Romania

Official Name: Romania Location: (Southeastern) Central Europe Time Zone: Seven hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time (GMT + 2) Flag of Romania: Three vertical stripes: red, yellow and blue. Population: 19,000,000 Religions: Christian Orthodox 87%, Roman Catholic 5%, Protestant 5%, Jewish Official Language: Romanian Currency: Romanian Leu (RON) Climate: Temperate, four distinct seasons, similar to northeastern USA Capital: Bucharest (Bucuresti) Legal system: Based on European models and Constitution of 1991.

About Romania Official Name: Romania Location: (Southeastern) Central Europe Population: 21,400,000 (2009 mid-year estimate) Flag of Romania: Three vertical stripes: red, yellow and blue. Currency: Romanian Leu (RON) Capital: Bucharest (Bucuresti)

The Land of Dracula...

Bran Castle

Rasnov Castle

Peles Castle

Main Attractions The Carpathian Mountains Romania’s diverse natural landscapes offer numerous choices for exciting outdoor experiences. Travelers can walk through serene alpine meadows covered with scores of wildflowers, trek around glacial lakes, take in the lush-green scenery while horse riding or mountain biking, etc. The Sfinx Vf.Moldoveanu ( 2544 )

Main Attractions Black Sea Resorts Warm climate, miles of sand beaches, ancient monuments, vineyards and modern resorts invite travelers to seriously consider Romania's Black Sea Coast as their summer vacation destination. Black Sea Mamaia Beach

Main Attractions The Danube Delta Before reaching the sea the mighty Danube River forms the second largest and best preserved of Europe's deltas: miles of rivers, canals, marshes, tree-fringed lakes and reed islands. The Danube Delta is a wildlife enthusiast’s (especially a bird watcher’s) paradise.

Romanian People Gheorghe Hagi, born February , is a former Romanian football player. He was famous for his passing, close control, long shots and was regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in Europe. Galatasaray fans called him 'Commandante'(The Commander). Nicknamed "The Maradona of the Carpathians", he is considered a hero in his homeland as well as in Turkey. He has won his country's "Player of the Year" award six times, and is regarded as one of the best football players of the 20th century.

Romanian People Nadia Elena Com ă neci, born November 12,1961 is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic, and the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. Com ă neci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laureus World Sports Academy.

About Gorj & Targu-Jiu Gorj is a county of Romania, in Oltenia, with its capital city at Targu Jiu. The main river, which collects all the smaller rivers, is the Jiu River. It is surrounded by the Southern Carpathians in the West and in the East and to the South, the heights decrease through the hills to a high plain at the Western end of the Romanian Plain.

The Endless Column

The Kissing Gate

The Table of Silence

Constantin Brancusi

And his well sold masterpieces...

Tudor Vladimirescu

“Tudor Vladimirescu” National College

The beginnings of this learning institution are set in year 1890, known as “Tudor Vladimirescu Secondary School for boys”, receiving its “National College” title in 1999.

The structure Education here has three levels: Primary school Middle school High school – there are the following profiles: - Philology - Natural Science - Mathematics-IT (sometimes English bilingual)

Classrooms We have 26 classrooms, and also specialized offices and laboratories: Psycho-pedagogic consulting room School library and reading hall Mathematical office, “Emil Isac” Informatics, biology, chemistry, physics and geography laboratories World School structured Debate Club

The history of our college is illustrated in our school’s museum, and the school is endowed with a student hostel, one eating hall and 2 gymnasiums, modern and traditional. Here, approximatively 96 teachers are in charge of almost 1360 students.

Library

Hostel

Traditional gym

Modern Gym

Several medals

Museum

Teachers’ entrance

Activities and scholar performances Golden medal, prizes and mentions at international Olympiads of history, geography, philosophy, mathematics and Romanic languages Students in national and international competitions. Partnerships with various NGOs and with the local community

Over 500 students have participated in contests. 96 of them were awarded within the county, and also 10 went all the way through to the national competitions.

This school has been, and still is the target of the most partnerships between it and different schools, not only Romanian ones, but also of different nationalities, like Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch. Multilingual projects

Some of our projects Europe, my story( ) It addresses to the 12 to 15 year old pupils, and wishes to develop their capacity of communicating in foreign languages through the tales’ common language.

Together in a United Europe( ) This project targets the 16 to 19 years old students. They are going to develop, by participating, their IT skills, foreign languages assimilation, and getting to know about Europe in a dynamic and stimulative way.

Common European Values-Comenius Bilateral ( ) with the students of Cihangir Koleji, from Istanbul

The Result Common Dictionary of Personalitiesfr om Tg-Jiu and Istanul, won the 2nd place at the competition Made for Europe in 2013.

Between these two schools lasting ties have established, as a result of the mixed school activities (the Romanian pupils have assimilated minimal Turkish lexicon elements, and so did them, which have learned basic words of our language), through English.

Turkish classes

Romanian and Turkish dance moves

Euroscola CN Tudor Vladimirescu participated twice in this competition,being invited twice in the European Parliament,in Strasburg -23 rd February th January 2013 In both cases our students won Euroscola trophy

Our team in the European Parliament in Strasburg

Our students,MEPs for one day...

French Drama Club We have our outstanding team of young former actors and actresses, coordinated by our French teachers, Rodica Banciu and Loredana Stoian, directed by Cristi Naum, team which has made its debut with the real successful adjustment after Jean Cocteau’s, “Antigone”, as our students came back home from the National Festival of lyceum Francophone from Pecs, Hungary, holding the prize for the best theatrical duet.

The Excellence club

European School Title

Last but not least… Our great basketball team! I don’t think it would be too much if I would say that we have the best basketball team any school around here has ever had.

Sometimes playing for noble causes as well… On March the 4 th, this year, our school has had a basketball match with our local team, C.S. Energia Rovinari, to help little Lidia in her fight with lymphoma cancer. The amicable game was entitled “One game for a life!”.

Generations and generations has this school taught, that it even has become like a tradition for some families. It has given the society many doctors, engineers, journalists, lawyers, professors, which, some of them continued to teach where they have been taught.

A part of The College’s Anthem Tudor, look carefully around you Believe in us and you will not be sorry, You are the echo of a national college, Who understood our goal…

Thank you!