Bettina's Diary

I couldn't host a polish friend in my house, but I can tell you about the excited state that we felt!
Yes, because before that the Polish came to Italy my Italian friends were very worried for a lot of reasons:
*the house (and the possible criticisms about it)
*the people (because u couldn't know if u had a nice Polish or not)
*THE LANGUAGE (that was the most important reason of worry that we had. We thought we wouldn’t be able to say a word in English!)
All problems went away when we met the Polish students, because we understood that they are like us.
Though the Polish students’ English is much better than ours, the language wasn't a real problem, because we could make ourselves understood... And with them we could learn a lot! And we didn't learn just the English, because we had to work a lot to amuse and teach them (about the most important Italian cities, writers...), so we came out from this experience more united (as a class).
I could tell you about the presentations we prepared on the history of Italian literature (and the fears we had to make a fool of ourselves), the treasure hunt, the overview of the cities that we visited (and the tiredness that we felt while walking under the sun), the laughters, but every word would be useless because other people can’t understand what it means to have such an experience!
All was fantastic and I can just have the regret that I couldn't take part in this experience like the others guys.
But I’m really happy to have met wonderful Polish people and to have seen Italian people do their best to have fun with the Polish students!

Giacomo's Diary: The Polish Adventure!

When I knew about the Comenius project, I wasn't very happy to take part in it, because I didn't know the people and I thought I wouldn’t have been able to speak with them in English.
But however I took part in it and now I can say that I did very well!
I had two polish friends, Przemek (but I called him Tosha) e Justyna, when I met them I immediately thought that they must be very nice and with the time I found out that it was so!

In the two weeks we did a lot of things:
In the morning we were at school. Some girls and boys of my class made 3 shows about some famous Italian writers and one about cryptography.
But the funniest time was in the afternoon and in the evening when we were with the other Polish and Italian students to have fun.
The best times were in the second week when we visited the cities like Pisa, Florence, Viareggio, Volterra and San Gimignano.
My two polish friends and I we went to Milan with my family, too. Because a friend of my family had to receive the first communion.

They were two beautiful weeks and now I'm looking forward to going to Poland to meet my polish friends again! :)