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Trains emit 1/6 of the amount of CO₂ -equivalent gases if compared to plane, even if they take longer and they are more expensive. Also, you can work on the trains and you get to know other people!

You can compute your carbon footprint here: https://uba.co2-rechner.de/en_GB/mobility-flight#panel-calc

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We spent 41 hours on five different trains!

This is the route we followed, more or less. We started our journey from Pisa, stopping in Florence, Venice, Vienna, Bucharest and finally arriving in Bacau!

This was a 3-day journey: we slept in the night train from Venice to Vienna, we visited Vienna and then slept on the night train from Vienna to Bucharest.

We spent 200€ per person, while the same trip by plane would cost around 100€ per person, if bought in advance.

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We arrived there by bus. Elisa also came with us. We got the last row like the cool kids

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The goal of our journey was to get in touch with Teach for Romania to share expertise on how our Climate Education (CE) programs work: training, activities, material used, communication, fundraising...

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This is the place where the TFR fellows and staff were. It is a campus of the University "Vasile Alecsandri" in Bacău.

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In Romania they paint the base of the trees with lime. They say it's to keep insects away o.O

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Today we talked with the Teach for Romania staff about some general aspects of TFR and the Romanian school system.

We met

Nastasia Alexandru, SEL specialist and previously one of the project coordinators;

Anka Popa, support manager;

Gențiana Albota, CE specialist;

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Regionale Trenitalia Pisa > Florence.

Due to a bus delay we had to run and almost stumble on our luggage to take this train, only to discover that it was 20 minutes late.

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Of course when Lucio sees a Piano wants to play it

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We gave her one trolley, that she will give us back when we will return.

We ate at All'Antico Vinaio.

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Tramezzino in Venice

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OBB Night Jet Venice > Vienna.

We were upgraded to first class, we don't know why. In our compartment there were comfortable bunk beds, a sink, and Hitler's direct offspring as train crew.

We were scolded because we used three pillows instead of two.

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The breakfast in the OBB Night Jet

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aka the Communist Train.

It was comfortable (maybe because we were exhausted?) but at a certain point in the night the Border Police stepped in to check our IDs. That's because Romania is not in the Schengen area.

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We met fantastic people on the communist train

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We met fantastic people on the communist train

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A woman with her son traveling from Switzerland to Brasov. We played a lot of games together and shared our traveling experiences.

There was also a student doing Interrail from the Netherlands to Istanbul.

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For dinner on the 19th we had vegetarian lasagna. It was very good and the kid wanted to have a bite.

Our lunch on the 20th included molten cheese, Tomato and spare bread from the day before. Tastier than it looks.

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Lacul de Agrement: it's a river! It's a lake! It's... both!

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The most important monument of the city. Also, the only one, according to Google Images.

It's the Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord.

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This evening Nastasia Alexandru introduced us to the Teach for Romania Fellows. They were all busy making lesson plans for the next day, and this reminded us our summer schools!

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Spot the odd one out

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Today we had meetings with:

Mara Niculescu-Barbos - Head of Fundraising, Communication and Finance

Andreea Neagu - Fundraising & corporate partnership specialist

Marius Plescan - Impact specialist. He introduced himself as a little Antonio Piscopo of TFR.

Georgiana Giba - teacher manager. She wanted to see our Climate Education materials.

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The TFR program is open to the Directors as well, with a slightly different training and activities.

The directors are required to teach during the summer school. Amazing!

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This evening Elisa (a TFI Fellow) arrived to Bacau for her summer internship. She is helping at the TFR Summer School!

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Today we assisted to the TFR Fellows teaching practice in a school near Bacău!

There are about 150 TFR Fellows spread across 3 schools, we went to the school in Cleja.

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In the afternoon we had a very interesting meeting with Gențiana Albota focusing on the workflow she followed when she created her curriculum guidelines.

She values the bridge between people and nature and has made this principle her compass in her work.

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Gentiana suggested to take the "Climate Education Champion" course by TFALL.

There are a lot of resources about CCE in the TFALL Learning HUB.

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This is a hub of climate education resources for teachers, trainers, and the general public. The Office for Climate Education (OCE) has a specific focus on climate science, translating Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings into di...

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The so-called 3 "Rs" is a famous decalogue for improving the environmental impact. The 3 Rs stand for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

These three actions are needed to optimize the resources, even though most climate curriculums only focus on the last one.

Gentiana showed us a new framework with 5 Rs, adding Refuse and Repair.

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Nastasia has facilitated all our meetings and has been very helpful and kind <3

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Meanwhile Sara coined a new term for very small bottles used by the children: here are the "bottigliettine"!

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In the evening we spoke with:

Margareta Tătăruș - Student Board coordinator.

Sorana Radu - Communication speciaalist.

We also had an interesting conversation about the differences between the Italian and Romanian school systems.

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Tonight Caterina from TFI arrived to Bacau to help with the TFR Summer School. She and Elisa will stay in Romania for one week.