MEETING EN ITALIE

From October 21st to 26th was held the second meeting of the Comenius pupils, in Teramo, Italy.The meeting in Teramo follows the one held in Germany in April. The German students were hosted by the Italian pupils who had previously gone to Germany and the Polish students were hosted by other students of our Institute. In total we had 15 guests : 7 Polish and 8 German pupils.

On Sunday 21st there were arrivals and the first meeting between students from Poland and Italian students was really nice, as it was nice meeting the German pupils again.

On Monday morning after the welcoming speech of our Principal and the explanation of the week program , we accompanied our guests to visit the city center of Teramo with some Italian pupils as guides. In the afternoon the teachers went to work on the project and the students began to compose a song, as it was expected in the activities of the project.

The visit to a local farm where the pupils were able to see both the production of olive oil and the production of cheese was very interesting. At the end of the visit each pupils received ½ liter of oil produced from the farm.

The next day the Comenius group was involved in a wonderful trip to Rome, where pupils and teachers could see the Colosseum going through the Imperial Forum, Piazza Venezia with the altar of the Fatherland, then the Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Spagna, Piazza del Popolo and Villa Borghese. Finally we walked to the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. We visited some of the most important monuments in the ancient core of the city, considering the short time available.

On Thursday morning, before the departure of the Polish group , we recorded the song. A Polish student with his guitar and his voice gave rhythm to the song and the other German, Polish and italian pupils served as a choir. By mid-morning the Polish group left accompanied by the involved students' moved greetings.

During the week the guest students, attended some lessons in class with the host pupils .

The past week along with our guests went by very quickly. It was intense, hectic and wonderfully surprising even for the manifestations of affection from the host families towards the hosted pupils.

The friendships made in Germany have become firmer and new friendships were born between Polish and Italian students. All of them have improved their use of the English language and enlarged their cultural knowledge about points in common and differences with their partners.

The group of teachers proved to be quite satisfied with the work done.

The next visit will be in Poland in April and all of our pupils are eager to meet again their comenius partners.