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Local Students Celebrate Polish Culture
Elementary school students in Reydarfjordur, Iceland celebrated the Polish culture as part of a program connected to the construction of Alcoa’s Fjardaál plant that is being built by Bechtel. Bechtel, which currently employs about 300 people in Reydarfjordur who are of Polish decent, organized the program as a way to reach out to the community.
"Poland, History and Culture," was presented by three Bechtel employees who presented information about their country to the students, displayed photos and taught the students Polish words and how to do the polka, a traditional Polish dance. As part of their class lessons, the students drew and painted people in national costumes, sewed aprons, made hats and draw ships, studied Polish songs and dances, created posters of famous Polish people, baked Polish kleinurs – similar to doughnuts, created objects out of salt paste, and studied the salt mines of Poland. At the end of the week, the students hosted an open house for 300 people to show what they had learned.
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Elementary school students in Reydarfjordur, Iceland celebrated the Polish culture as part of a program connected to the construction of Alcoa's Fjardrdaál plant that is being built by Bechtel, which currently employs about 300 people in Reydarfjordur who are of Polish decent.
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