Where are we?

Follow the map… ➱

We are at the green one, Peloponnesus is called the region

(all the green area) … ➱

Map of Greece with regions

This is Peloponnesus, which means “the island of a king called Pelopa” and it’s an island all right*!

It looks like a palm of a hand don’t you think?

Achaia

Let’s take a closer look at this area! ➱

*Is it? We don’t think of it as an island at all although it is surrounded by the sea

And here we are! The prefecture is called Achaia and our municipality is called Patras

Our village called Agios Vassilios and it is 15 km from the big harbor of Patras, the third largest city in Greece.

Actually we consider ourselves more as a suburb of Patras.

* The phonemic writing of the village’s name in English has many forms . This is how one can find it in bing maps.

Our villageThe village lays by the see at the foot of the Panachaiko

mountain (1920m high). The area around Agios Vassileios has mainly groves with a few pasture lands and other types of crop surrounding the area, while in the southwest, the central part and along the Gulf of Corinth are urbanized but most of the housing developments occurred in the 1980s and became a suburb of Patras. The population boomed and was one of the fastest growing communities in the prefecture between 1981 and 1991.

Our village from the sea.

Our beach!

The view to the Rio bridge. Rio is the neighbor village.

The channel and the bridge

And our new bridge, which after all these years of inconvenience joins, at last, our coast Rion with the opposite

one of Antirion*

*Anti-rion

“Anti” means opposite, of Rion

The flame for the Olympic games 2004 Crossing the bridge

The bridge on the opening night in August 2004

We are a small school with 120 pupils and 14 teachers.

Lessons starts at 8.10 every morning till 12.20 for the first and second grade and till

13.30 or 2.00 for the rest. In between we have two breaks about 20 minutes each

and a third one smaller -10 minutes- break for the oldest.

We study with our teachers Greek language, mathematics, history, religion, science

and geography and we take English lessons from our English teacher and additional

for the oldest French or German lessons. We also have a music teacher and a P.E.

Teacher (Who was actually a champion in ping pong!!!).

A few years ago our school was really small (with 3 or 4 teachers and about 60

children) but now days there is ongoing a growth of the population and so the old

school does not cover our needs. We are hopping that a new building is going to be

built soon and we try to do our best with what we have!

As you can see in the following photo into our courtyard is the village’s church!

This is a photo of our school. The building on the right is the old building where the 5st and the 6th grades are having their lessons, it has two classrooms and the teachers’ office and this used to be the school’s building also in the old days. The rest classrooms are at the new

building.

Patras famous carnival on February or March