Hi everybody!

How are you?? I'm fine although this period is a little bit full of works to do for all the courses.

Anyway, I have to tell you what I'm doing this week and I did last week at lesson...clearly I'm speaking about my English course!

I begin telling you what I'm doing this week! For next week I'm supposed to prepare a rough copy of my final presentation; as I told you in the last post (see below if you don't remember :)!!!...), my final work is about "University system in Italy and Usa"; clearly it's still a rough copy and so I don't give you the link, but you'll be able to visit it when it's finished...if you are interested in it! I'm working together with Barbara, a colleague and a friend of mine; I decided to prepare this work with her because I know how she works and she knows my way of working. For this reason the work is easier as we know each other. I really hope it will be an interesting presentation! I'll let you know when it's done!

Now I want to speak about (or better...write?!?) what we did at lesson last Monday.... what a wonderful lesson! Why? Well, I saw my american peer! Yes, last week we made our exchange all together and thanks to a camera we saw our colleagues in the USA! At the beginning it was a little bit embarassing as none of us wanted to speak; then somebody began and it was easier!

We asked them for some questions about the subjects for our final presentation and then we spoke about the terrific event which happened last week in West Virginia (the boy who enterred the university and killed so many students). Previously we had spoken between us (Italian students) about that and we tried to find the reasons why this fact happened there and not here in Italy. We asked them about that but they didn't have our same explanations for that; I think that they are inside the American society and it's difficult for them to be objective. The same thing would happen to us if it was an Italian fact.

Yes, with this exchange all together we've finished our Skyping experience :(. If you have not understood yet I think it was wonderful!! I had the chance to speak in English and get in touch with an other culture... it was just a beginning but it was stimulating!!

Well, what can I say...Thanks to the people who permitted this experience!

We'll "see" next week in the blog and I'll let you know the last news!

Bye

Giorgia