“My springtime internship on Syros changed into a remarkable revel in,” stated Emma Di Gregory, an 18-yr-antique scholar at the Maison Familiale Rurale (MFR) training institute at St-Etienne in France, after finishing a three-week internship application at a French-language primary faculty in the capital of the Cyclades. “I had the risk to comprehend the power that Greek teachers put into their paintings, as well as their calm mindset,” added Emma, who explored every inch of the island with pals in her unfastened time.
Apart from the schoolroom, the scholars from the French schooling institute have been involved in various other tasks on the island, such as working at the town corridor, eating places, small and medium businesses, and a nearby pharmacy.
“Our collaboration with Syros via the Erasmus+ program is going back around ten years,” the St-Etienne MFR Igor Navarro director told us. He observed his students in April after visiting with an extraordinary class in March.
“Our [education] gadget is different from yours here: [In France] every two weeks of theoretical training is replaced by two weeks of realistic education; that’s a total of 28 weeks of ideas and 22 exercises,” he added.
“Once a year, our students go on a three-week internship program overseas. Learning to work in surprising surroundings is a key part of their education,” he said.
His college has chosen to collaborate with Greece and, more specifically, its islands. “It is an aware desire, so they discover ways to be powerful in isolated island regions,” he told us. Back in 2017, as director of the MFR Vernines, he contacted the national health facility in the seashore town of Karystos in southern Evia.
Last year, around 20 college students aged 17 to 18 worked at the clinic. Another organization is anticipated to visit the town in October.
“The interns were divided into pairs. Every day, they were assigned to a unique wing as assistants—the emergency department, the pediatric medical institution, the dental department, obstetrics and gynecology, microbiology, radiology, and fashionable surgical operation,” said health center director Anastasios Michas. They worked from 8 a.m. to at least one p.m. We also provided them with lunch.”
The language barrier became occasionally a mission, but not an impossible one. Some interns spoke English, and many clinic staff also spoke French. Then there is the scientific terminology, much of which stems from Greek.
The Greek doctors and nurses welcomed the French youngsters, who had already been on nursing guides and were acquainted with the health facility’s surroundings. “We even allowed them to wait for surgeries,” the health facility director said.
Every time they accomplished an assignment—such as bandaging a wound or placing an X-ray on a patient—their confidence grew. “They took us via marvel, as they had been inclined to assist with cleansing up too, as they were skilled at keeping their workspace clean,” Michas added. However, we clarified to them that this was no longer part of the process description.”
For their part, the French college students have been surprised with the aid of the operation of the Karystos sanatorium. “They had been surprised using the reality that scientific remedy became loose and that the conditions they discovered themselves in no longer match the descriptions of the ‘wrecked’ Greek fitness system within the French media,” Michas stated.
The students could have the opportunity to impressions Karystos with the French Ambassador to Athens, Christophe Chantepy, a warm supporter of the alternate program, whom they met earlier than returning home.
Navarro, who was raised in the south of France, is a big fan of Greece and feels very relaxed in the U.S.A. “Once you get to realize the Greek mentality, you realize that there is an approach to every problem, but it’s not always obtrusive. You need to bring it to the surface.”
The college students were additionally charmed. For many of them, it was their first journey to every other U.S. A. They departed with the promise that they would return for holidays, work, or, in some instances, to revive a romance that had blossomed over the course of this system.