ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

My experience in Spain!

April the 5^th, is for me an important day:

My first time by plane, my firt time in Spain, my first contact with another culture.

I have been lucky to partecipate to “PROJECT COMENIUS” a project whose aim is to get in touch with young people coming from different countries,and different cultures.

Pilar, my friend, has welcomed  me in a very friendly way in her house in Ciudad Real.

In those days, I had lot of fun.

I got in touch with the Spanish culture, expecially with the Spanish cuisine ( I LIKE IT!) and I was very surprised to find the streets and the school  very clean.

I noticed, that during the class, there was respect towards the teacher,who is surrounded by silence!!

Pilar’s family was very nice with me and I’m looking foward to meeting my Spanish friend in December.

It was a wonderful experience,which opened my mind on  another culture.

                                                               Federica Mariggiò

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

My journey to Spain has been fantastic.

Before leaving, the wish to fly and to stay with a Spanish family got me scared.

The first day I was there I was not familiar with my Spanish friend Sandra and I felt a little embarassed.

But Italian and Spanish languages are similar so we could understand each other.

Their way of living is a little different from ours.

They go to work at a quarter to nine and they come back home at a quarter to three.

They have dinner very late, about eleven o' clock.

I have noticed that Italian food is better than Spanish food, but the latter is very good.

My favourite Spanish food was paella. It is a mixture of shrimps, meat and rice.

It's very good!

Sandra explained me that in Spain a lot of regions don't accept corridas.

Sandra and her friends were “anti-taurista”.

The most incredible thing I saw there is that there were huge parks with very big fountains.

Sandra was very nice and kind to me.

At any time she and her mom asked me if I needed something.

In the morning we used to go to school. I suppose her school is bigger than mine.

The rules of her school are different from ours.

There students have to change classrooms according to the subject they have; on the countrary, in my school teachers change classrooms at the end of each lesson hour.

I was very well in Spain and I hope I'll go there again.

ALBERTO SARACINO

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

Report J

My journey to Spain has been great I had fun and I’m very happy of this experience.                                    The travel by plane was a cool experience, but the staying in Spain was the best!                                   In the first day I was there, I was embarrassed, but after few hours from my arriving I understood that Esther and her family were nice and very friendly like each person that I met there.           Spanish food was delicious and I tasted a bit of everything but “tortilla de patatas” an “paella” were the best!                                                                                                                                                          The way of life of Spanish people is similar to ours, only the school: the structure and the rules are very different.                                                                                                                                                            It was a fantastic stay and I hope, indeed, I wish to go back again because I felt very well with all!

Di Palmo Stefania

ITCG EINAUDI MANDURIA

REPORT

From 5^th to 9^th of April 3 of my friends, 2 teachers, the headmaster and I went to a foreign country : Span.

On the morning of the 5^th we took the plane from Brindisi and we arrived in Ciudad Real at about 5:00 o'clock pm of the same day.

There, there were the families who were going to host us

I found a girl and his father: Bea and Paco. She's very beautiful and his father is very nice.

We went to their house and then we went out into CR with Federica, Pilar, Sandra and Alberto.

It was very hot, in fact we wore always T-shirts.

The school was clean, tidy and very big: there were many classroom and one atrium where everybody went during breaks. The lessons were very interesting for me because I had to understand what the teachers said...but in Spanish! They started at 8:45 am and finished at 3 o'clock pm.

My “new family” prepared me some typical food, such as el pisto, la tortilla de patatas or an other food called giutarra. I got on very good with Bea, her mother Maria, her sister Sara, and his father Paco. They are very friendly. For me it was very easy to understand Spanish, because it's very similar to Italian.

We went to lots of shops and parks: they are very large and beautiful. We visited lots of particular and important monuments.

On the last day we went to Madrid and we visited it during the night, because only in this part of the day, everybody go out in the center of Madrid. We went to a restaurant and I ate the peilla, an other typical food.

