The Third Project Meeting in Spain: Italian Team
The 3rd meeting of the project was held in
Seville, Spain. The partner countries are France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. The students were accompanied by their
teachers.
One of the aims of the project is to get more involved
in other cultures to break down prejudices. Students showed videos about their
country’s history, traditional food and typical folk dances. One of the
workshop arranged by Spanish team was “Overcome the prejudice”; each student had
to join a group formed by students from other countries. They had to speak each
other about their typical food, culture, festivities and folk dances. After
that, they had to make a video drawing the conclusion about differences and
similarities among the partner countries.
The last day, the Spanish team, arranged a
Multicultural Farewell Party at the school. During the celebration, they gave
out the meeting certificates.
A special thank is due to the Spanish team for having
made this possible.
And a last thank to Maria and her family because they were so kind and polite to
me. My Spanish family made me feel as if I were really at home. This experience
has been very important and I’m sure it will be meaningful for my future;
meeting other cultures has made my life richer.
Chiara Rebecchi (Italy)
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My experience in Spain was fantastic. Seville and the
other cities like Alcazar and Granada are beautiful. People in Seville are
friendly and the students from other countries are nice and friendly too.
The tour to the Alhambra was very interesting. I
learnt a lot of important things about the Spanish culture. The trip to Granada
was perfect!! Granada is a charming city and I enjoyed the journey with the
other Italian girls. I liked everything about Spain...
The weather was cold and when we come back to Italy it
was hot!! Bad luck!!
Seville is a big city, it's special and I couldn't
believe I was there because it was my dream!
I'm so happy because I have never flown and I have
never been abroad. It was a circle of new experience for me. I met a lot of
students from other countries and I felt well with them as well as with my
Spanish family.
For me the nice thing was the opportunity to meet
students from my school, (everybody older than me). I got on well with them and
I was very excited for this. I miss everybody and I hope to see them again in a
trip to Italy or to another country. I have got my new friends' mobile numbers,
so I can be aware of what is happening in their country.
My Spanish family was nice and hospitable, and their
cuisine was delicious. I ate different types of Spanish food, like the Paella,
the Tortilla and the Spanish Pizza.
The old buildings in Spain are attractive and full of
history.
There aren't any negative aspects in this adventure
but the organization was sometimes confused.
I danced a typical Latvian dance and a typical Polish
dance... I was so embarrassed!!
I will never forget this meeting, I hope to
participate to an other meeting in a different city because it is my only
chance for travelling abroad!
Erasmus Plus gives important opportunity to students
from Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Turkey, France and Poland and the
schools are very lucky and grateful for this.
Aurora Oliveri (Italy)
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I’m sure the Erasmus+ experience will remain in my
heart forever: starting from the journey there up to the one back.
The coordinator for the Italian team, Maria Rosaria
Grasso and we took part in the third meeting held in Seville.
The project, conceived by the European Commission,
provides different learning opportunities to European guys, like us. There were
European partners from Spain, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, France and
of course from Italy.
The Italian girls involved in the project were: Aurora
Oliveri, Alessandra Rossi, Chiara Rebecchi and I, Deborah Indaco.
Before leaving for Seville, we were all thrilled by
the idea of exploring new cultures and foods. We had already given hospitality
to the partners during the second meeting held in Italy, and therefore we were
“supposed to be prepared."
Everything was perfect: from our guest families to the
workshops set up by the Spanish team.
When we got to Seville we all had a big smile on our lips and when we met
our guest families we hugged each other. Then we went straight to our
"new" house: that would be so for the next five days. My family was
helpful, friendly, cheerful and happy.
The
workshops were very involving and helped us to know
each other. We learned new Lithuanian, Latvian and Spanish... words. In the
Workshop "Overcome the Prejudice" for example, we learned more about
the festivities, the traditional food and folk dances of each partner country.
At the weekend "ERASMUS +" party we all danced such funny folk
dances.
Maria, my guest friend, was always kind and polite to me. She introduced me
to all her friends as well as to her boyfriend, Roberto and to his Polish guest
Philip. when we went to the "Spain Square," we bought some postcards;
we hired a boat and we learned how to row; we laughed and tried not to fall
into the small "river". Then we visited the surrounding parks, and I
was enchanted by how green this city is in spite of all those buildings ... I
really enjoyed that! :)
Deborah Indaco (Italy)
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I think that the Erasmus
+ project has been one of the best experiences of my life. In one week I met a lot of
people from Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey,
Portugal and France. I have had the opportunity to learn
their traditions and some of these were very different from ours. We also learned a few words in Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish, has been difficult but so
fun.
I will never
forget all the laughs we had together, but in addition to fun times there were also sad
moments, as the last day, or
during the multicultural farewell
party, because we cried a lot with the fear of not seeing each other anymore.
I would like to thank our teacher Maria Rosaria
Grasso for having joined this project, then I would also like to
thank the Spanish boys and girls for
giving us the opportunity to visit
the city.
I also want to thank the Spanish teachers for the
organization of the workshops, through
which it was possible to know
each other, talk about our country,
and above all have fun.
But the biggest thanks
goes to the family that hosted
me, they were really
very friendly with me and Deborah.
Alessandra Rossi (Italy)
