Marliz+G.

This page will be for Marliz G. and Daniele R. to have discussions.
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Hey E-Pal, Hi my name is Marliz G. I am 15 yrs old. I am a freshman in Patrick Henry High School. What school do you go to? Is it fun in your school? Over here in Patrick is really fun. We start the day at 7:30 a.m and school ends at 2:14 p.m. We have six periods a day. I have Physics, Spanish, P.E, Avid, Math, and English. How many periods do you have? Our lunch is about thirty minutes and the lines get really long. Every body has there own space to hang around. I hang around in the cafeteria with all of my friends. We talk about what has happen during the day and a lot of other things. Where do you hang around? What do you talk about with your friends? I like enjoying my lunch with the people I talk to. Our school has vending machines, basketball court, amphitheater, cafeteria, a quad, and a big field to play sports. What does your school have? Our mascot is a patriot and our school colors are green, gold, and white. What are your school colors? Not to brag or anything but our football team is really good. One of the things I like about my school is that we do not have to wear uniforms. We can’t wear short skirts, spaghettis straps, or tank tops but other than that you can wear what ever we want. Does your school wear uniforms? Well is been nice talking to you. I wish you would write back to tell me how people from Italy live. Sincerely, Marliz G.

Hi Marliz! My name is Daniele and I'm a 16-year-old boy. I'm a student at Liceo Scientifico Edoardo Amaldi in Bergamo, Lombardy (Northern Italy). I'm so happy to write to you because I love US! It must be fantastic over there. Here in Italy is very nice, although in this season it’s very cold (in winter it sometimes snows). I guess in California it’s always sunny! Lucky you! My town is very nice...have you seen the pictures? Talk me about San Diego...how is it like? I’m in the third year of high school, which is the 11th grade. We have five periods a day (Monday to Saturday) from 8.10 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. We have many classes: Italian, English, French, Maths, History, Philosophy, Biology, Physics, Art and P.E. My favorite class is definitely English because I really enjoy speaking it! The one I hate is Physics, it's so boring! In Italy you don’t choose your courses but you choose among different types of schools which propose different subjects. In mine, we have a lot of maths and we study 3 languages (including Italian)...and Latin too! We don’t have lunch at school, everyone has lunch at home. Actually in our school there are some vending machines and a cafeteria and I hang around there with my friends talking about many things (music for example). Our school has got only a gym but we can use the swimming pool and other facilities, as they are very near to us. We have a volleyball team which is quite good. The school symbol is its three-archway entrance and we don’t have to wear uniforms too! We are allowed to wear whatever we like. What I like the most is music, especially rock and alternative music. My favorite bands are My Chemical Romance, Green day, Blink 182, Muse and many many many many other. What’s your favorite music? What bands or singers do you listen to? Near our city there's the biggest mall of Italy! You know, people fly from England to buy stuff there! If you’d like to know something else about Italy, ask me whatever you want! I’ll be happy to answer you. If I have made any mistakes, could you tell me how to say them better? I am looking forward to hearing from you! Bye Daniele

Hi Daniele, I am really glad to have you as my e-pail. Sorry if I haven’t written back but we got so involved in what we are now reading, __Romeo and Juliet.__ It didn’t give me time to write back to you but here I am again. Oh, and about the weather here in San Diego, it can get ugly too but it has never snowed. You guys are the ones who are lucky because you get to make snowmen and play in the snow. Wow, your town is very BEAUTIFUL!!!! You are really lucky to live in it. Here in San Diego we have the zoo were you could basically see any animal. We also have Belmont Park and in this park there is a lot of museums and is right next to the zoo. There are many more places but these two are really the attraction of the tourist. Where does the tourist in Bergamo like to go? Here in San Diego the schools teach the same things but there are schools that focus on teaching one thing like just music, math or just physics but you have to pay because they are mostly private schools. We have to go to school from Monday to Friday and Saturday and Sunday are our days off. We have something alike... I hate physics too. I think is so boring. In our school we do not have a swimming pool but I guess it would be really fun to have one. Is your school located in an area that you would have to ride the bus? I do. My school is twenty minutes away. I like music too! It is so amazing! Wow, we have almost the same interest. I like to listen to reggaeton. This music comes from Puerto Rico and is a combination of merengue and rap together. My favorite artist is Daddy Yankee and he sings reggaeton. Here in San Diego we also listen to rock, rap and much other music but out of all I only like reggaeton. Do you only like rock? We have malls, too, but they are not as popular as other things we have here in San Diego. The mall is were all the teenagers hang around and like to shop. Do you like going to the mall with your friends? Your spelling and grammar are both excellent and I could understand everything you said. If you have any questions about San Diego you can ask me, too. I’ll be here to answer them. I hope to hear from you really soon. Bye Marliz