This trip was educational and important, even because also I now have a new friend in a foreign country! =) that I'll never forget!

                                                           Rebecca

Our experience about Spain (Hungarian Comment)

We were so excited to be able to travel to this fantastic but we were scared a little bit because we did not know anything about the traditions and habits of this country.

We knew that they have a Fiesta every day but we didn´t know that the shop open again after it and close relatively late (compared to Hungary) at about 9 o’clock.

They have meals at extremely different times than we do. First it was so strange, having dinner at 10 o´clock in Hungary is really late…
However, after the first day we got used to it easily. 

We have got really good impression about them, because people were very friendly and sociable there. They are so open-hearted, they greeted us with hugs and pecks. The families are so kind and open-minded.

Ciudad Real is more enormous than our towns, because there are 26000 inhabitats (in Fonyód there are just 6000 inhabitants).

The nightlife seems to be a little bit more dangerous there than here in our town.

Réka and Balázs

Spanish Comments after First meeting

Dear friends. Here we present the first excerpts from our last task. Enjoy!

People think German persons are quiet and serious but that isn´t true for all persons. The teenagers I met are funny and talk a lot. Between German and Spanish students there are a lot of differences and when German teenagers come to Spain that is very strange for them. In Spain the people usually wash her hair two or three times in a week but I learnt German people wash her hair all days. In Spain we sometimes eat alone and we don´t wait for the rest of the family but in Germany all the family eat together. In Germany they don´t go out very late and they go to bed very early. They eat earlier than Spanish people too, I wonder why...so I expect to learn all of that when being there.

Elena Mena – 3d Course

At first, I thought our guests were going to be too shy, with clear-color skin and all blondes.

Afterwards, I discovered that they were really very quiet and shy, but after the second day we all were hanging around like all-life friends. Regarding the physical aspect, just some of the German students were blond, the greatest part of them were brown like the Spanish guys.

I was surprised by these two things: the quietly they spoke and the amount of bread they liked to have in meals.

Juan Carlos Colmenero – 3d course

My German friend Fabian told me that he liked every kind of food, but after a few days he soon preferred to have our “croquetas” and “paella”, he also liked a lot the ice-creams. My family and I are very happy after Fabian´s visit; I think he has liked it too. I just feel sad because it was too short and there were many things I couldn´t show him, but now I´m waiting very excited to know his town and family too!.

Candido García – 3d course

I liked how easy it was for us to stay in touch before the visit and share all kind of comments about everyday life, telling jokes…now I´m surprised we were communicating in English all time, and I find it very interesting about the project.

My partner Peter is a pizza fan, but after his visit at home, he liked very much our typical meals: “tortilla”, “cocido”, “paella” and “torrijas”, he even made photos of them. The meeting days were very fun for all Comenius students, we enjoyed a lot and it was a unique opportunity to make friends from many countries.

Carlos Matas – 3d course

Having a German girl at home was a nice experience because I learnt some things about her culture. One of the greatest moments was meeting all students and show them our city, Ciudad Real.

We had a funny time one day walking in the city when we saw a man with a “botijo” (a typical object made out of clay, to keep water fresh) we asked him to try and drink, and everybody were looking at us. There were only four days so we couldn´t do many things, but our partner students were really friendly and I want to see them again soon.

Sara Ibañez – 3d course

It is a wonderful, amazing and unique experience. An opportunity to meet people from other countries and to learn about their culture. An experience with many different feelings: first the uncertainly about how your partner who will live with you and your family is, then the enjoyment and fun of some fantastic days surrounded of amazing people and then the sadness at the end of those days that you will always remember and the big smile to have met those people who are now part of your life.
 
Marta Reviejo Colado – 1st Course / A-Level

Greetings from spanish host

Hello everyone!
Just a few words to say we were glad to have you all here last month, celebrating our first Comenius meeting. Teachers, families and students enjoyed your company and we are really willing to meet you all again.