student should write a letter to introduce himself, his country and the object he gave. The letter should include the student’s photo and home address.
- Teachers in charge of the classes involved in the Culture Capsule could also exchange letters as a way to promote exchanges between education personal in different countries.
- One student from the class shall be selected to record his/her day with a disposable camera. If possible, a digital camera could be used by several students, and their pictures transferred to a CD-Rom that would be put inside the parcel. Among the pictures shall be a group picture of the class, pictures of the school and classroom, and photos related to daily activities, such as family picture, food eaten during breakfast, lunch or supper, the view on the way to school, extracurricular activities like sports and friends, and possibly pictures of the main monuments of the city the school is situated in.
Once parcels have been exchanged between classes, bridges will have been created between the youth of two distant countries. Although the main goal of ASEFUAN’s Culture Capsule, giving the opportunity to students in different part of the world to gain a deeper understanding of one’s another culture through concrete exchanges, will be fulfilled, we sincerely hope that it will just be the beginning of further exchanges between classes or even students. More parcels could be sent, and students could forge strong friendship with a foreign “pen pal”.