Exchange!!::What a great experience!!

Hi everybody!
Here I am in the blog to write about my weekly experience during all this semester. I’ve just begun and so these are my first impressions.

During this first week I’ve searched on Internet to know something more about recycling, in Italy and America, but in particolar today I would like to speak about the exchange…yes, this week I’ve begun the exchange with a student of Tulane University…that was really great!!

I have to tell that I was a bit afraid for mainly three reasons:
- I think I don’t speak English fluently;
- The conversation was by phone (and sometimes by phone there are some misunderstandings even when I speak to a friend of mine in Italian!!);
- I didn’t know anything about this person.

I was supposed to speak in English and he (Yes, my peer is a boy) in Italian, but I discovered that he was more afraid than me of speaking in this first “meeting” and so we spoke entirely in English!

I was happy about this experience: I understood everything he said and he understood me…or at least he told me! I realised that after ten minutes I began to be curious about every single aspect of his culture and customs.

I look forward to skyping again next Monday and I think that if I had had this opportunity from the very first year at university my oral level in English would be now higher!
But perhaps it’s also my fault..I could find by myself a chance like that…anyway, I don’t want to think about the past but about the future!!
And so…let’s see on Monday…on Skype!!
Bye
Giorgia