Scambio

20^th April	Saturday	Afternoon	The Finnish group arrives at Venice airport at 17:00; Arrival in Udine around 20:00; Meeting the host families at the School entrance.
21^st April	Sunday		FAMILY DAY (possible excursions: Cividale/Aquileia/S.Daniele/Villa Manin/Gemona/ /Palmanova/Grado).
22^nd April	Monday	Morning Afternoon	8:30– 9:30 Official school welcome; micro-lectures about the School and Udine; 9:40 – 12:20 Lessons; 14:30 – 16:30 Udine sightseeing tour; 17:00 Town Hall visit - meeting the local Authorities.
23^rd April	Tuesday		Visit to VENEZIA/MURANO; Departure from the railway station at 8:00; tour guided by the Italian students –packed lunch-; Arrival at Udine around 19:00.
24^th April	Wednesday	Morning Afternoon	8:30 – 10:30 Italian students’ reports about relevant aspects of the society, culture, and economy of Friuli; 10.45 – 12:30 "Students’ Day" at Piazza XX Settembre; 15.00 – 17.30 Shopping tour; 18:00 "The Big Party" : party at school for all the guest students and teachers, for the Italian students with their families and teachers.
25^th April	Thursday		Visit to TRIESTE / MIRAMARE ( guided tour); Departure from school to Trieste at 8:15; Return to Udine at 18:30.
26^th April	Friday	Morning	7:00 Meeting at School entrance; Departure for Venice airport.

THE ITALO-FINNISH GROUP IS RELAXING AND ... SUNBATHING IN VENICE

THE " BIG " PARTY (with all the students, families, and teachers participating in the COMENIUS experience)
	A " touch of tradition": Alice and Elisabetta are wearing Friulan costumes
Valeria and Vivien are part of the rock band playing the party's ... soundtrack
Numbers that count 40 girls and boys coming together 6 days to share 2 cultures opening up to each other 1 single, great friendship uniting us.	Vivien's poem for the exchange

Well, the above pictures show you the most pleasant side of the exchange.

But, besides going around together and celebrating, we also spent some time at school, where the Italians taught and the Finnish (hopefully) learnt what Friuli is like.

Here below is the Finnish group ready to enter the classes.
(Say CHEEESE, please!)

MEET OUR FRIULI !!!

by 4 A e.r.i.c.a.

This is a set of micro-lectures we prepared to help you better understand our land.

Hope you’ll enjoy listening to us!

At least, don’t start snoring too loud, please, because we must concentrate on our presentations!

SUBJECT MATTER	"LECTURER"

Who are we ?!?	Vivien
Take a quick look at Udine	Alice
Music, please !	Valeria
Udine’s full agenda	Giada
"Friuli DOC "	Cristina

A bit of history	Laura
A noble language	Elena
Artists of "our" time	Viola – Federica
The earthquake	Elisabetta
Please, take a seat.	Anna

Time to eat !	Sabina
Fascinating surroundings	Cinzia
Shopping…shopping…what shall I buy?	Lisa C.
Sbilfs	Damiana

And now it's time for ... sweet memories

(When you really want to get to know your new friends, what else is better than having a PIZZA together?!)

Some "mix and picks" about the experience

What I liked best in my Finnish mate was surely his temper. Lauri is (I don’t write "was" because I hope he is still alive) a true "good guy". Everybody knows the popular tune "…because he is a good fellow, because he’s a good fellow,…" but now I’m the only one to know one thing : this tune was written for Lauri, my Finnish mate. Yes, I’m quite sure, because (as I’ve already said) he’s really a good guy.

He’s a very discreet boy: he has almost never spoken about his past love-stories, about his holidays, about Saturday nights in Finland, but not because he doesn’t want to talk to another person, simply because he prefers to do than to speak, just the opposite of me !

He is also a very polite boy. He’s always been polite: at home, with my parents, with my teachers, with my classmates and with the Finnish girls, always, and especially with me. I thank God that Lauri came to me, and he’s not a a kind of bear that can only drink beers and learn Italian bad words. An example of his politeness is that he’s never asked me to teach him bad words, never. Maybe he had already learnt most of them before coming to Italy, but at least he didn’t pronounce one of them during his visit here.

I just want to say one last thing: give my words the right attention : saying that he’s a very polite, quiet and discreet, I’m not saying that he is boring. No, because Lauri, the discreet and quiet guy, is maybe the craziest Finn you can meet. Yes, that’s true! He doesn’t often speak, he doesn’t often move, he doesn’t often smile, but when he says something, everybody around him starts laughing; when he gets up and starts dancing, everybody is involved; when he smiles, you have to smile too, because he’s too funny. Yeah, this is what I liked best in my Finnish friend:

THAT HE IS AS CRAZY AS ME !!!

I’ll never forget the time when Piia (my Finnish mate), my mother, my brother and I went to Grado. She was very excited when she saw our nice sea and I was very happy, because at last I didn’t feel so shy and I could talk to her about anything. We walked about the centre of Grado and I could see that she was happy because the people and the places we were visiting were warm and full of vitality.

I’ll never forget the moment when she tasted our ice-cream for the first time. She liked it so much, and she ate it so fast that even … her nose tasted it; in fact her nose was soon full of ice-cream. We started laughing and we enjoyed ourselves very much.

She also wanted to play minigolf but the course was closed, because it opens only in the Summer.

