Today we had an early start, and had to be at school at 8 o'clock. The first point on the programme was a lecture by Bartosz Hordecki, PhD, who is a professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. The title of the lecture was "The art of discussion in times of media civilisation" and he told us about how the use of digital media has changed the way we communicate, and how this affects the way we discuss.
This was to provide background for workshops on debating. During these workshops we learned about the rules of debating, self-presentation skills, persuasion and argumentative language.
We had to prepare arguments on an issue in groups and then some students presented the arguments. They were filmed, and given feedback on how effective they presented their arguments.
After lunch, we went out of school to catch a veteran tram, to og on a Bimba guided tour through the city. Our guide, Marek, gave us lots of interesting information about the buildings and areas that we passed, such as Malta, the artificial lake area, the imperial castle and the cathedral. We were all given a bag of envelopes and at regular intervals we opened an envelope. Here there were photos of old buildings, a potato, a fridge magnet with Poznan's goats, and a badge with the colours of Poland. At the terminus, the tram stopped and we were able to sit in the driver's seat and take photographs.
The tram took us back to school for 3pm where we were collected by our host families, and went off to eat dinner and take part in various activities.
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