“Anyone can be an ACE : Attitude + Commitment = Excellence”. The quote by Robert Inman says the exact essence of what the ACES experience was about for me.
To start with, ACES, the abbreviation from Academy of Central European Schools, was founded in 2006 by ERSTE Foundation within the programme “Europe” and it is a school network that aims at involving students and teachers in co-operating projects and exchanges.
28th of September 2009 – Salzburg, Austria -this was the first step I took into the ACES experience, one of the days that I will certainly remember for the rest of my life.
The following four days I spent in Salzburg, at the Aces Kick-Off Meeting, were some of the best days I ever lived. I met new people, I made a lot of friends, I had the chance to work together with amazing people and the most important, I learnt lots of new things without making effort, just from having fun. We played together simulation games, we discussed on many different topics such as school issues, human rights, environmental problems, we truly worked as a team and I think we did a great job!
Not only the great people made my stay very pleasant, but also the beautiful city that is Salzburg. I’ll waiting for the day when I will come back there and I hope it’s going to be very soon.
Taking the chances that it might sound like a cliché, the ACES experience was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me because it offered me the opportunity to face new situations and to have a great time working and cooperating with people that didn’t even speak the same language as I did. ACES taught me exactly what Robert Inman was talking about, that excellence is the result of attitude and commitment, and these are two qualities I will always try to maintain and develop.
hello Roxana! You described it exactly. I hope you both, you and your teacher, are doing well and there are no problems with the project.
Nice experience and nice article too.
Thank you.
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