We also had a lot of fun when my brother tried to speak with her, and when he made some mistakes he went all red in his face. He was very funny. I think that I’ll never forget her, because thanks to her, I’ve learnt that I must be ready to face any situation.

My Finnish friend and I were very different, but in any case I love her so much. Thanks Piia, I’ll never forget you!!

What I liked best in my Finnish mate was her response to the Italian culture, food and traditions.
When she arrived she told me that she wanted to try everything here, she wanted to know how Italian people really live. She wanted me to talk to her about the most important cities here in Italy and to show her pictures of Rome.

We talked a lot about our school system because their high school is quite different and she was very interested. She also wanted to learn Italian and in the end she could speak a bit. I really liked her because she was very kind and friendly with me and my family.

I wish I had known Laura, the girl who came to my house, better. Unfortunately, before she arrived we had never had any contact so we knew nothing about each other.

Laura is quite a shy person and I found that talking with her was difficult: even when she didn’t want something she answered positively just not to hurt me or my family. So, of course, at the beginning everything was difficult. Anyway I realized that she got more open if there was another Finn with us. Laura needs to feel confident...just like me.

I could notice that we are quite similar, in some behaviours: we are both shy, sometimes insecure and last (but most important) we start being ourselves only when we have known, at least a bit, the people we are staying with: in fact Laura began to be more open and relaxed only on the last day of her visit.

However, I absolutely think that when I go to visit her in Finland next September everything will be easier because we now already know each other and, after all, we Italians had the role of being ice-breakers.

Last, but absolutely not least, the exchange was source of inspiration for new products to be devised and commercialised by the "IG Students" group of our School.

They created not only the LOGO for our Project (which was also used to make an elegant enamel pin to be offered to students and teachers of the parternship schools) but also this commemorative pennant

gagliardetto


What I liked best in my Finnish mate was surely his temper. Lauri is (I don’t write "was" because I hope he is still alive) a true "good guy". Everybody knows the popular tune "…because he is a good fellow, because he’s a good fellow,…" but now I’m the only one to know one thing : this tune was written for Lauri, my Finnish mate. Yes, I’m quite sure, because (as I’ve already said) he’s really a good guy. He’s a very discreet boy: he has almost never spoken about his past love-stories, about his holidays, about Saturday nights in Finland, but not because he doesn’t want to talk to another person, simply because he prefers to do than to speak, just the opposite of me ! He is also a very polite boy. He’s always been polite: at home, with my parents, with my teachers, with my classmates and with the Finnish girls, always, and especially with me. I thank God that Lauri came to me, and he’s not a a kind of bear that can only drink beers and learn Italian bad words. An example of his politeness is that he’s never asked me to teach him bad words, never. Maybe he had already learnt most of them before coming to Italy, but at least he didn’t pronounce one of them during his visit here. I just want to say one last thing: give my words the right attention : saying that he’s a very polite, quiet and discreet, I’m not saying that he is boring. No, because Lauri, the discreet and quiet guy, is maybe the craziest Finn you can meet. Yes, that’s true! He doesn’t often speak, he doesn’t often move, he doesn’t often smile, but when he says something, everybody around him starts laughing; when he gets up and starts dancing, everybody is involved; when he smiles, you have to smile too, because he’s too funny. Yeah, this is what I liked best in my Finnish friend: THAT HE IS AS CRAZY AS ME !!!

	I’ll never forget the time when Piia (my Finnish mate), my mother, my brother and I went to Grado. She was very excited when she saw our nice sea and I was very happy, because at last I didn’t feel so shy and I could talk to her about anything. We walked about the centre of Grado and I could see that she was happy because the people and the places we were visiting were warm and full of vitality. I’ll never forget the moment when she tasted our ice-cream for the first time. She liked it so much, and she ate it so fast that even … her nose tasted it; in fact her nose was soon full of ice-cream. We started laughing and we enjoyed ourselves very much. She also wanted to play minigolf but the course was closed, because it opens only in the Summer. We also had a lot of fun when my brother tried to speak with her, and when he made some mistakes he went all red in his face. He was very funny. I think that I’ll never forget her, because thanks to her, I’ve learnt that I must be ready to face any situation. My Finnish friend and I were very different, but in any case I love her so much. Thanks Piia, I’ll never forget you!!

What I liked best in my Finnish mate was her response to the Italian culture, food and traditions. When she arrived she told me that she wanted to try everything here, she wanted to know how Italian people really live. She wanted me to talk to her about the most important cities here in Italy and to show her pictures of Rome. We talked a lot about our school system because their high school is quite different and she was very interested. She also wanted to learn Italian and in the end she could speak a bit. I really liked her because she was very kind and friendly with me and my family.

	I wish I had known Laura, the girl who came to my house, better. Unfortunately, before she arrived we had never had any contact so we knew nothing about each other. Laura is quite a shy person and I found that talking with her was difficult: even when she didn’t want something she answered positively just not to hurt me or my family. So, of course, at the beginning everything was difficult. Anyway I realized that she got more open if there was another Finn with us. Laura needs to feel confident...just like me. I could notice that we are quite similar, in some behaviours: we are both shy, sometimes insecure and last (but most important) we start being ourselves only when we have known, at least a bit, the people we are staying with: in fact Laura began to be more open and relaxed only on the last day of her visit. However, I absolutely think that when I go to visit her in Finland next September everything will be easier because we now already know each other and, after all, we Italians had the role of being ice-breakers.